Marks of Opulence: The Why, When and Where of Western Art 1000–1914A sweeping, beautifully written history of artistic patronage from 1000 to the present day by a Wolfson Prize winning historian. Marks of Opulence is a magisterial survey of European art and artistic patronage from 1000 until the birth of modernism. Tracing the history from the discovery of silver in the Harz mountains, through the catastrophic effects of plague in the 14th century, to the studied magnificence of papal and royal courts in the 16th and