Art: Mine is the power and the glory Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s National Gallery, London

The Independent - London | October 24, 1999| | Copyright

For those who feel a distant wave of nausea at the sight of gilt frames and words like quattrocento, the National Gallery's new exhibition of Florentine art may not seem instantly appealing. The idea of basing an entire show on the art of a single decade in a single Italian city conjures up frightening images of connoisseurship and the pursed lips of Sir Anthony Blunt - the more so when the city in question is chilly Florence (rather, say, than emotional Venice) and the decade the 1470s. Think of Florentine art and you will probably think of Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi, both of them ...

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