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Buying Baroque:

Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America

ISBN-13: 9780271077277
Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Edited by Edgar Peters Bowron
Price: AUD $152.00
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Local release date: 14/05/2017
Format: Hardback 204 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Photography & photographs [AJ]

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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.

Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Critical Fortunes of Italian Baroque Painting in America

Edgar Peters Bowron

1 Italian Baroque Paintings at the Ringling Museum: The Legacy of John Ringling and Chick Austin

Virginia Brilliant

2 The Atheneum to the Fore: Hartford and the Italian Baroque

Eric Zafran

3 The American View of the “Forgotten Century” of Italian Painting: Reminiscences of an Art Dealer and Curator

Marco Grassi

4 An Invisible Web: Art Historians Behind the Collecting of Italian Baroque Art Richard Spear

5 Baroque in the Caribbean: Luis A. Ferré and the Museo de Arte de Ponce

Pablo Pérez d’Ors

6 Dealing and Scholarship: The Heim Gallery, London, 1966–1995

J. Patrice Marandel

7 The Detroit Institute of Arts and Italian Baroque Painting

Andria Derstine

8 The Bob Jones University Collection of Italian Baroque Paintings

Ian Kennedy

9 Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., and His Collection of Italian Baroque Paintings

Eric Zafran

10 Better Late than Never: Collecting Baroque Painting at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Andrea Bayer

References

List of Contributors

List of Artists

Index

“A set of ten informative and well-written essays that provide the reader with a sampling of personalities, acquisition strategies, and collections that many Europeans may not know.”

—Judith Mann, The Art Newspaper

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Buying Baroque:

Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America