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A Room without a View: Palace Building in Gilded Age America with art historian Allison Levy
"A Room without a View: Palace Building in Gilded Age America" with art historian Allison Levy. Using the 15th-century Florentine Palazzo Rucellai as a case study, this illustrated lecture will examine the burgeoning market for Renaissance art in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and the hemorrhaging of artifacts from aristocratic Florentine homes to American and English collectors. On the pages of the New York Times, for example, the antiquarian James Jackson Jarves, a Connecticut-born expat writing from Florence in the 1880s, calls the city "the capital of bric-à-bracdom," noting the "lively ransacking and disinterring of everything." And he goes on to name Giovanni Rucellai, the 15th-century patron of Palazzo Rucellai, as a model collector for American millionaires back home.
Our lecturer, Allison Levy is an art historian based in New York City. She has written or edited four scholarly books on Renaissance art.
Tickets $25. Tuesday, April 4, 6:30 pm.
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LocationHouse of the Redeemer (View)
7 East 95th Street
New York, NY 10128
United States
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| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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