Anne Nellis Richter

The Gallery at Cleveland House

Displaying Art and Society in Late Georgian London
Herausgeber: Yonan, Michael

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This book examines the art gallery at Cleveland House, known in the 19th century as the 'Louvre of London' due to its internationally-renowned collection of Old Master paintings. Through detailed analysis of a wide range of visual, material, textual and archival sources, the book presents the gallery as a methodological case study on the intersection of domesticity and the display of art, and the construction of the notion of 'public', 'private' and 'national' galleries in the period. The book is essential reading for researchers in Regency-era British art, museum studies, collecting studies, and the histories of interior decoration and design"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 164mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 653g
• ISBN-13: 9781350372757
• ISBN-10: 1350372757
• Artikelnr.: 69308996

Autorenporträt

Anne Nellis Richter is an Independent Scholar and Adjunct Faculty in the Smithsonian Internship Semester program, Smith College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Introduction: "The Finest in England" 1. "A very
complete business": Designing and building the gallery 2. "The high
attraction of the spectacle": Displaying sociability 3. "The superb
furniture within": Materiality and the domestic interior 4. "We have lately
been much attacked": Exhibiting morality 5. "To private collections alone":
The apotheosis of the private gallery Conclusion: The "home" of art Index