Category: Reviews
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Past Event: Book Launch for The Charisma and Collecting of Classical Art
23 May 2019: Book Launch for The Charisma and Collecting of Classical Art Room G7, Senate House, London WC1E 7HU Thursday,… READ MORE
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Book Launch: Collecting Art in the Italian Renaissance Court: Objects and Exchanges (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Collecting Art in the Italian Renaissance Court: Objects and Exchanges (Cambridge University Press, 2018) by Dr. Leah Clarke 25 OCTOBER… READ MORE
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Book review: The Shift: Art and the Rise of Power of Contemporary Collectors by Marta Gnyp, Art and Theory Publishing, Stockholm. 2018.
This discussion of the art market and the role of the collector today provides an excellent overview of the different… READ MORE
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Book review: A Rothschild Renaissance: A New Look at the Waddesdon Bequest at the British Museum, ed. Pippa Shirley and Dora Thornton, The British Museum, London, 2017.
In 2015 a conference was held at the British Museum to celebrate the re-installment of the Waddesdon Bequest. This has… READ MORE
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Book review: Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art by Darius A. Spieth, Brill, 2018.
The growth of interest in Dutch and Flemish painting in eighteenth-century Paris has been a subject of considerable interest and… READ MORE
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Book Review: Leopoldo de ’Medici Principe del Collezionisti. Exhibition catalogue edited by Valentina Conticelli, Riccardo Gennaioli and Maria Sframeli, Florence, 7 November- 28 January, 45€
Set in the Museo degli Argenti, now also called the Medici Treasury to reflect the scope of its collections much… READ MORE
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Book Review: Sotheby's Maestro: Peter Wilson and the Post-War Art World, ed. by Katherine McLean and Philip Hook, London, Sothebys 2017. £15.00
For those who want a lively and engaging account of rise of Sotheby’s under Philip Wilson and first-hand stories of… READ MORE
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Book Review: Dealing on Both Sides of the Atlantic, 1864-1940, edited by Lynn Catterson. Brill, 2017
With a broad range of essays, this book presents several distinct ways in which dealers created and shaped demand and… READ MORE
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Talk and Book Launch on 'Longford Castle: The Treasures and the Collectors', National Gallery, London, Friday 13 October 2017
When: Friday 13 October, 6–7pm, followed by a drinks reception Where: National Gallery, Sainsbury Wing Theatre, followed by Conference Room… READ MORE
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Book Review: Heinrich Graf von Brühl (1700-1763). Ein sächsischer Mäzen in Europa
Heinrich Graf von Brühl (1700-1763). Ein sächsischer Mäzen in Europa, Dresden, Sandstein Verlag, 2017, 547 pages Published by Ute Koch… READ MORE
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