Boys wearing wings
Nicholas Penny, 15 March 1984
Circa 1600: A Revolution of Style in Italian Painting
by S.J. Freedberg.
Harvard, 125 pp., £21.25, January 1983,0 674 13156 8 Show More
by S.J. Freedberg.
Harvard, 125 pp., £21.25, January 1983,
“... or virtue. Nor does he ever exhibit any beauty that is not mundane. The painting which perhaps best exemplifies the qualities Caravaggio lacked is The Last Communion of St Jerome, which Domenichino began about a year after Caravaggio’s death and completed three years later, in 1614. For over two centuries it was one of the most admired and loved ... ”