The Paston treasure

Description:

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, history of science, and the social and cultural history of the 17th century, the book weaves together narratives of the family and their possessions, as well as the institutions that eventually acquired them. Essays, vignettes, and catalogue entries comprise this multidisciplinary exposition, uniting objects depicted in the painting for the first time in nearly 300 years.

subjects: Art,  Exhibitions,  Norwich Castle Museum,  Art collections,  Cabinets of curiosities,  Collectors and collecting,  Art, exhibitions,  Art, british,  Norwich Castle Museum (Norwich)

People: Paston family,  Master of the Paston Treasure (active approximately 1660-approximately 1670),  Robert Paston Yarmouth Earl of (1631-1683),  William Paston Sir (1528-1610)

Places: England,  Norfolk

Times: 17th century