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Article: Hendrick Goltzius and mannerism.
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- February 10, 1992
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Art is the currency of international trust; as nothing in the world is at once more rare and more vulnerable than a painting, no greater sign can be imagined through which the civility of an alien nation is acknowledged than allowing it to host the rarest and most vulnerable paintings in one's possession. It was not so terribly long ago that the superpowers, snarling and lashing their tails like otherwise inarticulate monsters, communicated primarily in the chill language of underground nuclear testing, and the first tentative signs of a more amiable political disposition resided in the discourse of exchanged Impressionist exhibitions. It must have been in order to give ...
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