The Paston Treasure : Microcosm of the Known World Hardback
by Andrew Moore, Nathan Flis, Francesca Vanke
Part of the British Art Centre at Yale Series (YUP) series
Hardback
Description
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 first time in nearly 300 years.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:590 pages
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:13/02/2018
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- ISBN:9780300232905
