A vivid and exciting account of royal collectors, art dealers, and connoisseurs and the rise of old master paintings Old master paintings are now considered to be the most valuable and prestigious of the visual arts, and the best examples command the highest prices of any luxury commodity. In Kings and Connoisseurs , Jonathan Brown tells in vivid detail the story of how painting rose to this exalted status. The result is an exciting narrative of greed and passion, played out against a background of international politics ...
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A vivid and exciting account of royal collectors, art dealers, and connoisseurs and the rise of old master paintings Old master paintings are now considered to be the most valuable and prestigious of the visual arts, and the best examples command the highest prices of any luxury commodity. In Kings and Connoisseurs , Jonathan Brown tells in vivid detail the story of how painting rose to this exalted status. The result is an exciting narrative of greed and passion, played out against a background of international politics and intrigue. Combining cultural and art history, the book ends by describing why important old master paintings have now virtually disappeared from the art market. The transformation of painting from an inexpensive to a costly art form reached a crucial stage in the royal courts of Europe in the seventeenth century, where rulers and aristocrats assembled huge collections, often in short periods of time. Brown traces this process in Madrid, Paris, London, and Brussels, beginning with the dispersal of the great English collections in the aftermath of the Civil War, including those of Charles I, the Earl of Arundel, and the Dukes of Buckingham and Hamilton. Hundreds of great pictures were all at once available to continental collectors and were acquired by Cardinal Jules Mazarin, Louis XIV of France, Archduke Leopold William of Austria, and Philip IV of Spain, as well as lesser-known collectors, including Everhard Jabach and Luis de Haro. By comparing collecting and collectors at these courts, Brown explains the formation of new attitudes toward pictures, as well as the mechanisms that supported the enterprise of collecting, including the emergence of the art dealer, the development of connoisseurship, and the publication of sumptuous picture books of various collections.
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VG/VG. Black cloth with silver lettering; color-pictorial dj; 264 pp. with 226 illustrations in color and bw; . Part of the A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1994; Bollingen Series XXXV: 43. Brown tells in vivid detail the story of the rise of master paintings to the exalted status of commanding the highest prices of any luxury commodity. This book is an essay in both cultural and art history and discusses why the old master paintings have virtually disappeared from the art market.
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