Search Results

“... a working-class wedding party lost in the Louvre on a Sunday afternoon; but it is easy to imagine how it might have been given more popular appeal, and when it was sent by Bullock from London to Dublin it met there with competition from a ‘Marine Peristrephic Panorama’ consisting of thousands of feet of canvas painted with larger than life-size figures ...”

“... in 1926, and remained the pre-eminent survey for American undergraduates until 1962, when H.W. Janson’s History of Art joined it on introductory syllabuses. Now in its 12th edition, Gardner has been revised and updated without its pantheon of geniuses being much dislodged, while Janson, in its seventh edition, makes ...”

“... is no theoretical problem more pressing in art history than that of explaining such development. How do we get from Cimabue’s Madonna Enthroned to Raphael’s Alba Madonna, or even from Brunelleschi to Bramante? And why do such changes occur? Of course development need not imply progress. Progress must by its nature be relative to a specific end or ...”