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A market for merchant princes : collecting Italian Renaissance paintings in America

Title
A market for merchant princes : collecting Italian Renaissance paintings in America / edited by Inge Reist.
Publication
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]

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Additional Authors
  • Reist, Inge Jackson
  • Frick Collection.
Description
xvii, 149 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 27 cm.
Summary
"A collection of essays that trace the increasingly sophisticated taste of American collectors of Italian Renaissance masterpieces from the antebellum era, through the Gilded Age, to the later twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.
Series Statement
Studies in the history of art collecting in America
Uniform Title
Studies in the history of art collecting in America.
Subjects
Note
  • "The Frick Collection."
  • "This book evolved from a symposium organized by the Center for the History of Collecting that was held at the Frick Collection on November 12 and 13, 2010."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-132) and index.
Contents
James Jackson Jarves and the "primitive" art market in nineteenth-century America / Clay M. Dean -- "Modern connoisseurship" and the role it played in shaping American collectors' taste in Italian Renaissance art / Jaynie Anderson -- Discovering the Renaissance : Pierpont Morgan's shift to collecting Italian old masters / Jennifer Tonkovich -- Boston collectors in the wake of "Mrs. Jack" / Frederick Ilchman -- Henry Walters and Bernard Berenson / Stanley Mazaroff -- Mary Berenson and the cultivation of American collectors / Tiffany Johnston -- Collecting north Italian painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Andrea Bayer -- Building a Renaissance collection and museum after the Gilded Age : the case of John Ringling / Virginia Brilliant -- Samuel H. Kress and his collection of Italian Renaissance paintings / Edgar Peters Bowron.
Call Number
JQF 15-452
ISBN
  • 9780271064710 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0271064714 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2014018988
OCLC
889576987
Title
A market for merchant princes : collecting Italian Renaissance paintings in America / edited by Inge Reist.
Publisher
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Studies in the history of art collecting in America
Studies in the history of art collecting in America.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-132) and index.
Added Author
Reist, Inge Jackson, editor.
Frick Collection.
Research Call Number
JQF 15-452
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