Volume 53, Number 12 · July 13, 2006
Ingres vs. Ingres
By Sanford Schwartz
Ingres: 1780–1867
Catalog of the exhibition by Vincent Pomarède, Stéphane Guégan, Louis-Antoine Prat, and Éric Bertin
an exhibition at the Louvre, Paris, February 24–May 15, 2006
Paris: Gallimard/Musée du Louvre Éditions, 406 pp., €39.90 (paper)
Ingres and His Critics
by Andrew Carrington Shelton
Cambridge University Press, 320 pp., $95.00
There always have been and always will be artists who possess a remarkable or uncanny talent and a huge accompanying ambition—and the gift isn't large enough to sustain the ambition. Max Beckmann, for example, was a powerful painter with a mordant sense of his own era, but among the last places a viewer should look for evidence of his best qualities are the large triptychs by which Beckmann set so much store and yet which are, like so many of his other later, symbol- laden, myth-suffused pictures, unrelievedly portentous. But probably there are few artists where the split be-tween gift and ambition is so striking as it is with Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
Review, 4354 words
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