by Jon Lackman | 2 October 2006 | Journals, Medieval, Modern
A recent issue of Perspective (2006-1) featured a debate on “Meyer Schapiro and Roman Sculpture, Questions of Non-Reception in France” that covered diverse terrain. Enrico Castelnuovo, Roland Recht and Robert A. Maxwell tried to articulate his legacy for medieval art history, the relationship between his medieval and modern writings, and the reasons for his poor reception and infrequent translation in France. The last proved particularly difficult to entangle; there are so many possible explanations, none of them compelling in isolation, considering that so many other fine non-French art historians have also gone untranslated.
