Reconstructing the Lansdowne Collection of Classical Marbles
This book reunites the collection for the first time in nearly ninety years, under the expert guidance of Roman sculpture specialist Elizabeth Angelicoussis.
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Morgan: Mind of the Collector
Morgan: Mind of the Collector explores Pierpont’s groundbreaking collecting career through its impact on art scholarship, the art market, and the redefining of collecting in American and European culture.
Continue reading ...Le collezioni degli artisti in Italia. Trasformazioni e continuità di un fenomeno sociale tra Cinquecento e Settecento
The British School at Rome (via A. Gramsci, 61) 22 June 2017 A cura di Francesca Parrilla e Matteo Borchia I sezione Linda Borean (Università di Udine): L’artista nel ruolo di collezionista nella Venezia barocca Cecilia Vicentini (Università eCampus/Università di Ferrara): Inventari, testamenti e lasciti: carte di artisti ferraresi Mauro Pavesi (Università Cattolica del Sacro
Continue reading ...MADE IN THE USA: Collecting American Art during the Long Nineteenth Century
This two-day symposium focuses on collections of American art formed during the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth century and concludes with a conversation with Alice Walton, the greatest living collector of American art and the founder of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Presentations not only examine the tastes and activities of private collectors and dealers, but also explore specific areas of collecting, such as Connecticut collectors, patrons and collectors of American Pre-Raphaelite art, collections of private clubs, and the trade in faked Colonial portraits.
Continue reading ...Private Collecting and Public Display: Art Markets and Museums
The Centre for the Study of the Art and Antiques Market at the University of Leeds announces the international two-day conference exploring the relationship between the ‘private’ and ‘public’ spheres of the art market and the museum. This interdisciplinary conference offers the opportunity to hear new research in the fields of art market studies, museum studies, and the histories of collecting.
Continue reading ...The Art Market, Collectors and Agents: Then and Now
Papers will explore shifts in the dynamics of the market, the changing taste of collectors and the importance of writers, critics, museum curators and dealers in influencing these changes.
Continue reading ...Paul Mellon Centre Conference: Art in the British Country House: Collecting and Display
This conference is the first in a series associated with the Paul Mellon Centre’s flagship research project Art in the British Country House: Collecting and Display, which investigates the collection and display of works of art in the country house in Britain from the sixteenth century to the present day.
Continue reading ...The Importance of Being Spitzer
American collectors at the turn of the 20th century eagerly sought out Medieval and Renaissance art once held in the collection of the notorious art dealer Frédéric Spitzer, 1816–1890.
Continue reading ...Arte de Aragón emigrado en coleccionismo USA
El trabajo de investigación, que es la base de la publicación, está centrado en las obras medievales y del siglo XVI, aragonesas, que actualmente están en los Estados Unidos.
Continue reading ...Collecting and Empires: The Impact of the Creation and Dissolution of Empires on Collections and Museums from Antiquity to the Present
Only recently has scholarship in history of collecting and anthropology has begun to address the role imperial expansion on collecting and museums in reference to European and particularly British colonialism
Continue reading ...A Revolution in Taste: Francis Haskell’s Nineteenth Century
The conference will revisit terrain mapped out by Haskell in Rediscoveries in Art, namely the transformation of the art world between the 1770s and 1870s, a period when war, revolution, plunder and state-formation brought fundamental changes to the knowledge of and trade in Old Master paintings.
Continue reading ...Louis-François Cassas (1756-1827): Ses Voyages En Italie et ses Mécènes
Le sujet s’inscrit dans le thème transversal et séduisant du voyage, de l’Italie dans toute sa diversité archéologique, urbaine, insulaire… à la fin du siècle des Lumières.
Continue reading ...Pompeo Batoni: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings
With entries on more than 480 paintings and 250 drawings, this magnificent two-volume set provides the most complete examination to date of Batoni’s entire oeuvre.
Continue reading ...Then and Now: Collecting and Classicism in Eighteenth-Century England
In the mid-eighteenth century, English gentlemen filled their houses with copies and casts of classical statuary while the following generation preferred authentic antique originals.
