<p>The Devonshire Inheritance: Five Centuries of Collecting at Chatsworth was an exhibition of material from Chatsworth, the primary home of the Cavendish family-the earls and then dukes of Devonshire-since the 16th century. One of the most beautiful country houses in England, Chatsworth contains fabulous treasures of every kind and from every period and region of the world. This exhibition presented a unique opportunity to see great works of art, including rare cabinet paintings, old master and architectural drawings, masterpieces of the great gold- and silversmiths, porcelains, clocks, gems and jewelry, natural curiosities, scientific instruments and mechanical devices, early photographs, and books and manuscripts from the greatest private library in the world. The guest curator of the exhibition was Nicolas Barker, formerly Deputy Keeper at the British Library, Assistant Keeper at London's National Portrait Gallery, a visiting professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, and a fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of more than 20 books. Composed of more than 200 works of art, the exhibition highlighted the family's private collection, not normally on view to the public and rarely exhibited previously. It presented a comprehensive portrait of five centuries of artistic connoisseurship and intellectual pursuits and was organized chronologically by generation, the objects included in each section having been carefully selected to illustrate the interests and historical roles played by successive family members. Bess of Hardwick, one of the most remarkable figures of Elizabethan England and from whose second son (the first Earl of Devonshire) the present line of dukes descends, built the first Chatsworth and was represented in the exhibition by early architectural drawings and a rare letter from Queen Elizabeth I.</p>

The Devonshire Inheritance: Five Centuries of Collecting at Chatsworth

Nicolas Barker

Diana Scarisbrick

Andrew Robert Buxton Cavendish Devonshire

Arts & Photography

Art Services International

<p>Chaumet Paris, Two Centuries of Fine Jewellery tells the story of an illustrious firm whose history is synonymous with the courtly splendours of the First and Second Empires, the refined magnificence of the Belle Epoque and the sophisticated luxury of the interwar years. Each chapter sets Chaumet's jewellery, objets d'art and silverware in their period context, complete with paintings and photographs of eminent customers and society events.</p>

Chaumet Paris, Two Centuries of Fine Jewellery (English Edition)

Musée Carnavalet

Roselyne Hurel

Paris-Musees

Chaumet, Joaillier depuis 1780

Illuminata: Three Centuries of Fine Jewellery 1720-2020

Fashion

Shanghai Painting and Calligraphy Press

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