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unusual paintings by well-known artists, or superb "mainstream" humanist works, like Giovanni Cariani's Portrait of Giovan Antonio Caravaggi, by artists less familiar to the general viewer. It digs up paintings from unexpected sources. Who would have imagined that Tintoretto's The Washing of Feet, a masterpiece of large-scale spontaneity, would appear from a church in, of all places, England's New-castle-upon-Tyne, where it was long assumed to be a copy? Best of all, one sees the art in depth and in context: a full room of Lotto, another of Bassano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Legacy of La Serenissima | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

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