Author: Gemaldegalerie Dresden Germany

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-06

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780260400956

Excerpt from Catalogue of the Pictures in the Royal Gallery at Dresden We may date the commencement of the first of these periods in the year 1560, when the Elector August set apart the rooms above his suite of apartments in the Royal Palace as a Kunstkammer for his collection of works of art and curios of every description, such as generally obtained at the princely courts of that time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.