A 1996 column in which I bent too far backward to do justice to the critics of an art historian for whom my respect knows no bounds, Eddy de Jongh. One unfair, wise-guy comment has been excised.
Tag: Dutch art
5 The Dutchness of Neapolitan art
A built-in conflict in art history concerns the tension between local traditions and the large-scale context of “schools.” The study of Dutch art, which was so prominent in European art of the seventeenth century, is one of the battlegrounds.