The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World

by Francesca Vanke, Nathan Flis, Andrew Moore

The Paston Treasure, a spectacular painting from the 1660s now held at Norwich Castle Museum, depicts a wealth of objects from the collection of a local landed family. This deeply researched volume uses the painting as a portal to the history of the collection, exploring the objects, their context, and the wider world they occupied. Drawing on an impressive range of fields, including history of art and collections, technical art history, musicology,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030023290X
• ISBN13: 9780300232905
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 590 Pages
• Weight: 7.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 10.3" x 11.7"