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Sale of the Late King''s Goods - Charles I and His Art Collection

Inglese · Tascabile

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Shortlisted for the 2006 Samuel Johnson Prize, the critically acclaimed and dazzling account of the sale of Charles I's art collection

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Jerry Brotton is Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of several books on Renaissance art and history. A former Research Fellow of the Leverhulme Trust and Globe Theatre, he is a regular reviewer and broadcaster for both radio and television. He lives in south London with his partner, the biographer Rachel Holmes.

Riassunto

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

Prefazione

Shortlisted for the 2006 Samuel Johnson Prize, the critically acclaimed and dazzling account of the sale of Charles I's art collection

Testo aggiuntivo

‘Brotton has taken on a cracking good story, confidently snaking through the complicated politics of seventeenth-century European art-dealership, from Venice and the Low Countries to the Escorial and back into the side-streets of turbulent London and the thousand-odd rooms of Whitehall Palace. He beds this vast mass of convoluted activity with its great cast of characters from de Critz to Van Dyck – its rivalries, frauds, enthusiasms, bankruptcies, brinkmanship and U-turns – deeply into the political, social and artistic context of the time. This is no pillow book: that Brotton maintains his authorial grip on both the grand sweep and the elaborate detail while controlling the drive of his multi-layered narrative is a superb achievement’ Kate Colquhoun, Daily Telegraph
‘Provocative…admirably researched and compellingly narrated’ Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times
‘Jerry Brotton, a young historian with an enviable command of the secondary literature, both historical and art-historical, and a good understanding of the way objects and works of art assume ideological significance, has told the amazing story of Charles I’s collection and its subsequent sale in full’ Charles Saumarez Smith, Literary Review
‘Jerry Brotton holds a magnifying glass to the amassing of the royal collection and its later dispersal…bustles with fascinating detail’ History Today
‘Admirable’ The Times
‘Colourful’ Observer
‘Magnificent’ Daily Express

Dettagli sul prodotto

Autori Jerry Brotton
Editore Macmillan
 
Lingue Inglese
Raccomandazione d'eta' 18 anni
Formato Tascabile
Pubblicazione 16.07.2015
 
EAN 9781509805266
ISBN 978-1-5098-0526-6
Pagine 320
Categorie Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Storia dell'arte

England, ART / History / General, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), History of Art, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, English Civil War, Civil wars

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