The Cattadori Collection of Italian and French Gothic and Renaissance Furniture, Brocades, Velvets, Tapestries, Bronzes and Ironwork
Author: American Art Association
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Published: 1926
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Author: American Art Association
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Published: 1926
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 985
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Malcolm Goldstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000-11-30
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 0190285869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow did the United States become not only the leading contemporary art scene in the world, but also the leading market for art? The answer has to do not only with the talents of American artists or even the size of the American economy, but also--and especially--the skills and entrepreneurship of American art dealers. Their story has not been told...until now. Landscape with Figures is the first history of art dealing in the United States, following the profession from eighteenth-century portrait and picture salesmen in the colonies to the high-profile, jet-set gallery owners of today. Providing anecdotal and carefully researched biographies of the prominent dealers from more than two centuries of trade, author Malcolm Goldstein shows how magnanimous personalities and social networking helped to shape the way Americans have bought and valued art. These dealers range from Michael Paff, whose enthusiasm often overshadowed his expertise but nonetheless helped him sell faux Old Master paintings to major collectors in the early nineteenth century; to the imperious Joseph Duveen, dealer to magnates like Henry Clay Frick; to visionary Leo Castelli, who helped to usher in a revolution in modern art during the 1960s by showing such avant-garde artists as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol. Goldstein also shows that the American art trade, while male-dominated, has been galvanized by female dealers, including the inimitable Edith Gregor Halpert, Peggy Guggenheim, and Mary Boone. Their fascinating stories unfold in the context of world art history, the rise of major art institutions like the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum, and the growing zeal of art collectors who would eventually pay millions for individual works of art. Unprecedented and critical to understanding today's art world, Landscape with Figures is a must for artists, art history students, and art lovers.
Author: Herbert Asbury
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2022-08-17
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 1667622730
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. Owing almost entirely to the influx of gold-seekers and the horde of gamblers, thieves, harlots, politicians, and other felonious parasites who battened upon them, there arose a unique criminal district that for almost seventy years was the scene of more viciousness and depravity, but which at the same time possessed more glamour, than any other area of vice and iniquity on the American continent. The Barbary Coast is the chronicle of the birth of San Francisco. From all over the world practitioners of every vice stampeded for the blood and money of the gold fields. Gambling dens ran all day including Sundays. From noon to noon houses of prostitution offered girls of every age and race. This is the story of the banditry, opium bouts, tong wars, and corruption, from the eureka at Sutter’s Mill until the last bagnio closed its doors seventy years later.
Author: Julia Cooley Altrocchi
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Published: 1979
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wesley Towner
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Published: 1970-11-01
Total Pages: 632
ISBN-13: 9780374526610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Elegant Auctioneers tells the behind-the-scenes stories of the fabulous collectors and the equally fabulous auctioneers who reflected the changes in American taste over several generations. More than a study of changing tastes and manners, and more than a social history, The Elegant Auctioneers is packed with the tales of kings and connoisseurs--as bizarre and heterogeneous a crowd as any to be found. Book jacket.
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: American Art Association
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-10-27
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780265834299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The Collection of Pietro Cattadori, Milan, Italy: Gothic and Renaissance Velvets, Gold and Silver Brocades, Damasks, Brocatelles, XVII and XVIII Century Needlepoint and Other Embroideries, Milanese, Point De Venise, Gothic, Fil Tiré and Other Beautiful Laces, Bronze Groups and Forged Iron Torchères Circular cuivre doré dial, with ram's - head handles surmounted by a vase and supported on a scrolled pedestal and base of marble. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 564
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