Italian paintings from British collections

A souvenir of the exhibition - Italian art and Britain, London, 1960.

The collecting of Italian Art by the British from the time of Charles I to today is the central theme of the Exhibition commemorated in this volume. The Exhibition as a whole has a variety of aspects and contains over 600 works. That it has resulted in what is surely the greatest assembly of Italian paintings, ranging from Duccio to Guardi and drawn entirely from British collectors, which can occur in the present generation, seemed a sufficient reason to select our Souvenir from this single, but by far the major, part of the Exhibition.

It was not an easy decision to exclude from these plates the Tondo of Michelangelo, the special pride of the Royal Academy, unique in the British Isles as an example of his sculpture, and the drawings by Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael and other Masters, which are shown in such profusion in the South Rooms. These are among the principal glories of the Exhibition; but such famous treasures are already, for the most part, readily accessible in reproduction elsewhere.

The Exhibition is a tribute to the genius of Italy and the taste of the British connoisseur. Its realization on this sumptuous scale is due to the kindness of those who have lent to us with such unstinting generosity.

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Autore/i Charles Wheeler
Editore Royal Accademy of Arts Luogo London
Anno 1960 Pagine 62
Dimensioni 16x23 (cm) Illustrazioni ill. b/n n.t. - b/w ills.
Legatura bross. ill. - paperback Conservazione Usato come nuovo - used like new
Lingua Inglese - English text Peso 400 (gr)
ISBN N/D - N/A EAN-13 N/D - N/A