
The Evolution of English Collecting
The Reception of Italian Art in the Tudor and Stuart Periods
Edward Chaney(Editor)
Yale University Press
Published on 11. January 2004
Book
Hardback
496 pages
978-0-300-10224-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book surveys for the first time the evolution of English collecting. Edward Chaney begins with the background history of European collecting, focusing in particular on Italy's formative role in this phenomenon, then sets English collecting in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in context and draws together a unique collection of essays on the subject.
The book deals with issues ranging from English collecting at the time of the Reformation, with all the tension that phenomenon produced in England's relationships with Rome, to the early Cecils and conflicts between English Protestantism and Catholic Italianate taste. The lives and achievements of great collectors and patrons are examined, and specific studies of the evolution of collections of paintings, sculptures, and prints in England are included as well.
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
The book deals with issues ranging from English collecting at the time of the Reformation, with all the tension that phenomenon produced in England's relationships with Rome, to the early Cecils and conflicts between English Protestantism and Catholic Italianate taste. The lives and achievements of great collectors and patrons are examined, and specific studies of the evolution of collections of paintings, sculptures, and prints in England are included as well.
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
140 b-w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
1715 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-10224-6 (9780300102246)
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Person
Edward Chaney is professor of fine and decorative arts and founding chair of the History of Collecting Research Centre at the Southampton Institute.