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Buying Baroque : Italian seventeenth-century paintings come to America
Title
Buying Baroque : Italian seventeenth-century paintings come to America / edited by Edgar Peters Bowron.
ISBN
9780271077277
0271077271
Publication
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Frick Collection, The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]
Physical Description
xv, 185 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Notes
Series numbering from spine.
"This book evolved from a symposium, 'Going for Baroque: Americans Collect Italian Paintings of the 17th and 18th Centuries, ' organized by the Center for the History Collecting, that was held at The Frick Collection on September 20 and 21, 2013."
Summary
"A collection of essays on the American collecting of Italian Baroque paintings in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Looks at the influence of art exhibitions and exhibition catalogues on the understanding and popularity of Italian Baroque art"--Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 22, 2017
Series
The Frick Collection studies in the history of art collecting in America ; [3]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : the critical fortunes of Italian Baroque painting in America / Edgar Peters Bowron
Italian Baroque paintings at the Ringling Museum : the legacy of John Ringling and Chick Austin / Virginia Brilliant
The Atheneum to the fore : Hartford and the Italian Baroque / Eric Zafran
The American view of the "forgotten century" of Italian painting : reminiscences of an art dealer and curator / Marco Grassi
An invisible web : art historians behind the collecting of Italian Baroque art / Richard Spear
Baroque in the Caribbean : Luis A. Ferré and the Museo de Arte de Ponce / Pablo Pérex d'Ors
Dealing and scholarship : The Heim Gallery, London, 1966-1995 / J. Patrice Marandel
The Detroit Institute of Arts and Italian Baroque paintings / Ian Kennedy
Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., and his collection of Italian Baroque paintings / Eric Zafran
Better late than never : collecting Baroque painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Andrea Bayer.
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