Today’s art collectors engage in a tradition that stretches back at least two millennia, to when well-heeled Romans decorated their homes with Greek sculptures. And if art buyers today aspire to be called a modern-day Medici, they’re calling back to an Italian family who lived during the Renaissance. The system that nurtured Raphael and Michelangelo has gradually grown into the sprawling global ecosystem of schools, dealers, auction houses, advisors, and fairs we know today, a market that totals, according to the latest Art Basel/UBS report, some $65 billion.
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Brian Boucher, Artnet News, August 7, 2024