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'Lucidly written and meticulously documented, The Art Collector in Early Modern Italy reveals how a case study of an individual can open up new ways of thinking about immigration and social class, the imbrication between objects and the self, and the architectural presence of a home museum in urban space. Monika Schmitter offers us a compelling account of Venetian art and society which will be read, discussed, and enjoyed by a new generation of scholars.' David Kim, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Pennsylvania 'Focusing on Lorenzo Lotto's extraordinary Portrait of Andrea Odoni, this book is an engaging art historical detective story. The sitter, Andrea Odoni, is well known to Venetian specialists, largely from his portrait by Lotto and his appearance in the diary of Marcantonio Michiel, but the writer fleshes out this picture with new information yielded by enterprising archival and primary source research. She offers several overlapping portraits: of the Venetian cittadini as a caste, of Odoni himself, of his house and collection of art and antiquities, of the birth of collecting in Venice, and ultimately, of Lotto's hermetic erudition and his extraordinary inventive skills in creating a portrait that is far more than a portrait.' Patricia Fortini Brown, Professor Emeritus, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University

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Monika Schmitter is Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has written about collecting and domestic art in Venice for over twenty years. She was a Fellow at The Villa I Tatti Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies and at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.

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