No Taste
Charles Hope: Above the Altar, 25 April 2024
Painting in 15th-Century Italy: This Splendid and Noble Art
by Diane Cole Ahl.
Yale, 320 pp., £55, October 2023,978 0 300 26961 1 Show More
by Diane Cole Ahl.
Yale, 320 pp., £55, October 2023,
“... most people would also have had one or more religious pictures in their house, usually of the Madonna or Christ and often of very modest artistic quality, so the evidential value of surviving pictures of this type for the state of painting in particular centres is limited. There was also a substantial amount of painted decoration in public buildings, such ... ”