John Talman: An Early Eighteenth-century Connoisseur - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0300123353 ISBN 13 : 9780300123357

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Contributions by Christopher Baker, Cristina Borgioli, Louisa M. Connor Bulman, Antonella Capitanio, Marco Collareta, Peter Davidson, Francisco Freddolini, Cristiano Giometti, John Harris, Elisabeth Kieven, and Cinzia Maria Sicca

This handsome book is the only full-length study of John Talman (1677-1726), first director of the Society of Antiquaries and one of the most influential collectors of drawings in early 18th-century Britain. Prominent scholars discuss the history of Talman's acquisitions, shedding light on the competitive nature, social practices, and aesthetic ideas of connoisseurship both in England and abroad.

Talman's collection, amassed in England, Florence, and Rome between the 1690s and 1719, focused on Italian medieval art, architecture, and textiles as well as Renaissance and Baroque architecture and sculpture. It reflected the tastes and preoccupations of artistic and intellectual élites in pre-enlightenment Europe. A vehicle for disseminating aesthetic and historical ideas, the collection became not only an extraordinary document of the state of ancient and modern Italian monuments but also a history of architecture and culture at large that provided visual evidence of buildings and rituals lost through time.

Distributed for the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Cinzia Maria Sicca is Associate Professor at the University of Pisa.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300123353
• ISBN 13: 9780300123357
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 330
• Éditeur: Sicca Cinzia
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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