Volume 48, Number 5 · March 29, 2001
The Story of a Room
By James Fenton
The Gubbio Studiolo and Its Conservation:Vol. 1: Federico da Montefeltro's Palace at Gubbio and Its Studiolo
Olga Raggio
222 pp.
The Gubbio Studiolo and Its Conservation: Vol. 2: Italian Renaissance Intarsia and the Conservation of the Gubbio Studiolo
Antoine M. Wilmering
262 pp. Metropolitan Museum of Art, two-volume boxed set, $125.00
Once there was no limit to the ambitions of museum directors, when it came to the acquisition of works of art removed from the sites for which they had been designed. In 1868, the director of the South Kensington (later the Victoria and Albert) Museum, Sir Henry Cole, wrote a letter from Padua to Sir Henry Austen Layard, the discoverer of Nineveh. 'My dear Layard,' the letter begins,
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