GENERAL BOOKS
Aldrich, M., & Hackforth-Jones, J (eds.), Art and Authenticity, London, 2012.
Adamson, J., The Princely Courts of Europe: Ritual, Politics and Culture under the Ancien Regime 1500-1700, London, 1999.
Alsop, J., The Rare Art Traditions, London, 1987.
Baker, C., C. Elam et al., Collecting Prints and Drawings in Europe 1500-1750, Aldershot, 2003.
Bayer, T.M. & J. R. Page (eds.), The Development of the London Art Market in England, 1730-1900: Money as Muse, London, 2011.
Bazin, G., The Museum Age, New York, 1967.
Belk, R., Collecting in a Consumer Society, London, 1995.
Bermingham, A., & J. Brewer (eds.), The Consumption of Culture, 1600-1800, London, 1995.
Berry, C.J., The Idea of Luxury: a Conceptual and Historical Investigation, Cambridge, 1994.
Bianchi, M., ‘Consuming novelty: Strategies for Producing Novelty in Consumption’, Journal of medieval and Early Modern Studies, 28, 1998.
Blom, P., To Have and To Hold: An Intimate History of Collectors and Collecting, London, 2002.
Boswell, D. & J. Evans (eds.), Representing the Nation: a Reader. Histories, Heritage and Museums, London, 1999.
Bracken, S., A. Gáldy & A. Turpin (eds.), Dynastic Ambition, Cambridge, 2009.
Bracken, S., A. Gáldy & A. Turpin (eds.) Collecting and the Princely Apartment, Cambridge, 2011.
Bracken, S., A. Gáldy & A. Turpin (eds.), Women Patrons & Collectors, Cambridge, 2012.
Bracken, S., A. Gáldy & A. Turpin (eds.), Collecting East and West, Cambridge, 2013.
Cabanne, P., The Great Collectors, London, 1963. 2 of 40 Conn, S., Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926, Chicago, 1998.
Conlin, J., The Nation’s Mantelpiece, a History of the National Gallery, London, 2006.
Castelluccio, S., Les Collections Royales d’Objets d’Art de François 1er à la Révolution, Paris, 2002.
De Marchi, N., & H. Van Miegroet (eds.), Mapping Markets for Paintings in Europe 1450-1750, Turnhout, 2006.
De Marchi, N., & C.W. Goodwin (eds.), Economic Engagements with Art, 1998.
Dickens, A. G. (ed.), The Courts of Europe: Politics, Patronage and Royalty 1400-1800, London, 1977.
Dudley, S., Narrating objects, Collecting Stories: Essays in Honour of Professor Pearce, London and New York, 2012.
Duncan, C., Civilizing Rituals. Inside Public Art Museums, New York, 1995. Elias, N., The Court Society, Dublin, 1983.
Elsner, J., & R. Cardinal (eds.), Cultures of Collecting, London, 1994.
Evans, R.J.W. & A. Marr (eds.), Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, Surrey, 2006.
Evans, M. (ed.), Princes as Patrons: the Art Collections of the Prince of Wales from the Renaissance to the Present Day, London, 1999.
Fantoni, M., & L. Matthew, & S. Matthews-Grieco (eds.), The Art Market in Italy 15th -17th centuries, Modena, 2002.
Feigenbaum, G., & I. Reist, Provenance: An Alternative Art History, Los Angeles, 2012.
Findlen, P., ‘The Museum: Its Classical Etymology and Renaissance Genealogy,’ Journal of the History of Collections, vol.1, no. 1, 1989.
Fyfe, G., & S. McDonald, (eds.), Theorizing Museums. Representing Identity and Diversity in a Changing World, Oxford, 1996.
Fyfe, G., Art, Power and Modernity. English Art Institutions, 1750-1950, Leicester, 2000.
Garstang, D., Art, Commerce and Scholarship, London, 1984.
Gerard-Powell, V. (ed.), Artistes, musées, collections. Un hommage à Antoine Schnapper, Rouen, 2016.
Girouard, M., Life in the English Country House. A Social and Architectural History, London, 1979.
Grafton, A., & A. Blair, The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe, Pennsylvania, 1990.
Greenhalgh, P., Ephemeral Vistas-The expositions universelles, great exhibitions, and world fairs, 1851-1939, Manchester, 1988.
Griffiths, A. (ed.), Landmarks in Print Collecting: Connoisseurs and Donors to the British Museum since 1753, London, 1996.
Grote, A. (ed.), Macrocosmus in microcosmo: Die Welt in der Stube: Zur Geschichte des Sammelns 1450 bis 1800, Wiesbaden, 1994.
Haskell, F., Rediscoveries in Art: Some Aspects of Taste, Fashion and Collecting in England and France, New York, 1976.
Haskell, F., & N. Penny, Taste and the Antique-The Lure of Classical Sculpture, 1500-1900, New Haven and London, 1982.
Haskell, F., Past and Present in Art and Taste: Selected Essays, New Haven, 1987.
Haskell, F., History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past, New Haven, 1993.
Haskell, F., The Ephemeral Museum. Old Master Paintings and the Rise of the Art Exhibition, New Haven, 2000.
Hermann, F., The English as Collectors, London, 1999.
Howard, J., Colnaghi: The History, London, 2010.
Hollingsworth, M. & C.M. Richardson, (eds.), The Possessions of a Cardinal: Politics, Piety, and Art, 1450- 1700, Pennsylvania, 2010.
Jackson-Stops, G. (ed.), The Treasure Houses of Britain: Five Hundred Years of Private Patronage and Art Collecting, London, 1985.
