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Can I offer you something in exchange to discover? Why not an interesting book?
Even if it is a classic read for any art historian?
Why suggest an academic book on Italian Baroque patrons and painters to
contemporary art dealers? Because it is such an overwhelmingly detailed study?
Or because it is considered a must read for any art professional? I never adhered
to this vision on things. No, it simply is a great read about works of art and artists
still 'on live display' in Rome, Venice, Italian palazzi and royal residencies
across Europe.
During your read you will be tempted too to look for parallels between the art market
during the Italian Baroque and the actual market. Wealthy patrons supporting their
favorite artists, the star artists fetching fortunes, the artists living together in colonies,
the shift in influence between artistic centers as a result of their economic decline or
growth, the trade in art works, even the commercial successes of the first international art
fairs, it is all omnipresent in this fascinating study of Francis Haskell.
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Patrons and painters. Author: Francis Haskell
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