Caravaggio and his followers (Icon editions ; IN-34)

Spear, Richard E.

Harper&Row

In this highly original book five leading art historians team up with two distinguished economic and social historians to investigate the financial worlds of painters in Baroque Italy. Exploring the many variables that determined the prices asked or received by painters—including the status of their patrons, the size of works and time spent making them, their subject matter, and their number of figures—the authors offer major insights into the social lives, psychological disposition, and economic circumstances of a wide range of major and minor artists.

Painting for Profit: The Economic Lives of Seventeenth-Century Italian Painters

Arts & Photography

Sohm, Philip

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

1971 Cleveland Museum of Art HARDCOVER, 37pp+81 black and white plates with descriptions+bibliography, 4to.

Caravaggio and his followers,

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Art of Athena Tacha. A Complete Catalogue

Sculpture

BookBaby

This vivid, handsomely illustrated account of Thwaytes v. Sotheby's--one of the major art trials of recent times--will be of interest to dealers, conservators, and lawyers as well as all admirers of Caravaggio. In 2006, a Caravaggio scholar bought a version of the painter's famous Cardsharps at Sotheby's in London for just fifty thousand pounds. He then announced the piece was not a replica, as Sotheby's had stated, but was in fact Caravaggio's first version of the masterpiece--potentially worth up to fifty million pounds. &nbsp; Shocked by the news, Lancelot Thwaytes, who had consigned the painting to Sotheby's, sued the auction house for negligence, and the case came to trial at the High Court in London in 2014. This detailed account of Thwaytes v. Sotheby's is told from the inside by an eminent art historian who acted as an expert witness in the case. The verdict had far-reaching implications for the art world, and a question that has been much debated by scholars--whether or not Caravaggio made replicas of his own paintings--ended up becoming a judicial matter.

Caravaggio’s Cardsharps on Trial: Thwaytes v. Sotheby’s

The Burlington Press

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