FLASHBACK on Arthur's exhibition "In the Light of Naples: The Art of Francesco de Mura" (organized by the Cornell Museum) while it was at Vassar College in 2017.
From the WALL STREET JOURNAL:
"Yet it is worth making such journeys; one painting in the Vassar exhibition, Christ and the Samaritan Woman (dated 1752, lent by the Seattle Art Museum), is alone worth the visit to Poughkeepsie from anywhere in the world. With its scintillating palette, grand, almost enigmatic gestures, narrative brilliance and consummate painterly bravura, it surely ranks among the greatest paintings produced in 18th-century Italy."
Comments from Arthur Blumenthal's Student: