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It’s time to rehabilitate the art connoisseur

18 August 2018

9:00 AM

18 August 2018

9:00 AM

Many art historians have written their own story of the making of an aesthete: Ruskin, Berenson and Kenneth Clark to name just three in the Anglo-Saxon world. The pattern varies, but typically it might include being bullied at school, a mentor, an epiphany in Italy, and the de rigueur discovery of Piero della Francesca.

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