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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1400 to 1600 > Renaissance art
Not unlike their European forebears, Americans have historically
held Italian Renaissance paintings in the highest possible regard,
never allowing works by or derived from Raphael, Leonardo, or
Titian to fall from favor. The ten essays in A Market for Merchant
Princes trace the progression of American collectors’ taste for
Italian Renaissance masterpieces from the antebellum era, through
the Gilded Age, to the later twentieth century. By focusing
variously on issues of supply and demand, reliance on advisers, the
role of travel, and the civic-mindedness of American collectors
from the antebellum years through the post–World War II era, the
authors bring alive the passions of individual collectors while
chronicling the development of their increasingly sophisticated
sensibilities. In almost every case, the collectors on whom these
essays concentrate founded institutions that would make the art
they had acquired accessible to the public, such as the Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum, the Morgan Library and Museum, the Walters
Art Gallery, The Frick Collection, and the John and Mable Ringling
Museum. The contributors to the volume are Jaynie Anderson, Andrea
Bayer, Edgar Peters Bowron, Virginia Brilliant, David Alan Brown,
Clay M. Dean, Frederick Ilchman, Tiffany Johnston, Stanley
Mazaroff, and Jennifer Tonkovich.
The first comprehensive account in English of Renaissance Spain's
preeminent sculptor Alonso Berruguete (c. 1488-1561) revolutionized
the arts of Renaissance Spain with a dramatic style of sculpture
that reflected the decade or more he had spent in Italy while
young. Trained as a painter, he traveled to Italy around 1506,
where he interacted with Michelangelo and other leading artists. In
1518, he returned to Spain and was appointed court painter to the
new king, Charles I. Eventually, he made his way to Valladolid,
where he shifted his focus to sculpture, opening a large workshop
that produced breathtaking multistory altarpieces (retablos)
decorated with sculptures in painted wood. This handsomely
illustrated catalogue is the first in English to treat Berruguete's
art and career comprehensively. It follows his career from his
beginnings in Castile to his final years in Toledo, where he
produced his last great work, the marble tomb of Cardinal Juan de
Tavera. Enriching the chronological narrative are discussions of
important aspects of Berruguete's life and practice: his
complicated relationship with social status and wealth; his
activity as a draftsman and use of prints; how he worked with his
many assistants to create his wood sculptures; and his legacy as an
artist. Published in association with the National Gallery of Art,
Washington Exhibition Schedule: National Gallery of Art, Washington
(October 13, 2019-February 17, 2020) Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas
(March 29-July 26, 2020)
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