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  • With Eclatby Hina Hirayama

    Boston Athenaeum 2013; US$ 28.99

    A detailed history of the Boston Athenaeum's historic role in the founding of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston more...

  • Corporate Art Collectionsby Charlotte Appleyard; James Salzmann

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 60.00

    This new volume in the series of Handbooks in International Art Business published in association with Sotheby's Institute of Art offers a timely guide to corporate collecting, examining the history, nature and importance of corporate collecting and the different reasons for starting and maintaining corporate collections, including investment,... more...

  • Blutiger Sommerby William Crowne; Alexander Ritter; Rüdiger Keil

    WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 21.56

    Hauptbeschreibung Am 8. April 1636 schiffte sich Thomas Lord Howard in London ein und reiste in königlicher Mission den Rhein hinunter durch das von Krieg und Pest verwüstete Deutsche Reich. Mit an Bord waren sein Sekretär William Crowne, der das Reisetagebuch führte, und der hochberühmte Landschaftsmaler Wenzel Hollar, der die Reise im Bild festhielt.... more...

  • Good Living Streetby Tim Bonyhady

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 35.00

    Vienna and its Secessionist movement at the turn of the last century is the focus of this extraordinary social portrait told through an eminent Viennese family, headed by Hermine and Moriz Gallia, who were among the great patrons of early-twentieth-century Viennese culture at its peak.   Good Living Street takes us from the Gallias? middle-class... more...

  • The Art Prophetsby Richard Polsky

    Other Press 2011; US$ 19.99

    In The Art Prophets, Richard Polsky introduces us to influential late twentieth-century dealers and tastemakers in the art world. These risk takers opened doors for artists, identified new movements, and resurrected art forms that had fallen into obscurity. In this distinctive tour, Polsky offers an insightful and engaging dialog between artists... more...

  • Good Living Streetby Tim Bonyhady

    Allen & Unwin 2011; US$ 18.17

    From high society in Vienna to a small flat in Sydney; from patrons of the arts to refugees from the Holocaust; this is the enthralling story of three generations of women spanning a century of upheaval. more...

  • The Intrepid Art Collectorby Lisa Hunter

    Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 13.95

    Ready to upgrade your artwork from framed Monet posters but intimidated by what you see in galleries? In The Intrepid Art Collector , Lisa Hunter shows you how to start a fine art collection without spending a fortune. This accessible, jargon-free resource contains up-to-date information on the most popular original art?everything from photography... more...

  • The Clarks of Cooperstownby Nicholas Fox Weber

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 35.00

    Nicholas Fox Weber, author of the acclaimed Patron Saints (?Exhilarating avant-garde entertainment??Sam Hunter, The New York Times Book Review ) and Balthus (?The authoritative account of his life and work??Michael Ravitch, Newsday ), gives us now the idiosyncratic lives of Sterling and Stephen Clark?two of America?s greatest art collectors,... more...

  • Patronen van patronage in het zeventiende-eeuwse Antwerpenby Bert Timmermans

    Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 50.50

    In de zeventiende eeuw was Antwerpen niet langer de internationale handelsmetropool van West-Europa. De stad bleef evenwel een spil van kunststromingen en en belangrijk kunstcentrum, dat aan de grondslag lag van talrijke artistieke innovaties. Ondanks de opkomst van een massamarkt voor kunst, bleef de consumptie van architectuur en beeldende kunsten... more...

  • Art Market and Connoisseurshipby Anna Tummers; Koenraad Jonckheere

    Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 45.00

    This essential volume traces the evolution of connoisseurship in the booming art market of the seventeenth- and eighteenth centuries. Not to be missed by anyone with an interest in the Old Masters and the early modern art market. more...