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Recounts how King Philip IV of Spain, at the prompting of his prime minister, built a new palace and commissioned hundreds of paintings by the greatest artists of the time
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Jonathan Brown, Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and Sir John Elliott, Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History in the University of Oxford, are joint editors of The Sale of the Century: Artistic Relations between Spain and Great Britain, 1604-1655 (ISBN 0 300 09761 1, [pound]45.00*), and have written numerous books on Spanish art and history.
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"...abundance of new color plates... exceeds the original... solid historical study of politics, church, and Spain’s mighty aristocratic families." -- George Stolz, ARTnews
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- PublisherYale Univ Pr
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0300025076
- ISBN 13 9780300025071
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages296
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