What makes a masterpiece?

06Nov09

That’s the intriguing question I pondered all afternoon. A colleague and I went to see The Louvre and the Masterpiece at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts today. The exhibit was mounted by several curators from the Louvre, with the stated goal of exploring “why some artworks are masterpieces, while others are runners-up.” I found that […]

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Tags: da Vinci, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The Louvre and the Masterpiece, Vermeer