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This is a revised and greatly expanded edition of the catalogue first published in 1964 by the Phaidon Press, and it complements The Early Italian Pictures by John Shearman (C.U.P., 1983). It catalogues the work of many great artists, including a famous, unrivalled group of paintings by Canaletto. A long introduction traces the history of English royal interest in Italian pictures of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.Michael Levey is the author of 'The Later Italian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen (The Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen)', published 1991 under ISBN 9780521263283 and ISBN 052126328X.
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