Resumen de The Manfrin Gallery
The collection formed in Venice at the end of the eighteenth century by Girolamo Manfrin provided the first systematic survey of Venetian painitng. A new book by Linda Borean traces its formation, its establishment as a civic amenity in the first half of the nineteenth century and its dispersal in the second half, when, as an unintended consequence of British rapacity, a small but important portion of the collection was acquired for the Accademia Galleries in Venice
