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Jul 6, 2018

Old Masters and New Ideas

Keith Scott-Mumby

I’m not quite sure why early “masters” are so-called. Some of their paintings are gruesomely bad; all wrong anatomically! But Piero della Francesca was a man before his time. Art historian Sir Kenneth Clark attributes to him “the greatest small painting in the world”. It’s the Flagellation of Christ, hanging in the National Gallery in the […]

Jul 6, 2018

Old Masters and New Ideas

Keith Scott-Mumby

I’m not quite sure why early “masters” are so-called. Some of their paintings are gruesomely bad; all wrong anatomically! But Piero della Francesca was a man before his time. Art historian Sir Kenneth Clark attributes to him “the greatest small painting in the world”. It’s the Flagellation of Christ, hanging in the National Gallery in the […] The post Old Masters and New Ideas appeared first on Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby.
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