A Palace for a King: The Buen Retiro and the Court of Philip IV Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

A Palace for a King: The Buen Retiro and the Court of Philip IV Book

The Buen Retiro, a royal retreat and pleasure palace, was built for Philip IV on the outskirts of Madrid in the 1630s. With its superb display of paintings by Vel?zquez and other contemporary artists, the palace became a showcase for the art and culture of Spain's Golden Age. A Palace for a King, first published to wide acclaim in 1980, provided a pioneering total history of the construction, decoration, and uses of a major royal palace, emphasizing the relationship of art and politics at a critical moment in European history. In this extensively revised edition, the authors review the scholarship produced on different aspects of the history of the palace and its decoration over the past quarter century. A number of new, previously unpublished illustrations have been added, and many of the plates are now reproduced in color.Read More

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  • 0300036213
  • 9780300036213
  • Jonathan Brown, J.H. Elliott
  • 1 July 1986
  • Yale University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 312
  • New edition
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