Art Review: St. Anthony & Goya Deliver Timely Truth in Madrid

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’m visiting Madrid, Rome, and my family, whom I haven’t seen in a while, in the Marche, in central Italy. Museums are open almost everywhere, but tourism is dead in both Italy and Spain. In Rome, I saw the exhibition of the Torlonia Marbles, the world’s finest private collection of ancient Roman sculpture. It’s never been shown before. I’ll write on that later this week. Roman and Greek sculpture differ in many ways but primarily in portraiture. This genre barely exists in Greek sculpture, in which faces are beautiful or…