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Collections of Paintings in Madrid, 1601–1755 (Parts 1 and 2)
Marcus B. Burke and Peter Cherry, edited by Maria L. Gilbert
1997
1808 pages
PDF file size: 98.6 MB
Description
This two-part book on collections of paintings in Madrid is part of the series Documents for the History of Collecting, which presents volumes of art historical information based on archival records. One hundred forty inventories of noble and middle-class collections of art in Madrid are accompanied by two essays describing the taste and cultural atmosphere of Madrid in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Table of Contents
- Part 1
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Seventeenth-Century Spanish Taste, Peter Cherry
- A Golden Age of Collecting, Marcus B. Burke
- The Inventory Process
- List of Collectors (in alphabetical sequence)
- Inventories (in chronological sequence)
- Part 2
- Index of Artists
- Index of Subjects
- List of Artist Appraisers
- List of Spanish Inventories available at the Getty Provenance Index
- Bibliography of Picture Collecting in Seventeenth-Century Madrid
- Illustrations
About the Authors
Marcus B. Burke is curator of painting and drawing at the Hispanic Society of America.
Peter Cherry is professor and head of the department of the history of art and architecture at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.