Sheltering art
Subtitle: collecting and social identity in early eighteenth-century Paris
By: Rochelle Ziskin
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780271037851
Subjects: Art and society; Art; Collectors and collecting; History
Description: "Explores the role of private art collections in the cultural, social, and political life of early eighteenth-century Paris. Examines how two principal groups of collectors, each associated with a different political faction, amassed different types of treasures and used them to establish social identities and compete for distinction"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cultural geography of the French capital circa 1700; title: Cloistered in the Faubourg Saint-Germain; title: The Maison Crozat transformed; title: A circle of "moderns"; title: The regent and collecting on the Right Bank; title: Les anciens and an expanding public realm in the arts; title: The circles converge: Carignan and Jullienne.