3.89 avg rating — 180 ratings

"Witty and instructive, includes his great libel trial against Baronet Ruskin, who called him a cockney--while JMW was from an arguably higher, new social class of international business. I taught this at the Swain Shool of Design, along with Vasari.
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4.08 avg rating — 239 ratings

"I read most of this in Italian, so cannot vouch for this translation, but it is rich and essential: I taught it in my course at Swain School of Design, New Bedford, in "The Artist as Writer" a weekly seminar in Melville's sister's house.
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4.22 avg rating — 1,212 ratings

3.87 avg rating — 1,307 ratings

"This lay behind the Quattrocento development of perspective. Read this mostly in Italian, so I leave the trans to your judegement.
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3.76 avg rating — 469 ratings

"I've heard FP at Breadloaf in VT, and seen Caravaggio at the French church in Rome, near Piazza Navona. San Luigi's, strange as it sounds. Prose's prose almost equal to the challnge.
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4.02 avg rating — 174 ratings

"Arguably, Updike was a better artist than writer, or he confused art's tactility and writing's feeling, so his writings on art are felt--and witty. I Used these in my Artist as Writer seminar at Swain School of Design.
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4.09 avg rating — 5,530 ratings

"Fine, perhaps disillusioning portrait of a not-so-fine man. I recall an all-Picasso show in Montreal that disgusted me with the big P's anatomical dissections and reassemblages--of women. Perhaps he was a narcisistic Trumpster before our Clown Prince.
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3.77 avg rating — 8,543 ratings

"Frauds have long existed, in art and lit, but rarely have they run governments as they now do, Pres. van Meergeren.
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4.08 avg rating — 111,893 ratings

4.40 avg rating — 99 ratings

"I learned much from a summer at the Folger where I enjoyed this collection, and re-enjoyed in JW's book. I had seen the Metropolitan--pieces of it, the Boston MFA, National Gallery of Art London, National Portrait Gellery (my fave as student of 17C England), the Scottish National Gallery, Pinocoteca Brera (Milan)--but the Mellon's gifts (and of course now the American Wing with Calders) make ours competitive.
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4.04 avg rating — 6,135 ratings

4.38 avg rating — 48 ratings

4.27 avg rating — 421 ratings