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Description: | The Barber is above all celebrated for its fine art collections, which cover the whole history of European art from the thirteenth to the mid twentieth century.
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The early Italian collection includes celebrated paintings by some of the outstanding masters of the period.
The later Italian collection has outstanding pictures by Veronese, Jacopo Bassano, Canaletto and others, including the strange "Three Fates" by Mazzoni.
The eigteenth century collection is particularly strong in French and English work
The 19th. C. collection includes outstanding Impressionist works as well as important earlier material
The twentieth century collection is small, but already includes some outstanding objects
The Barber owns an important collection of sculpture, including work by Roubiliac, Rodin and Degas
Like the paintings and sculpture collections, the collection of works on paper includes some oustanding objects.
The early netherlandish collection includes Gossaert's magnificant "Hercules and Deianira"
A fine collection of Baroque masters includes exceptional paintings by Poussin, Claude, Murillo, Rubens and van Dyck. | Subjects: | Watercolours Sculpture Paintings Fine Art Drawings Western European | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 0121 414 3370 | Telephone: | 0121 414 7333 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:693 | Go to resource |
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