The Paston Treasure : microcosm of the known world / edited by Andrew Moore, Nathan Flis, and Francesca Vanke ; designed by Miko McGinty.

Date:
2018
  • Books

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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.

Publication/Creation

New Haven : Yale Center for British Art ; Norwich : Norfolk Museums Service ; New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2018.

Physical description

589 pages : colour illustrations ; 30 cm

Notes

"This publication accompanies the exhibitions 'The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World' and 'The Paston Treasure: Riches and Rarities of the Known World', co-organized by the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, on view 15 February-27 May 2018, and Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, on view 23 June-23 September 2018."--Colophon.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
    ZH/MOO
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780300232905
  • 030023290X