a new look at the Waddesdon bequest in the British Museum
Edición de la obra Rothschild Renaissance
| Autor | Pippa Shirley, Dora Thornton |
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| Editorial | The British Museum |
| Fecha de publicación | 2017 |
| Lugar | London |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 232 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780861592128 |
| ISBN-10 | 0861592123 |
| OCLC | 957139993 |
| Serie | Research publication -- 212 · Research publication (British Museum) -- no. 212. |
| Número de Cutter | S558r |
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The Waddesdon Bequest is a collection of nearly 300 precious art objects from Renaissance Europe. It was bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, M.P., when he died in 1898. The Bequest is named after Waddesdon Manor, the mansion he built in Buckinghamshire, England, where the collection was housed during his lifetime. The collection was accumulated by Baron Ferdinand and by his father, Baron Anselm, and was intended to rival those put together by rulers and princes from the Renaissance onwards. It is mainly made up of small-scale, rare and precious pieces of the highest quality which were intended to inspire a sense of curiosity and wonder.