Bob Jones Jr. founded the collection as an educational effort and
opened it on the campus of the university named after his father in
Greenville, South Carolina, in 1951. Those first 25 paintings
included works by Bicci di Lorenzo, Luca Giordano, El Greco, and
Tintoretto, and today the collection comprises over 400 paintings,
as well as a wide range of sculpture, decorative arts, and
antiquities. It is widely recognized among scholars as one of the
finest collections of Renaissance and Baroque paintings in America,
and a document of the revival of the taste for Baroque pictures in
the mid-20th century. Erin Jones’s introduction provides an
overview of the history of the various iterations of the Museum
& Gallery, even as it looks forward to a new home in the centre
of its community. Richard P. Townsend’s essay presents the most
in-depth examination to date of Bob Jones Jr. as a collector,
extensively using letters, invoices, and photographs to paint a
picture of Jones hitherto not available. At the heart of the volume
is the presentation of 55 paintings, featuring works by great
European masters including Botticelli, Bouts, Cranach, Guercino,
Jordaens, Preti, Reni, Ribera, Rubens, Tiepolo, and Zurbarán.
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