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Blanton ‘Petrobelli Altarpiece’ lecture a total sell-out
Crowds turned out for Sunday’s lecture by British art historian Xavier Salomon.
Too many in fact.
All 300 seats were sold an hour before Salomon’s 2 p.m. lecture on how he discovered that a painting in the Blanton’s collection was actually a missing fragment of a famous altarpiece painting by Italian Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese. Dozens of people were turned away.
Yes, a good art history mystery makes for a sell-out crowd.
‘Paulo Veronese: The Petrobelli Altarpiece’ continues through Feb. 7, 2010 at the Blanton Museum of Art. www.blantonmuseum.org.
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