Description: Marks of Opulence by Colin Platt Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description A sweeping, beautifully written history of artistic patronage from 1000 to the present day by a Wolfson Prize-winning historian. Publisher Description A sweeping, beautifully written history of artistic patronage from 1000 to the present day by a Wolfson Prize-winning historian. Marks of Opulence is a magisterial survey of European art and artistic patronage from 1000 until the birth of modernism. Tracing the history from the discovery of silver in the Harz mountains, through the catastrophic effects of plague in the 14th-century, to the studied magnificence of papal and royal courts in the 16th- and 17th-centuries, Platt shows how the great and the good have always used art to bolster political power.Arguing that the acquisitive instinct – felt by all of us in different ways – is central to the history of Western art, Platt traces how art began to move out of the palaces of the aristocracy into the homes of merchants, bankers and industrialists. From the mid 19th-century onwards, and in the pre-war Belle Époque in particular, it was the immensely wealthy robber barons and their widows – in London and Paris, in Berlin and Vienna, in Moscow and Barcelona, in Philadelphia and New York – who collected the work of the most innovative artists and broke the hold of the Academies on Western art.Professor Platts ambitious sweep through a thousand years of artistic endeavour in the West argues throughout that a superfluity of money is the chief driver of high achievement in the arts, and for the transforming power of great riches. Author Biography Colin Platt is Professor of Art History at Southampton University. He is the author of many books including King Death: a History of the Plague, The Architecture of Medieval Britain, which was awarded the Wolfson Prize for History, and the classic The Medieval Town. He lives in Devon. Details ISBN 0006531563 ISBN-13 9780006531562 Title Marks of Opulence Author Colin Platt Format Paperback Year 2005 Pages 368 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers GE_Item_ID:6503552; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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Book Title: Marks of Opulence: the Why, When and Where of Western Art 1000-1914
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Year: 2005
Item Height: 1 in
Topic: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, European, History / General, History / Renaissance
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Genre: Art
Item Weight: 10.5 Oz
Item Length: 7.2 in
Author: Colin Platt
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