The newly opened exhibit at Villa Bardini brings 30 works that were sold by the antiquarian Stefano Bardini in the 19th century back from the Paris museum that now houses them, offering an opportunity to see Renaissance paintings that don't travel often. It's set up in the idyllic context of the villa on Costa san Giorgio, overlooking the Bardini Gardens; paintings are hung on luscious green satin walls, and visitors are few. I highly recommend it as a tiny, perfect exhibit that produces a personalized viewing experience, as close as we can possibly get to what it must have been like to purchase and own these works a century ago.
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