Patrizia Rosazza Ferraris - Il Museo Mario Praz

Rosazza Ferraris, Patrizia - Il Museo Mario Praz
Roma: Edizioni SACS, 1996.

This book is dedicated to the origins and significance of the Museo Mario Praz in Rome, which was opened in 1995 and preserves the extraordinary art and furniture collection of the writer, art historian and Anglicist Mario Praz (1896-1982). The collection, which Praz amassed over more than sixty years, comprises around 1,200 objects - furniture, paintings, sculptures, textiles and arts and crafts from the late 18th and 19th centuries. It reflects the bourgeois neoclassical residential ideal of Europe between Empire, Restoration and the Second Empire.
The reconstruction of Praz's private living quarters in Palazzo Primoli, where he lived until his death, takes centre stage. The author describes how Praz saw his collection as a cohesive ensemble - as a mirror of an era and at the same time as an expression of his own intellectual and aesthetic identity.

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