Volume 43, Number 9 · May 23, 1996
Kings and the Queen of the Arts
By R.J.W. Evans
Kings and Connoisseurs: Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe
by Jonathan Brown
Princeton University Press, 264 pp., $49.50
Court, Cloister, and City: The Art and Culture of Central Europe 1450-1800
by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
University of Chicago Press, 576 pp., $45.00
Serious art history is a very difficult subject, for it must marry aesthetic with historical understanding. Here are books by experts who have greatly contributed in recent years to that double purpose. Jonathan Brown is known mainly for his work on Spanish painting in the Baroque period, while Thomas Kaufmann has concentrated on the art of Central and Eastern Europe. Their new books are complementary, since they discuss the arts of the courts of Europe from quite different perspectives.
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