Three hundred and fifty masterpieces of Italian paintings will Jeave Genoa on December 10, orted by warships, for the Italian Exhibition which will open in Burlington House on January Ist. The total value of all the Ttatian works -of art for the exhibition. Zome. of which, of course, will be Tent by countries other than Ttaly, insured for £3,000,000 the insurance having been kept as low as possible in view of the expenses'of the exhibition. The Italian masterpieces, which ere due to-reach London on Decemiier 15, are being safeguarded with elaborate precautions. They have been guarded from the hour they left their permanent homes, and on the voyaga- the vessel will be accompanied by a craft to which they could be removed in the event of storms threatening their safety. Major A. A. Longden, p0., Secre'. ary-General of the Exhibition, will go to Southampton to meet the liner bringing the Italian works of ait, and will accompany them to London. At Southampton several detectives will be gathered, and they will also accompany the pic~ tures to London. The precious works of art will include either the "The Birth of Venus" or "Primavera", Botticell's most famous besides many other most precious pictures of famous art ists.
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