Volume 24, Number 8 · May 12, 1977
The Spirit of Romanesque
By George Zarnecki
Romanesque Art: Selected Papers
by Meyer Schapiro
Braziller, 368 pp., $30.00
Meyer Schapiro, now in his early seventies, is, without question, one of the leading art historians of the older generation, and his fame is based as much on his publications as on his gifts as a teacher. Those who have heard him lecture are unlikely ever to forget his style of delivery, full of passion and persuasive eloquence, which keeps the audience almost hypnotically spell-bound. After listening to Schapiro lecture in London many years ago, I overheard the remark that St. Bernard must have preached the Second Crusade in a similar way.
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