A foreword about the rare artistic properties collected by the connoisseur Raoul Tolentino [electronic resource] (1920)
Ricci, Seymour de, 1881-1942, Tolentino, Raoul, -1928, American Art Association · New York : American Art Association · leaf 8
Italy. Much as he might desire todo so, Signor Tolentino could not to-day duplicate the collection heis offering to American buyers. Even now, for many articles, theprospective buyer arrives just ten years too late. A well-known factfully corroborates this statement. Since the beginning of the war,… … XVtii Century Carved Wood LecternNorth Italian Art rooms, the Government officials searched the churches, schools andmonasteries for good specimens of Gothic and Renaissance stools,tables and cabinets. The harvest was surprisingly meagre. Nearlyevery available piece had, within a few years, left…
Tolentino, Raoul, -1928 · Art
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