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Lecture : the Paston treasure : the lives behind the picture
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Lecture : the Paston treasure : the lives behind the picture / Spike Bucklow.
Production
New Haven, CT : Yale Center for British Art, 2018.
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 streaming video file (59 miniutes))
Notes
Lecture held at the Yale Center for British Art on March 8, 2018 to coincide the exhibition, "The Paston Treasure" on display at the Yale Center for British Art, February 15 - May 27, 2018.
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Summary
"Spike Bucklow, Reader in Material Culture at the University of Cambridge, outlines the results of a technical examination of 'The Paston Treasure' painting and places them in an anthropological context. He gives an account of the origin of Sir Robert Paston's wealth and his exotic treasures, as well as his family's fate. The ways in which civil war, plague, trade, alchemy, and Anglicanism helped shape the painting are also considered"--Website.
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Paston treasure : the lives behind the picture
Format
Online / Software & Electronic Media
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 21, 2020
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Mode of access: Internet.
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