Owning Art
Arthur C. Danto, 7 March 1996
Kings and Connoisseurs: Collecting Art in 17th-Century Europe
by Jonathan Brown.
Yale, 264 pp., £35, September 1995,0 300 06437 3 Show More
by Jonathan Brown.
Yale, 264 pp., £35, September 1995,
“... the home of a major collector of contemporary art, where the topic arose of the house which Bill Gates, the legendarily successful head of Microsoft, is having built for himself at a rumoured cost of anything up to $30 million. We sought to understand how a house could cost so much, and the somewhat stammering conjecture was that it must be due to the ... ”