The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-century French and English Art in the Detroit Institute of Arts
The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-century French and English Art in the Detroit Institute of Arts

Author: Detroit Institute of Arts

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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Anna Thomson Dodge, heiress to the automotive fortune, built a great home and decorated it with one of the finest groups of 18th-century French decorative arts in America. Here are more than 130 pieces of furniture, sculpture, metalwork, tapestries, Sevres porcelain, and paintings, many from royal collections.

Medieval Tapestries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medieval Tapestries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 689

ISBN-13: 0870996444

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A study of the condition, subject, design, manufacture, ownership, and exhibitions for each tapestry or set of tapestries in the Museum's medieval tapestry collection. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Rare Art Traditions
The Rare Art Traditions

Author: Joseph Alsop

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2023-08-15

Total Pages: 750

ISBN-13: 0691252254

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A cultural and social history of art collecting, art history, and the art market In The Rare Art Traditions, Joseph Alsop offers a wide-ranging cultural and social history of art collecting, art history, and the art market. He argues that art collecting is the basic element in a remarkably complex and historically rare behavioral system, which includes the historical study of art, the market for buying and selling art, museums, forgery, and the astonishing prices commanded by some works of art. The Rare Art Traditions tells the story of three important traditions of art collecting: the classical tradition that began in Greece, the Chinese tradition, and the Western tradition. The result is a major original contribution to art history.