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At the beginning of the eighteenth century, a generation of collectors in France and the Holy Roman Empire developed new principles for the display of paintings, principles based on comparison triggered by the mixture of schools and periods; its aim was to encourage analysis and connoisseurship through comparison and conversation. The ground-breaking theories of Roger de Piles were central to this novel approach, and essential to its understanding. These principles were predominant until the 1780s. This book examines case studies in France, the German Empire and the UK that exemplify these new principles.
Price: $139.00
Pages: 434
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in the History of Collecting & Art Markets
Publication Date:
18 September 2025
ISBN: 9789004732858
Format: Hardcover
A "stimulating book"
Peter Humfrey, University of St Andrews (Em.). In: The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 168 (April 2026), pp. 413–414.
Peter Humfrey, University of St Andrews (Em.). In: The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 168 (April 2026), pp. 413–414.
Mary Tavener Holmes, Ph.D., is an independent scholar with a specialty in the art of the eighteenth century. Her publications include De Watteau à Fragonard: Les fêtes galantes (with Christoph Vogtherr, 2014) and Nicolas Lancret’s Dance before a Fountain (2006).
Christoph Martin Vogtherr is General Director of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation, Potsdam. Prior to that, he was director at the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Wallace Collection. He is a specialist of French eighteenth-century art and the history of art collecting.
Christoph Martin Vogtherr is General Director of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation, Potsdam. Prior to that, he was director at the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Wallace Collection. He is a specialist of French eighteenth-century art and the history of art collecting.