From Italy came the art of painting and many of the world's greatest painters. By the middle of the 19th Century, when the intricate casserole of Italian States was boiling into a solid whole, Italian painting had fallen to such low estate that Author Edmond About could justly say that Italy was "the grave of painting." Last week the Royal Italian Government, the College Art Association and the Italy American Society collaborated to bring to Manhattan's Rockefeller Center a loan Exhibition of 90 pictures by 29 young Italians intended to show how far from the grave Italian art had risen.
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