The pictor doctus, between knowledge and workshop

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