Connections: Virtuosity
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Channel: The Met · 2011 · Education
"It's like a virtuoso musical performance where the ability to throw in that extra at the right moment turns the painting into poetry." Metropolitan Museum of Art paintings conservator Michael Gallagher talks about the appeal of technical virtuosity.
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