Title: Sheltering art
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.
Subjects: Art and society, Art, Collectors and collecting, History, Art, french, Art, collectors and collecting
Places: Paris, France
Time periods: 18th century