Continue reading ...The Master Collector: Karoline Luise of Baden
Her original collection included Dutch masterpieces of the 17th century and great works of French painting from the 18th century, among them canvases by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, David Teniers, and Jean Siméon Chardin.
Continue reading ...British Models of Art Collecting and the American Response
14 essays examine points of similarity and difference in the approaches to art collecting practiced in Britain and the United States.
Continue reading ...Animating the 18th – Century Country House
National Gallery, London, UK
5 March 2015
The People’s Galleries Art Museums and Exhibitions in Britain, 1800–1914
Using a wide range of sources, the book studies the patrons and the publics, the collecting policies, the temporary exhibitions, and the architecture of these institutions, as well as the complex range of reasons for their foundation.
Continue reading ...Mariette and the Science of the Connoisseur in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Drawing on significant unpublished archival material as well as on histories of science, publishing, collecting and display, this book shows how Mariette and his colleagues’ practices of classification and interpretation of the graphic arts gave rise to new conceptions of artistic authorship and to a history of art that transcended the biographies of individual artists.
Continue reading ...Owning the Past Why the English Collected Antique Sculpture, 1640–1840
In a lively re-examination of the British collectors who bankrupted themselves to possess antique marble statues, Owning the Past chronicles a story of pride, rivalry, snobbery, and myopic obsession with posterity and possession.
Continue reading ...Delicious Decadence – The Rediscovery of French Eighteenth-Century Painting in the Nineteenth Century
The history of collecting is a topic of central importance to many academic disciplines, and shows no sign of abating in popularity. As such, scholars will welcome this collection of essays by internationally recognised experts that gathers together for the first time varied and stimulating perspectives on the nineteenth-century collector and art market for French eighteenth-century art, and ultimately the formation of collections that form part of such august institutions as the Louvre and the National Gallery in London.
Continue reading ...Diplomats, Goldsmiths and Baroque Court Culture: Lord Raby in Berlin, The Hague and Wentworth Castle
Editors: Patrick Eyres and James Lomax Lord Raby’s celebrated silver wine cistern was saved for the nation after a major appeal in 2011. It was part of the spectacular group of silver provided by the government for his important embassy to Berlin (1705-1711). He received even more silver as ambassador to the Dutch Republic (1711-1714)
Continue reading ...Königliche Sammellust : Wilhelm I. von Württemberg als Sammler und Förderer der Künste
As a regent he gave the young kingdom of Württemberg a historical identity; his multifarious initiatives as a collector and patron, however, have all but sunk into oblivion. The holdings of the Staatsgalerie, which opened in 1843, were expanded by artworks in royal ownership as well as by personal gifts.
Continue reading ...Enlightened Discourse in Art and Courtly Collecting Practices: Caroline Louise of Baden’s ‘Cabinet of Paintings’ in a European Context
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, GERMANY
10–12 September 2014
Caroline Louise of Baden (1723–1783) shaped the art collection of the margraves of Baden more than any other before or since. Her original collection included Dutch masterpieces of the 17th century and great works of French painting from the 18th century, among them canvases by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, David Teniers, and Jean Siméon Chardin
Continue reading ...The Fortunes of the Primitives: Art Treasures from Italian Collections Between the XVIII and XIX Century
Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence, ITALY
24 June-8 December 2014
This exhibition proposes to offer a critical-bibliographic picture of this very important cultural phenomenon concerning the history of taste and collecting in Italy between the late XVIII century and early XIX century. Among other things, this phenomenon exerted a considerable and direct influence on the formation of the major public art collections in the most important European countries.
Continue reading ...Mapping Titian
Mapping Titian allows users to visualize one of the most fundamental concerns of the discipline of Art History: the interrelationship between an artwork and its changing historical context. Focusing on the paintings executed by the Venetian Renaissance artist, Titian (ca. 1488-1576), this site offers a searchable provenance index of his attributed pictures and allows users
Continue reading ...Why Collect? Motivation and Meaning
Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair, London, UK
6 June 2014
Thomas Marks, editor of Apollo magazine, will be joined by a panel of experts to discuss the status and meaning of collecting today.
