Kings & connoisseurs : collecting art in seventeenth-century Europe / Jonathan Brown.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 1994.
Bollingen series ; 35:43.
Main Author: Brown, Jonathan, 1939-2022 (Author)
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2023.
Edition:New paperback printing 2023.
Series:A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 1994.
Bollingen series ; 35:43.
Subjects:
Painting > Collectors and collecting > Europe > History > 17th century.
Painting > Private collections > Europe > History > 17th century.
Royal houses > Europe > Art collections.
Art patronage > Europe > History > 17th century.
Peinture > Collectionneurs et collections > Europe > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Peinture > Collections privées > Europe > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Maisons royales > Europe > Collections d'art.
Mécénat > Europe > Histoire > 17e siècle.
ART / Art & Politics.
Art patronage.
Painting.
Royal houses > Art collections.
Europe.
1600-1699
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:264 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Variant Title:
Kings and connoisseurs
Format: Book
Contents:
  • I. Charles I and the Whitehall Group
  • II. The sale of the century
  • III. "The Greatest Amateur of Paintings among the Princes of the World"
  • IV. "Amator artis pictoriae:" Archduke Leopold William and picture collecting in Flanders
  • V. Reasons of state
  • VI. Prestige of painting
  • Postscript: Where have all the masterpieces gone? An essay on the market for old pictures, 1700-1995.