The pictor doctus, between knowledge and workshop: artists, collections and friendship in Europe, 1500-1900

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Recent research on the collections treasured by artists during their lifetime, or those collections they had access to, has contributed significantly to the understanding of their own compositions. 00Contents:0I. Learning from the Artistic Collections, Libraries and Workshops:0- Pablo de Céspedes, arte y humanismo en su biblioteca. Una nueva propuesta de interpretación en torno a su colección bibliográfica;0- Bernardino Poccetti as Collector;0- "Ha muerto Rubens". El eco de su colección en el rey de España;0- Francisco de Solís, Collector of Drawings.00II. Coteries: The Role of the Friendship and the Academies:0- Vicente Carducho?s Modelling of Artistic Practice and Connoisseurship;0- Between Guild and Academy: Collections of Central European Painters as a Source of Artistic Progress or a Steady Livelihood?;0- French Barbizon Landscapes Collected by Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic Movement Artists in the second half of the Nineteenth Century;0- Women Painters and Academicians: Models and Collections.00III. Artists at the Court: Experience and Erudition:0- Court Institutions and their Impact on Artworks by the 'valet de chambre' Artists Serving at the Valois-Burgundian Court during the Fifteenth Century;0- Velázquez and the Royal Collection. Opening the Pandora?s Box.