The frick collection handbook of paintings

No Jacket. A handbook for visitors of the Frick Collection. Used - Softcover. From Spain to United Kingdom. Used Condition: Very Good. Paperback, pp. ISBN INGLESE Brossura editoriale in cartoncino flessibile, illustrata, con segni di usura ai bordi ed al dorso, all'interno pagine in buonissimo stato di conservazione, profusamente illustrate da immagini in nero nei testi, appena ingialliti i bordi, fioritura ai tagli superiori. Testo proveniente dalla collezione privata Prof.

Eduard Safarik. Numero pagine Contact seller. Used - Softcover Condition: VG. From U. Condition: VG. Stiff wrappers. A nice copy. Contents clean and tight, one instance of a name underlined, lower margin of title page lightly dimpled. Covers show light wear, corners bent. Illustrations in color and in black and white. Collection Guide.

Used - Softcover Condition: Gut. From Germany to United Kingdom. Condition: Gut. Published by Frick Collection, New York, Used - Softcover Condition: Fine. Advance tickets required for general admission. Reservations encouraged for members.

Your generosity sustains our world-class public programs, research, and conservation efforts. January 10, Full-time Exempt. Background Opened to the public in , The Frick Collection is a world-renowned art museum consisting of more than 1, works of art from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries displayed in the intimate surroundings of the former home of Pittsburgh industrialist Henry Clay Frick.

Compensation Salary is commensurate to skills and experience. Reserve Your Ticket Frick Madison is open to the public. Members General Admission. In this pioneering and richly illustrated volume, twelve scholars and museum curators reveal the origins of these collections by examining the American approach to and interest in the collecting of Flemish art over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Chronicling in lively detail the roles played by individuals in forming private and public collections, the essays in this volume illuminate how and why collectors and museums in the United States embraced the Flemish masters with such enthusiasm. They trace how the taste for specific genres and the appreciation for certain artists, in particular Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, changed over the years, and they explore the historical and cultural motivations behind these trends.

In doing so, they consider the effect of the great bequests of Flemish paintings to American museums and examine the private collections of the main tastemakers for Flemish painting, including the Baltimore merchant Robert Gilmor; John Graver Johnson, the leading corporate lawyer of the Gilded Age; and the California oil magnate J.

Paul Getty. Rate this book. Frick Collection: Handbook of Paintings. The Frick Collection in New York ranks among the world's most prestigious private art collections. It was founded by Henry Clay Frick, the Pittsburgh industrialist, who bequeathed his New York residence and the most outstanding of his many artworks to establish a public gallery.

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