Old Masters Worldwide

Author : Susanna Avery-Quash,Barbara Pezzini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501348150

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Old Masters Worldwide by Susanna Avery-Quash,Barbara Pezzini Pdf

As a result of the Napoleonic wars, vast numbers of Old Master paintings were released on to the market from public and private collections across continental Europe. The knock-on effect was the growth of the market for Old Masters from the 1790s up to the early 1930s, when the Great Depression put an end to its expansion. This book explores the global movement of Old Master paintings and investigates some of the changes in the art market that took place as a result of this new interest. Arguably, the most important phenomenon was the diminishing of the traditional figure of the art agent and the rise of more visible, increasingly professional, dealerships; firms such as Colnaghi and Agnew's in Britain, Goupil in France and Knoedler in the USA, came into existence. Old Masters Worldwide explores the ways in which the pioneering practices of such businesses contributed to shape a changing market.

Author : Cynthia Saltzman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781440633959

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Old Masters, New World by Cynthia Saltzman Pdf

A spellbinding account of the rapacious pursuit of the most exquisite paintings in the world In the Gilded Age, newly wealthy and culturally ambitious Americans began to compete for Europe's extraordinary Old Master pictures, causing a major migration of art across the Atlantic. Old Masters, New World is a backstage look at the cutthroat competition, financial maneuvering, intrigue, and double-dealing often involved in these purchases, not to mention the seductive power of the ravishing paintings that drove these collectors-including financier J. Pierpont Morgan, sugar king H. O. Havemeyer, Boston aesthete Isabella Stewart Gardner, and industrialist Henry Clay Frick. Packed with stunning reproductions, this is an ideal gift book for art lovers and history buffs alike.

Author : Susanna Avery-Quash,Barbara Pezzini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Art galleries, Commercial
ISBN : 1501348175

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Old Masters Worldwide by Susanna Avery-Quash,Barbara Pezzini Pdf

"As a result of the Napoleonic wars, vast numbers of Old Master paintings were released on to the market from public and private collections across Continental Europe. The knock-on effect was the growth of the market for Old Masters from the 1790s up to the early 1930s, when the Great Depression put an end to its expansion. This book explores for the first time the global movement of Old Master paintings and investigates some of the changes in the art market that took place as a result of this new interest. Arguably, the most important phenomenon was the diminishing of the traditional figure of the art agent and the rise of more visible, increasingly professional, dealerships; firms such as Colnaghi and Agnew's in Britain, Goupil in France, and Knoedler in the US, came into existence. Old Masters Worldwide explores the ways in which the pioneering practices of such businesses contributed to shape a changing market"--

Author : Susanna Avery-Quash,Barbara Pezzini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501348167

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Old Masters Worldwide by Susanna Avery-Quash,Barbara Pezzini Pdf

As a result of the Napoleonic wars, vast numbers of Old Master paintings were released on to the market from public and private collections across continental Europe. The knock-on effect was the growth of the market for Old Masters from the 1790s up to the early 1930s, when the Great Depression put an end to its expansion. This book explores the global movement of Old Master paintings and investigates some of the changes in the art market that took place as a result of this new interest. Arguably, the most important phenomenon was the diminishing of the traditional figure of the art agent and the rise of more visible, increasingly professional, dealerships; firms such as Colnaghi and Agnew's in Britain, Goupil in France and Knoedler in the USA, came into existence. Old Masters Worldwide explores the ways in which the pioneering practices of such businesses contributed to shape a changing market.

Author : Christine Elisabeth Jackson
Publisher : ACC Distribution
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004388083

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Great Bird Paintings of the World: The old masters by Christine Elisabeth Jackson Pdf

The first volume of Great Bird Paintings includes pictures painted in oils or water-colours before 1699. For centuries, Western art was tied to the discipline of the Roman Catholic Church. Symbolic birds appeared in many renaissance religious paintings. Delicate preparatory water-colour sketches were made for these. Artists who wished to paint birds, shrewdly chose scenes of the animals entering Noah's Ark and the Garden of Eden, which gave them the legitimate excuse to introduce birds. By the end of the sixteenth century, the artists had altered the balance and relegated the biblical scene to the background, with the birds claiming full attention in the foreground. In the mid-seventeenth century they were free of clerical demands and in the Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish painting they produced hundreds of very fine canvases full of delightful birds. At long last, they could fully indulge their delight in painting the beauty of colour and form of the birds that gave them so much pleasure.

