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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,...
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Yale Center for British Art,
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| Publisher Address: | New Haven, CT : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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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. |
| Item Description: |
"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. Designed by Miko McGinty. |
| Carrier Form: | 589 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 30 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-577) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780300232905 030023290X |
| Index Number: | N5247 |
| CLC: | J535(561)-28 |
| Call Number: | J535(561)-28/P292 |
| Contents: |
World in painting : The Paston Treasure: an introduction / I. Understanding the Paston Treasure : The master of the 'Paston Treasure' : in search of an attribution / Making 'The Paston Treasure' / Technical investigation of 'The Paston Treasure' by macro-x-ray fluorescence (MA-XRF) analysis / Curtain up / 'The Paston Treasure' and its continental inspiration / "This deepe and perfect glosse of Blacknesse" : colour, colonialism, and 'The Paston Treasure's' period eye / II. Revealing the Collection : A curated collection: virtuosity and performance in 'The Paston Treasure' / 'Artificialia and their meanings in 'The Paston Tresure' / The development of Oxnead : from Tudor house to Nicholas Stone / A tale of two houses : Oxnead and the Pastons ; Blickling and the Hobarts / Paston furniture and furnishings / 'Naturalia', curiosities, and the English cabinet / Musical dialogues in 'The Paston Treasure' / III. The Pastons and Their World : The Paston Family in the seventeenth century / "Mecœna's Face" : a portrait of Sir William Paston, First Baronet / Painted portraits and the Paston Family's collection of paintings / The Paston-Yarmouth collection of prints and drawings / The Paston Library / Imperfect reds : Robert Paston's alchemy / Sir Thomas Browne, the Pastons, and the pursuit of health and wealth / A question of education: the grand tour of William Paston and his tutor William Aglionby / |