Fusing the social and economic history with the cultural and artistic achievements of seventeenth and eighteenth century Italy, this book presents a perspective on the period.

Patrons and Painters: A Study in the Relations Between Italian Art and Society in the Age of the Baroque

Arts & Photography

HASKELL, Francis

Study & Teaching

Yale Univ Pr

A history of the development of critical opinions on ancient Greek and Roman sculpture discusses the owners, identification, copies, and fame of individual statues.

Taste and the antique: The lure of classical sculpture, 1500-1900

Penny, Nicholas

Photography & Video

Yale University Press

A history of the development of critical opinions on ancient Greek and Roman sculpture discusses the owners, identification, copies, and fame of individual statues

Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture, 1500-1900

History & Criticism

From Library Journal "Taste" in art is a constantly recurring theme among many philosophers, artists, and historians. Here, Oxford art historian Haskell continues his study of the changing nature of artistic taste begun in Patrons and Painters (1963) and continued (with Nicholas Penny) in Taste and the Antique ( LJ 4/1/81) through an exploration of the careers of several 18th- and 19th-century collectors. Haskell has a gift for animating his subjects. His essay on Morris Moore's lifelong attempt to prove he owned a genuine Raphael is brilliant in its portrayal of the egos and politics that invade the art world. The other essays in the book are no less readable, providing a unique and valuable look at some of the forces that shape and reshape our concept of taste. Terry Skeats, Bishop's Univ. Lib., Lennoxville, Quebec, CanadaCopyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Past and Present in Art and Taste: Selected Essays

When and why did large-scale exhibitions of Old Master paintings begin, and how have they evolved through the centuries? In this book an eminent art historian examines the intriguing history and significance of these international art exhibitions. Francis Haskell begins by discussing the first “Old Master” exhibitions in Rome and Florence in the seventeenth century and then moves to eighteenth-century France and the efforts to organize exhibitions of contemporary art that would be an alternative to the official ones held by the Salon. He next describes the role of the British Institution in London and the series of remarkable loan exhibitions of Old Master paintings there. He traces the emergence of such nationalist exhibitions as the Rembrandt exhibition held in Amsterdam in 1898, the first modern “blockbuster” exhibit. Demonstrating how the international loan exhibition was a vehicle of foreign and cultural policy after the First World War, he gives a fascinating account of several of these, for example the Italian Art exhibition held at Burlington House in 1930 (Botticelli in the Service of Fascism). He describes the initial reluctance of major museums to send pictures on potentially damaging journeys and explains how this feeling gave way to cautious enthusiasm. Finally, in a polemical chapter, he explores the type of publications associated with exhibitions and with the criticism and scholarship that have centered upon them.

The Ephemeral Museum: Old Master Paintings and the Rise of the Art Exhibition

The greatest paintings in today’s most famous museums were once part of a fluid exchange determined by volatile political fortunes. In the first half of the 17th century, masterpieces by Titian, Raphael, and Leonardo, among others, were the objects of fervent pursuit by art connoisseurs. Francis Haskell traces the fate of collections extracted from Italy, Spain, and France by King Charles I and his circle, which, after a brief stay in Britain, were largely dispersed after the Civil War to princely galleries across the Continent. From vivid case studies of individual collectors, advisers, and artists, and acute analysis of personality and motive, Haskell challenges ideas about this episode in British cultural life and traces some of the factors that forever changed the artistic map of Europe.

The King's Pictures: The Formation and Dispersal of the Collections of Charles I and His Courtiers

Paul Mellon Centre

The painful birth of the art book (The Nineteenth of the Walter Neurath memorial lectures)

Thames and Hudson

Rediscoveries in art: Some aspects of taste, fashion and collecting in England and France (Wrightsman lectures)

Other Media

Phaidon Press Limited

REDISCOVERIES IN ART SOME ASPECTS OF TASTE FASHION (0000)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Phaidon Press

Rediscoveries in art: Some aspects of taste, fashion, and collecting in England and France (The Wrightsman lectures)

Antiques & Collectibles

Cornell University Press

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