Word: scuola
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...desire to get the highlight on the Spartan's backside right-not that it always does so. It has the calm not of classical elevation but of exhausted decadence. The Venetian setting is unfair to it, for anyone can take the water-bus back to the Scuola di San Rocco and see what Tintoretto could do with the human figure. The right place for it is Las Vegas, among the fountains of Caesars Palace and La Scultura Sinatra. -By Robert Hughes
Their selection seems to have been shaped, as far as possible, by the desire to get away from the too familiar masterpieces. In this case, familiarity ought to mean immovability, since one would not want to imagine the Scuola di San Rocco lending its Tintorettos to England, or the Frari, in a fit of lunatic generosity, contributing its Titian Annunciation...