"Shortly after the inception of the Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Missouri-Columbia, fourteen Old Master paintings were donated by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in 1961. This group of paintings - all Italian in origin except for one, a copy of Rembrandt's Sacrifice of Isaac - forms the core of the museum's Western art collection.

Representing the Renaissance and Baroque periods, Missouri's Kress Collection demonstrates not only the chronological progression of styles but also the geographic range of Italian art. The paintings include altarpieces, portraits, sacred and mythological images, and genre pieces. This catalog presents relevant facets of each work with essays by scholars Norman E. Land, Burton Dunbar, Judith Mann, Marjorie Och, and William E. Wallace."--BOOK JACKET.

"This catalog will be accessible to both the art historian and the general reader."--BOOK JACKET.