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The Queen’s Pictures
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MASTERPIECES FROM THE ROYAL COLLECTION
ANNA POZNANSKAYA, FOREWORD BY TIM KNOX IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ROYAL COLLECTION, LONDON
This exquisite tour de force of Britain’s Royal Collection provides a very rare opportunity to see an art trove not readily accessible to the world at large—more than half of the paintings are not normally available for public viewing, including several that have never been publicly exhibited since entering the collection.
While it is commonly known that the Crown has one of the world’s great collections of Leonardos, visitors to the Royal Academy’s recent Charles I exhibition were amazed by the richness of the Royal Collection and its many largely unseen works. This extraordinary volume reveals much more of the unparalleled collection that is housed in thirteen historic royal residences, from Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, where the royal family regularly reside, to spaces specically devoted to the public display of art, such as the Queen’s Gallery and Hampton Court Palace.
Begun almost by accident, it was one of the last great European royal art collections to be formed, and it is one of the largest to have survived intact into the twenty-rst century, comprising more than a million objects, including 7,000 paintings and 180,000 watercolors, drawings, and prints. This stunning, erudite volume, prepared in close collaboration with the curators at the Royal Collection, showcases some 240 masterpieces in exacting detail, including paintings by Bellini, Mantegna, Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Caravaggio, Canaletto, Dürer, Cranach, Holbein, Rubens, Rembrandt, van Dyck, Vermeer, Hogarth, Gainsborough, and many others. Also included are treasures from its vast collection of drawings, watercolors, and miniatures.
Anna Poznanskaya is curator and deputy head of the Department of 19th and 20th Century European and American Arts at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. Tim Knox is the Director of The Royal Collection.
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496 pages, 9½ x 11½" 350 color photographs Hardcover • 9780847870837 $125.00 USD, $170.00 CAD, £90.00 GBP September 6, 2022 Rights: World English
