The collection of the Russian Count Grigorij Sergeevič Stroganoff. Italian paintings from the XIIIth to the XVIth century

Abstract

In the late nineteenth and the first decade of the twentieth century in the Roman high society, there was no scholar, antiquarian or art dealer who did not know the collection of the RussiAn Count Grigorij Sergeevic Stroganoff (1829-1910). The work presented here intends to investigate, in particular, the section of Italian painting from the XIIIth to the XVIth century of this famous collection, with the intention of providing a first survey of its entities and return to some paintings alternate collecting experiences.