Article: Panic at the wedding feast: Patrick McCaughey praises a thought-provoking exhibition on love and marriage in Italian renaissance art that successfully makes an over-familiar period seem strange once more.(EXHIBITIONS)

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The social history of art has enjoyed a long innings as the prevailing mode of art history--too long to call it still 'the new art history'. In her revisionist Art and Society in Italy 1350-1500 (1997), surprisingly omitted from the extensive bibliography of this exhibitions catalogue, Evelyn Welch crisply formulated it as 'a series of questions about how art was created, where it was originally seen and what messages its patrons hoped to convey'. Yet, however well the social history of art is established in the lecture room, its impact on American public art museums, as distinct from university ones, has been spotty. 'Art and Love in ...

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