The Arts of Collecting: Padre Sebastiano Resta and the Market for Drawings in Early Modern Europe

Author:   Genevieve Warwick (Courtauld Institute of Art, London)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9780521181075


Pages:   306
Publication Date:   08 November 2012
Format:   Paperback
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The Arts of Collecting: Padre Sebastiano Resta and the Market for Drawings in Early Modern Europe


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First published in 2000, this is an examination of the collection of art works through an anthropological study of modes of exchange and the social roles of material culture. Focusing on the figure of Sebastiano Resta, Genevieve Warwick brings to light a shadowy, yet crucial chapter in the history of collecting, that of the great migration of art objects out of Italy to northern Europe in the early eighteenth century. Her study pins the history of collecting to broader changes in European economic history and analyzes the epistemological frameworks for viewing that accompanied this transfer of artistic wealth. Warwick also demonstrates how early modern art collecting was shaped by the social mores of elite 'arts of love'.

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Author:   Genevieve Warwick (Courtauld Institute of Art, London)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.410kg
ISBN:  

9780521181075


ISBN 10:   0521181070
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   08 November 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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'... an outstandingly original examination of the collecting of old master drawings, inspired above all by the author's study of anthropology'. Apollo 'Dr Warwick's erudite study brings together the fragments of Resta's oeuvre, and does justice to his 'love and delight'.' Aura Satz, Art Newspaper 'There is no doubt that this is a very significant addition indeed to the literature on the history of collecting ...' Renaisssance Studies


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