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"Thousands of Italian Renaissance paintings began to find their way to America in the nineteenth century, and the majority of these pictures--by artists great or obscure--can now be enjoyed in public art collections. In this single volume, we are given an overview of this remarkable story of the importation of art--indeed, of culture. Notable experts such as David Brown and Inge Reist recuperate this episode of art history, introduce us to the collectors, their motives, and their methods, and depict the early moments of American museums. The complicated competing interests of connoisseurship and business, optimistic attributions, deceit, and mistakes born of a newly developing expertise are all in these pages. Once these collectors--Henry Clay Frick, Samuel H. Kress, Isabella Stewart Gardner--were known for their great fortunes, but it was the important art that they acquired and their cultural philanthropy that ultimately ensured their fame and brought to American shores more Italian pictures than can be found anywhere else except Italy."
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