On Demand
European Art Grab
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Many of America’s great Old Masters art collections, like that at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, were developed by Gilded Age tycoons. Cynthia Saltzman, author of Old Masters, New World, talks about the race to bring Europe’s most valuable art to America.
Event: Cynthia Saltzman will be speaking and signing books
Thursday, September 4 at 7 pm
Book Court
163 Court Street (between Amity and Pacific Streets), Brooklyn
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looking back, they must have saved a lot of work from the nazis and world war 2 bombings
Isn't interesting that this generation of extremely acquisitive capitalists of the Gilded Age, who prized materialism and ostentatious display above all else, chose to collect art from a period of very similar values? The paintings they were buying were for the most part depictions of material goods, in addition to being valuable objects themselves!
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