Author: William BuchananPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Memoirs of Painting
Author: William BuchananPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Memoirs of Painting, with a Chronological History of the Importation of Pictures by the Great Masters Into England Since the French Revolution
Author: W ..... BuchananThe Restoration of Paintings in Paris, 1750-1815
Author: Noémie ÉtiennePublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606065165
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The decades following the 1973 publication of Alessandro Conti’s Storia del Restauro have seen considerable scholarly interest in the development of restoration in France in the second half of the eighteenth century. A number of technical treatises and biographies of restorers have offered insight into restoration practice. The Restoration of Paintings in Paris, 1750–1815, however, is the first book to situate this work within the broader historical and philosophical contexts of the time. Drawing on previously unpublished primary material from archives in Paris, Berlin, Rome, and Venice, Noémie Étienne combines art history with anthropology and sociology to survey the waning decades of the Ancien Régime and early post– Revolution France. Initial chapters present the diversity of restoration practice, encompassing not only royal institutions and the Louvre museum but also private art dealers, artists, and craftsmen, and examine questions of trade secrecy and the changing role of the restorer. Following chapters address the influence of restoration and exhibition on the aesthetic understanding of paintings as material objects. The book closes with a discussion of the institutional and political uses of restoration, along with an art historical consideration of such key concepts as authenticity, originality, and stability of artworks, emphasizing the multilayered dimension of paintings by such important artists as Titian and Raphael. There is also a useful dictionary of the main restorers active in France between 1750 and 1815.
Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities
Author: Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and IrelandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Vols. for 1846-48, 1850, 1851, and 1853 contain the Proceedings.
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures Belonging to the Earl of Northbrook
Author: Francis George Baring Northbrook (2d earl of)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The Quarterly Review
Author: Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art
Author: Darius A. SpiethPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004276750
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
Seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings were aesthetic, intellectual, and economic touchstones in the Parisian art world of the Revolutionary era, but their importance within this framework, while frequently acknowledged, never attracted much subsequent attention. Darius A. Spieth’s inquiry into Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art reveals the dominance of “Golden Age” pictures in the artistic discourse and sales transactions before, during, and after the French Revolution. A broadly based statistical investigation, undertaken as part of this study, shows that the upheaval reduced prices for Netherlandish paintings by about 55% compared to the Old Regime, and that it took until after the July Revolution of 1830 for art prices to return where they stood before 1789.
The Quarterly Review (London)
Author: The London Quarterly Review
Author: Old Masters Worldwide
Author: Susanna Avery-QuashPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501348167
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
As a result of the Napoleonic wars, vast numbers of Old Master paintings were released on to the market from public and private collections across continental Europe. The knock-on effect was the growth of the market for Old Masters from the 1790s up to the early 1930s, when the Great Depression put an end to its expansion. This book explores the global movement of Old Master paintings and investigates some of the changes in the art market that took place as a result of this new interest. Arguably, the most important phenomenon was the diminishing of the traditional figure of the art agent and the rise of more visible, increasingly professional, dealerships; firms such as Colnaghi and Agnew's in Britain, Goupil in France and Knoedler in the USA, came into existence. Old Masters Worldwide explores the ways in which the pioneering practices of such businesses contributed to shape a changing market.