The Sale of the Late King's Goods - Jerry Brotton
Charles I & His Art Collection
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'So wonderful and glorious a collection, that the like will never again be met with.' This is how one awed and wistful observer described King Charles' artworks. As an acquirer of paintings by Europe's great masters and patron of Rubens and Van Dyck, Charles' extravagance in amassing his collection only exacerbated the parliamentary disapproval that led to civil war and the King's own execution. After his death, one of the Commonwealth's first decrees was to sell off his treasures to raise money for the new...
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2006 Uitgever: Pan/Macmillan 456 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 1405041528 ISBN-13: 9781405041522Koop dit boek tweedehands
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So wonderful and glorious a collection, that the like will never again be met with.' This is how one awed and wistful observer described King Charles' artworks. As an acquirer of paintings by Europe's great masters and patron of Rubens and Van Dyck, Charle...