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CHARLES I: KING AND COLLECTOR
KING AND COLLECTOR
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 2,000 paintings and sculptures by such artists as Titian, Mantegna, Holbein, Dürer, 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. A MONG THE AUTHORS PER RUMBERG is Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. DESMOND SHAWE-TAYLOR is Surveyor of The Queen’s Pictures. DAVID EKSERDJIAN is Professor of History of Art and Film at the University of Leicester. BARBAR A FURLOTTI is Associate Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. ERIN GRIFFE Y is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Auckland. GREGORY M ARTIN is Editor of the Corpus Rubenianum. GUIDO REBECCHINI is Senior Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. VANESSA REMINGTON is Senior Curator of Paintings at Royal Collection Trust. K AREN SERRES is Curator of Paintings at the Courtauld Gallery, London. LUCY WHITAKER is Senior Curator of Paintings at Royal Collection Trust. JEREMY WOOD is Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of Nottingham. HELEN W YLD is Senior Curator of Historic Textiles at National Museums Scotland.
C H A R LE S I KING AND COLLECTOR
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