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At the Carnival of 1494, he shamed the Florentines into throwing their “vanities” — not only clothes, jewelry, and cosmetics, but books and paintings, with Botticelli contributing some of his own — onto a giant fire on the Piazza della Signoria.
Outstanding among the exhibits are Buddhist sculpture of the tenth- and 11th-century Heian era, illustrated narrative scrolls from the 13th-century Kamakura period, paintings by the great Muromachi artist Sesshu, and woodblock prints by the Edo-period masters Utamaro, Hiroshige, and Hokusai.
The Pinacoteca’s fine collection is devoted in large part to the Bologna school, most notably the Baroque paintings of Guido Reni, and the Carracci family, of whom Annibale was the most gifted — see his Annunciation and Madonna in Glory.
"Seen on the walls of a museum," Marcel Proust wrote, Madame Charpentier "will give a greater impression of elegance than anything since the great paintings of the Renaissance."
Tapestries range from copies of Old Master paintings to traditional pastoral scenes.
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