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Item Number: 117653
Title: A Bibliographical Repertory of Italian Private Collections, Vol. 4: Paar-Ruzzini
Author: Gardner, Elizabeth E. (text) ; Ceschi, Chiara et al (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788896162347
Description: Verona: Scripta, 2010. 29cm. hardcover, 285pp. Summary: In 1946 Elizabeth E. Gardner, curator of the Department of European Painting at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, began to gather biographical and bibliographic information about Italian collectors with a special focus on the history and provenance of paintings in the Metropolitan collections. With around 10,000 entries on Italian collections made by 1973, her archive is still the only one of its kind, and turned out to be of key importance for the research work underlying a series of museum catalogues edited jointly with Federico Zeri and published by Neri Pozza Editore. The Giorgio Cini Foundation Institute for Art History was entrusted with the author’s original manuscript index cards with the idea of creating a new research tool for scholars of Italian collecting. After the American scholar’s death, the Institute promoted a project to publish her work in fi ve volumes. The entries were updated and organised in the form of a bio-bibliographic dictionary, thus forming a repertory of art collections in Italy from the 15th century to the present day, as recorded in the principal literary sources, archive documents, museum and exhibition catalogues, and sales documents. Each volume is supplemented with a bibliography and indices of the artists and people cited.
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