Paintings by European artists showcased at Mashhad museum

TEHRAN,July 22(MNA) -- Six paintings by four world-renowned European artists have been put on display at the Astan-e Qods Razavi Library and Museum in Mashhad. The paintings, done in a naturalistic style, were already kept at the museum’s storehouse, head of the storehouse Jamshid Amirian said in a press release. One of the works was created by the English landscape painter Benjamin Williams Leader (1831–1923). The other works belong to Italian painter Carlo Levi (1902–1975), Italian-American painter Toni Bordignon (b. 1927), and Italian painter Arturo Bonanomi (b. 1920). The museum is adjacent to the Shrine of Imam Reza (AS) in Mashhad.