No house embodies the spirit of one dynasty better than Chatsworth. Set in an unspoilt Derbyshire valley, surrounded by wild moorland, and home to the Cavendish family for more than four hundred years, this treasure house is filled with works of art and objects that have all, in their time, represented the very best of the new - from Nicolas Poussin's Et in Arcadia Ego and Antonio Canova's Endymion to seminal modern works by Lucian Freud, David Hockney and Michael Craig-Martin, among many others. Today, since the recent completion of a decade-long programme of renovations, the exterior of the house is gleaming, its stone façade newly cleaned and its window frames freshly gilded.