
The Arts of Collecting
Padre Sebastiano Resta and the Market for Drawings in Early Modern Europe
Genevieve Warwick(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 28. February 2000
Book
Hardback
306 pages
978-0-521-65265-0 (ISBN)
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'.
Reviews / Votes
'... an outstandingly original examination of the collecting of old master drawings, inspired above all by the author's study of anthropology'. Apollo 'Dr Warwick's erudite study brings together the fragments of Resta's oeuvre, and does justice to his 'love and delight'.' Aura Satz, Art Newspaper 'There is no doubt that this is a very significant addition indeed to the literature on the history of collecting ...' Renaisssance StudiesMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
58 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
596 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-65265-0 (9780521652650)
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Content
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.