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Article: The line of beauty
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- New Statesman
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- June 30, 2008
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The line of beauty Masters and Pupils: the Artistic Succession from Perugino to Manet (1480-1880), Gert-Rudolf Flick, Hogarth Arts, 392pp, £50
In a brilliant and accessible study, Gert-Rudolf Flick unveils a succession of 18 artists - masters and pupils, stretching over five centuries from Perugino to Manet, by way of Raphael and David. Brian Sewell applauds a fascinating account of the how and what, the when and why of art
Dr Gert-Rudolf Flick is that rare thing in his discipline - an art historian untrammelled by the shackles of academe and the need to teach within the constraints of an examination syllabus. Not for him the brief sabbatical in which disjointed lectures must be strung ...