Buying and Collecting Art and Antiquities in Eighteenth-Century Italy
Series: Studies in the History of Collecting & Art Markets; 21;
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Product details:
- Edition number 420 pages, 109 full-color illustrations
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 4 June 2026
- ISBN 9789004718203
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages424 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 1 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
This collective volume examines the rich and evolving art and antiques market in eighteenth-century Italy from various perspectives, ranging from the chrematistic view of the artwork to the demonstration of classical education and a specific social status.
MoreLong description:
This volume reconstructs, through the perspectives of multiple agents, the vibrant atmosphere of eighteenth-century Italy, mainly Rome, from the standpoint of the art and antiques market. Guided by Grand Tour travelers, monarchs who did not visit the Bel Paese but sought a piece of it, agents striving to carve a niche in the competitive art market, and artists eager to “create” all’antica works to make a name for themselves, the reader will encounter a variety of case studies that will offer a deeper understanding of the dynamism of the Italian art market.
MoreTable of Contents:
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Roma capta
Pilar Diez del Corral Corredoira and David Ojeda
PART 1 Artists, Agents and Markets
1 Stone Cold: Scrambling for Statu(e)s in Eighteenth-Century Rome
Jeffrey Collins
2 Cavaceppi – Sculptor, Restorer, Dealer, Publisher and Forger
Sascha Kansteiner
3 Between Rule and Practice
The Dynamics of the Antiquities Market of the Kingdom of Naples in the Second Half of the 18th Century, and Two Episodes concerning Ferdinando Galiani and William Hamilton
Paola D’Alconzo
4 Troiano Acquaviva and the Roman Art Market: an Agent in the Service of the Kings of Spain and Naples (1735–1747)
Mercedes Simal
5 Isabel de Farnesio, Filippo Juvarra, and the Modern Interior
Tara Zanardi
6 The State Hermitage Museum
Russian Buyers of Antique and Modern Gems in the Roman Art Market in the Second Half of the 18th Century
Elena Dmitrieva
Part 2 Grand Tourists, Collectors and Collections
7 Alessandro Albani and European Practices of Collecting and Display in the Era of the Grand Tour
Tracy Ehrlich
8 Gems Never Seen Before: William Hamilton, Vesuvius and the Rising Taste for Rare Stones in Europe around 1770
Domenico Pino
9 The 6th Count of Fernán Núñez’s Grand Tour of Italy: an Example of Courtly Culture in Enlightenment Europe
José A. Vigara
10 Between a Souvenir and Archeological Documentation: the Cork Model of the Paestum Temple in Chancellor Metternich’s Collection
Eliška Petřeková
11 Bringing Rome Home: Gifts and Souvenirs Acquired by Crown Prince Friedrich Christian of Saxony during His Sojourn in the Eternal City (1738–39)
Maureen Cassidy-Geiger
12 Grand Tour Pickings – Antiquities for Georgian Gothic Houses
Daniela Roberts
13 Commemorating Italy?: the Walpole and Brand Cabinets as Grand Tour Souvenirs of Elsewhere
Alexis Culotta
14 Ancient and Modern: the Collecting Habit of John Campbell, First Baron Cawdor (1755–1821)
John Davies
15 The Russian Grand Tour: Sculptures Purchased by the Count and Countess of the North in Rome in 1782
Alexander V. Kruglov
16 Private Pleasures, Public Propaganda, and the Power of the Past
The Resurrection of the Swedish Royal Antiquities Collection under Gustav III
Theresa A. Kutasz Christensen
Index
