Volume 27, Number 6 · April 17, 1980
Della Robbia Disputes
By H.W. Janson
Luca della Robbia
by John Pope-Hennessy
Cornell University Press, 288, 32 color plates, 128 black and white plates, 66 figures pp., $95.00
The posthumous reputation of the old masters may be said to follow, at any give time, the prevailing styles of contemporary art. El Greco owes his present fame, after three centuries of neglect, to Cézanne and the early Picasso rather than to the scholarly labors of art historians. He is, in fact, President Carter's favorite painter, according to a recent dispatch in The New York Times. A hundred years ago the President's favorite would probably have been Botticelli or, if the question were not limited to painting, Luca della Robbia, perhaps backed in either case by suitable quotations from Walter Pater.
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