this complete retrospective offers

468 b/w photographs

"If the whole of a town is in the end not visually pleasing

Teviotdale is a former associate curator of manuscripts at the Getty Museum

Susan Whitfield is head of the International Dunhuang Project

Paragons and Paragone: Van Eyck, Raphael, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Bernini medieval this complete retrospective offersRudolf Preimesberger The paragonethe notion of competition and rivalry among the artshas been a topic of debate for centuries. It erupted with great force in the Renaissance, with sculptors vying with painters for superiority, modern artists competing with the ancients, and painting challenging poetry. If the traces of this lively conversation are most evident in the literature, the remarkable scholarship presented here demonstrates how the paragone