art when charles I lost his head this country lost his incomparable art collection, says noel malcolm

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: April 9, 2006| Author: NOEL MALCOLM | Copyright information

Among the 2,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures and tapestries sold off or given away by Cromwell's regime after Charles I's execution was the King's favourite Titian, The Pardo Venus, showing Jupiter exposing the sleeping, naked form of Antiope. The picture had been a gift from Philip IV of Spain and Charles hung it in a private room in Whitehall Palace. After the King's death it was bought by the MP Colonel John Hutchinson for the hefty sum of pounds 600 and taken off to grace the family h...

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