He also hung an enviable antique Italian painting on the wall.
The word primitive was used to describe Italian paintings from the 1300s and early 1400s.
She looked like one of the angels in an early primitive Italian painting.
The collection includes a number of Italian paintings dating from 16th to 18th century.
But the Italian painting will never be far from his mind.
An exquisite small installation of early Italian painting from the collection is on the fifth floor.
In this period he was working on his improvement, especially spending a lot of time studying the Italian paintings.
As a subject for fine art it had been popular in Italian painting since the 14th century.
And never had she seen an Italian painting with so many disturbing elements.
The basilica, many art historians say, is where Italian painting was born.