Kings And Connoisseurs
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Kings And Connoisseurs
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Author : Jonathan Brown
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2023-08-15
Kings And Connoisseurs written by Jonathan Brown and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-15 with Art categories.
A vivid and exciting account of royal collectors, art dealers, connoisseurs, and the rise of old master paintings Old master paintings are among the most valuable and prestigious of the visual arts, and the best examples command the highest prices of any luxury commodity. In Kings and Connoisseurs, Jonathan Brown tells the story of how painting rose to this exalted status. The transformation of painting from an inexpensive to a costly art form reached a crucial stage in the royal courts of Europe in the seventeenth century, where rulers and aristocrats assembled huge collections, often in short periods of time. By comparing collecting and collectors at these courts, Brown explains the formation of new attitudes toward pictures, as well as the mechanisms that supported the enterprise of collecting, including the emergence of the art dealer, the development of connoisseurship, and the publication of sumptuous picture books of various collections. The result is an exciting narrative of greed and passion, played out against a background of international politics and intrigue.
Kings Connoisseurs
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Author : Jonathan Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Kings Connoisseurs written by Jonathan Brown and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Art patronage categories.
This book is an account of the formation of the first great Royal art collections. This new and powerful interest in acquiring pictures transformed the way in which painting was viewed within the context of European culture, and is a fascinating story of greed, intrigue and passion.
Canons And Values
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Author : Larry Silver
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2019-08-27
Canons And Values written by Larry Silver and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-27 with Art categories.
A critical rethinking of the way canons are defined, constructed, dismantled, and revised. A century ago, all art was evaluated through the lens of European classicism and its tradition. This volume explores and questions the foundations of the European canon, offers a critical rethinking of ancient and classical art, and interrogates the canons of cultures and regions that have often been left at the margins of art history. It underscores the historical and geographical diversity of canons and the local values underlying them. Twelve international scholars consider how canons are constructed and contested, focusing on the relationship between canonical objects and the value systems that shape their hierarchies. Deploying an array of methodologies—including archaeological investigations, visual analysis, and literary critique—the authors examine canon formation throughout the world, including Africa, India, East Asia, Mesoamerica, South America, ancient Egypt, classical Greece, and Europe. Global studies of art, which are dismantling the traditionally Eurocentric canon, promise to make art history more inclusive. But enduring canons cannot be dismissed. This volume raises new questions about the importance of canons—including those from outside Europe—for the wider discipline of art history.
Curiosities And Texts
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Author : Marjorie Swann
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2010-11-24
Curiosities And Texts written by Marjorie Swann and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
A craze for collecting swept England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Aristocrats and middling-sort men alike crammed their homes full of a bewildering variety of physical objects: antique coins, scientific instruments, minerals, mummified corpses, zoological specimens, plants, ethnographic objects from Asia and the Americas, statues, portraits. Why were these bizarre jumbles of artifacts so popular? In Curiosities and Texts, Marjorie Swann demonstrates that collections of physical objects were central to early modern English literature and culture. Swann examines the famous collection of rarities assembled by the Tradescant family; the development of English natural history; narrative catalogs of English landscape features that began to appear in the Tudor and Stuart periods; the writings of Ben Jonson and Robert Herrick; and the foundation of the British Museum. Through this wide-ranging series of case studies, Swann addresses two important questions: How was the collection, which was understood as a form of cultural capital, appropriated in early modern England to construct new social selves and modes of subjectivity? And how did literary texts—both as material objects and as vehicles of representation—participate in the process of negotiating the cultural significance of collectors and collecting? Crafting her unique argument with a balance of detail and insight, Swann sheds new light on material culture's relationship to literature, social authority, and personal identity.
The Sale Of The Late King S Goods
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Author : Jerry Brotton
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2018-02-08
The Sale Of The Late King S Goods written by Jerry Brotton and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-08 with History categories.
Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book, The Sale of the Late King's Goods, explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Following a remarkable and unprecedented Parliamentary Act for ‘The sale of the late king’s goods’, Cromwell’s republican regime sold off nearly 2,000 paintings, tapestries, statues and drawings in an attempt to settle the dead king’s enormous debts and raise money for the Commonwealth’s military forces. Brotton recreates the extraordinary circumstances of this sale, in which for the first time ordinary working people were able to handle and own works by the great masters. He also examines the abiding relationship between art and power, revealing how the current Royal Collection emerged from this turbulent period, and paints its own vivid and dramatic picture of one of the greatest lost collections in English history.
Consuming Splendor
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Author : Linda Levy Peck
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-09-19
Consuming Splendor written by Linda Levy Peck and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-19 with Business & Economics categories.
A fascinating study of the ways in which consumption transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies, and the economy in seventeenth-century England. It reveals for the first time the emergence of consumer society in seventeenth-century England.
Europe Within Reach
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Author : Gerrit Verhoeven
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-06-24
Europe Within Reach written by Gerrit Verhoeven and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-24 with History categories.
In Europe within Reach Gerrit Verhoeven traces some sweeping evolutions in the early modern travel behaviour of Dutch and Flemish elites (1585-1750), as the classical Grand Tour was slowly but surely overshadowed by other types of travelling. Leisure trips to Paris, London or Berlin, a cours pittoresque along the Rhine, domestic trips in the Low Countries and a series of other destinations gained ground, while new sorts of travellers cropped up: female and middle-class travellers, domestic servants, children, youngsters and the elderly. Verhoeven does not only trace these evolutions, but also explains why Netherlandish travellers gradually turned into art connoisseurs; why they were spellbound by sites of memory and by rugged landscapes; or why all sorts of fashionable gadgets and thingies were bought on the way.
The Routledge Companion To Digital Humanities And Art History
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Author : Kathryn Brown
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-04-15
The Routledge Companion To Digital Humanities And Art History written by Kathryn Brown and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-15 with Art categories.
The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities and Art History offers a broad survey of cutting-edge intersections between digital technologies and the study of art history, museum practices, and cultural heritage. The volume focuses not only on new computational tools that have been developed for the study of artworks and their histories but also debates the disciplinary opportunities and challenges that have emerged in response to the use of digital resources and methodologies. Chapters cover a wide range of technical and conceptual themes that define the current state of the field and outline strategies for future development. This book offers a timely perspective on trans-disciplinary developments that are reshaping art historical research, conservation, and teaching. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, historical theory, method and historiography, and research methods in education.
Collections Of Painting In Madrid 1601 1755 Parts 1 And 2
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Author : Marcus B. Burke
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 1997-01-01
Collections Of Painting In Madrid 1601 1755 Parts 1 And 2 written by Marcus B. Burke and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-01 with Art categories.
This two-part book on collections of paintings in Madrid is part of the series Documents for the History of Collecting, Spanish Inventories 1, which presents volumes of art historical information based on archival records. One hundred forty inventories of noble and middle-class collections of art in Madrid are accompanied by two essays describing the taste and cultural atmosphere of Madrid in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The Stuart Court And Europe
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Author : Robert Malcolm Smuts
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1996-08-28
The Stuart Court And Europe written by Robert Malcolm Smuts and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-08-28 with History categories.
This 1996 collection of essays discusses the European dimension of society, politics and culture at the Stuart court.