Florence, Berlin and Beyond: Late Nineteenth-Century Art Markets and their Social Networks

Florence, Berlin and Beyond: Late Nineteenth-Century Art Markets and their Social Networks
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 596
Release: 2020-06-22
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9004431047

Recent and increasing interest in art market studies—the dealers, mediators, advisors, taste makers, artists, etc.—indicate that the transaction of art and decorative art is anything but linear. Taking as its point of departure two of the most active agents of the late nineteenth century, Wilhelm von Bode and Stefano Bardini, the essays in this volume also look beyond, to other art market individuals and their vast and frequently interconnected, social and professional networks. Newly told history taken from rich business, epistolary and photographic archives, these essays examine the art market, within a broader and more complex context. In doing so, they offer new areas of inquiry for mapping of works of art as they were exchanged over time and place.

Florence, Berlin and Beyond

Florence, Berlin and Beyond
Author: Lynn Catterson
Publisher: Studies in the History of Coll
Total Pages: 572
Release: 2020
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9789004419902

Forming a collection -- Transacting an entire collection -- Dealers for dealers -- (No longer) obscure agents -- Issues of attribution.

Wilhelm Bode and the Art Market

Wilhelm Bode and the Art Market
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2022-12-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9004532455

The volume exposes the modus operandi of Wilhelm Bode’s strategic involvement in the art market and the formation and dissolution of public and private collections, showcasing his complex agency within the art marketplace of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Florence and Baghdad

Florence and Baghdad
Author: Hans Belting
Publisher: Belknap Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2011
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780674050044

In this lavishly illustrated study, Belting deals with the double history of perspective, as a visual theory based on geometrical abstraction (in the Middle East) and as pictorial theory (in Europe). Florence and Baghdad addresses a provocative question that reaches beyond the realm of aesthetics and mathematics: What happens when Muslims and Christians look upon each other and find their way of viewing the world transformed as a result?

Italy for Sale

Italy for Sale
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 501
Release: 2023-08-14
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9004680446

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Italian Renaissance art, objects, and even the idea of Italy itself figured heavily both in the dynamic international art market and in the eyes of the general public. The alternative objects that were actively dispersed and collected -- authentic works, pastiches, Renaissance-inspired counterfeits, and reproductions -- in the diverse media of paint, plaster, terracotta, and photography, had a tremendous impact on visual culture across social strata. These essays examine less studied aspects of this market through the lens of just a few of the countless successful sales of objects out of Italy.

Money in the Air

Money in the Air
Author: Gail Feigenbaum
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2024-06-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 160606892X

This volume explores the crucial role of art dealers in creating a transatlantic art market in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. “There was money in the air, ever so much money,” wrote Henry James in 1907, reflecting on the American appetite for art acquisitions. Indeed, collectors such as Henry Clay Frick and Andrew W. Mellon are credited with bringing noteworthy European art to the United States, with their collections forming the backbone of major American museums today. But what of the dealers, who possessed the expertise in art and recognized the potential of developing a new market model on both sides of the Atlantic? Money in the Air investigates the often-overlooked role of these dealers in creating an international art world. Contributors examine the histories of well-known international firms like Duveen Brothers, M. Knoedler & Co., and Goupil & Cie and their relationships with American clients, as well as accounts of other remarkable dealers active in the transatlantic art market. Drawing on dealer archives, scholars reveal compelling findings, including previously unknown partnerships and systems of cooperation. This volume offers new perspectives on the development of art collections that formed the core of American art museums, such as the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Frick Collection.

Acolytes of Nature

Acolytes of Nature
Author: Denise Phillips
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2012-05-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226667391

Although many of the practical and intellectual traditions that make up modern science date back centuries, the category of “science” itself is a relative novelty. In the early eighteenth century, the modern German word that would later mean “science,” naturwissenschaft, was not even included in dictionaries. By 1850, however, the term was in use everywhere. Acolytes of Nature follows the emergence of this important new category within German-speaking Europe, tracing its rise from an insignificant eighteenth-century neologism to a defining rallying cry of modern German culture. Today’s notion of a unified natural science has been deemed an invention of the mid-nineteenth century. Yet what Denise Phillips reveals here is that the idea of naturwissenschaft acquired a prominent place in German public life several decades earlier. Phillips uncovers the evolving outlines of the category of natural science and examines why Germans of varied social station and intellectual commitments came to find this label useful. An expanding education system, an increasingly vibrant consumer culture and urban social life, the early stages of industrialization, and the emergence of a liberal political movement all fundamentally altered the world in which educated Germans lived, and also reshaped the way they classified knowledge.

Florence's English Cemetery, 1827-1877

Florence's English Cemetery, 1827-1877
Author: Julia Bolton Holloway
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 934
Release: 2024-10-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1036413780

This book is a reflection of the author’s research and restoration of the formerly abandoned Victorian Swiss-owned so-called English Cemetery in Florence. It presents a control group of burials, documented in marble and on paper, of foreign non-Catholics (English, Swiss, American, Russian, Scandinavian, etc.), between 1827-1877 in one Florentine piazza, giving their stories. The book documents the burials of writers, artists, abolitionists, slaves, serfs, and servants who lie alongside industrialists, noblemen and royalty, death being a democracy. Some notable burials covered in the book include Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Frances Trollope, Walter Savage Landor, Arthur Hugh Clough, Thomas Southwood Smith, Hiram Powers, Theodore Parker, Jean Pierre Vieusseux, 14 participants against Napoleon at Trafalgar, Waterloo and the Peninsula, and Nadezhda de Santis, a slave brought to Florence at 15 from Nubia. The book also details the cemetery's sculptors (Lorenzo Bartolini, Odoardo Fantacchiotti, William Holman Hunt, Frederic, Lord Leighton, Francesco Jerace, Emilio Zocchi, Launt Thompson, Hiram and Preston Powers, and William Wetmore Story) and visitors (King Frederick William IV of Prussia and the ex-American slave, Frederick Douglass). The book will be of interest to historians in general, and in particular historians of medicine, genealogists, sociologists, and those studying the history of global immigration, imperialism and slavery.

Forging Germans

Forging Germans
Author: Caroline Mezger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 0198850166

A volume exploring the nationalization of ethnic German youth in interwar and World War II Yugoslavia, focusing on the ways in which political, ecclesiastical, cultural, and military agents from Germany colluded with local nationalist activists to inculcate Yugoslavia's ethnic Germans with divergent notions of "Germanness".