The art market in Rome in the eighteenth century : : a study in the social history of art / / [edited] by Paolo Coen.

• Author: Mercato dell'arte a Roma nel diciottesimo secolo (Conference)
• TeilnehmendeR: Coen, Paolo,; Mercato dell'arte a Roma nel diciottesimo secolo (Conference) (2012 : Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy)
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the History of Collecting & Art Markets 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (246 pages) :; color illustrations.
• Notes: "The essays in this volume derive from an international congress held in Rome in April, 2012."

Recent interest in the economic aspects of the history of art have taken traditional studies into new areas of enquiry. Going well beyond provenances or prices of individual objects, our understanding of the arts has been advanced by research into the demands, intermediaries and clients in the market. Eighteenth-century Rome offers a privileged view of such activities, given the continuity of remarkable investments by the local ruling class, combined with the decisive impact of external agents, largely linked to the Grand Tour. This book, the result of collaboration between international specialists, brings back into the spotlight protagonists, facts and dynamics that have remained unexplored for many years.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Figures and Tables -- The Art Market in Rome in the Eighteenth Century: A Study in the Modern ‘Social History’ of Art / Paolo Coen -- The Social Histories of Art / Peter Burke -- The Value of a Work of Art: Minor Collections and Display Practices / Renata Ago -- Marketing Strategies and the Creation of Taste in Seventeenth-Century Rome / Patrizia Cavazzini -- Jan Meyssens’ 1649 Portfolio of Artists: The Conception and Composition of the Book Image de divers hommes d’esprit sublime (and the Inclusion of Three Italian Painters) / Raffaella Morselli -- Moral Subjects and Exempla Virtutis at the Start of the Eighteenth Century: Art and Politics in England, Rome and Venice / Valter Curzi -- Sir Joshua Reynolds in Rome, 1750–1752: The Debut of an Artist, an Art Collector or an Art Dealer? / Giovanna Perini Folesani -- Brownlow Cecil, Ninth Earl of Exeter, Thomas Jenkins and Nicolas Mosman: Origins, Functions and Aesthetic Guidelines of a Great Drawing Collection in Eighteenth-Century Rome, Now at the British Museum / Paolo Coen -- The Capture of the Westmorland and the Purchase of Art in Rome in the 1770s / Brian Allen -- Economic and Scholarly Appraisal of Ancient Marbles in Late 18th-Century Rome / Daniela Gallo -- Jean-Baptiste Wicar in Rome (1784–1834): Fifty Years of Purchases, Sales, and Appraisals of Works of Art / Maria Teresa Caracciolo -- Back Matter -- Index.