Renaissance Greats

[poliphilo]

Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael- the holy trinity of Renaissance art: that's what we've been taught.  And why?  Because Vasari said so.  But suppose the first great history of Western art had been written by a German instead of an Italian. How does Durer, Cranach and Holbein sound?

Comments

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

They sound a lot more reality-based to me! O those flowery Italians (blech).

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It bears thinking about.