Evolution of English Collecting - The Reception of Italian Art in the Tudor and Stuart Periods

Informationen zum Autor Edward Chaney is professor of fine and decorative arts and founding chair of the History of Collecting Research Centre at the Southampton Institute. Klappentext This book surveys for the first time the evolution of English collecting. Edward Chaney begins with the background history of European collecting, focusing in particular on Italy's formative role in this phenomenon, then sets English collecting in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in context and draws together a unique collection of essays on the subject. The book deals with issues ranging from English collecting at the time of the Reformation, with all the tension that phenomenon produced in England's relationships with Rome, to the early Cecils and conflicts between English Protestantism and Catholic Italianate taste. The lives and achievements of great collectors and patrons are examined, and specific studies of the evolution of collections of paintings, sculptures, and prints in England are included as well. Zusammenfassung After a thorough survey of the background history of European collecting! focussing in particular on Italy's formative role in this phenomenon! Edward Chaney contextualises English collecting in the 16th and 17th centuries and draws together a collection of essays on the subject.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Chaney
• Assisted by: Edward Chaney (Editor), Chaney Edward (Editor)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.01.2004
• EAN: 9780300102246
• ISBN: 978-0-300-10224-6
• No. of pages: 496
• Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; Studies in British Art; Studies in British Art; The Association of Human Rights Institutes series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; England, ART / History / General, ART / European, Italy, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Mannerism, Renaissance art, Renaissance style, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, Art & Design Styles: Mannerism