Daverio

I have read the fine book by Daverio "Il Museo Immaginato", recently issued. It is amusing and funny, but behind the friendliness there is a rather revolutionary proposal in approaching the history of art: to replace the usual storicist approch that emphasize the innovations of each artist and that wasa inheriteed from Vasari, with an evaluation of the web of citations and relationships that link together all paintings of every age, not differently from the approach of literary cirticism. The plat works mainly because the selection is very restricted, only paitingins and only paintings from Titian to the XIX century (with rare exceptions), a period of very little innovation before the revolutions of the late XIX-early XX century. But the proposal is well worth of consideration.