"He had an eclectic and scholarly eye," said Simon Shaw, head of Sotheby's Impressionist and modern art department in New York.
Mr. Levin respects Süssmayr's close connection to Mozart and does not jettison his work but sensibly improves on it, thinning, grooming and correcting, with a keen scholarly eye and an intuitive grasp of Mozart's idiom.
When seen through Mr Fernández-Armesto's scholarly eyes, his lies are not really whoppers.
She is short, dark, and humorous, with enormous, scholarly gray eyes.
Though prudery is, I hope, no longer reason for outrage and anger at art, erotica has not attracted the sort of sober scholarly or curatorial eye given to other genres of image-making: still life, say, or portraiture, history and landscape painting.
He moves through the scholarly minefields with sharp eyes and historical good sense.
A painterly eye for a scholarly subject confers considerable charm on Ruth Brandon's CARAVAGGIO'S ANGEL (Soho Constable, $25), in which an ambitious art curator, Reggie Lee, tries to make a good impression in her new job at London's National Gallery by mounting a small Caravaggio exhibition.
And with both a scholarly and a somewhat jocular eye, people here are exploring the legacy of moment when, the myth goes, Buffalo began its slide from the nation's 8th largest city to its 59th and from a boomtown to a symbol of rust belt decay.
It was also prepared with an eye to the scholarly community.
With dollar signs in his eyes, Martin plays scholarly detective to uncover the painting's provenance, hiding his scheme from his wife and gambling his career and marriage.
As the next best thing, the exhibition's scholarly catalogue opens minds and eyes to the poetry and passion of Venetian art, just as its creators would have wished".Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting" is at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, until September 17th and then at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, from October 17th to January 7th 2007.
