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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (4523)	8/27/1999 4:51:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I saw a good show at the National Gallery of Art a few years ago, mostly of Pre- Raphaelite painters, and a show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art of Edward Burne- Jones. The stock of these sorts of paintings are rising, and some of the work was fine, but they tend to be inferior to their models, and too are often bathed in an excessive nostalgia that makes them appear weak. The best affect of the movement was to revive appreciation for painters like Fra Angelico and Fra Fillipo Lippi....

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (4523)	8/27/1999 5:02:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

By the way, anyone interested in painting to any great extent pretty much has to live in the New York- Washington corridor (or slightly beyond) or be rich and able to travel alot. There are good museums elsewhere (such as the Chicago Art Institute), but nothing compares to the combined firepower of New York and Washington, and we get most of the good shows, too....