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This review is from: J.P. Morgan: The Financier as Collector (Hardcover)
J. P. Morgan amassed one of the worlds greatest art collections, mostly European works between the Fall of the Roman Empire through the Renaissance. He collected paintings to sculpture to relics to grave goods to furniture, tapestries, gems and so on. By the time he died in 1913 half his fortune was in art, 60 million dollars. He donated most of it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of which he was president and was a major force in its establishment.
This is a coffee-table picture book containing about 30 pages of text and 100s of pictures of some of his most important works. It's not very in-depth and is a quick read (few hours) but (at a cheaper price) it's a pretty book and, being printed in Japan, it is of high quality. One leaves it with a feeling of seeing a random pile of stuff, which is exactly what many critics of Morgans collection have expressed. |
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J.P. Morgan: The Financier as Collector by Louis Auchincloss (Hardcover - September 1, 1990)
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