Gothic art in the gilded age : Medieval and Renaissance treasures in the Gavet-Vanderbilt-Ringling collection / Virginia Brilliant ; with texts by Françoise Barbe ... et al.

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Author: Brilliant, Virginia; Miller, Paul F; Barbe, Françoise; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; Preservation Society of Newport County
Subject: John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held Dec. 16, 2009-Apr. 4, 2010 at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, and May 8-Oct. 31, 2010 at The Preservation Society of Newport County.
Contents: Foreword / John Wetenhall and Trudy Coxe -- Acknowledgements / Virginia Brilliant and Paul F. Miller -- Introduction : American Gothic / Virginia Brilliant -- Émile Gavet : patron, collector, dealer / Alan Chong -- A labor in art's field : Alva Vanderbilt Belmont's Gothic room at Newport / Paul. F. Miller -- Taking it on faith : John Ringling and the Gothic room collection / Virginia Brilliant -- From private homes to museum galleries : Medieval art in America from 1890-1940 / Flaminia Gennari-Santori and Charlotte Vignon -- Note to Readers -- Catalogue -- Sculpture / C.D. Dickerson III and Jim Harris -- Decorative Arts / Françoise Barbe ... [et al.] -- Paintings / Virginia Brilliant

2009

C2009

19th century

20th century

1865-1918

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