Books by Fulvia Zaninelli
Non si misconoscerà quanto appunto il nostro tempo sia affine al Barocco italiano almeno in certi... more Non si misconoscerà quanto appunto il nostro tempo sia affine al Barocco italiano almeno in certi fenomeni» 1 L a storia del mercato dell'arte del Seicento italiano nei decenni a cavallo fra Otto e Novecento attende ancora di essere scritta. Lo scopo di questo breve contributo è accennare alle cause e agli effetti che portarono alla riabilitazione del gusto per la pittura seicentesca italiana e del suo mercato nei primi anni del Novecento. Intraprendere questo cammino richiede di porre attenzione all'influenza e al ruolo esercitato dagli Stati Uniti, dalla fine dell'Ottocento sino alla metà inoltrata del Novecento, in quanto forza principale del mercato «per volume d'acquisto, potenza finanziaria e capacità di rivitalizzare la domanda» 2 . Mentre la breve riflessione, che offriamo in conclusione, sulle figure di Contini Bonacossi e Riccardo Gualino, servirà a sottolineare «lo schema binario tradizione-modernità quale riferimento imprescindibile per ogni riflessione sul momento attuale» 3 .
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Object provenance is often approached as a linear chain of ownership. Recent increasing interest... more Object provenance is often approached as a linear chain of ownership. Recent increasing interest and research in art market studies—the dealers, mediators, advisors, taste makers, etc.—indicate the transaction of art and decorative art is anything but linear. This session takes as its point of departure two of the most active agents of the late 19C: the German Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929) and the Florentine Stefano Bardini (1836-1922), whose immensely successful careers depended upon vast and intricate social and professional networks which heavily overlapped. Both men were responsible for placing thousands of objects in public and private collections throughout Europe and America. Although both Bardini and Bode distinguished themselves in terms of sheer quantity of transactions and expertise, they also defined themselves by the high quality of the objects and the sophistication of their mutual global network. On the basis of archival material, the papers of this session examine the minutiae of the behind-the-scene aspects of object transaction within their broader context. In doing so, they offer alternative areas of inquiry for the mapping of objects as they were exchanged over time and place.
Papers by Fulvia Zaninelli
Object provenance is often approached as a linear chain of ownership. Recent increasing interest ... more Object provenance is often approached as a linear chain of ownership. Recent increasing interest and research in art market studies—the dealers, mediators, advisors, taste makers, etc.—indicate the transaction of art and decorative art is anything but linear. This volume takes as its point of departure two of the most active agents of the late 19C: the German Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929) and the Florentine Stefano Bardini (1836-1922), whose immensely successful careers depended upon vast and intricate social and professional networks which heavily overlapped. Both men were responsible for placing thousands of objects in public and private collections throughout Europe and America. Although both Bardini and Bode distinguished themselves in terms of sheer quantity of transactions and expertise, they also defined themselves by the high quality of the objects and the sophistication of their mutual global network. On the basis of archival material, the essays in this volume examine the minutiae of the behind-the-scene aspects of object transaction within their broader context. In doing so, they offer alternative areas of inquiry for the mapping of objects as they were exchanged over time and place.
Wilhelm Bode and the Art Market
Florence, Berlin and Beyond: Late Nineteenth-Century Art Markets and their Social Networks
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Journal of the History of Collections, 2022
In recent years, studies in the history of collecting have seen a shift away from the monographic... more In recent years, studies in the history of collecting have seen a shift away from the monographic towards an investigation of social and professional networks. Born from a double session at the 2018 College Art Association conference, with further invited contributions, this weighty volume takes the networks of Berlin art historian Wilhelm von Bode and Florentine art dealer Stefano Bardini as its point of departure. As complex connections are teased out in fourteen case-studies presenting meticulous archival research, the provenances of the works of art under discussion are revealed to be 'anything but linear', as editor Lynn Catterson puts it at the outset. This volume is, in many ways, an ode to Bode, who was less prominent in Catterson's previous volume for Brill (Dealing Art on Both Sides of the Atlantic, 1860-1940, 2017). As Fulvia Zaninelli notes, to study Bode is to study dealers. Detailed analysis of Bode's correspondence forms the backbone of many of these discussions, which trace works of art from postunification Italy to their final resting places around the world. Jeremy Howard's presentation of Isabella Stewart Gardner's purchase of Botticelli's Chigi Madonna includes a timely aside on contemporary debates around art patrimony, which complicates the backdrop against which many of these transactions take place. Various terms are used to describe the individuals who penned these letters-agent, dealer, adviser, representative-and yet these figures often evade categorization. Paul Tucker, for example, describes how Charles Fairfax Murray had five roles with Agnew's: he was purchasing customer, vendor, restorer-copier, joint purchaser and sharer in profits, before he deliberately extracted himself from his obligations to the firm. The politics of remuneration thread throughout the volume, as scholar-agents Bernard Berenson and Harold Woodbury Parsons, and Roman 'amateur'
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