ITALIAN ART

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 135, 4 December 1929, Page 11

ITALIAN ART

PRICELESS PICTURES

EXHIBITION IN LONDON

British Official Wireless. ItUGBY, 2nd December. Active preparations are being made for the shipment to England of works of art of inestimable value, which will be on view at tho Italian Art Exhibition at Burlington House, London, opening on Ist January. Italy is making a superb and generous contribution to the exhibition, and in a few days the steamer Leonardo De Vinci, escorted by warships, will leave Genoa for England, packed with priceless pictures.

Over 300 important paintings of the 700 which will be included in the exhibition are coming either from Italian galleries or Italian private owners. They have been collected from every corner of the country, and represent every period of Italian art, from Cimabue, "before whom there was no art," to Segatin. Included among them are Raphael's "Sacred and Profane Love," Botticelli's "Birth of Venus," Tintoretto's "Adam and Eve," and several Giorgiones.

The immense value of these treasures caa be gathered from the fact that one picture alone was insured for £500,000. The Academy Brera at Milan has been made a collection centre for art works and also for the immense insurance operations which have been necessary. Apart from tho works sent from Italy and from England and otlter collections, pictures of unique importance will cope from The Louvre, in Paris, the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin, the Kyks Museum in Amsterdam, and other famous Continental and American collections.