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Biography
Collector Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi is credited with interesting Samuel H. Kress in art collecting, and acted as a dealer for Kress. Contini-Bonacossi is the source of most of the Italian paintings in the Kress collection, selling Kress his first painting in 1927 and remaining Kress' exclusive source until 1936. Alessandro was married to Countess Victoria Contini-Bonacossi (1872-1949) and remarried after her death. Their home, the Villa Victoria in Florence, was sold after Alessandro's death in 1955.Bibliography
- 1961
- Walker, John. "A Note on the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the National Gallery of Art," in An Anthology of Paintings and Sculptures in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961.
- 1967
- Salmi, Mario. "La Donazione Contini-Bonacossi." Bolletino d'Arte 52 (October-December 1967): 222-232.
- 1969
- Nova Phlips, J. "Un Don aux Offices." Connaissance des Arts 214 (1969): 86-96.
- 1970
- Nova Philips, J. "Chef d'oeuvres pour Florence." Connaissance des Arts 219 (1970):118-124.
- 1971
- "The Contini Gift to Florence." The Burlington Magazine CXII (1971):435.
- 1974
- Berti, L. and L. Bellosi. Inaugurazione della Donazione Contini Bonacossi: Itinerario Palazzina della Meridiana 9 febbraio 1974. Florence , 1974
- 1988
- de'Giorgi, Elsa. L'eredità Contini-Bonacossi. Milan, 1988.
- 1991
- Perry, Marilyn. "Five-and-dime for millions: the Samuel H. Kress Collection." Apollo 133, no. 349 (March 1991): 157-160
- 1994
- A Gift to America: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. Exh. cat. The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Seattle Art Museum; The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1994: 12-59.
- 1995
- Zeri, Frederico. Confesso che ho sbagliato.Milan, 1995