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The Later Italian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen (The Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen)
The Later Italian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen - The Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen Author:Michael Levey This is a revised and greatly expanded edition of the book first published in 1964 (Phaidon Press), and catalogs in detail over 350 pictures painted since c. 1600. It thus complements The Early Italian Pictures by John Shearman, (CUP, 1983). The catalog includes the work of many great painters--Domenichino, Guercino, Guido Reni, Batoni, the two ... more »Ricci, Annibale Carracci, Zuccarelli and a famous, unrivaled group of paintings by Canaletto, most of which were commissioned directly from the artist by Joseph Smith and subsequently bought with the rest of his collection by George III. A long introduction traces the history from Charles I onwards of English royal interest in Italian pictures of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.« less