Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.

History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of h…

Our characteristic response to the mutilated statue, the bronze dug up from the earth, is revealing. It is not that we prefer time-worn bas-reliefs, or rusted …

In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole histo…

The princeps copy, clad in blue and gold.

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissanc…

The three towering geniuses of European culture, Shakespeare, Mozart and Leonardo da Vinci were not allowed to appear on the euro note as they might, in their …