A market for merchant princes: collecting Italian renaissance paintings in America

Abstract

"A collection of essays that trace the increasingly sophisticated taste of American collectors of Italian Renaissance masterpieces from the antebellum era, through the Gilded Age, to the later twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.

Contents

James Jackson Jarves and the "primitive" art market in nineteenth-century America / Clay M. Dean -- "Modern connoisseurship" and the role it played in shaping American collectors' taste in Italian Renaissance art / Jaynie Anderson -- Discovering the Renaissance : Pierpont Morgan's shift to collecting Italian old masters / Jennifer Tonkovich -- Boston collectors in the wake of "Mrs. Jack" / Frederick Ilchman -- Henry Walters and Bernard Berenson / Stanley Mazaroff -- Mary Berenson and the cultivation of American collectors / Tiffany Johnston -- Collecting north Italian paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Andrea Bayer -- Building a Renaissance collection and museum after the Gilded Age : the case of John Ringling / Virginia Brilliant -- Samuel H. Kress and his collection of Italian Renaissance paintings / Edgar Peters Bowron.