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Palaces of Revolution - Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court (Paperback)
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Palaces of Revolution - Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court (Paperback)
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Loot Price R256
Discovery Miles 2 560
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The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played
out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span
Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England.
Life in the court of the House of Stuart has been shrouded in
mystery: the first half of the century overshadowed by the fall and
execution of Charles I, the second half in the complete collapse of
the House itself. Lost to time is the extraordinary contribution
the Stuarts made to the fabric of sovereignty. Every palace they
built, painting they commissioned, or artwork they acquired was a
direct reflection of the lives that they led and the way that they
thought. Palaces of Revolution explores this rich history in
graphic detail, giving a unique insight into the lives of this
famous dynasty. It takes us from Royston and Newmarket, where James
I appropriated most of the town centre as a sort of rough-and-ready
royal housing estate, to the steamy Turkish baths at Whitehall
where Charles II seduced his mistresses. We see the intimate
private lives of the monarchs, presented through the buildings in
which they lived and the objects they commissioned, creating an
entirely new narrative of the Stuart century. Palaces of Revolution
traces this extraordinary period across the places and palaces on
which the action played out, giving us a thrilling new history of
this remarkable dynasty.
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