A Market for Merchant Princes: Collecting Italian Renaissance Paintings in America

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ISBN 10: 0271064714 / ISBN 13: 9780271064710

Published by Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014

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. . 2014. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9780271064710

Synopsis:

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 the passions of individual collectors while chronicling the development of their increasingly sophisticated sensibilities. In almost every case, the collectors on whom these essays concentrate founded institutions that would make the art they had acquired accessible to the public, such as the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Morgan Library and Museum, the Walters Art Gallery, The Frick Collection, and the John and Mable Ringling Museum.

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.

About the Author: 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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Market for Merchant Princes: Collecting ...
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication Date: 2014
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Edition: 1st Edition