Continue reading ...Elihu Yale: Merchant, Collector & Patron
Diana Scarisbrick
Benjamin Zucker
Elihu Yale (1649–1721) is famous for the name of Yale University, of which he was an early benefactor. He made his fortune in India, trading in diamonds. Arriving there in 1672, he rose through the East India Company from clerk to governor. When he returned to London in 1699 he brought with him gems, furniture and textiles. In the milieu of portrait painter Sir Godfrey Kneller and physician Sir Hans Sloane he established a fashionable household where he had assembled some ten thousand items.
Collecting Prints and Drawings
Schwaben Akademie, Kloster Irsee
13-16 June 2014
Cabinets of prints and drawings belong to the earliest art collections of Early Modern Europe. Some of them achieved astounding longevity such as the Florentine Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe at the Uffizi. The fame which they acquired then demanded for an ordered and scientific display. Keepers were employed to ensure that fellow enthusiasts as well as visiting courtiers, diplomats and also artists might have access to the print room. Documenting an encyclopaedic approach to knowledge, prints and drawings often depicted parts of the collection in the form of a paper museum. They spread its fame, and with it the renown of its owner, across Europe and into new worlds of collecting East and West.
Continue reading ...The Collector and his Circle
The Institute of Historical Research and The Wallace Collection, London, UK
1 & 2 July 2014
With the developing interest in the history of collecting, this two-day workshop aims to bring out new research in the area of collecting and art markets in the early modern era 1700-1900. The focus of this workshop will be on the collector and his circles, whether friends, advisors or dealers, so as to give further understanding to the context in which individual collectors acquired and displayed their collections. Recent research on art markets and on individual collectors has revealed the fascinating and complex background of individual collectors. Further discussions of the international connections between artists, dealers and collectors have shown how these networks stretch across disciplines and countries.
Continue reading ...The Educated Eye? Connoisseurship Now
Paul Mellon British Centre for Studies in British Art, London, UK
2 May 2014
This one-day conference will address the issue of connoisseurship in relation to historic, modern and contemporary British art studies.
Continue reading ...The Age of Pleasure and Enlightenment
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, USA
August 10, 2013 – February 24, 2014
European art of the 18th century increasingly emphasized civility, elegance, comfort, and informality. During the first half of the century, the Rococo style of art and decoration, characterized by lightness, grace, playfulness, and intimacy, spread throughout Europe.
Continue reading ...Precious Antiquities : The Profane Museum at the time of Pius VI
Guido Cornini and Claudia Lega
Catalogue for the exhibition held at Sala delle Nozze Aldobrandini, Musei Vaticani, Rome.
This exhibition will bring back to life in the Vatican the charm of the eighteenth-century collections of the Profane Museums at the time of Pius VI, before the Napoleonic requisitions. It offers a unique opportunity to see reunited, in their original museum context, works previously exhibited in the Museum and now conserved in prestigious international cultural institutions.
Continue reading ...The Reception of Titian in Britain from Reynolds to Ruskin
P. Humfrey (ed.)
This volume comprises sixteen essays on the reception of Titian by British painters, collectors and critics in the long nineteenth century. The main focus falls on the first three decades of the century, in the aftermath of the exhibition of the celebrated Orléans collection in London in 1798-99.
Continue reading ...Collecting Chinese and Japanese Porcelain in Pre-Revolutionary Paris
This beautifully illustrated volume traces the changing market for Chinese and Japanese porcelain in Paris from the early years of the reign of Louis XIV (1643–1715) through the eighteenth century. The increase in the quantity and variety of East Asian wares imported during this period spurred efforts to record and analyze them, resulting in a profusion of inventories, sales catalogues, and treatises. These contemporary sources—many never published before—provide a comprehensive picture of porcelains: when they were first available; what kinds were most admired during various periods; where and at what price they were sold; who owned them; and how they were displayed and used.
