Italy for Sale

Alternative Objects - Alternative Markets
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-67862-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 484 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1046 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Collecting & Art Markets

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Italian Renaissance art, objects, and even the idea of Italy itself figured heavily both in the dynamic international art market and in the eyes of the general public. The alternative objects that were actively dispersed and collected -- authentic works, pastiches, Renaissance-inspired counterfeits, and reproductions -- in the diverse media of paint, plaster, terracotta, and photography, had a tremendous impact on visual culture across social strata. These essays examine less studied aspects of this market through the lens of just a few of the countless successful sales of objects out of Italy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Budd, Denise

Catterson, Lynn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstförderung, Mäzenatentum, Auktionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1: Possession by Replica

1 Export/Import: Italian Plaster Casts Come to the United States

Martha Dunkelman

2 Art Cannot Delight the Multitude It Cannot Reach: The Western Gallery of Art and the Pisani Gallery

MacKenzie Mallon

3 The Torrigiani Affair

Denise M. Budd and Lynn Catterson

Part 2: Possession via Various Afterlives

4 Carrying Home Renaissance Florence in Extra-Illustrated Copies of George Eliot’s Romola

Jacqueline Marie Musacchio

5 Mary Blair as Collector of Medieval and Renaissance, Old and Reborn

Kerri A. Pfister

6 Staging Italian Artworks at the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition for the Benefit of a Transnational Art Market

Paola Cordera

Part 3: Art and Its Removal

7 Protecting Patrimony in Late 19th-Century Ferrara: Garofalo’s Frescoes in Palazzo Costabili and the Attempted Purchase by Stefano Bardini

Lorenzo Orsini

8 State Confiscation of Illegally Commodified Former Ecclesiastical Art Objects and the Waning of the Post-Unification Art Market in Italy

Joanna Smalcerz

Part 4: Italy for America

9 ‘Here, There, and Everywhere:’ Harold Parsons, the Italian Art Market and a Letter of 1948

Eliot W. Rowlands

10 Ugo Bardini: Artist and Dealer of Botticelli’s Cincinnati Judith

Maria Eletta Benedetti

Bibliographic Note

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Denise Budd, Ph.D. (2002) Columbia University, is an Associate Professor at Bergen Community College. Her subjects of her research and publications range from Leonardo da Vinci to, more recently, the Washington, D.C.-based tapestry dealer Charles Mather Ffoulke (1841-1909).

Lynn Catterson, Ph.D. (2002) Columbia University, lectures on Italian Renaissance art, the nineteenth-century art market and issues of authenticity. She has published widely on the Florentine dealer Stefano Bardini, his archive in Florence and his European and transatlantic business.