The Strossmayer Gallery of Old Masters
Neo-Renaissance palace gallery of Italian, Flemish and French old masters from a bishop's bequest.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to the Strossmayer Gallery of Old Masters in Zagreb is about the names on the labels, and how sure anyone can be of them. It follows Bishop Strossmayer buying by letter through agents in Venice, a later gift from the collector Ante Topić Mimara with a trail through wartime Cologne auction catalogues, and an anonymous painter scholars can only name after a picture in Greenville.
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