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The Paston treasure : microcosm of the known world
Title
The Paston treasure : microcosm of the known world / edited by Andrew Moore, Nathan Flis, and Francesca Vanke.
ISBN
0300263473
9780300263473
030023290X
9780300232905
Publication
New Haven : Yale Center for British Art ; Norwich : Norfolk Museums Service ; New Haven : Yale University Press, 2018.
Physical Description
1 online resource (589 pages) : 485 illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits, genealogical tables
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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.
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Summary
"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"--Publisher's description.
Variant and related titles
Microcosm of the known world
Other formats
Print version: Paston treasure
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 21, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-577) and index.
Contents
World in painting : The Paston Treasure: an introduction / Andrew Moore
I. Understanding the Paston Treasure : The master of the 'Paston Treasure' : in search of an attribution / Andrew Moore and Robert Wenley
Making 'The Paston Treasure' / Spike Bucklow and Jessica David
Technical investigation of 'The Paston Treasure' by macro-x-ray fluorescence (MA-XRF) analysis / Claudia Caliri and Francesco Paolo Romano
Curtain up / Glenn Adamson
'The Paston Treasure' and its continental inspiration / Ellinoor Bergvelt
"This deepe and perfect glosse of Blacknesse" : colour, colonialism, and 'The Paston Treasure's' period eye / Esther Chadwick
II. Revealing the Collection : A curated collection: virtuosity and performance in 'The Paston Treasure' / Mark A. Meadow
'Artificialia and their meanings in 'The Paston Tresure' / Wolfram Koeppe
The development of Oxnead : from Tudor house to Nicholas Stone / Maurice Howard and Edward Town
A tale of two houses : Oxnead and the Pastons ; Blickling and the Hobarts / Victor Morgan
Paston furniture and furnishings / Simon Swynfen Jervis
'Naturalia', curiosities, and the English cabinet / Arthur Macgregor
Musical dialogues in 'The Paston Treasure' / Jeanice Brooks and Jonathan Wainwright
III. The Pastons and Their World : The Paston Family in the seventeenth century / Jean Agnew
"Mecœna's Face" : a portrait of Sir William Paston, First Baronet / Nathan Flis and Michael Hunter
Painted portraits and the Paston Family's collection of paintings / Karen Hearn
The Paston-Yarmouth collection of prints and drawings / Simon Turner
The Paston Library / Mark Purcell
Imperfect reds : Robert Paston's alchemy / Paula Findlen and Francesca Vanke
Sir Thomas Browne, the Pastons, and the pursuit of health and wealth / Reid Barbour
A question of education: the grand tour of William Paston and his tutor William Aglionby / Jonathan Yarker.
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Genre/Form
Art criticism.
Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
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Norwich Castle Museum, host institution, publisher.
Yale Center for British Art, host institution, organizer, publisher.
Yale University Press, publisher.
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