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Jerry Brotton

Sale of the Late King's Goods : Charles I and his Art Collection

, Pan Macmillan, 2006,

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Erik Tonen Books

(Antwerpen, Belgium)

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Author
Jerry Brotton
Publishers
, Pan Macmillan, 2006
Keyword
Engelse literatuur, English literature, Literature anglais,

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Bound cover, 436 pages, ENG, 240 x 160 mm, in very good condition, with illustrations in colours. ISBN 9781405041522. 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.
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