Men of taste
Subtitle: essays on art collecting in East-Central Europe
By: Ingrid Ciulisová
Publisher: VEDA, SAS Publishing House
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Bratislava
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9788022413381
Subjects: Art; Collectors and collecting; History
Description: Ingrid Ciulisovà, Researcher at the Slovak Academy of Sciences's Institute of Art History in Bratislava has published Men of Taste. Essays on Art Collecting in "East-Central Europe, a collection of four case-studies of collecting in Bratislava and around from the 18th to the 20th century. The essays are all concerned with a different collector Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen, Count Pálffy, Karl Kuffner and Enea Grazioso Lanfranconi and Count Antoine E. Seilern. The volume as a whole gives a coherent story of art collecting in East-Central Europe and gives context to the provenance of a great number of art works, among them many Dutch and Flemish". --codart.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-157) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction & acknowledgements; title: Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen and his taste; title: Art collecting of the Central-European aristocracy in the nineteenth century: the case of Count Pálffy; title: Acquired and dispersed: the collections of Baron Karl Kuffner and Enea Grazioso Lanfranconi; title: The Vienna School of art history and art collecting: Count Antoine E. Seilern; title: Select bibliography; title: List of illustrations; title: Index.