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Wilton House in Salisbury, England, has been the ancestral home of
the Earl of Pembroke for nearly 500 years and boasts one of the
most fascinating and varied histories of all Britain s historic
houses. Shaped over centuries by the most significant names in
architecture and interior design, Wilton is known as the finest
example of Palladian architecture in England, with interiors by
Inigo Jones and John Webb, furniture by William Kent and Thomas
Chippendale, and unparalleled collections of both classical
sculpture and Old Master paintings with masterpieces by Raphael,
Titian, Rembrandt, and Tintoretto among its rooms. The book
explores the development of the house and its collections, from the
Van Dyck paintings in Jones s remarkable Single and Double Cube
state rooms to the Arundel marbles housed in James Wyatt s
Gothic-revival cloisters. With a foreword by the Earl of Pembroke,
a revelatory text by the historian John Martin Robinson, and
imagery drawn both from Wilton s private archives and from eminent
architectural and interiors photographers, this book lifts the veil
on Wilton House and its remarkable history.
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