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15%OFFRoger Hargreaves - A Market for Merchant Princes: Collecting Italian Renaissance Paintings in America - 9780271064710 - V9780271064710
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A Market for Merchant Princes: Collecting Italian Renaissance Paintings in America

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Description for A Market for Merchant Princes: Collecting Italian Renaissance Paintings in America Hardback. Editor(s): Reist, Inge (Director of The Frick Collection's Center for the History of Collecting). Series: Frick Collection Studies in the History of Art Collecting in. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; ACND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 267 x 412 x 22. Weight in Grams: 970.

Not unlike their European forebears, Americans have historically held Italian Renaissance paintings in the highest possible regard, never allowing works by or derived from Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian to fall from favor. The ten essays in A Market for Merchant Princes trace the progression of American collectors’ taste for Italian Renaissance masterpieces from the antebellum era, through the Gilded Age, to the later twentieth century.

By focusing variously on issues of supply and demand, reliance on advisers, the role of travel, and the civic-mindedness of American collectors from the antebellum years through the post–World War II era, the authors bring alive ... Read more

The contributors to the volume are Jaynie Anderson, Andrea Bayer, Edgar Peters Bowron, Virginia Brilliant, David Alan Brown, Clay M. Dean, Frederick Ilchman, Tiffany Johnston, Stanley Mazaroff, and Jennifer Tonkovich.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Condition
New
Series
Frick Collection Studies in the History of Art Collecting in
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
University Park, United States
ISBN
9780271064710
SKU
V9780271064710
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About Roger Hargreaves
Inge Reist is Director of the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library, where her first position was as an Assistant Curator and Lecturer from 1980 to 1983.

Reviews for A Market for Merchant Princes: Collecting Italian Renaissance Paintings in America
“A Market for Merchant Princes provides an excellent survey and investigation of how great Italian Renaissance paintings came to enter American collections. Key collectors and institutions—such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, James Jackson Jarves, J. Pierpont Morgan, Henry Walters, Isabella Stewart Gardner, and Samuel H. Kress—are discussed, as are the noted connoisseurs Morelli and Berenson, who had an important ... Read more

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