Artforum, November 1st, 2005
LEEDS
ETTORE SPALLETTI
HENRY MOORE INSTITUTE
If the past is a burden, Italian artists bear a heavier one than most. And it's not just all that extraordinary art-the Piero della Francescas and Fra Angelicos that seem to lurk around every corner. Anyone who's ever walked the streets of an immemorial town or centra storico has to wonder how something new could possibly compete with the beauty of a worn old plaster wall glowing with the patina of age under the Italian sun. Perhaps the problem itself is older than we think. What else could have inspired Alberti's mad assertion that a painting sh...
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