Buying Baroque - Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America

A collection of essays on the American collecting of Italian Baroque paintings in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Looks at the influence of art exhibitions and exhibition catalogues on the understanding and popularity of Italian Baroque art.

About the author

Edgar Peters Bowron served as the Audrey Jones Beck Curator of European Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, from 1996 through 2014. Previously, he was senior curator of paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., director of the Harvard University Art Museums, and director of the North Carolina Museum of Art. Now retired, he most recently published Pompeo Batoni: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings.

Summary

A collection of essays on the American collecting of Italian Baroque paintings in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Looks at the influence of art exhibitions and exhibition catalogues on the understanding and popularity of Italian Baroque art.

Product details

• Authors: Edgar Peters Bowron
• Assisted by: Edgar Peters Bowron (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.2017
• EAN: 9780271077277
• ISBN: 978-0-271-07727-7
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 254 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 1134 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Series: Frick Collection Studies in th; The Frick Collection Studies in the History of Art Collecting in America; The Frick Collection Studies in the History of Art Collecting in America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Europe, ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Art, ART / European, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, Antiques & collectables: pictures, prints & maps, ART / History / European / Baroque & Rococo