Project Gutenberg 2025-10-16 Public domain in the USA. 1477 Singleton, Esther 1865 1930 29002799 Old world masters in new world collections $aNew York :$bThe Macmillian Company, $c1929. "... Treating of old masters in private collections ... in America."--Preface 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) "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.) https://archive.org/details/oldworldmastersi0000esth/page/n7/mode/2up 20241210053337singleton 1929 US en Painting, European Painting -- Private collections -- United States ND Text 990609 2025-11-30T10:31:05.118352 text/html 925557 2025-10-16T11:54:53 text/html 9990477 2025-11-30T10:31:23.345296 application/epub+zip 10002363 2025-11-30T10:31:09.190349 application/epub+zip 499506 2025-11-30T10:31:06.844370 application/epub+zip 10634403 2025-11-30T10:31:32.606219 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 10574894 2025-11-30T10:31:21.258316 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 758160 2025-11-30T10:31:01.798384 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 738196 2025-10-16T11:54:53 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15776 2025-11-30T10:31:32.793219 application/rdf+xml 9377 2025-11-30T10:31:07.250375 image/jpeg 1586 2025-11-30T10:31:07.047346 image/jpeg 9119141 2025-11-30T10:31:05.491365 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog