Arts of Collecting - Padre Sebastiano Resta Market for Drawings in Early Modern Europe

Klappentext This work, first published in 2000, focuses on Sebastiano Resta to illuminates a crucial chapter in the history of collecting. Zusammenfassung This work! first published in 2000! examines the collection of art works through an anthropological examination of modes of exchange and the social roles of material culture. Focusing on the figure of Sebastiano Resta! it brings to light a shadowy! yet crucial chapter in the history of collecting. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: towards a historical anthropology of collecting; Padre Sabastiano Resta and the collection of drawing in Early Modern Europe; 1. Markets for drawings; 2. Chivalrous gifts; 3. Connoisseurial culture; 4. Mnemonic collecting; Epilogue: the drawing and the amateur.

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• Authors: Genevieve Warwick, Genevieve (Courtauld Institute of Art Warwick, Warwick Genevieve
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.11.2012
• EAN: 9780521181075
• ISBN: 978-0-521-18107-5
• No. of pages: 306
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides, TRAVEL / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, ART / History / General, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc