Renaissance to Rococo: Masterpieces from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
by Zafran, Eric M
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Hartford and New Haven, CT: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2003. Cloth, 182 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, slightly faded at extremities, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "When the Wadsworth Atheneum opened in 1844 as the first public gallery of fine arts in America, the highlights of the collection were works by contemporary American artists. However, gifts soon brought a number of old master paintings to the museum, and today perhaps the most famous aspect of its European collection is the concentration of Italian Baroque masterpieces. The museum's distinguished director in the 1930s and 1940s, Chick Austin, acquired notable works by Strozzi, Luca Giordano, Claude, and the first authentic Caravaggio in an American museum. Today the Atheneum can present an exhibition beginning with such renaissance masters as Piero di Cosimo and Sebastiano del Piombo, continuing with the finest examples of Baroque painting, and culminating in a blaze of rococo splendor with Tiepolo, Canaletto, Guardi, Melendez, Greuze, and Goya. This catalogue includes a history of the collection by Eric Zafran and entries on the individual paintings by distinguished scholars." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Folio. Collectible.
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- Title
- Renaissance to Rococo: Masterpieces from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
- Author
- Zafran, Eric M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0300102054
- ISBN 13
- 9780300102055
- Publisher
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- Hartford and New Haven, CT
- Date Published
- 2003
- Size
- Folio
- Keywords
- Collectible
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- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Museums; European / 5. Baroque & Rococo;
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