NEW YORK, NY.- Anthony Blumka of Blumka Gallery in New York and Florian Eitle-Böhler of the Starnberg, Germany-based Kunsthandlung Julius Böhler announce that Collecting Treasures of the Past VII,an exhibition of exceptional Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque objects, opened on Thursday, January 26 through Friday, February 10, 2012 at Blumka Gallery, 209 East 72nd Street in New York. This exhibit coincides with Old Masters Week. With over 80 rare and historically significant objects on view, Blumka and Eitle-Böhler present Pluto and Proserpina, by Matthias Steinl, an Imperial Court sculptor in Vienna (1643/44-1727) and one of the greatest ivory carvers of all time. “We consider Pluto and Proserpina to be the most important Baroque ivory to enter the market in the past 50 years,” said Anthony Blumka. According to Blumka, there are only six or seven pieces by this artist in existence, and this e