Private Collecting, Exhibitions, and the Shaping of Art History in London

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dc.creatorStacey J. Pierson.
dc.date2018
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-12T17:18:55Z
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dc.descriptionThe Burlington Fine Arts Club was founded in London in 1866 as a gentlemen's club with a singular remit - to exhibit members' art collections. Exhibitions were proposed, organized and furnished by a group of prominent members of British society who included aristocrats, artists, bankers, politicians, and museum curators. Exhibitions at their grand house in Mayfair brought many private collections and collectors to light, using members' social connections to draw upon the finest and most diverse objects available. Through their unique mode of presentation, which brought museum-style display and interpretation to a grand domestic-style gallery space, they also brought two forms of curatorial and art-historical practice together in one unusual setting, enabling an unrestricted form of connoisseurship, where new categories of art were defined and old ones expanded. The history of this remarkable group of people has yet to be told and is explored here for the first time. Through a framework of exhibition themes ranging from Florentine painting to Ancient Egyptian art, a study of lenders, objects, and their interpretation paints a picture of private collecting activities, connoisseurship and art world practice that is surprisingly diverse and interconnected.
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dc.descriptionPART 1 Introduction Introduction: A New Gentlemen's Club for London PART 2 Exhibitions Paintings and Prints in Europe and Britain Ceramics East and West Persia, Egypt, and India Indigenous and Primitive Art PART 3 Epilogue The Club, its Legacy, and the Historiography of Collecting and Display Appendix A: List of Special Exhibitions Mounted by the Club with Visitor Numbers (where Available) from 1869 Appendix B: Biographical Index of Active Members and Contributors
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dc.identifier9781138232624
dc.identifierhttps://repository.museumsiam.org/handle/6622252777/453
dc.identifier.urihttps://onesearch.museumsiam.org/handle/search/24033
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group
dc.rightsสงวนสิทธิ์ในการเข้าถึงภายในพื้นที่ของสถาบันพิพิธภัณฑ์การเรียนรู้แห่งชาติเท่านั้น
dc.rightsสถาบันพิพิธภัณฑ์การเรียนรู้แห่งชาติ
dc.rightsผลงานนี้เผยแพร่ภายใต้ลิขสิทธิ์ของของสถาบันพิพิธภัณฑ์การเรียนรู้แห่งชาติ
dc.subjectArt
dc.subjectCollectors and collecting
dc.subjectExhibition techniques
dc.subjectMuseum & Arts
dc.subjectBurlington Fine Art Club.
dc.titlePrivate Collecting, Exhibitions, and the Shaping of Art History in London
dc.titleThe Burlington Fine Arts Club
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