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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Steven Morris

Bath’s Holburne museum to unveil ‘art chamber’ of Renaissance masterpieces

The collection’s silver ship, the Schwarzenberg Nef, created in about 1580.
The collection’s silver ship, the Schwarzenberg Nef, created in about 1580. Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/The Guardian

Beneath the Georgian city of Bath, a gleaming treasury of Renaissance masterpieces created for kings, queens, church leaders and scientists is about to be unveiled.

Based on the idea of the Renaissance kunstkammer – an art chamber – the basement room at the Holburne Museum is crammed with scores of exquisite pieces of silverware, paintings, bronzes and ceramics.

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