The Late Kings Goods

Author : Jerry Brotton
Publisher : MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sale of the Late King's Goods written by Jerry Brotton and published by MacMillan. This book was released on 2006 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘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’s 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 regime. After the Restoration, one of Charles II’s first resolutions was to get the collection back. Jerry Brotton tells the remarkable story of the king and his pictures: their acquisition, dispersal and eventual recovery. He reveals a world in which diplomats doubled as art dealers, and in which the king’s plumber could be temporary owner of Bassano’s The Flood. This is a vivid portrait of a tragic king and his decadent court, set against the backdrop of political conflict and civil war, which also offers a new and compelling perspective on art and the evolution of collecting in England.

Author : Arthur MacGregor
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Late King's Goods written by Arthur MacGregor and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconstructs in unprecedented detail the physical character of the court of Charles I (1600-1649). Drawing on inventories compiled in the months following Charles's execution, authorities in their fields assess the character and importance of Charles's possessions, including his incomparable paintings, the royal regalia, furnishings, gems and plates from the Jewel House, and pots and pans from the court kitchens.

Author : Jerry Brotton
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780330427098
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sale of the Late King's Goods written by Jerry Brotton and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2007 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Following a remarkable and unprecedented Parliamentary Act for ‘The sale of the late king’s goods’, Cromwell’s republican regime sold off nearly 2,000 paintings, tapestries, statues and drawings in an attempt to settle the dead king’s enormous debts and raise money for the Commonwealth’s military forces. Brotton recreates the extraordinary circumstances of this sale, in which for the first time ordinary working people were able to handle and own works by the great masters. He also examines the abiding relationship between art and power, revealing how the current Royal Collection emerged from this turbulent period, and paints its own vivid and dramatic picture of one of the greatest lost collections in English history. 'A rip-roaring slice of seventeenth-century England...Readable history at its best' Kate Mosse, author of Labyrinth

Author : Kara Cooney
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
ISBN 13 : 1426221975
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Good Kings written by Kara Cooney and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the tradition of historians like Stacy Schiff and Amanda Foreman who find modern lessons in ancient history, this provocative narrative explores the lives of five remarkable pharaohs who ruled Egypt with absolute power, shining a new light on the country's 3,000-year empire and its meaning today.

Author : Francis Haskell
Publisher : Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
ISBN 13 : 9780300190120
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The King's Pictures written by Francis Haskell and published by Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies. This book was released on 2013 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art."

Author : Jonathan Kaufman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735224439
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Kings of Shanghai written by Jonathan Kaufman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."--The Boston Globe "Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly readable book about China's past, it also reveals the contingencies and ironic twists of fate in China's modern history."--LA Review of Books An epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist The Sassoons and the Kadoories stood astride Chinese business and politics for more than one hundred seventy-five years, profiting from the Opium Wars; surviving Japanese occupation; courting Chiang Kai-shek; and nearly losing everything as the Communists swept into power. Jonathan Kaufman tells the remarkable history of how these families ignited an economic boom and opened China to the world, but remained blind to the country's deep inequality and to the political turmoil on their doorsteps. In a story stretching from Baghdad to Hong Kong to Shanghai to London, Kaufman enters the lives and minds of these ambitious men and women to forge a tale of opium smuggling, family rivalry, political intrigue, and survival.

Author : Jonathan Brown
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691252866
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kings and Connoisseurs written by Jonathan Brown and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid and exciting account of royal collectors, art dealers, connoisseurs, and the rise of old master paintings Old master paintings are among the most valuable and prestigious of the visual arts, and the best examples command the highest prices of any luxury commodity. In Kings and Connoisseurs, Jonathan Brown tells the story of how painting rose to this exalted status. The transformation of painting from an inexpensive to a costly art form reached a crucial stage in the royal courts of Europe in the seventeenth century, where rulers and aristocrats assembled huge collections, often in short periods of time. By comparing collecting and collectors at these courts, Brown explains the formation of new attitudes toward pictures, as well as the mechanisms that supported the enterprise of collecting, including the emergence of the art dealer, the development of connoisseurship, and the publication of sumptuous picture books of various collections. The result is an exciting narrative of greed and passion, played out against a background of international politics and intrigue.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Late Richard Heber written by and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Heber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
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Download or read book Bibliotheca Heberiana ; Catalogue Of The Library Of The Late Richard Heber, Esq written by Richard Heber and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sotheby's (London)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
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Download or read book Bibliotheca Heberiana. Catalogue of the Library of the Late Richard Heber, Esq. ... which Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Sotheby and Son, at Their House, Wellington-street, Strand, on Thursday, April 10, and Twenty-five Following Days ... written by Sotheby's (London) and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: