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Excerpt from The Achillito Chiesa Collection, Vol. 1: Flemish and Dutch Paintings and Italian Primitives Finally the Government relinquished its hold and the way was opened for the disposal of the Collection. It was decided to send it to America as the great art market of the world, and the American Art Association, Incorporated, was selected as manager of the auction, strictly on the usual commission basis. The Collection is so large that its dispersal at one sale is impracticable on numerous grounds, and there will be several sessions at different dates. The first will be a single evening's sale of some three score Italian, Dutch, Spanish, French and Flemish paintings, comprising a display of higher quality than has been offered in New York in recent years. Byzantine art, Italian Primitives and Renaissance painters, and the fascinating Dutchmen of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; now and again a Spaniard or a Frenchman or an Englishman, some as late as the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The paintings have been catalogued in Europe for this sale, those of the Dutch and Flemish schools by Hofstede de Groot, the recognized Dutch expert, and by G. J. Hoogewerff, Director of the National Holland School of Fine Arts in Rome, and those of the Italian School by Giacomo De Nicola, Director of the Bargello Museum, Florence. Some have been passed upon by Bernard Berenson. The Chiesa Collection has been Visited, and revisited, by American collectors and picture buyers, some of whom heard of it and of itspossessor upon learning that desired and sought-after canvases which they found in the galleries of European dealers had already been bespoken by Mr. Chiesa. And once he had them they were not again to be bought - until now. Some notable and coveted canvases were loaned to friends - and recovered with difficulty. Some, loaned to museums, have been mentioned and commented upon in conspicuous and conservative guide books. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.