Florence, Berlin and Beyond: Late Nineteenth-Century Art Markets and Their Social Networks

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-41990-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 572 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1259 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Collecting & Art Markets

Recent and increasing interest in art market studies—the dealers, mediators, advisors, taste makers, artists, etc.—indicate that the transaction of art and decorative art is anything but linear. Taking as its point of departure two of the most active agents of the late nineteenth century, Wilhelm von Bode and Stefano Bardini, the essays in this volume also look beyond, to other art market individuals and their vast and frequently interconnected, social and professional networks. Newly told history taken from rich business, epistolary and photographic archives, these essays examine the art market, within a broader and more complex context. In doing so, they offer new areas of inquiry for mapping of works of art as they were exchanged over time and place.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Catterson, Lynn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstförderung, Mäzenatentum, Auktionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 19. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Lynn Catterson

Part 1: Forming a Collection

1 Wilhelm von Bode and Prince Johann II von Liechtenstein: the Private Correspondence 1882–1925

Michaela Watrelot

2 Florence and Paris: the Italian Acquisitions of Édouard and Nélie Jacquemart-André and Their Relationship with Stefano Bardini

Giancarla Cilmi

3 Rome, London and Boston: Colnaghi, Bernard Berenson and the Sale of Botticelli’s Madonna of the Eucharist to Isabella Stewart Gardner

Jeremy Howard

Part 2: Transacting an Entire Collection

4 Art for Sale and Display: German Acquisitions from the Spitzer Collection “Sale of the Century”

Paola Cordera

5 The Barberini Tapestries: Charles Mather Ffoulke and the Dealer’s Network

Denise M. Budd

Part 3: Dealers for Dealers

6 Between Florence and Berlin: the International Art Market in Post-unification Rome

Virginia Napoleone

7 Customer, Counsel, Associate, “Trustee”: Charles Fairfax Murray and Thomas Agnew and Sons (1886–1918)

Paul Tucker

8 The Interesting Case of Alessandro Contini Bonacossi (1878–1955) and Wilhelm von Bode (1849–1929)

Fulvia Zaninelli

Part 4: (No Longer) Obscure Agents

9 Postcards from Castiglion Fiorentino: the Correspondence between Napoleone Aglietti and Stefano Bardini

Jeremy Boudreau

10 Two Lives in the Picture Trade: Bernard Berenson, Harold Woodbury Parsons & the Italian Art Market, 1917–1919

Eliot W. Rowlands

11 Jane M. Healey Jackson, a Sculptor’s Wife Abroad

Jacqueline Marie Musacchio

Part 5: Issues of Attribution

12 A Network among Scholars: Allan Marquand, Sir John Charles Robinson, Wilhelm Bode, and Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner

Kerri A. Pfister

13 Donatello Re-discovered? A Name for the Author of the Berlin Flagellation and the Hildburgh Relief

Vasily Rastorguev

14 Art Market, Social Network and Contamination: Bardini, Bode and the Madonna Pazzi Puzzle

Lynn Catterson

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lynn Catterson, PhD, 2002 (Columbia University). Since 2010, she has been working on the Florentine dealer, Stefano Bardini, the late nineteenth centrury art market, its social network and various constituent topics such as contamination of the canon and the scholarly literature.