Kings & connoisseurs collecting art in seventeenth-century Europe /

Old master paintings are now considered to be the most valuable and prestigious of the visual arts, and the best examples command the highest prices of any luxury commodity. In this series of lectures Jonathan Brown tells in vivid detail the story of the rise of painting to this exalted status. The...

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Main Author: Brown, Jonathan, 1939-2022.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1995]
Physical Description: 264 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.
Series: A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 1994.
Bollingen series ; 35, 43.
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CMU Main Books 3rd Floor

LocationCall Number: Status
CMU Main Books 3rd Floor N5240 .B76 1995 Available
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