tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454459186129750328.post1807649699107172686..comments2024-03-14T19:52:55.883-07:00Comments on Grumpy Art Historian: Rare early German picture at Christie's (psst! museums!)Michael Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11557727287816852329noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454459186129750328.post-21287399635702584602014-12-05T16:07:56.493-08:002014-12-05T16:07:56.493-08:00Looking at this 1400 AD thuringian painting and co...Looking at this 1400 AD thuringian painting and comparing its charming shortcomings with the great masterpieces of the Master of St. Bartolemew Altar I am wondering if the use of “evolution” is really right. Sure- eighty years passed between them, but does that explain why Master of St. Bart is so infinitely better? Evolution? I don’t believe so.For the art historian it probably seems neat, orderly to invent something like unbroken string of continuous progression and then hang on it paintings that follow that imaginatory progression.History of painting ,seems to me should not be mimicking history of electrical technology or history of computation.So-there is a mystery about that.fantazoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09612699707665354289noreply@blogger.com