The Arts of Collecting: Padre Sebastiano Resta and the Market for Drawings in Early Modern Europe

by Genevieve Warwick

Book Overview

First published in 2000, this is an examination of the collection of art works through an anthropological study of modes of exchange and the social roles of material culture. Focusing on the figure of Sebastiano Resta, Genevieve Warwick brings to light a shadowy, yet crucial chapter in the history of collecting, that of the great migration of art objects out of Italy to northern Europe in the early eighteenth century. Her study pins the history of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521181070
• ISBN13: 9780521181075
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"