This beautifully illustrated guide offers an in-depth look into one of Europe’s oldest, finest, and most intact family collections. The Collections were confiscated under the Nazi and Communist regimes. In the early 1990s, the Lobkowicz family reclaimed and reassembled the Collections, making them comprehensively available to the public for the first time in history. Collection highlights include world-famous paintings by Bruegel, Canaletto, Cranach, Rubens, and Velázquez, Medieval and Renaissance works of art, and exceptional decorative arts, such as the largest surviving Delft dinner service in the world (c. 1685). It also includes the oldest and finest private library in Central Europe, as well as an unparalleled collection of musical instruments and hand-annotated manuscripts by many of the world's greatest composers, including Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. The Collections are displayed at both the Lobkowicz Palace in Prague Castle and Nelahozeves Castle.

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• Dimensions: 23 x 15,5 cm / 9.1 x 6.1 in
• Binding: paperback with hard paper cover
• Author: William B. Russell Jr.
• Pages: 61
• Language: English, Czech, Italian, Spanish, Japanese - please choose above