John Talman

An Early-Eighteenth-Century Connoisseur

Cinzia Sicca, Christopher Baker, Cristina Borgioli , Louisa M. Connor Bulman

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Yale University Press
13 February 2009

Art: financial aspects; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections

Series: Studies in British Art

Contributions by Christopher Baker, Cristina Borgioli, Louisa M. Connor Bulman, Antonella Capitanio, Marco Collareta, Peter Davidson, Francisco Freddolini, Cristiano Giometti, John Harris, Elisabeth Kieven, and Cinzia Maria Sicca

This handsome book is the only full-length study of John Talman (1677–1726), first director of the Society of Antiquaries and one of the most influential collectors of drawings in early 18th-century Britain. Prominent scholars discuss the history of Talman's acquisitions, shedding light on the competitive nature, social practices, and aesthetic ideas of connoisseurship both in England and abroad.

Talman's collection, amassed in England, Florence, and Rome between the 1690s and 1719, focused on Italian medieval art, architecture, and textiles as well as Renaissance and Baroque architecture and sculpture. It reflected the tastes and preoccupations of artistic and intellectual élites in pre-enlightenment Europe. A vehicle for disseminating aesthetic and historical ideas, the collection became not only an extraordinary document of the state of ancient and modern Italian monuments but also a history of architecture and culture at large that provided visual evidence of buildings and rituals lost through time.

Distributed for the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Contributions by: Christopher Baker, Cristina Borgioli, Louisa M. Connor Bulman, Antonella Capitanio
Edited by: Cinzia Sicca
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 19
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 3mm
Weight: 1.134kg
ISBN: 9780300123357
ISBN 10: 0300123353
Series: Studies in British Art
Pages: 330
Publication Date: 13 February 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Cinzia Maria Sicca is Associate Professor at the University of Pisa.