Roman splendour, English arcadia : the English taste for Pietre Dure and the Sixtus cabinet at Stourhead
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Type of record: Book
Title: Roman splendour, English arcadia : the English taste for Pietre Dure and the Sixtus cabinet at Stourhead
Other titles: Roman splendor, English arcadia
Classmark: Bedford Collection G181
Creator(s): Jervis, Simon; Dodd, Dudley
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); National Trust (Great Britain) (Originator)
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
Publication city: London
Date(s): [2015]
Language: English
Size and medium: x, 241 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/741199
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020013685805181
Description
Published in association with the National Trust.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-230) and index.
The English taste for Pietre Dure -- Roman Pietre Dure -- The supreme example: the Sixtus cabinet -- Sixtus v. The Villa Montalto and the Peretti Descent -- The young Henry Hoare -- Henry Hoare's grand tour -- Stourhead, the Sixtus cabinet and the first cabinet room -- Henry Hoare's 'rich frame or pedestal for the Sixtus cabinet' -- Sir Richard Colt Hoare and the second cabinet room -- The later history of the Sixtus cabinet.
"At Stourhead in Wiltshire, the Palladian mansion contains an extraordinary Roman cabinet glittering with gilt-bronze mounts, semi-precious stones and elaborate architectural ornament. Its façade conceals over 125 more-or-less secret drawers. The cabinet was brought to Stourhead in the 1740s by Henry Hoare 'the Magnificent', of the Hoare banking dynasty; he had purchased it in Rome, where it had been made for Pope Sixtus V, whose papacy, from 1585 to 1590, coincided with the Spanish Armada. The superb quality of the 'Sixtus Cabinet' was fully revealed by conservation in 2006-7 and this galvanized research into its history."--Publisher's description.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G181: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford.
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