Kings and Connoisseurs

Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe

Jonathan Brown (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

1995
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-04497-2 (ISBN)

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Old master paintings are now considered to be the most valuable and prestigious of the visual arts, and the best examples command the highest prices of any luxury commodity. In this series of lectures Jonathan Brown tells in vivid detail the story of the rise of painting to this exalted status. The result is an exciting narrative of greed and passion, played out against a background of international politics and intrigue. This book, which is an essay in cultural and art history, is completed by a postscript showing why important old master paintings have now virtually disappeared from the art market. 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. Brown traces this process in Madrid, Paris, London, and Brussels, beginning with the dispersal of the great English collections in the aftermath of the Civil War, including those of Charles 1, the Earl of Arundel, and the Dukes of Buckingham and Hamilton.
Hundreds of great pictures were all at once available to continental collectors and were acquired by Cardinal Jules Mazarin, Louis XIV of France, Archduke Leopold William of Austria, and Philip IV of Spain, as well as lesser-known collectors, Everhard Jabach and Luis de Haro. Through comparative analysis of 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.

Jonathan Brown (1939–2022) was the Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute for Fine Arts at New York University and the author of a number of books, including Velázquez: Painter and Courtier; Painting in Spain, 1500–1700; In the Shadow of Velázquez: A Life in Art History; and Images and Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Painting (Princeton).

Preface II The Sale of the Century III "The Greatest Amateur of Paintings among the Princes of the World" IV "Amator artis pictoriae": Archduke Leopold William and Picture Collecting in Flanders V Reasons of State VI The Prestige of Painting Postscript: Where Have All the Masterpieces Gone? An Essay on the Market for Old Pictures, 1700-1995 Notes Bibliography Index Photographic Acknowledgments

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.9.1995
Reihe/Serie	Bollingen Series
Zusatzinfo	226 illustrations, 90 in color
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	254 x 279 mm
Gewicht	1616 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Malen / Zeichnen
ISBN-10	0-691-04497-X / 069104497X
ISBN-13	978-0-691-04497-2 / 9780691044972
Zustand	Neuware