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The Paston Treasure Microcosm of the Known World

Door Andrew Moore

Categorie
Algemeen Kunst
Boeknummer
#288499
Titel
The Paston Treasure Microcosm of the Known World
Auteur
Moore, Andrew
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
New Haven : Yale University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2018
ISBN10
030023290X
ISBN13
9780300232905
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Originial gilt lettered red cloth, dust jacket, a lot of illustrations in colour.
Samenvatting
The Paston Treasure, a spectacular painting from the 1660s now held at Norwich Castle Museum, depicts a wealth of objects from the collection of a local landed family. This deeply researched volume uses the painting as a portal to the history of the collection, exploring the objects, their context, and the wider world they occupied. Drawing on an impressive range of fields, including history of art and collections, technical art history, musicology, history of science, and the social and cultural history of the 17th century, the book weaves together narratives of the family and their possessions, as well as the institutions that eventually acquired them. Essays, vignettes, and catalogue entries comprise this multidisciplinary exposition, uniting objects depicted in the painting for the fir... (Lees verder)st time in nearly 300 years.
Pagina's
589
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 45,00

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