Buying Baroque Italian seventeenth-century paintings come to America / edited by Edgar Peters Bowron.

Other author Bowron, Edgar Peters.
Format Electronic
Publication Info[New York, N.Y.] : The Frick Collection ; University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]
Descriptionxv, 185 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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SeriesThe Frick Collection studies in the history of art collecting in America ; 3
Studies in the history of art collecting in America ; 3. ^A1258272
Contents Introduction : the critical fortunes of Italian Baroque painting in America / Edgar Peters Bowron -- Italian Baroque paintings at the Ringling Museum : the legacy of John Ringling and Chick Austin / Virginia Brilliant -- The Atheneum to the fore : Hartford and the Italian Baroque / Eric Zafran -- The American view of the "forgotten century" of Italian painting : reminiscences of an art dealer and curator / Marco Grassi -- An invisible web : art historians behind the collecting of Italian Baroque art / Richard Spear -- Baroque in the Caribbean : Luis A. Ferr©♭ and the Museo de Arte de Ponce / Pablo P©♭rex d'Ors -- Dealing and scholarship : The Heim Gallery, London, 1966-1995 / J. Patrice Marandel -- The Detroit Institute of Arts and Italian Baroque paintings / Ian Kennedy -- Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., and his collection of Italian Baroque paintings / Eric Zafran -- Better late than never : collecting Baroque painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Andrea Bayer.
Abstract "A collection of essays on the American collecting of Italian Baroque paintings in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Looks at the influence of art exhibitions and exhibition catalogues on the understanding and popularity of Italian Baroque art"--Provided by publisher.
General note"This book evolved from a symposium, 'Going for Baroque: Americans Collect Italian Paintings of the 17th and 18th Centuries,' organized by the Center for the History Collecting, that was held at The Frick Collection on September 20 and 21, 2013."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 155-162) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2016037536
ISBN9780271077277 (cloth : alk. paper)