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A series of conversations about nine famous pictures and some of the aesthetic, technical, and historical questions associated with them
3-Two Interpretations of the Same Theme
The Agony in the Garden both in the National Gallery. London Speakers discuss the different ways in which two painters approach the same subject and the judgments appropriate to aesthetic comparisons of this sort.
Speakers:
SIR PHILIP HENDY
Director of the National Gallery
MICHAEL AYRTON
MICHAEL Levey
Assistant Keeper of the National Gallery and HELMUTH RUHEMANN who has been responsible for cleaning several famous pictures
To accompany the series a thirty-two-page pamphlet has been prepared, containing thirty-five illustrations and explanatory text. It can be obtained through book-sellers and newsagents, or by sending a crossed postal order for 3s. Od. (not postage stamps) to [address removed]

Contributors

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Sir Philip Hendy
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Michael Ayrton
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Michael Levey
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Helmuth Ruhemann

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