Innovation, experience and artists' age-valuation profiles: evidencen from eighteenth-century rococo and neoclassical painters

摘要

Age-valuation profiles for artists' works are to some degree analogous to age-earnings profiles for workers more generally and are of interest for valuation of art objects as well as for what they reveal about artists' career dynamics. A number of writers have suggested that the school, or style, characterizing an artist's work may have implications for the peak of the age-valuation profile (the age of the artist at the time at which his or her most highly valued works were executed). In particu