Kings and Connoisseurs (eBook)

Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe

Jonathan Brown (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
264 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-25286-5 (ISBN)

Infos

A vivid and exciting account of royal collectors, art dealers, connoisseurs, and the rise of old master paintingsOld 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.10.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series
• Reihe/Serie: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
• Reihe/Serie: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
• Zusatzinfo: 226 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Malen / Zeichnen
• Schlagworte: and Arundel • Arundel, Thomas Howard, Earl of • as art patron • Balthasar Castiglione • Banqueting House, Whitehall • Buckingham, George • Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of • Carr, Robert, Earl of Somerset • Cecil, Robert, Earl of Salisbury • Charles I as Hunter • Charles I, King of England • Christina of Denmark • Commonwealth Sale • Croy, Charles de • Dyck, Anthony van • Execution • Four Seasons • Four Seasons pl. • gallery pictures • George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham pl. • Henrietta Maria of France, Queen of England • Henry, Prince of Wales • James I, king of England • Landscape with Diogenes • Lumley, John, Lord • Maximilian • Mytens, Daniel, Charles I pl. • on Charles I as collector • Pontius, Paul, Balthasar Gerbier pl. • Talbot, Aletheia, Lady Arundel • Talbot, Gilbert • Villiers, George • Whitehall Group (circle of collectors at court of Charles I)
• ISBN-10: 0-691-25286-6 / 0691252866
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-25286-5 / 9780691252865