Add to ORKGAs now, Belgium was home to a remarkably large number of private art and antiques collections throughout the long nineteenth century. Many of those were visited by an interested local and international public and were popular topics in contemporary travel literature. This paper examines how many and which private collections were cited in nineteenth-century Belgian and foreign travel guides and travelogues and what was described in them as worth seeing, specifically in Belgium’s foremost artistic centers Antwerp, Brussels and Ghent. How did the description of the collectors, of their number, focus and motivations, as well as of the function and importance of their collections evolve over the course of the century? This paper aims to trace t...
Entrepreneurial Patronage in Nineteenth-Century France The Art collections which acquire in the nine...
This article calls for a more evolutionary understanding of the “birth of the modern travel guide” b...
België wordt vaak gezien als een land van privécollecties. Kunstkamers waren een belangrijk fenomeen...
As now, Belgium was home to a remarkably large number of private art and antiques collections throug...
During the long nineteenth century Belgium was home to a remarkably large number of private art and ...
In nineteenth-century Belgium, private collections were visited by an interested local and internati...
In the first half of the nineteenth century, Belgium was repeatedly praised as a country of collecto...
Throughout the long nineteenth century Belgium was home to a remarkably large number of private art ...
In the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Southern Netherlands saw the rise of a renewed inter...
Florent van Ertborn (1784-1840) and Fritz Mayer van den Bergh (1858-1901) were Antwerp’s major colle...
On the basis of archival evidence, this paper will focus on the market for the decorative arts, its ...
Paintings, drawings, prints, maps, jewels, gems, statuettes, medals, exotica, antiquities, dried ani...
Charles Buls (1837-1914), mayor of Brussels during the last two decades of the nineteenth century, w...
In the nineteenth century the first Friends of Museums organizations were established in several Eur...
'What's happening right now in Paris?' This must have been the question that preoccupied many a 19th...
Entrepreneurial Patronage in Nineteenth-Century France The Art collections which acquire in the nine...
This article calls for a more evolutionary understanding of the “birth of the modern travel guide” b...
België wordt vaak gezien als een land van privécollecties. Kunstkamers waren een belangrijk fenomeen...
As now, Belgium was home to a remarkably large number of private art and antiques collections throug...
During the long nineteenth century Belgium was home to a remarkably large number of private art and ...
In nineteenth-century Belgium, private collections were visited by an interested local and internati...
In the first half of the nineteenth century, Belgium was repeatedly praised as a country of collecto...
Throughout the long nineteenth century Belgium was home to a remarkably large number of private art ...
In the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Southern Netherlands saw the rise of a renewed inter...
Florent van Ertborn (1784-1840) and Fritz Mayer van den Bergh (1858-1901) were Antwerp’s major colle...
On the basis of archival evidence, this paper will focus on the market for the decorative arts, its ...
Paintings, drawings, prints, maps, jewels, gems, statuettes, medals, exotica, antiquities, dried ani...
Charles Buls (1837-1914), mayor of Brussels during the last two decades of the nineteenth century, w...
In the nineteenth century the first Friends of Museums organizations were established in several Eur...
'What's happening right now in Paris?' This must have been the question that preoccupied many a 19th...
Entrepreneurial Patronage in Nineteenth-Century France The Art collections which acquire in the nine...
This article calls for a more evolutionary understanding of the “birth of the modern travel guide” b...
België wordt vaak gezien als een land van privécollecties. Kunstkamers waren een belangrijk fenomeen...