Going Dutch; An art enthusiast revisits his favorite works and contemplates their changes after multiple viewings.

Philadelphia Weekly | January 11, 2006| | Copyright

Making the not-so-grand collegiate tour of Europe in the summer of 1972, I naturally did my time in the great art museums: the Louvre, the Uffizi, the National Gallery, the Brera. I didn't know much about art, but strolling those marble halls in my Earth shoes (if you don't know, ask your parents), I began to figure out what I liked. The Italian renaissance, absolutely, although other than Bronzino and Caravaggio, my interest abruptly halted halfway through the 16th century. The displayed French and English paintings of the preimpressionism centuries, on the other hand, universally left me ...

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