Word: filippino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Josef Wenzel, one of the gayest generals in the army of the Empress Maria Theresa, owned so many paintings that, in addition to his main gallery in Vienna, he had to set up sub-galleries in four other castles. The present prince's great-uncle added paintings by Filippino Lippi, Botticelli and Rembrandt Treasures by the Row. Today most of these paintings hang in storage in rows so close together that a person can barely squeeze through. Some paintings lie higgledy-piggledy on tables and shelves Bronze statues are strewn about, cloaked in spider webs. There are works...
...Corsini family were the most spectacular. On display was a magnificent triptych by Puccio di Simone and,a crucified Christ by Francesco D'Antonio di Bartolomeo. Probably the finest single work in the show was the Corsini Ma donna and Child with Angels, painted in the 1480s by Filippino Lippi. As far as Prince Tommaso Corsini knows, the Madonna has always belonged to his family, but last week, for a while at least, it belonged to all Florence...