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Week 1: Charles I & the Whitehall Group.
Collecting and Connoisseurship in England before Charles IThough there were royal and aristocratic collectors in the late sixteenth-century, they were not as dedicated or successful as the courtiers of...
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Week 2 : The Arundel and Buckingham Collections.
“Certainly, in this land I do not find the barbarous conditions which might be presumed from its climate, so remote from Italian elegance. On the contrary, I confess that in what concerns excellent...
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Week 3: The Collections of Charles I and the Duke of Hamilton
Surveying the King’s Pictures. The office of “Surveyor of the King’s Pictures” was inaugurated by Abraham van der Doort who came to England in 1609. Previously a Dutch modeller and numismatist (who...
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Week 4: The Sale of Charles I’s Collection & Its Aftermath
Seizure of the Pictures.The first “authorized moves” (Haskell) may have been carried out at the end of October, 1642. Nine months after the King left London, parliamentary troops seized Windsor Castle...
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Week 5: The Kings of Spain and Their Collections.
The Collections of the Spanish KingsThe Spanish monarchs had a number of advantages over Charles I: they had been collecting for eighty years before the young prince visited Madrid and viewed the glory...
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Week 6: The Layout of the Spanish Collections, Velasquez’s Technique and...
Velasquez and his Rivals.[1]Thanks to the wily machinations of Olivares, the Spanish Foreign Minister, Velasquez made headway at the Spanish court. Olivares’s Sevillian connections didn’t do any harm...
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Week 7: France: The Painters of Louis XIII, Mazarin, Richelieu and other...
Louis XIII and His Artists. The second slide, a drawing of a man in black chalk, is by none other Louis XIII, the King of France. Though far from an effective monarch- all the political and military...
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Week 8: Louis XIV's Pictures and other Collectors
Jabach and the Fouquet Scandal. During the 1650s Jabach lurked amongst the collectors at the Commonwealth Sale with the intention of thwarting the ambitions of the Spanish, and he outwitted them a few...
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Week 9: Archduke Leopold William’s Pictures and Collecting Art in the North
Collecting and the Art Market in AntwerpThe market in Antwerp has been called “the first showroom in postclassical Europe to be constructed expressly for the exhibition and sale of works of art”...
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Week 10: England, the Gonzaga Collection & the End of a Century of Glorious...
Collecting Art and the “Prestige of Painting” in the Seventeenth-Century Nearly all of the collectors on this course were either of royal or aristocratic blood, or had some title or honour associated...
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Week 1: Charles I & the Whitehall Group.
Collecting and Connoisseurship in England before Charles IThough there were royal and aristocratic collectors in the late sixteenth-century, they were not as dedicated or successful as the courtiers of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Week 2 : The Arundel and Buckingham Collections.
“Certainly, in this land I do not find the barbarous conditions which might be presumed from its climate, so remote from Italian elegance. On the contrary, I confess that in what concerns excellent...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Week 3: The Collections of Charles I and the Duke of Hamilton
Surveying the King’s Pictures. The office of “Surveyor of the King’s Pictures” was inaugurated by Abraham van der Doort who came to England in 1609. Previously a Dutch modeller and numismatist (who...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Week 4: The Sale of Charles I’s Collection & Its Aftermath
Seizure of the Pictures.The first “authorized moves” (Haskell) may have been carried out at the end of October, 1642. Nine months after the King left London, parliamentary troops seized Windsor Castle...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Week 5: The Kings of Spain and Their Collections.
The Collections of the Spanish KingsThe Spanish monarchs had a number of advantages over Charles I: they had been collecting for eighty years before the young prince visited Madrid and viewed the glory...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Week 6: The Layout of the Spanish Collections, Velasquez’s Technique and...
Velasquez and his Rivals.[1]Thanks to the wily machinations of Olivares, the Spanish Foreign Minister, Velasquez made headway at the Spanish court. Olivares’s Sevillian connections didn’t do any harm...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Week 7: France: The Painters of Louis XIII, Mazarin, Richelieu and other...
Louis XIII and His Artists. The second slide, a drawing of a man in black chalk, is by none other Louis XIII, the King of France. Though far from an effective monarch- all the political and military...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Week 8: Louis XIV's Pictures and other Collectors
Jabach and the Fouquet Scandal. During the 1650s Jabach lurked amongst the collectors at the Commonwealth Sale with the intention of thwarting the ambitions of the Spanish, and he outwitted them a few...
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