Sunflower
Peter Burke, 20 March 1986
Velazquez: Painter and Courtier
by Jonathan Brown.
Yale, 322 pp., £35, March 1986,0 300 03466 0 Show More
by Jonathan Brown.
Yale, 322 pp., £35, March 1986,
El Greco and his Patrons: Three Major Projects
by Richard Mann.
Cambridge, 164 pp., £35, February 1986,0 521 30392 3 Show More
by Richard Mann.
Cambridge, 164 pp., £35, February 1986,
“... The rise of the professional art historian in the later 19th century has been a mixed blessing. Making paintings, statues or buildings are activities which are as much a part of history as making treaties, making motorcars, making war, making love, or making the crops grow. It was good to have art taken seriously by historians of the calibre of Heinrich Wölfflin, but a pity to have it subtracted from the territory of the ordinary historian, the general practitioner ... ”