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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The greatest paintings in today’s most famous museums were once part of a fluid exchange determined by volatile political fortunes. In the first half of the seventeenth century master- pieces by Titian Raphael and Leonardo among others were the object of fervent pursuit on the part of a network of art connoisseurs. Francis Haskell traces the fate of the collections extracted from Italy Spain and France by King Charles I and his circle which after a brief stay in Britain were largely dispersed after the Civil War to princely galleries across the Continent. From vivid case studies of individual collectors advisers and artists and acute analysis of personality and motive Haskell challenges received ideas about this episode in British cultural life and traces some of the factors that forever changed the artistic map of Europe. (MP)