Italian paintings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

by National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

The National Gallery's collection of later Italian paintings was formed largely by Samuel H. Kress (1863-1955), one of the greatest collectors of Italian pictures in America. Kress' enthusiasm for Italian art was exceptional in that it encompassed painters from Cimabue to Tiepolo. Kress collected Italian baroque paintings such as Tanzio da Varallo's Saint Sebastian, purchased in 1935, at a time when most American collectors of Italian art were interested only in the Renaissance. Beginning in the 1920s, Kress and his foundation assembled, first in New York, and later in Washington, the...

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