Research Catalog

Title

Renaissance to Rococo : masterpieces from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art / edited by Eric Zafran ; with contributions by Joseph Baillio ... [et al.].

Publication

Hartford, Conn. : Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press New Haven, c2004.

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Additional Authors

• Zafran, Eric.
• Baillio, Joseph.
• Wadsworth Athenerum Museum of Art.
• John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.

Description

182 p. : ill. (some col.); 31 cm.

Summary

"When the Wadsworth Atheneum opened in 1844 as the first public gallery of fine arts in America, the highlights of the collection were works by contemporary American artists. However, gifts soon brought a number of old master paintings to the museum, and today perhaps the most famous aspect of its European collection is the concentration of Italian Baroque masterpieces." "The museum's distinguished director in the 1930s and 1940s, Chick Austin, acquired notable works by Strozzi, Luca Giordano, Claude, and the first authentic Caravaggio in an American museum. Today the Atheneum can present an exhibition beginning with such renaissance masters as Piero di Cosimo and Sebastiano del Piombo, continuing with the finest examples of Baroque painting, and culminating in a blaze of rococo splendor with Tiepolo, Canaletto, Guardi, Melendez, Greuze, and Goya. This catalogue includes a history of the collection by Eric Zafran and entries on the individual paintings by distinguished scholars."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Masterpieces from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Subject

• Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art > Exhibitions
• Geschichte 1420-1780
• Painting, European > Exhibitions
• Painting > Hartford > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs
• Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition organized by the Wadsworth Atheneum and held at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, Jan. 29-Apr. 25, 2004 and four other locations through Jan. 8, 2006.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-176) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A passion for paintings: the old master collection in the Wadsworth Atheneum / Eric Zafran -- Italian school -- Spanish school -- Dutch and Flemish schools -- French school -- English school.

ISBN

0300102054 (cl : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003024440

OCLC

53397956

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library