Gift exchange and art collecting: Padre Sebastiano Resta's drawing albums

Genevieve Warwick

doi:10.1080/00043079.1997.10786804

Gift exchange and art collecting: Padre Sebastiano Resta's drawing albums

Genevieve Warwick^*

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Edinburgh College of Art

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This paper investigates the social structure of gift giving among art collectors in early modern Italy. It focuses on Padre Sebastiano Resta, a collector of drawings based in Rome, between 1680 and his death in 1714. Gift giving was the preferred mode of exchange among aristocratic collectors, a practice that shaped their aesthetic response to art objects. A common culture of elite consumption fostered the neo-feudal nostalgia through which gifts were exchanged and the critical perception of art as the object of courtly love.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	630-646
Number of pages	17
Journal	The Art Bulletin
Volume	79
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00043079.1997.10786804
Publication status	Published - Dec 1997

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