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Article: Pictures from Dresden at the Royal Academy.
- Article from:
- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 2003
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LAST autumn part of the Gemaldegalerie in Dresden was flooded, leaving a shortage of space for display. Since the Royal Academy, London, has taken fifty pictures deemed temporarily disposable into its protection, with all expenses paid for three months, one expected something better than the present exhibition. The Academy's generosity has not been amply repaid. One hardly hoped for The Sistine Madonna or Giorgione's Sleeping Venus or Jan van Eyck's triptych, but did not expect an event called Masterpieces from Dresden to contain such drudging footnotes to the marginalia of the history of art as works by Castiglione, Crespi and Piazzetta: artists destined all over Europe, ...
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