The Paston treasure
Subtitle: microcosm of the known world
By: edited by Andrew Moore, Nathan Flis, and Francesca Vanke
Contributors: Moore, Andrew W., editor; Flis, Nathan, editor; Vanke, Francesca, editor; Norwich Castle Museum; Yale Center for British Art
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 589
ISBN-13: 9780300232905
Subjects: Art; Exhibitions; Norwich Castle Museum; Art collections; Cabinets of curiosities; Collectors and collecting
Other titles: Microcosm of the known world
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.
Notes: "This publication accompanies the exhibitions 'The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World' and 'The Paston Treasure: Riches and Rarities of the Known World', co-organized by the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, on view 15 February-27 May 2018, and Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, on view 23 June-23 September 2018."--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-577) and index.
Table of contents: title: World in painting : The Paston Treasure: an introduction  -- Andrew Moore; title: I. Understanding the Paston Treasure : The master of the 'Paston Treasure' : in search of an attribution  -- Andrew Moore and Robert Wenley; title: Making 'The Paston Treasure'  -- Spike Bucklow and Jessica David; title: Technical investigation of 'The Paston Treasure' by macro-x-ray fluorescence (MA-XRF) analysis  -- Claudia Caliri and Francesco Paolo Romano; title: Curtain up  -- Glenn Adamson; title: 'The Paston Treasure' and its continental inspiration  -- Ellinoor Bergvelt; title: "This deepe and perfect glosse of Blacknesse" : colour, colonialism, and 'The Paston Treasure's' period eye  -- Esther Chadwick; title: II. Revealing the Collection : A curated collection: virtuosity and performance in 'The Paston Treasure'  -- Mark A. Meadow; title: 'Artificialia and their meanings in 'The Paston Tresure'  -- Wolfram Koeppe; title: The development of Oxnead : from Tudor house to Nicholas Stone  -- Maurice Howard and Edward Town; title: A tale of two houses : Oxnead and the Pastons ; Blickling and the Hobarts  -- Victor Morgan; title: Paston furniture and furnishings  -- Simon Swynfen Jervis; title: 'Naturalia', curiosities, and the English cabinet  -- Arthur Macgregor; title: Musical dialogues in 'The Paston Treasure'  -- Jeanice Brooks and Jonathan Wainwright; title: III. The Pastons and Their World : The Paston Family in the seventeenth century  -- Jean Agnew; title: "Mecœna's Face" : a portrait of Sir William Paston, First Baronet  -- Nathan Flis and Michael Hunter; title: Painted portraits and the Paston Family's collection of paintings  -- Karen Hearn; title: The Paston-Yarmouth collection of prints and drawings  -- Simon Turner; title: The Paston Library  -- Mark Purcell; title: Imperfect reds : Robert Paston's alchemy  -- Paula Findlen and Francesca Vanke; title: Sir Thomas Browne, the Pastons, and the pursuit of health and wealth  -- Reid Barbour; title: A question of education: the grand tour of William Paston and his tutor William Aglionby -- Jonathan Yarker.