TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Jonathan
TI  - Kings and Connoisseurs: Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe 
T2  - The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
SN  - 9780691252865
AV  - N5240 
U1  - 759.9/4/0744 23/eng/20231019
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Painting
KW  - Collectors and collecting
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Private collections
KW  - ART / History / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Arundel, Thomas Howard, Earl of
KW  - Balthasar Castiglione
KW  - Banqueting House, Whitehall
KW  - Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of
KW  - Buckingham, George
KW  - Carr, Robert, Earl of Somerset
KW  - Cecil, Robert, Earl of Salisbury
KW  - Charles I as Hunter
KW  - Charles I, King of England
KW  - Christina of Denmark
KW  - Commonwealth Sale
KW  - Croy, Charles de
KW  - Dyck, Anthony van
KW  - Four Seasons pl
KW  - Four Seasons
KW  - George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham pl
KW  - Henrietta Maria of France, Queen of England
KW  - Henry, Prince of Wales
KW  - James I, King of England
KW  - Landscape with Diogenes
KW  - Lumley, John, Lord
KW  - Maximilian
KW  - Mytens, Daniel, Charles I pl
KW  - Pontius, Paul, Balthasar Gerbier pl
KW  - Talbot, Aletheia, Lady Arundel
KW  - Talbot, Gilbert
KW  - Villiers, George
KW  - Whitehall Group (circle of collectors at court of Charles I)
KW  - and Arundel
KW  - as art patron
KW  - execution
KW  - gallery pictures
KW  - on Charles I as collector
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; I. Charles I and The Whitehall Group --; II. The Sale of the Century --; III. "The Greatest Amateur of Paintings among the Princes of the World" --; IV. "Amator artis pictoriae:" Archduke Leopold William and Picture Collecting in Flanders --; V. Reasons of State --; VI. The Prestige of Painting --; Postscript: Where Have All the Masterpieces Gone? An Essay on the Market for Old Pictures, 1700–1995 --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; Photographic Acknowledgments; restricted access
N2  - A vivid and exciting account of royal collectors, art dealers, connoisseurs, and the rise of old master paintingsOld master paintings are among the most valuable and prestigious of the visual arts, and the best examples command the highest prices of any luxury commodity. In Kings and Connoisseurs, Jonathan Brown tells the story of how painting rose to this exalted status. The transformation of painting from an inexpensive to a costly art form reached a crucial stage in the royal courts of Europe in the seventeenth century, where rulers and aristocrats assembled huge collections, often in short periods of time. By comparing collecting and collectors at these courts, Brown explains the formation of new attitudes toward pictures, as well as the mechanisms that supported the enterprise of collecting, including the emergence of the art dealer, the development of connoisseurship, and the publication of sumptuous picture books of various collections. The result is an exciting narrative of greed and passion, played out against a background of international politics and intrigue
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691252865?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691252865
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691252865/original
ER  -