Author : Elizabeth Prettejohn
Publisher : Association of Human Rights Institutes series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300222750

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Modern Painters, Old Masters by Elizabeth Prettejohn Pdf

Le revers de la jaquette indique : "With the rise of museums in the 19th century, including the formation in 1824 of the National gallery in London, the art of the past became visible and accessible (in Victorian England) as never before. Inspired by the work of Sandro Botticelli, Jan van Eyck, Diego Velazquez, and others, British artists transformed contemporary art through a creative process that emphasized imitation and emulation. Elizabeth Prettejohn analyzes the ways in which the Old Masters were interpreted by artists, as well as critics, curators, and scholars, and argues that Victorian artists were, paradoxically, at their most original when they imitated the Old Masters most faithfully. Covering Victorian art from the Pre-Raphaelites through to the early modernists, she vividly traces the ways in wich artist such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, and William Orpen engaged with the art of the past to produce some of the greatest art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."

Author : Samuel Griswold Goodrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Geography
ISBN : NYPL:33433000560809

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Pictorial Geography of the World: Old world by Samuel Griswold Goodrich Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015026252760

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Glass & Pottery World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cyrus Thomas,Charles Rau,Robert Fletcher
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385472976

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Observations Cup-shaped and Other Lapidarian Sculptures. The Old World and in America by Cyrus Thomas,Charles Rau,Robert Fletcher Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Author : Eric A. Anderson,George F. Earle
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1972-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791494882

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Design and Aesthetics in Wood by Eric A. Anderson,George F. Earle Pdf

This book is the result of a symposium on "Design and Aesthetics in Wood," which was held at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, N.Y., 7-9 November 1967. Concurrent with the conference was an exhibition, sponsored by the College of Environmental Science and Forestry and the School of Art, in which the art objects and industrial products illustrated here were a part.

Author : Park Benjamin,James Aldrich,Henry Champion Deming,James Mackay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:74714288

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The New World by Park Benjamin,James Aldrich,Henry Champion Deming,James Mackay Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Library World's Best Literature: Ancient Modern by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jemmett Jemmett- Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555086528

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So the world wags, by the author of 'A lone lassie'. by Jemmett Jemmett- Browne Pdf

Author : Thomas Bernhard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780226074344

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Old Masters by Thomas Bernhard Pdf

In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to meet him in a Viennese museum. While Reger gazes at a Tintoretto portrait, Atzbacher—who fears Reger's plans to kill himself—gives us a portrait of the musicologist: his wisdom, his devotion to his wife, and his love-hate relationship with art. With characteristically acerbic wit, Bernhard exposes the pretensions and aspirations of humanity in a novel at once pessimistic and strangely exhilarating. "Bernhard's . . . most enjoyable novel."—Robert Craft, New York Review of Books. "Bernhard is one of the masters of contemporary European fiction."—George Steiner

Author : Carolyn Higbie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780191077159

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Collectors, Scholars, and Forgers in the Ancient World by Carolyn Higbie Pdf

Collectors, Scholars, and Forgers in the Ancient World focuses on the fascination which works of art, texts, and antiquarian objects inspired in Greeks and Romans in antiquity and draws parallels with other cultures and eras to offer contexts for understanding that fascination. Statues, bronze weapons, books, and bones might have been prized for various reasons: because they had religious value, were the work of highly regarded artists and writers, had been possessed by famous mythological figures, or were relics of a long disappeared past. However, attitudes towards these objects also changed over time: sculpture which was originally created for a religious purpose became valuable as art and could be removed from its original setting, while historians discovered value in inscriptions and other texts for supporting historical arguments and literary scholars sought early manuscripts to establish what authors really wrote. As early as the Hellenistic era, some Greeks and Romans began to collect objects and might even display them in palaces, villas, or gardens; as these objects acquired value, a demand was created for more of them, and so copyists and forgers created additional pieces - while copyists imitated existing pieces of art, sometimes adapting to their new settings, forgers created new pieces to complete a collection, fill a gap in historical knowledge, make some money, or to indulge in literary play with knowledgeable readers. The study of forged relics is able to reveal not only what artefacts the Greeks and Romans placed value on, but also what they believed they understood about their past and how they interpreted the evidence for it. Drawing on the latest scholarship on forgery and fakes, as well as a range of examples, this book combines stories about frauds with an analysis of their significance, and illuminates and explores the link between collectors, scholars, and forgers in order to offer us a way to better understand the power that objects held over the ancient Greeks and Romans.