Patriotic Taste: Collecting Modern Art in Pre-Revolutionary Paris - Rilegato

Bailey, Colin B.

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ISBN 10: 0300089864 ISBN 13: 9780300089868

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2002

Riassunto

During the final decades of the ancient regime, prominent collectors in Paris commissioned and collected French paintings of the period, works by Greuze, Fragonard, David and others that together comprised 'l'Ecole Francoise' - the French School. In this book, an art historian discusses six of these collectors and the collections they assembled, showing that private patronage in this period was revitalized by this patriotic desire to collect contemporary art.
Colin B. Bailey explains why a taste for modern art emerged at this time and how it was encouraged and fostered. Examining the relationship between artist and patron, he discusses the degree of influence these enlightened patrons and collectors expected to exercise when new works were being commissioned. Bailey shows that collectors of eighteenth-century French painting seem not to have made rigid distinctions between the various genres or styles of the Academy's practitioners. Instead, history paintings and genre paintings - both rococo and neo-classical - were exhibited proudly on their walls as superb examples of the French School.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Colin B. Bailey is Chief Curator at The Frick Collection, New York.

Product Description:

Book by Bailey Mr Colin B

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0300089864
• ISBN 13: 9780300089868
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 344