Kings and Connoisseurs

Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe

Jonathan Brown

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Princeton University Press
15 August 2023

Painting & paintings; Painting & art manuals

Series: Bollingen Series

A vivid and exciting account of royal collectors, art dealers, connoisseurs, and the rise of old master paintings

Old master paintings are among the most valuable and prestigious of the visual arts, and the best examples command the highest prices of any luxury commodity. In Kings and Connoisseurs, Jonathan Brown tells the story of how painting rose to this exalted status. The transformation of painting from an inexpensive to a costly art form reached a crucial stage in the royal courts of Europe in the seventeenth century, where rulers and aristocrats assembled huge collections, often in short periods of time. By comparing collecting and collectors at these courts, Brown explains the formation of new attitudes toward pictures, as well as the mechanisms that supported the enterprise of collecting, including the emergence of the art dealer, the development of connoisseurship, and the publication of sumptuous picture books of various collections. The result is an exciting narrative of greed and passion, played out against a background of international politics and intrigue.

By: Jonathan Brown
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 203mm,
ISBN: 9780691252858
ISBN 10: 0691252858
Series: Bollingen Series
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 15 August 2023
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Further / Higher Education , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jonathan Brown (19392022) was the Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute for Fine Arts at New York University and the author of many books, including Velzquez: Painter and Courtier; Painting in Spain, 15001700; In the Shadow of Velzquez: A Life in Art History; and Images and Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Painting (Princeton).

Reviews for Kings and Connoisseurs: Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe

"""Full of down-to-earth narrative about dickering and haggling among princes and their agents. . . . Brown is particularly good at converting the hard evidence of the Hapsburg acquisitions into a sort of poignant thriller.""---Raymond Sokolov, Wall Street Journal"