The life and letters of Gavin Hamilton (1723-1798). Artist and Art Dealer in Eighteenth-Century Rome
Cassidy B.
Harvey Miller Publishers
Testo Inglese.
London, 2012; 2 voll., ril. in tela, pp. 750, ill. col., cm 21x26.
ISBN: 1-905375-59-X - EAN13: 9781905375592
Soggetto: Pittura e Disegno - Monografie,Saggi (Arte o Architettura)
Periodo: 1400-1800 (XV-XVIII) Rinascimento
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Peso: 3.63 kg
The present publication, with its introductory essay on Hamilton's life and career, and the corpus of more than 300 edited and annotated letters, provides a significant contribution to the literature on the history of collecting. It brings evidence of Hamilton's wide-ranging personal contacts with the most eminent collectors of the time and of the many great works of art that passed through his hands, among them Leonardo's Madonna of the Rocks (now in London, National Gallery), Tintoretto's large Adoration of the Shepherds (Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum), Salvator Rosa's Pythagoras (Fort Worth, Kimbell Museum). The correspondence documents Hamilton's dealings with agents and purchasers and provides new source material on the dispersal of Italian art collections, on the fate of individual pictures and more generally on British artistic taste in the second half of the eighteenth century.
There is also a body of illustrations that includes both Hamilton's own works - history paintings and portraits - as well reproductions of some of the works mentioned in the letters.
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