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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in unused condition. Plates bright and vivid. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Over a period of only two decades in the first half of the seventeenth century King Charles I assembled one of the most spectacular art collections ever seen. Over 2000 paintings and sculptures by such artists as Titian Mantegna Holbein D?rer Rubens and Van Dyck filled London’s royal palaces and became the envy of the most magnificent courts of Europe. Charles I was executed on 30 January 1649. and over the following years his collection was scattered. This book reassembles his exceptional collection and explores how and why he became the pre-eminent art collector of his age. (MP)