The Art History Newsletter

Danish Cartoonists No Berninis

by | 27 April 2006 | Baroque/Neoclassical, Contemporary

More art-historically informed comment on the Mohammed cartoons controversy: In the Frankfurter Allgemeine, Damian Dombrowski writes that the roots of modern caricature can be found in Bernini’s drawings, a cultural achievement that shouldn’t be confused with a blanket license to injure.