The Queen's Pictures: Masterpieces from the Royal Collection

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The Royal Collection is enormous, yet visitors only see a fraction of its masterpieces. This book provides a rare opportunity to see paintings not readily accessible to the world at large.

Every year, millions of art lovers visit The Royal Collection, which consists of over a million works. More than half of the paintings featured in the book are not normally available for public viewing and include several that have never been exhibited since entering the collection.

This stunning volume showcases masterpiece paintings including works by Bellini, Mantegna, Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Caravaggio, Canaletto, Cranach, Holbein, Rubens, Rembrandt, van Dyck, Vermeer, Hogarth, Gainsborough, and many others. From still life paintings to landscapes to portraits, the worlds finest paintings are reproduced in glorious detail.

Spread over 13 locationsfrom royal residences such as Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, and Kensington Palace to places devoted to the public display of art such as the Queens Gallery and Hampton Court PalaceThe Royal Collection was begun almost by accident. It was one of the last of the great royal art collections to be formed and is the largest to have survived intact into the twenty-first century.

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"Even at 500 pages, the new illustrated book The Queens Pictures (Rizzoli Electa) can cover only a fraction of the million-plus artworks in Britains Royal Collection. (The book kept its planned title after the death of Elizabeth II last September.) The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew (circa 1602-4). . .has a Cinderella story. Acquired in the 17th century, it was long thought to be a copy of a lost original by Caravaggio. In 2006, scholars determined that it was the original, transforming it into a star of the collection."WALL STREET JOURNAL

Author Bio

Anna Poznanskayais curator at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, one of Russias most important encyclopedic fine-arts museums, where she has curated exhibitions focused on British art includingThe Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-gardeandWilliam Turner 1775-1851.