Abstract
In the spirit of John Henry Cardinal Newman's observation that the university as a center of excellence should have “a place for seeing galleries of first-rate pictures,” the University of Notre Dame had an art collection as early as 1850, when Indiana was still a wilderness. However, this first collection was totally destroyed by fire in 1855. A new collection was started but was not substantially established until a large purchase was made in 1917, of paintings comprising part of the Braschi collection in Rome. Although the original inventory glows with famous names, many of the Braschi paintings are not what they were once thought to be. Fortunately, some of them can be exhibited today as fine examples of less well-known painters, e.g. Andrea Leone (fig. 6), Vignali, Allegrini.
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