Continue reading ...The Museum of French Monuments 1795–1816: ‘Killing art to make history’
The first volume in two centuries on Alexandre Lenoir’s Museum of French Monuments in Paris, this study presents a comprehensive picture of a seminal project of French Revolutionary cultural policy, one crucial to the development of the modern museum institution. The book offers a new critical perspective of the Museum’s importance and continuing relevance to the history of material culture and collecting, through juxtaposition with its main opponent, the respected connoisseur and theorist Quatremère de Quincy. This innovative approach highlights the cultural and intellectual context of the debate, situating it in the dilemmas of emerging modernity, the idea of nationhood, and changing attitudes to art and its histories.
Continue reading ...Behind Closed Doors Art in the Spanish American Home 1492-1898
A critical contribution to the burgeoning field of Spanish colonial art, Behind Closed Doors reveals how art and luxury goods together signaled the identity and status of Spanish Americans struggling to claim their place in a fluid New World hierarchy.
Continue reading ...The first treatise on museums : Samuel Quiccheberg’s Inscriptiones, 1565
Samuel Quiccheberg’s Inscriptiones, first published in Latin in 1565, is an ambitious effort to demonstrate the pragmatic value of curiosity cabinets, or Wunderkammern, to princely collectors in sixteenth-century Europe and, by so doing, inspire them to develop their own such collections.
Continue reading ...Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris examines a history of contact between modern Europe and East Asia through three collectors: Henri Cernuschi, Emile Guimet, and Edmond de Goncourt. Drawing on a wealth of material including European travelogues of the East and Asian reports of the West, Ting Chang explores the politics of mobility and cross-cultural encounter in the nineteenth century.
Continue reading ...Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
4 April-11 August 2013
Gallery at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York, NY, USA
A Picture Gallery in the Italian Tradition of the Quadreria (1750-1850)
Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, USA
10 January-23 February 2013
Rooms of Wonder: From Wunderkammer to Museum, 1599-1899
The Grolier Club, New York, NY, USA
5 December 2012-2 February 2013
Michael Findlay’s The Value of Art
What is art worth? How can a work by Pablo Picasso be sold for more than $100,000,000? This fascinating book explains the market for art—and art’s value for all of us.
Continue reading ...From The Vendome Press: Lost Lives, Lost Art: Jewish Collectors, Nazi Art Theft, and the Quest for Justice by Melissa Müller, Monika Tatzkow, with foreward by Ronald S. Lauder
Beginning in 1933, Jewish collectors were under extraordinary pressure from German officials to surrender their treasures – paintings, manuscripts, musical instruments, and all manner of objets d’art.
Continue reading ...Isabelle Tillerot’s Jean de Jullienne et les collectionneurs de son temps. Un regard singulier sur le tableau. From Les éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme
Le propos de cet ouvrage porte sur les collectionneurs de la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle, et son enjeu consiste à cerner la spécificité d’un collectionneur par rapport aux formes anciennes et contemporaines de la collection.
Continue reading ...A review by Theodore K. Rabb of the exhibition catalogue Prince Eugene: General-Philosopher and Art Lover (Agnes Husslein-Arco, ed.)
This catalogue records an exhibition that pays tribute to the Prince Eugene of Savoy’s many achievements.
Continue reading ...From Marsilio Editore and Fondazione di Venezia: Il collezionismo d’arte a Venezia. Il Settecento. Linda Borean and Stefania Mason, eds.
Questa pubblicazione, la terza di una collana specificatamente dedicata al collezionismo artistico a Venezia in età moderna, prende in esame il Settecento, il secolo definito della “gloria” di Venezia, particolarmente ricco e articolato per l’evoluzione del gusto e degli orientamenti del fenomeno, con elementi di continuità e altri di contrasto con l’epoca che lo precede.
Continue reading ...With the exhibition of Richard Feigen’s collection of Italian paintings, curator and expert Laurence Canter battles to bring connoisseurship back to the discipline of art history. Ted Loos reports
A dozen years ago the art dealer Richard L. Feigen attended an auction of European paintings at Sotheby’s in London and found a picture he liked: a richly colored scene of a religious vision, with a hovering saint and four angels, all topped by shimmering gold halos, that was attributed to a minor Italian painter.
