Bob Jones Jr. founded the collection as an educational effort and opened it on the campus of the university named after his father in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1951. Those first 25 paintings included works by Bicci di Lorenzo, Luca Giordano,...
This beautifully illustrated catalog--celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Bob Jones Collection--presents a fascinating survey of religious European art from the 14th through the 19th centuries.