Buying Baroque

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