by Jon Lackman | 13 March 2006 | Baroque/Neoclassical, Books
According to S.A. Mansbach, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann’s new Painterly Enlightenment: The Art of Franz Anton Maulbertsch, 1724–1796 “is a monumental book … one of the most carefully considered methodological assessments, historical [analyses], and art historical interpretations of eighteenth-century Central European culture to have appeared in the last half-century … equally impressive is the author’s literary eloquence and intellectual accessibility … He has also provided art historians with a model through which the visual arts in general might be responsibly analyzed, historicized, and ultimately comprehended.”
