description: This book is an account of the formation of the first great Royal art collections. This new and powerful interest in acquiring pictures transformed the way in which painting was viewed within the context of European culture, and is a fascinating story of greed, intrigue and passion.
language: English
title: Kings and Connoisseurs: Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe
titlecomplete: Kings and Connoisseurs: Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Yale Univ Pr