Continue reading ...Sara Houghteling reports on Hunting for Looted Art in Paris
In Room 38 of the Louvre’s Richelieu Wing hangs “The Astronomer” by the Dutch master Jan Vermeer. It is an exquisite painting. The stargazer sits before a celestial globe, his fingers spanning the constellation Pegasus. He wears a teal Japanese silk robe, a style favored by Dutch burghers in the late 17th century. He is lost in thought and bathed in a golden light.
Continue reading ...Catherine Hickley sits down with Nancy Yeide to discuss Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: The Hermann Goering Collection
Quantity took priority over quality in Hermann Goering’s sprawling art collection, much of it plundered from Jews.
Continue reading ...Facts & Files, Historisches Forschungsinstitut Berlin to publish Galerie Heinemann archive
Founded in 1872, the Munich based Galerie Heinemann was one of the most important German art dealing companies until it got “aryanized” by the National Socialists in 1938.
Continue reading ...Jessa Crispin’s reviews Lost Lives, Lost Art: Jewish Collectors, Nazi Art Theft, and the Quest for Justice by Melissa Müller and Monika Tatzkow, and The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family’s Century of Art and Loss by Edmund de Waal
When it comes to art, “private” and “public” take on confused, tangled meanings.
Continue reading ...Available from Ashgate: Artistic and Cultural Exchanges between Europe and Asia, 1400-1900: Rethinking Markets, Workshops and Collections, edited by Michael North
The European expansion to Asia was driven by the desire for spices and Asian luxury products. Its results, however, exceeded the mere exchange of commodities and precious metals. The meeting of Asia and Europe signaled not only the beginnings of a global market but also a change in taste and lifestyle that influences our lives
Continue reading ...Jacques Seligmann & Co. records at the Archives of American Art now online
Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., was counted among the foremost French and American art dealers in antiquities and decorative arts and was among the first to foster and support the growth and appreciation for collecting in the field of contemporary European art. The company’s clients included most of the major American and European art collectors
Continue reading ...Altered and Adorned: Using Renaissance Prints in Daily Life
The Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA
30 April-10 July 2011
Sammlung Ludwig: Art of the Sixties & Hans Haacke: The Chocolate Master
Specific Object/David Platzker, New York, NY, USA
28 February-29 April 2011
Italy Observed: Views and Souvenirs, 1706-1899
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
12 October 2010-2 January 2011
Robert & Ethel Scull: Portrait of a Collection
Acquavella Galleries, New York, NY, USA
13 April-27 May 2010
Room for art, in 17th-century Antwerp
Mauritshuis, The Hague, THE NETHERLANDS
25 March-27 June 2010
Victoria & Albert: Art & Love
The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, UNITED KINGDOM
19 March-31 October 2010
Royal Splendor in the Enlightenment: Charles IV of Spain, Patron and Collector
Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX, USA
7 March-18 July 2010
Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UNITED KINGDOM
6 March-4 July 2010
Art and Its Markets: Flemish and Dutch painting of the 17th and 18th century
Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, SWITZERLAND
1 October 2009-29 August 2010
Disegni del ‘500 e ‘600 della Biblioteca Marucelliana
Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence, ITALY
1 October-12 November 2009
Early Modern Merchants as Collectors
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK
15-16 June 2012
L’Europe du vase antique: collectionneurs, savants, restauranteurs aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles
Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris, FRANCE
31 May-1 June 2011
Reflections Across the Pond: British Models of Art Collectina and the American Response
The Frick Center for the History of Collecting in America, New York, NY, USA
6-7 May 2011
Victoria Kastner: William Randolph Hearst and J. Paul Getty: Collectors of Antiquities
Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades, CA, USA
16 October 2010
Dagmar Eichberger: A Tale of Two Margarets: Women and Their Manuscripts around 1500
Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
7 October 2010
Colloque: Collectionner les Primitifs italiens — une passion européenne
Centre Allemand d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris, FRANCE
25-26 June 2010
Curious Specimens: Enlightenment Objects, Collections, Narratives
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
15-16 April 2010
College Art Association Annual Conference
Hyatt Regency Chicago, IL, USA
10-13 February 2010