Marks of opulence
Subtitle: the why, when, and where of Western art, 1000-1900 AD
By: Colin Platt.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
Subjects: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe.; Art patronage -- Europe -- History.; Art and society -- Europe -- History.; Art, European.
Description: "Marks of Opulence is a magisterial survey of European art and artistic patronage from 1000 until the triumph of modernism. Tracing art history from the discovery of silver in the Harz mountains, through the catastrophic effects of plague in the fourteenth century, to the studied magnificence of papal and royal courts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Colin Platt shows how the great and the good have always used art to bolster political power and self-esteem."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.