The Village Voice, July 12th, 2006
Grace, Depravity, and Grandeur
The Venetian Renaissance by way of ancient Greece and Cecil B. DeMille
Veronese's Allegories: Virtue, Love, and Exploration in Renaissance Venice
Frick Collection
1 East 70th Street
Through July 16
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...
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