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Article: Carnevale's Late Renaissance: A Scholarly Exhibition at the Met.(Arts&Entertainment)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- February 21, 2005
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Byline: Mario Naves
Before I begin kvelling about From Filippo Lippi to Piero Della Francesca: Fra Carnevale and the Making of a Renaissance Master, an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, duty compels me to get the bad news out of the way. Contrary to the exhibition's title, Fra Carnevale is no master--he's a dud.
Actually, the key word in the title isn't "master," but "making." What powers the exhibition is the scholarship leading to the recent identification of Fra Carnevale as the artist responsible for The Birth of the Virgin (1466) and The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (1466), which are in the collections of, respectively, the ...