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.
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