Foreign Paintings in Polish Collections - Janina Michałkowa - książka wyd. 1992

Opis

Theb story of the Polish museums and other collections is not a long one. Unlike the Louvre, the Uffizi or the Prado, they have not developed from royal or princely galleries of the Renaissance. (...) This needs no explanaition: te incessant wars, pillages, fires and destructions, and to a lasser extenet also the negligence of the owners, are responsible for the astonishing disintegration of even the largest collections and the tragic fate of invidual pictures.