Review – Art history

In the dialogue in front of Raphael’s ‘Madonna della Sedia’, Martin Gayford takes the lead

This former head of the Metropolitan finds Rembrandt boring

27 September 2014 8:00 am

Surely only a double-act of the stature of Philippe de Montebello, the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from…

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