Italy for Sale

Denise Budd, Ph.D. (2002) Columbia University, is an Associate Professor at Bergen Community College. Her subjects of her research and publications range from Leonardo da Vinci to, more recently, the Washington, D.C.-based tapestry dealer Charles Mather Ffoulke (1841-1909).Lynn Catterson, Ph.D. (2002) Columbia University, lectures on Italian Renaissance art, the nineteenth-century art market and issues of authenticity. She has published widely on the Florentine dealer Stefano Bardini, his archive in Florence and his European and transatlantic business.

" The inexhaustible wealth of documentation in Stefano Bardini’s archives has once again enabled the editors to produce a work extremely rich in previously unpublished information. We can only praise this undertaking, and hope that it will continue to flourish, opening the door to other archive collections and thus enriching the knowledge we have today about collecting and the international art market." Giancarla Cilmi in Journal of the History of Collections (2024).

• ContentsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPart 1: Possession by Replica1 Export/Import: Italian Plaster Casts Come to the United StatesMartha Dunkelman2 Art Cannot Delight the Multitude It Cannot Reach: The Western Gallery of Art and the Pisani GalleryMacKenzie Mallon3 The Torrigiani AffairDenise M. Budd and Lynn CattersonPart 2 : Possession via Various Afterlives4 Carrying Home Renaissance Florence in Extra-Illustrated Copies of George Eliot’s RomolaJacqueline Marie Musacchio5 Mary Blair as Collector of Medieval and Renaissance, Old and RebornKerri A. Pfister6 Staging Italian Artworks at the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition for the Benefit of a Transnational Art MarketPaola CorderaPart 3 : Art and Its Removal7 Protecting Patrimony in Late 19th-Century Ferrara: Garofalo’s Frescoes in Palazzo Costabili and the Attempted Purchase by Stefano BardiniLorenzo Orsini8 State Confiscation of Illegally Commodified Former Ecclesiastical Art Objects and the Waning of the Post-Unification Art Market in ItalyJoanna SmalcerzPart 4 : Italy for America9 ‘Here, There, and Everywhere:’ Harold Parsons, the Italian Art Market and a Letter of 1948Eliot W. Rowlands10 Ugo Bardini: Artist and Dealer of Botticelli’s Cincinnati JudithMaria Eletta BenedettiBibliographic NoteIndex