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LoC No.: 29002799
Title: Old world masters in new world collections
Original Publication: New York: The Macmillian Company, 1929.
Note: "... Treating of old masters in private collections ... in America."--Preface
Credits: Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Summary: "Old World Masters in New World Collections" by Esther Singleton is an illustrated art history survey and catalogue written in the early 20th century. It documents European Old Master paintings that entered American private collections, blending brief school overviews with focused entries on individual works, their provenance, former owners, and aesthetic qualities. The volume foregrounds beauty, downplays martyrdom and violence, and underscores the roles of prominent collectors and dealers—especially Sir Joseph Duveen—in shaping America as a new repository of masterpieces. The opening of this volume presents a preface asserting the book’s novelty and scope, crediting American collectors and Duveen’s influence, listing celebrated works with illustrious provenances, arguing for the superior selectiveness of American collections, and declaring a “Beauty”-driven selection while noting extraordinary valuations. It then outlines the contents by national schools and begins with a clear, contextual primer on Sienese painting as a refined Gothic offshoot with Byzantine and possible Oriental affinities. Early entries describe Sassetta’s St. Francis scenes, Matteo di Giovanni’s brocaded Madonna, and Benvenuto di Giovanni’s lively Adoration, each with vivid formal analysis and ownership history. A broader Florentine survey follows—linking Cimabue, Giotto, guilds, and Medici patronage to the Renaissance—before concise entries on a Giotto Madonna, Masolino’s architectural Annunciation, Fra Angelico’s angel and Virgin diptych and a Cosmas-and-Damianus predella scene, and a Fra Filippo Lippi Madonna, all characterized by precise iconography, technique, and provenance. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Author: Singleton, Esther, 1865-1930
EBook No.: 77067
Published: Oct 16, 2025
Downloads: 1081
Language: English
Subject: Painting, European
Subject: Painting -- Private collections -- United States
LoCC: Fine Arts: Painting
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
LoC No.: 29002799
Title: Old world masters in new world collections
Original Publication: New York: The Macmillian Company, 1929.
Note: "... Treating of old masters in private collections ... in America."--Preface
Credits: Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Summary: "Old World Masters in New World Collections" by Esther Singleton is an illustrated art history survey and catalogue written in the early 20th century. It documents European Old Master paintings that entered American private collections, blending brief school overviews with focused entries on individual works, their provenance, former owners, and aesthetic qualities. The volume foregrounds beauty, downplays martyrdom and violence, and underscores the roles of prominent collectors and dealers—especially Sir Joseph Duveen—in shaping America as a new repository of masterpieces. The opening of this volume presents a preface asserting the book’s novelty and scope, crediting American collectors and Duveen’s influence, listing celebrated works with illustrious provenances, arguing for the superior selectiveness of American collections, and declaring a “Beauty”-driven selection while noting extraordinary valuations. It then outlines the contents by national schools and begins with a clear, contextual primer on Sienese painting as a refined Gothic offshoot with Byzantine and possible Oriental affinities. Early entries describe Sassetta’s St. Francis scenes, Matteo di Giovanni’s brocaded Madonna, and Benvenuto di Giovanni’s lively Adoration, each with vivid formal analysis and ownership history. A broader Florentine survey follows—linking Cimabue, Giotto, guilds, and Medici patronage to the Renaissance—before concise entries on a Giotto Madonna, Masolino’s architectural Annunciation, Fra Angelico’s angel and Virgin diptych and a Cosmas-and-Damianus predella scene, and a Fra Filippo Lippi Madonna, all characterized by precise iconography, technique, and provenance. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Author: Singleton, Esther, 1865-1930
EBook No.: 77067
Published: Oct 16, 2025
Downloads: 1081
Language: English
Subject: Painting, European
Subject: Painting -- Private collections -- United States
LoCC: Fine Arts: Painting
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.