Patrons and painters : a study in the relations between Italian art and society in the age of the Baroque / Francis Haskell
1980, Revised and Enlarged Edition. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press. Fine cloth copy in a very good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #400795
ISBN: 0300025378
Physical description; xviii, 474 p., [34] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm. Contents; Intro. to 2nd ed. - Rome: mechanics of 17th century patronage; Pope Urban VIII & entourage; religious orders; private patrons; wider public; decline of Roman patronage. - Dispersal: intervention of Europe; provincial scene. - Venice: state, nobility, Church; foreign influences; foreign residents; enlightenment; publishers & connoisseurs; F. Algarotti; new direction; dealers & petits bourgeois; last patrons. - Conclusion. - Appendices. - Postscript to 2nd ed. Subjects; Art and society Italy. Art patrons. Patronage Art Italy Baroque period. Painting, Italian. Venice (Italy) Social conditions To 1797. Italy Social life and customs 18th century. Patronage, literary & artistic.
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