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Library Journal, Starred Review – September 1,
2008
“…Clark uses this riveting story to meditate on the communion that
exists between artist and viewer and on the mortality of even the
greatest art… … This exceptional work of popular history succeeds on
all counts. It will satisfy the most discriminating reader.
Enthusiastically recommended for large public and all academic
collections.”
-- David Keymer, Modesto, CA |
Publishers Weekly – July 28, 2008
He… follows the decades-long and rancorously debated restoration
projects… seeing in them a metaphor for artistic beauty as an
endless work-in-progress… by building up layers of atmospheric
chiaroscuro—the drying city, he notes, lay “lacquered in tints of
warm earth and azzuro sky... like pigments just brushed on and still
moist”—he achieves an evocative portrait of Florence as its own
greatest masterpiece. |
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