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This lavishly illustrated book celebrates the centenary of this unique charitable organisation which has saved almost half a million works of art for public collections across the United Kingdom, including some of the nation's best loved masterpieces. It spans 4000 years of art history, from pre-history to the present day and is a magnificent treasure trove of art of every kind. The works range from famous paintings such as Velázquez's Rokeby Venus, , Picasso's Weeping Woman and Botticelli's Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child , contemporary pieces such as Turning the World Inside Out by Anish Kapoor, famous sculptures such as Canova's Three Graces and precious jewels recovered from the wreck of the Spanish Armada ship Girona. The stunning illustrations are interwoven with the dramatic and intriguing stories behind the acquisitions.
The British as Art Collectors
To see the great art galleries, stately homes and museums up and down Britain today is to witness the rich story of the British as art collectors, a narrative that mirrors the history of the country. In this remarkable new book, James Stourton and Charles Sebag-Montefiore present a comprehensive survey of British art collectors down the centuries. The major collecting landmarks covered include Henry VIII, who harnessed the arts in the service of the crown, Charles I and the Whitehall Circle, the Grand Tour and the country house boom, the bonanza created by the Napoleonic Wars and the Industrial Revolution, French taste, the collecting of Spanish art, the passion for Florence, the 19th-centur...
The Macclesfield Psalter
Having rested unknown for centuries in the Library of the Earls of Macclesfield at Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire, the Macclesfield Psalter is the most important medieval manuscript discovered in living memory and has captured the nation's imagination.
Art Treasures of England
This major publication, containing 450 color illustrations, reveals the greatest art treasures of English regional collections, built up from the foundation in the 17th century of the first university collections, through the purchases of Victorian paintings by municipal art galleries and philanthropic patrons in 19th-century industrial towns and cities, to the collecting of Old Master paintings and drawings and modern British art in this century.
