Collecting and Display (collectinganddisplay.com) is the name of a working group founded by the three editors of this volume in 2004. The group has been running a research seminar at the Institute of Historical Research (University of London) since 2005, in Florence since 2008 and has organised international summer conferences from 2006 onwards. The three editors teach at university programmes in the UK, France and Italy and are widely published on the subject of the history of collecting, the display of collections and the art market, including the first three volumes of the present series, Collecting and Dynastic Ambition (2009), Collecting and the Princely Apartment (2011) and Women Patrons and Collectors (2012).
4 Ebooks by Susan Bracken
Andrea M. Galdy: Women Patrons and Collectors
In looking at the history of collecting, one may be excused for regarding it as an activity in which, traditionally, women have shown little interest or in which they have not been involved.As the …
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Andrea M. Galdy & Adriana Turpin: Collecting East and West
If collecting the rare and valuable is an entirely normal trait of human behaviour, amassing objects from far-away places has also long played a role in the history of collecting. "East" …
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€81.48
Susan Bracken: Art, History and Architecture of Florentine Churches
Churches and palaces in Florence have been the subject matter of book-length, often multi-volume studies over the centuries. This book is a compendium of the main churches in Florence and has been …
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€116.78
Susan Bracken: Collecting and the Princely Apartment
Collecting is an obsession that goes back to the mists of history. While spare time and spare cash seem an absolute necessity for this kind of activity, every collector has his or her own approach to …
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€72.36
