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The Arts of Collecting: Padre Sebastiano Resta and the Market for Drawings in Early Modern Europe - Hardcover

Genevieve Warwick

 
9780521652650: The Arts of Collecting: Padre Sebastiano Resta and the Market for Drawings in Early Modern Europe

Synopsis

This work, first published in 2000, focuses on Sebastiano Resta to illuminates a crucial chapter in the history of collecting.

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Review

'... an outstandingly original examination of the collecting of old master drawings, inspired above all by the author's study of anthropology'. Apollo

'Dr Warwick's erudite study brings together the fragments of Resta's oeuvre, and does justice to his 'love and delight'.' Aura Satz, Art Newspaper

'There is no doubt that this is a very significant addition indeed to the literature on the history of collecting ...' Renaisssance Studies

Book Description

This work, first published in 2000, examines the collection of art works through an anthropological examination of modes of exchange and the social roles of material culture. Focusing on the figure of Sebastiano Resta, it brings to light a shadowy, yet crucial chapter in the history of collecting.

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