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Paradoxical Portraits

From the March 2011 Print Edition

Blessed and Beautiful: Picturing the Saints by Robert Kiely Yale, 288 pages, $40 What I discovered,” writes Robert Kiely in this sumptuously illustrated book on Italian Renaissance paintings of the saints, “were images often infused with tenderness, exquisite sentiment, erotic vigor, but . . . . Continue Reading »