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(Ebook) The Anatomy of Riches : Sir Robert Paston's Treasure by Spike Bucklow ISBN 9781789140170, 178914017X

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Authors:Spike Bucklow
Pages:281 pages.
Year:2018
Editon:1
Publisher:Reaktion Books, Limited
Language:english
File Size:16.33 MB
Format:pdf
ISBNS:9781789140170, 178914017X
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(Ebook) The Anatomy of Riches : Sir Robert Paston's Treasure by Spike Bucklow ISBN 9781789140170, 178914017X

The Anatomy of Riches tells the story of one British family's long, hard rise from rags to riches--and their rapid reversal of fortune. Focusing on the seventeenth-century life of Sir Robert Paston, an avid collector of natural and manmade rarities who experienced the family's fall from grace, Spike Bucklow paints an engaging portrait of one family's eccentricities of richness at a time of momentous change. Beginning with the travels of Sir Robert's father Sir William, the Paston wealth brought luxuries from across the globe to an idyllic retreat in rural Norfolk. There, the family commissioned Europe's finest craftsmen to enhance their exotic rarities, a trove of objects that included everything from musical instruments to bejeweled ostrich eggs and nautilus shell goblets. The lavish hospitality of the Paston family was renowned throughout England, but the English Civil War and plague tore the country apart, and peace-loving Sir Robert was assailed by what he called a "whirlpool of misadventures." As the dawn of the modern era saw the beginning of the family's loss of fortune, Sir Robert kept faith and worked tirelessly to protect his wife and children. Encouraged by his friend Dr. Thomas Browne, he even found time to pursue his own idiosyncratic interests, employing both an alchemist in search of the Philosophers' Stone and an artist to capture his favorite treasures in an enigmatic still life, The Paston Treasure. Exploring the Paston family's history through their collection and this famed painting, The Anatomy of Riches offers a history of both early modern England and the modern world's birth-pangs.
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