Reflections June 2022
The improving Bardini
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On art restorers and dealers in Florence.
On art restorers and dealers in Florence.
On “Donatello: The Renaissance” at the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Musei del Bargello, Florence.
On two great twentieth-century poets.
On “Medieval Bologna: Art for a University City” at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville.
On “The Medici: Portraits & Politics, 1512–1570” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
On Napoleon’s mother and her life in the Eternal City.
On the life of Francis Marion Crawford.
On a sleeper Rembrandt and the “Head of Alexander.”
Who gets to celebrate the renowned Renaissance genius?