Rethinking Fundamentals: The Important Lesson of Julian Bell’s Art History

Julian Bell, Natural Light. The Art of Adam Elsheimer and the Dawn of Modern Science (London, 2023). How do you present a baroque European painter? We are familiar with monographs. Caravaggio, Nicolas Poussin and the other notable figures are the subjects of such treatises. When there is a lot to say about such an artist, More

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