Luxury and Power - Jacobsen, Helen (Course tutor on the MA in Decorative Arts and Historic Interiors run by the Wallace Collection and the University of Buckingham a assistant director of the Attingham Summer School)

A study of the material world of English ambassadors at the end of the seventeenth century, illustrating the way in which architecture and the arts played an important role in diplomatic life. Luxury and Power is an important contribution to the cultural history of Baroque England.