Buying Baroque : : Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America / / ed. by Edgar Peters Bowron.

Although Americans have shown interest in Italian Baroque art since the eighteenth century-Thomas Jefferson bought copies of works by Salvator Rosa and Guido Reni for his art gallery at Monticello, and the seventeenth-century Bolognese school was admired by painters Benjamin West and John Singleton...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:The Frick Collection Studies in the History of Art Collecting in America ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (204 p.) :; 43 color/15 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Critical Fortunes of Italian Baroque Painting in America
  • Chapter 1 Italian Baroque Paintings at the Ringling Museum The Legacy of John Ringling and Chick Austin
  • Chapter 2 The Atheneum to the Fore Hartford and the Italian Baroque
  • Chapter 3 The American View of the "Forgotten Century" of Italian Painting Reminiscences of a Conservator and Art Dealer
  • Chapter 4 An Invisible Web Art Historians Behind the Collecting of Italian Baroque Art
  • Chapter 5 Baroque in the Caribbean Luis A. Ferré and the Museo de Arte de Ponce
  • Chapter 6 Dealing and Scholarship The Heim Gallery, London, 1966-1995
  • Chapter 7 The Detroit Institute of Arts and Italian Baroque Painting
  • Chapter 8 The Bob Jones University Collection of Italian Baroque Paintings
  • Chapter 9 Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., and His Collection of Italian Baroque Paintings
  • Chapter 10 Better Late than Never Collecting Baroque Painting at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Notes
  • References
  • List of Artists
  • Index