STRANGE CHOICES TO COME BACK TO
A far cry from «Botswanian» elephants or «Cappadocian» lava sculptures were the two exhibitions I saw this week on my return. I must admit I was anxious to see something in the art line again. My list of exhibitions to see is long so somewhat surprising that I started off with two which really did not send me into raptures. The Raphael at the Louvre This was the period in which his style attained its full maturity, marking without a doubt the apogee of the Italian Renaissance. All of the works presented—church altarpieces, paintings for private devotion, official portraits contrasted with remarkably subtle portraits of friends, as well as a selection of the artist’s most beautiful drawings—attest to Raphael’s extraordinary inventiveness, technical perfection, and unequaled sense of grace. (from the Louvre home page in English ) Guilo Romano and Franscesco Penni (assistants), I knew nothing about, but although I know that Marielle who joined me after our art classes will go and