Francis Henry Taylor presides over one of the world's biggest & best art collections. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, which he directs, bulges with a round half-million treasures. But the men who bought and sold them down the centuries, Taylor thinks, are almost as interesting as the works themselves. For twelve years he has been working in his spare time on a history of art-collecting from King Tut to Napoleon—the only work of its kind in English.
Taylor's history, The Taste of Angels (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $10), turned out to be as stately, plump, and full of...
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