A STUDY OF EUROPEAN ART CULTURE
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Salar Jung Museum houses a variety of Western arts
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Salar Jung Museum houses a variety of Western arts—paintings, marbles, metal casts, metal casts, porcelains, glass, furniture practically from every European land noted for one art or the other. Totalling some thousands the occidental arts occupy a dozen display galleries and four stores of the Museum.
What is special about Salar Jung's collection of European art is not its numerical strength but its worth and rarity. A Veiled Rebecca a neo-classical masterpiece in marble-is worth its weight in gold. A Canaletto's picture present in the museum is rare, rare because the artist's works are mostly preserved in difficult-to-see Royal collections. A magnificent replica of that 'mobiliary gem'-- Louis XVth's writing table, preserved in the museum is a treasure since it is only one of the two copies which the French Government allowed to be made.
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Dr. Rekha Pancholi
Associate Professor, SMB Government PG College Nathdwara Rajasthan
