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

    The Arts of Collecting by Warwick, Genevieve;

    Padre Sebastiano Resta and the Market for Drawings in Early Modern Europe

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 28 February 2000

    • ISBN 9780521652650
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages306 pages
    • Size 229x152x19 mm
    • Weight 700 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    This work, first published in 2000, focuses on Sebastiano Resta to illuminates a crucial chapter in the history of collecting.

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    Long description:

    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'.

    '... an outstandingly original examination of the collecting of old master drawings, inspired above all by the author's study of anthropology'. Apollo

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction: towards a historical anthropology of collecting; Padre Sabastiano Resta and the collection of drawing in Early Modern Europe; 1. Markets for drawings; 2. Chivalrous gifts; 3. Connoisseurial culture; 4. Mnemonic collecting; Epilogue: the drawing and the amateur.

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