The Venetian Renaissance by way of ancient Greece: Grace, Depravity, and Grandeur Veronese's Allegories A powerful contradiction verging on psychic whiplash is built into the grandiose visual machines that are Paolo Veronese's five Allegories, currently on glorious view in the Oval Room at the Frick Collection.
Not only does this contradictory whiplash fuel Veronese's paintings, allowing them to have one foot firmly planted in the art-historical firmament and the other in the shifting sands of the ephemeral, it produces one of the most jolting splits between subject matter and content in all of art.
7 July 2006
The Venetian Renaissance by way of ancient Greece
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