DELICIOUS DECADENCE

The history of collecting is a topic of central importance to many academic disciplines, and shows no sign of abating in popularity. As such, scholars will welcome this collection of essays by internationally recognised experts that gathers together for the first time varied and stimulating perspectives on the nineteenth-century collector and art market for French eighteenth-century art, and u ltimately the formation of collections that form part of such august institutions as the Louvre and the National Gallery in London.T he book i...[Llegir més]