This fabulous museum displays its treasures in
a sumptuous, elegant salon setting of antique furnishings,
tapestries, frescoes, and Lombard wood carvings (it's
much like visiting the Frick Collection in New York
or the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston).
The remarkable collection includes paintings by many
of the old masters of northern and central Italy,
such as Andrea Mantegna's Madonna and Child, Giovanni
Bellini's Cristo Morto, and Filippo Lippi's Madonna,
Angels, and Saints (with superb composition). Antonio
Pollaiolo's Portrait of a Lady is a gorgeous portrait
of haunting originality. One room is devoted to Flemish
artists, and there's a collection of ceramics and
also one of clocks and watches. |
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