When Michelangelo Was Modern

Inge Reist (Ph. D. Columbia University 1984) was the Founding Director of the Center for the History of Collecting, The Frick Collection. Her edited and authored publications focus on Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art and the History of Art Collecting.

• List of FiguresContributorsIntroduction: Shaping the Splendor of Italian Renaissance Art through Collecting and PatronageInge Reist1 Merchant-Banker, Diplomat, Courtier or Agent? Intermediaries and Collecting Art in the Renaissance CourtsLeah R. Clark2 Birth in Venice: The Origins of Art Collecting in the SerenissimaFrederick Ilchman3 Courtesans as Collectors and Tastemakers in Renaissance ItalyChriscinda Henry4 Fractured Politics, Seamless Art: Family Patronage in Bologna at the Turn of the CinquecentoSaida Bondini5 “Our Insatiable Desire for All Things Antique”: Isabella d’Este as Patron and CollectorStephen K. Scher6 Cleaning Out the Workshop: How Preparatory Drawings Became Collector’s Treasure in Renaissance and Baroque ItalyJohn Marciari7 Modern Michelangelos? Copies, Fakes, and New Economies of Taste in the Early SeicentoHannah Joy Friedman8 Trading Caravaggio: Giovan Angelo Altemp, Prospero Orsi, and the Roman Art Market of Caravaggesque PaintingFausto Nicolai9 From the Art Market to St. Peter’s: The Cases of Nicolas Poussin and Valentin de BoulognePatrizia Cavazzini10 Artists as Critics, and Critics as Artists: Collaboration and Inclination in Giulio Mancini’s Taste FormationFrances Gage

" ... the book offers a wealth of new research valuable for scholars of the early modern period."W. E. Wallace, Washington University in Choice Connect