Private collectors in Mantua 1500-1630
By: Guido Rebecchini.
Series: Sussidi eruditi -- 56
Publisher: Edizioni di storia e letteratura
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Roma
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
Subjects: Art, Italian -- Italy -- Mantua -- 16th century.; Art, Italian -- Italy -- Mantua -- 17th century.; Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Italy -- Mantua -- History.
Description: Case studies of private art collections recorded during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in Mantua. This work seeks to show how the collectors' taste changed during this period and how these changes are reflected in the collections' display, and also seeks to contribute to the understanding of the original context of works of art in sixteenth and early seventeenth century private houses in a courtly city.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 422-450) and indexes.