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"The Odyssey Continues: Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art & Private New Orleans Collections".(Exhibition notes)( Georges Wildenstein)

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"The Odyssey Continues: Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art & Private New Orleans Collections" Wildenstein & Company, New York. November i6, 20006-February 9, 2007

Natural disasters--as opposed to the manmade variety such as wars and revolutions-have historically shown a peculiar kind of selectivity when it comes to works of art. The catastrophic earthquake that virtually destroyed Messina in 1908 claimed thousands of lives, yet left many of the city's artistic treasures, if not intact, at least recoverable. On November 4, 1966, an unimaginably violent flood inundated the city of Florence, submerging its center for the better part of a day in a ...

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