Old Masters, New World: America's Raid on Europe's Great Pictures, 1880-World War I by Cynthia Saltzman

Old Masters, New World: America's Raid on Europe's Great Pictures, 1880-World War I

Cynthia Saltzman

336 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative slow-paced
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In 1870 a group of wealthy and culturally ambitious New Yorkers founded the Metropolitan Museum of Art in a Manhattan brownstone with a lackluster collection and not a single major work of art. Americans came late to the game of art collecting and...

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