Old Masters, New World
Subtitle: America's Raid on Europe's Great Pictures
Publisher: Viking Adult
Published: August 14, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780670018314
Subjects: History - General; Art / History / General; Art; Art & Art Instruction
Description: "Old Masters, New World" is the story of beauty, aesthetics, and taste; money, trade, and power. It is a backstage look at the part played in American collecting by experts like Bernard Berenson and dealers like Colnaghi, Knoedler, and Duveena who raced around Europe to negotiate purchases and sales of the rarest and most costly masterpieces"--From publisher description.