Francesca Vanke
Francesca Vanke is keeper of art and a curator of decorative art, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery.
Vanke, Francesca
Vanke, Francesca
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Description: The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World
Robert Paston’s wide-ranging interests in “chymistry” (as the early-modern science of understanding the composition and transformation of matter was called) and his veritable obsession with alchemy are well-documented, not least in his correspondence with...
PublisherYale Center for British Art
Related print edition pages: pp.218-231
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00266.020
Description: The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World
Andrew Moore (Editor), Nathan Flis (Editor), Francesca Vanke (Editor)
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00266
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.
Author
Andrew Moore (Editor), Nathan Flis (Editor), Francesca Vanke (Editor)
Print publication date April 2018 (in print)
Print ISBN 9780300232905
EISBN 9780300263473
Illustrations 485
Print Status in print