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The faces of an epoch.
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THE FACES OF AN EPOCH By Robert Hughes (Time, March 15, 1999) You can't look at great portraits today without a certain nostalgia The painted portrait is a form that like blank verse drama in the theater or the caryatid in architecture would seem to be on its last legs. Indeed, with few exceptions it has no legs and seems unlikely to grow new ones. Photography took them away. But older portraits have hardly lost their magic and their grip on the imagination. This is why "Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch" which is on view (through April 25) at the National Gallery in London and will be seen later this year at the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, is such an invigorating show. And the subtitle fits. Almost from the time they left the easel,...
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