Editing Market town (section)

== In art and literature ==
Dutch painters of Antwerp took great interest in market places and market towns as subject matter from the 16th century. [[Pieter Aertsen]] was known as the "great painter of the market"<ref>Honig, E.A., ''Painting & the Market in Early Modern Antwerp,'' Yale University Press, 1998, p.24</ref> Painters' interest in markets was due, at least in part, to the changing nature of the market system at that time. With the rise of the merchant guilds, the public began to distinguish between two types of merchant, the ''meerseniers'' which referred to local merchants including bakers, grocers, sellers of dairy products and stall-holders, and the ''koopman,'' which described a new, emergent class of trader who dealt in goods or credit on a large scale. Paintings of every day market scenes may have been an affectionate attempt to record familiar scenes and document a world that was in danger of being lost.<ref>Honig, E.A., ''Painting & the Market in Early Modern Antwerp,'' Yale University Press, 1998, pp 6-10</ref>

'''Paintings and drawings of market towns and market scenes'''
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File:Aertsen, Pieter - Market Scene.jpg|Market Scene by [[Pieter Aertsen]], 1550
File:Rustic Market (Nundinae Rusticorum) from The Large Landscapes MET DP818331.jpg|Rustic Market (Nundinae Rusticorum) by [[Pieter Bruegel the Elder]], 1555–56
File:Joachim Beuckelaer-Marché aux poissons.jpg|Fish Market by [[Joachim Beuckelaer]], 1568
File:Jonge Lange At the Market.JPG|At the Market by Jonge Lange, 1584
File:Peter Paul Rubens - Summer - WGA20398.jpg|Peasants going to the market, [[Peter Paul Rubens]], c. 1602
File:Groentemarkt Rijksmuseum SK-A-1732.jpeg|Vegetable market in Holland, by [[Sybrand van Beest]], 1648
File:Sybrand van Beest 001.jpg|Fruit and vegetable market, Holland by Sybrand van Beest 1652
File:Cornelis Pietersz. Bega - Village Market with the Quack - WGA01578.jpg|Village Market with the Quack by [[Cornelis Pietersz Bega]], 1654
File:Jan van Horst - Market Scene.jpg|Market Scene by Jan van Horst, 1569
File:Joos de Momper (II) - Flemish Market and Washing Place - WGA16128.jpg|Flemish Market and Washing Place by [[Joos de Momper]], first half 17th century
File:Jan Baptist van Meunincxhove - The Square in Bruges.jpg|Market Square in Bruges by [[Jan Baptist van Meunincxhove]], 1696
File:A Fish Market in a Village Square by Barent Gael.jpg|A Fish Market in a Village Square by [[Barent Gael]], n.d. (late 17th century)
File:A Poultry Market Before a Village Inn by Barent Gael.jpg|A Poultry Market Before a Village Inn by Barent Gael, n.d. (late 17th century)
File:Alessandro Magnasco - Market - WGA13859.jpg|Market by [[Alessandro Magnasco]], first half 18th century
File:Market at Aberystwith.jpeg|Market at Aberystwith, sepia print by [[Samuel Ireland]], 1797
File:'Returning from Market', oil painting by Augustus Wall Callcott, c. 1834, Tate.jpg|'Returning from Market', oil painting by [[Augustus Wall Callcott]], c. 1834
File:WLANL - 23dingenvoormusea - Woudrichem.jpg|The Fish market in [[Woudrichem]] by [[Jan Weissenbruch]], 1850
File:Van Bommel, Zaltbommel.jpg|Market Day at [[Zaltbommel]] by Elias Pieter Van Bommel, 1852
File:A market day in Bangor.jpeg|A market day in [[Bangor, Gwynedd|Bangor]] by John J Walker, 1856
File:Иван Константинович Айвазовский - Рынок сцену в Константинополь, Софийский собор в фоновом режиме.jpg|A market scene in Constantinople by [[Ivan Aivazovsky]], 1860
File:Zwolle sint michaelskerk cornelis springer.jpg|[[Grote Markt (Zwolle)|Grote Markt]], Zwolle by [[Cornelis Springer]], 1862
File:Cornelis Springer 001 detail 01.jpg|Town hall and market by Cornelis Springer, 1864 (detail)
File:DV307 no.145 Pwllheli Market Aug 8 1866.png|Pwllheli Market in Wales, watercolour by [[Frances Elizabeth Wynne]], c. 1866
File:Petrus van Schendel Market.jpg|A Moonlit Vegetable Market by [[Petrus van Schendel]], 19th century
File:Pasini Alberto A Market Scene.jpg|A Market Scene by [[Alberto Pasini]], late 19th century
File:Bridgman north-african-encampment.jpg|North African market by [[Frederick Arthur Bridgman]], 1923
File:MakovskiyVE YarmVPoltaveDP.jpg|Market in Poltava by Vladimir Egorovich Makovsky, n.d.
File:Vladimir Egorovich Makovsky - 'Fair (Little Russia)', 1885.jpg|Fair in Ukraine by [[Vladimir Makovsky]], 1882
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