Strasbourg Museum of Fine Arts
Old Masters collection rebuilt from ashes twice, housed in an eighteenth-century bishop's palace.
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This guide to the Strasbourg Museum of Fine Arts follows Wilhelm von Bode, a young German art historian handed an empty building in 1889, years after Prussian shelling burned the city's original collection during the Franco-Prussian War. It traces how he rebuilt an Old Masters collection almost from nothing in a city still bitter about the fire, and follows the museum into this eighteenth-century bishop's palace by the century's end. It also covers a second blow, a 1947 fire that destroyed works by Cranach and Guardi.
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