SOURCE: Denvir, Bernard. “Renaissance Modern: Piero Della Francesca.” New Republic 124 (June 1951): 27-8.

In the following review, Denvir presents background on Clark's life and career, and pronounces Clark's Piero Della Francesca to be the authority on the artist.

Sir Kenneth Clark is an almost purely English phenomenon. A graduate of Oxford University, he studied for some time at Florence under Bernard Berenson. Coming back to England he became the Keeper of Paintings in Britain's oldest museum and art gallery, the Ashmolean Museum, at Oxford; then became Keeper of the King's Pictures, and, while still in his thirties, Director of London's National Gallery. A few years ago he retired from that post and his latest official position was as Slade Professor of the Fine Arts at Oxford.

He prepared the official catalogue of the Leonardo drawings at Windsor Castle and wrote a definitive book about Leonardo (Cambridge, 1939), part of which...