Liechtenstein, the princely collections

Liechtenstein, the princely collections /

Liechtenstein is one of the smallest European states, a principality situated between Austria and Switzerland in the Upper Rhine Valley. The nation is less than three hundred years old, but the ruling family, whose name it bears, traces its lineage back to the twelfth century. For successive generat...

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Corporate Authors: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Sammlungen des Regierenden Fürsten von Liechtenstein
Imprint: New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, [1985]
Format: Book
Language:English
Subjects:
Liechtenstein, House of > Art collections > Exhibitions.
Art > Private collections > Liechtenstein > Exhibitions.
Liechtenstein, House of.
Art > Private collections.
Liechtenstein.
Exhibition catalogs.
Acquisition Notes:Gift of Anne d'Harnoncourt and Joseph Rishel
Series:Internet Archive Lending Library
Table of Contents:
  • I. The House of Liechtenstein. The Liechtenstein garden palace
  • The rise of the Princely family and the court at Prague
  • The collection of sculpture. II. Princely splendor. Firearms
  • The golden carriage of Prince Joseph Wenzel
  • Porcelain. III. The collection of paintings. Collecting paintings
  • Italian and French paintings and works of art
  • Painting in eighteenth-century Italy
  • German paintings
  • Dutch painting
  • Flemish paintings
  • Paintings by Rubens and Van Dyck.

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