Striving for Close Resemblance or Creative Improvements : On Painted Copies and Workshop Replicas from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century in Swedish Art History
This study examines painted copies from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to gain a richer understanding of the phenomenon of copies and of copying as a common artistic practice. The study findings suggest that copies painted in Sweden in the seventeenth century were, in general, free copies. In that century, the Swedish economy was booming, and a semi-regulated art market had developed, and