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The Bob Jones University Collection of Italian Baroque paintings by Andrea Bayer; Edgar Peters Bowron; Virginia Brilliant; Andria Derstine; Marco Grassi; Ian Kennedy; J. Patrice Marandel; Richard E Spear; Eric M Zafran; Pablo Pérez d'Ors is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Although Americans have shown interest in Italian Baroque art since the eighteenth century—Thomas Jefferson bought copies of works by Salvator Rosa and Guido Reni for his art gallery at Monticello, and the seventeenth-century Bolognese school was admired by painters Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley—a widespread appetite for it only took hold in the early to mid-twentieth century. Buying Baroque tells this history through the personalities involved and the culture of collecting in the United States. The distinguished contributors to this volume examine the dealers, auction houses, and commercial galleries that provided access to Baroque paintings, as well as the collectors, curators, and museum directors who acquired and shaped American perceptions about these works, including Charles Eliot Norton, John W. Ringling, A. Everett Austin Jr., and Samuel H. Kress. These essays explore aesthetic trends and influences to show why Americans developed an increasingly sophisticated taste for Baroque art between the late eighteenth century and the 1920s, and they trace the fervent peak of interest during the 1950s and 1960s. A wide-ranging, in-depth look at the collecting of seventeen

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Author

Andrea Bayer; Edgar Peters Bowron; Virginia Brilliant; Andria Derstine; Marco Grassi; Ian Kennedy; J. Patrice Marandel; Richard E Spear; Eric M Zafran; Pablo Pérez d'Ors

Publisher

The Frick Collection ; The Pennsylvania State University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780271079448

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, History, Arts

Updated

2026-03-24