Jardine, L., Worldly Goods, New York, 1996.
Jenkins, I., Archaeologists and Aesthetes in the Sculpture Galleries of the British Museum 1800-1939, London, 1992.
Impey, O. & A. Macgregor (eds.), The Origins of Museums: The Cabinet of Curiosities in 16th and 17th – Century Europe, London, 1985.
Kingery, W. D., & S. Lubar (eds.), History from Things: Essays on Material Culture, Washington DC, 1993.
Learmount, B., The History of the Auction, London, 1985. Miller, D., Material Culture and Mass Consumption, Oxford, 1987.
Macgregor, A., Curiosity and the Enlightenment: Collectors and Collections from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century, New Haven, 2007.
Macgregor, A., The Ashmolean Museum – A brief history of the institution and its collections, Oxford, 2001.
McKenzie, J., Museums and Empire. Natural History, Human Cultures and Colonial Identities, Manchester, 2010.
Mennell, S., Norbert Elias: An Introduction, Dublin, 1998. Millar, O., The Queen’s Pictures, London, 1977.
Mordaunt-Crook, J., The British Museum, London, 1972.
Moulin, R., Le Marché de la peinture en France, Paris, 1967.
Moulin, R., Le Marché de la peinture en France, Paris, 1989. Ormrod, D., ‘Art and Its Markets’, Economic History Review, vol. 52, no.3, 1999.
North, M., & D. Ormrod (eds.), Art Markets in Europe 1400-1800, Aldershot, 1998.
Pearce, S., On Collecting. An investigation into Collecting in the European Tradition, London, 1995.
Pearce, S., Art in Museums, London, 1995.
Pearce, S. (ed.), Museums, Objects and Collections: A Cultural Study, London, 1992.
Pears, I., The Discovery of Painting: The Growth of Interest in the Arts in England 1680-1768, New Haven, 1988.
Perry, G. and C. Cunningham (eds.), Academies, Museums and Canons of Art, New Haven, 1999.
Plumb, J. H and Weldon, H., Royal Heritage, The Story of Britain’s Royal Builders and Collectors (1977).
Pomian, K., Collectors and Curiosities: Paris and Venice 1500-1800, Cambridge, 1990.
Prezziozi, D. and Farago, C. (eds.), Grasping the World: The Idea of the Museum, Aldershot, 2004.
Reitlinger, G., The Economics of Taste Vol 1: The Rise and Fall of Picture Prices 1760-1960; Vol 2: The Rise and Fall of Objets d’Art Prices since 1750; Vol 3: The Art Market in the 1960s, London, 1963.
Rifkin, A. and M. Camille (eds.), Other Objects of Desire, Collectors and Collecting Queerly, Oxford, 2001.
Roberts, W., Memorials of Christie’s-A Record of Art Salesfrom 1766 to 1896, London, 1897.
Schubert, K., The Curator’s Egg. The evolution of the museum concept from the French Revolution to the present day, London, 2009.
Stourton, J., Great Collectors of our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945, London and New York, 1997.
Stourton, J. and C. Sebag-Montefiore, The British as Art Collectors: From the Tudors to the Present, London and New York, 2014.
Taylor, B., Art for the Nation. Exhibitions and the London Public, 1747-2001, Manchester, 1999.
Tinniswood, A., The Polite Tourist. A History of Country House Visiting, London, 1998.
Trevor-Roper, H., Princes & Artists, London, 1991.
Von Holst, N., Creators, Collectors and Connoisseurs. The Anatomy of Artistic Taste from the Antiquity to the Present Day, New York, 1967.
Warren, J., and A. Turpin (eds.), Auctions, Agents & Dealers: The Mechanisms of the Art Market 1660-1830, Oxford, 2007.
Waterfield, G. (ed.), Art Treasures of England – The Regional Collections, London, 1998.
Waterfield, G. (ed.), Palaces of Art. Art Galleries in Britain, 1790-1990, London, 1991.
Watson, P., From Manet to Manhattan – The Rise of the Modern Art Market, London and New York, 1992.
Witcomb, A., Re-Imagining the Museum. Beyond the Mausoleum, Oxford, 2003. Wilson, D., The Collections of the British Museum, London, 1991.
Wilk, C. and N. Humphrey, Creating the British Galleries at the V & A: a study in museology, London, 2004.
Yeide, N.H., The AAM Guide to Provenance Research, Washington D.C., 2001.
THEORY
Appadurai, A., The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, Cambridge, 1986.
Baudrillard, J., Le Système des Objets, Paris, 1975.
Baudrillard, J., For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign, New York, 1981.
Bennett, T., The Birth of the Museum. History, Theory, Politics, Oxford, 2002.
Bourdieu, P., Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste, Massachusetts, 1984.
Elsner, J., and C. Roger (eds.), Cultures of Collecting, London, 1994.
Miller, D., Material Culture and Mass Consumption, Oxford, 1987.
Muensterberger, W., Collecting: an Unruly Passion: Psychological Perspectives, Princeton, 1994.
Pearce, S., Experiencing Material Culture in the Western World, London and New York, 1997.
Pearce, S., Interpreting Objects and Collections, Oxford, 1994.
Pearce, S., The Collector’s Voice-critical readings in the practice of collecting, Farnham, 2002.
Veblen, T., The Theory of the Leisure Class. An Economic Study of Institutions, New Brunswick and London, 1965.
Vergo, P. (ed.), The New Museology, London, 1993.
WEBSITES
The Lost Collection of Charles I, The Royal Collection Trust (click here for link)