Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and ArtistsThe most controversial art critic in America and author of the bestselling The Fatal Shore looks with love and loathing, wit and authority, at art, artists, and the art world-from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo. -- Back cover. |
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Page 47
... portrait by Reynolds was even more poxed and wrinkled than he had become . One might say Joshua Reynolds , rather than Oscar Wilde , invented the portrait of Dorian Gray . Yet Reynolds's achievement was very considerable . Not only did ...
... portrait by Reynolds was even more poxed and wrinkled than he had become . One might say Joshua Reynolds , rather than Oscar Wilde , invented the portrait of Dorian Gray . Yet Reynolds's achievement was very considerable . Not only did ...
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... portraits of them are a positive act of charity . Goya could fill his portrait of General José de Palafox , the popular hero of the defense of Saragossa , with quite unironic enthusiasm . But he did the same with one of his most regular ...
... portraits of them are a positive act of charity . Goya could fill his portrait of General José de Palafox , the popular hero of the defense of Saragossa , with quite unironic enthusiasm . But he did the same with one of his most regular ...
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... portrait of a plump earl on the Grand Tour raising his hat to shield himself from the Florentine sun , to the boot - licking Edwardian rodomontade of John Singer Sargent's huge portrait of the Duke of Marlborough and Consuelo Vanderbilt ...
... portrait of a plump earl on the Grand Tour raising his hat to shield himself from the Florentine sun , to the boot - licking Edwardian rodomontade of John Singer Sargent's huge portrait of the Duke of Marlborough and Consuelo Vanderbilt ...
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