Great Smaller Museums of Europe

Download or read book Great Smaller Museums of Europe written by James Stourton and published by Scala Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively personal tour takes the reader on a fascinating exploration of thirty-five of Europe's greatest smaller museums. None are national collections, but all, in their various ways, are glorious, containing some of the world's greatest art treasures. Most art lovers will be familiar with some of the collections; very few will know them all. From the Musée Marmottan in Paris to the Czartoryski Collection in Kraków, the Louisiana Humlebk in Copenhagen to London's Dulwich Picture Gallery, little known treasure houses are uncovered alongside fresh evaluations of those that are better known. Organised by European country, the text is written with great wit and scholarship, describing collections that are royal and aristocratic, patrician and bourgeois, academic and university, artists' houses and museums or twentieth-century foundations. AUTHOR: James Stourton is Deputy Chairman of Sotheby's Europe. 320 colour illustrations