Author
Scott; Katie ; Williams; Hannah
Year
2024
Publisher
Getty Publications
Language
English
Pages
14
ISBN
978-1-60606-865-6
Last Update
06-Nov-2024
Keywords
Art & Art History ; European Studies
Artists are makers of things. Yet it is a measure of the disembodied manner in which we generally think about artists that we rarely consider the everyday things artists themselves owned. And not for lack of evidence. Though most eighteenth-century artists’ Lives are reticent about their subjects’ belongings and refer only briefly to, for example, a lute, or a dressing gown, or a wine glass, wittily to figure some aspect of personality or character,¹ the painters, sculptors, and printmakers of early modern Europe were in fact generally sufficiently rich in stuff to warrant, on death, the drawing up of estate...
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