| Summary: | "This sumptuous book describes twenty-six of the finest private art collections in Europe and America. It is a collection of collections, an assembly of superb works of art not normally accessible to the general public and rarely, if ever, encountered in other art books. The masterpieces in each collection, together with the rooms in which they are kept, are illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs. Each collection is described by a leading art historian, chosen for his special knowledge of the most important aspects of the collection concerned. The emphasis is on collections of paintings- of all styles and periods, but the range is wide: Chinese bronzes and ceramics, antiquities, primitive art, sculpture, rare books, period furniture, paintings by Old Masters, Fabergés, Impressionist paintings and twentieth-century paintings and sculptures."--Jacket.
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