A major exhibition of Italian paintings will open at the 22 East 80th Street gallery of Otto Naumann Ltd. on January 6 and remain on view until February 15. "LOOKING SOUTH: Three Centuries of Italian Paintings" will feature more than forty Renaissance and Baroque masterworks dating from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, including several important discoveries never before publicly exhibited.

According to Otto Naumann, "The rich history of the collecting of Italian Renaissance and Baroque painting in America has been explored in several recent books and exhibitions. This past September the Frick Collection sponsored a two-day conference "Going for Baroque; Americans Collect Italian Paintings of the 17th and 18th Centuries." It was at this event that the idea for "Looking South" was born."

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