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On the trail of a curious Italian painting For three years, I had looked at a reproduction of this masterpiece hanging in my apartment block in Rome
Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 06:00 Updated: Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 14:47 David Orr
Originallokalisierungsehnsucht. Having convinced myself there must exist a long German word to describe the artistic compulsion which afflicted me, I consulted my buddy from Trinity College days, Cita Troll. She came up with the compound noun (which roughly translates as a longing to locate the original of an item) and which, she added, would not be found in any dictionary. Nonetheless, I felt it perfectly described the desire which overcame me to track down Piero della Francesca’s ‘Flagellation of Christ’, a painting the art historian Kenneth Clark called “the greatest small painting in the world.”