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Mahon, Sir Denis

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Mahon, Sir Denis (1910– ). British art historian and collector. A private scholar with private means, he has devoted himself single-mindedly to the study of 17th-century Italian (particularly Bolognese) painting, and has not only built up a choice collection in this field, but also played a greater part than anyone else in the rehabilitation of such once-scorned artists as the Carracci, Guercino, and Reni. He is also a leading Poussin scholar. His publications include Studies in Seicento Art and Theory (1947), a brilliant pioneering work, and catalogues of Carracci drawings (1956) and Guercino paintings (1968) and drawings (1969) for major exhibitions of their work in Bologna.

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