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In this extensively revised edition, the authors review the scholarship produced on different aspects of the history of the palace and its decoration since the 1970s. A number of new, unpublished illustrations have been added, and many of the plates are now reproduced in colour. The publication of this edition gains added importance from the fact that plans for the expansion of the Prado Museum include the restoration of the Hall of Realms to approximate its original appearance, as reconstructed in this volume.

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A landmark in the development of an enlightened and catholic cultural history... This is not merely an entertaining and enriching work; it is also an important one. Simon Schama, Journal of Modern History A major contribution to our understanding of the political and cultural life of the Spanish court in the reign of Philip IV. It is also a pleasure to read, magnificently researched, and beautifully produced. Nigel Glendinning Times Literary Supplement A vivid and absorbing study of a royal palace as a total cultural artefact... It is not only a book on architecture but one on patronage and collecting, on economics and political history, on court theatre and the court as theatre, on the value system of a 17th-century monarchy and on the opposition to those values. Joseph Connors, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

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Jonathan Brown, Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and Sir John Elliott, Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History in the University of Oxford, are joint editors of The Sale of the Century: Artistic Relations between Spain and Great Britain, 1604-1655 (ISBN 0 300 09761 1, [pound]45.00*), and have written numerous books on Spanish art and history.

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