Article: THE GENEALOGY OF A MASTERPIECE

WISDOM AND STRENGTH. The Biography of a Renaissance

Masterpiece, by Peter Watson. Doubleday. 408 pp. $21.95.

Illustrated. Pictures look at us. The truth of this has seldom been demonstrated in more detail than in the classical allegory "Wisdom and Strength," one of a pair of canvases (the other is called "Vice and Virtue") painted by Paolo Veronese in Venice in 1576.

Both paintings now adorn the Frick Collection, housed in a white stone mansion on 70th Street between Madison and Fifth Avenue, in New York. "Wisdom and Strength," in which the chromatics emphasize crimsons and yellows with opulent browns blended into the shadows, depicts a bearded elderly man dressed in the ...

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