Henry Walters and Bernard Berenson - Collector and Connoisseur

Informationen zum Autor Recognized annually in Best Lawyers in America , Stanley Mazaroff retired from the active practice of law to study art history at the Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Walters Art Museum. William R. Johnston is associate director and curator of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art at the Walters Art Gallery. Klappentext "In association with The Walters Art Musem." Based primarily on correspondence and other archival documents recently discovered at the Walters Art Museum and the Villa I Tatti in Florence, the intriguing story of Walters and Berenson offers unusual insight into the pleasures and perils of collecting Italian Renaissance paintings, the ethics in the marketplace, and the founding of American art museums.

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• Authors: Stanley Mazaroff, Mazaroff Stanley
• Assisted by: William R. Johnston (Foreword)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.08.2010
• EAN: 9780801895128
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-9512-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; USA, ART / History / General, ART / American / General, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, History of Art, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, United States of America, USA, Art styles not defined by date, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections