Curator Virginia Brilliant theorizes that John Ringling bought a collection of more than 300 medieval and Renaissance art from the Vanderbilt family in 1927 for one thing: a 15th-century painting by Florentine artist Piero di Cosimo that depicts the building of a structure that looks surprisingly like Florida's Ringling Museum of Art. The museum's new exhibit, "Gothic Art in the Gilded Age: Medieval and Renaissance Treasures in the Gavet-Vanderbilt-Ringling Collection," shows how "...[Ringling] was very much trying to play up the idea of a princely collector's cabinet," said Brilliant.