Buying Baroque :  Italian seventeenth-century paintings come to America / 
edited by Edgar Peters Bowron. 
 - University Park, Pennsylvania :  The Pennsylvania State University Press,  (c)2017. 
 - 1 online resource. 
 - The Frick Collection studies in the history of art collecting in America ;  3 .
<br/><br/> "This book evolved from a symposium, 'Going for Baroque: Americans Collect Italian Paintings of the 17th and 18th Centuries,' organized by the Center for the History Collecting, that was held at The Frick Collection on September 20 and 21, 2013." 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : the critical fortunes of Italian Baroque painting in America /  Italian Baroque paintings at the Ringling Museum : the legacy of John Ringling and Chick Austin /  The Atheneum to the fore : Hartford and the Italian Baroque /  The American view of the "forgotten century" of Italian painting : reminiscences of an art dealer and curator /  An invisible web : art historians behind the collecting of Italian Baroque art /  Baroque in the Caribbean : Luis A. Ferré and the Museo de Arte de Ponce /  Dealing and scholarship : The Heim Gallery, London, 1966-1995 /  The Detroit Institute of Arts and Italian Baroque paintings /  Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., and his collection of Italian Baroque paintings /  Better late than never : collecting Baroque painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art /  Edgar Peters Bowron --  Virginia Brilliant --  Eric Zafran --  Marco Grassi --  Richard Spear --  Pablo Pérex d'Ors --  J. Patrice Marandel --  Ian Kennedy --  Eric Zafran --  Andrea Bayer. 
<br/><br/> "A collection of essays on the American collecting of Italian Baroque paintings in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Looks at the influence of art exhibitions and exhibition catalogues on the understanding and popularity of Italian Baroque art"--Provided by publisher. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780271079462 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Painting--Collectors and collecting--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Painting--Collectors and collecting--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Painting, Baroque--Italy.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>N5201  / .B895 2017