Roman Holiday, 18th-Century Style - exhibition "The Spendor of 18th-Century Rome" co-organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Art in America, Dec, 2000 by Michael Duncan

"The Splendor of 18th-Century Rome" was organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art [where it appeared Mar. 16-May 28] and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston [where it was on view June 25-Sept. 17]. The show was accompanied by a 628-page catalogue, Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, published by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Merrell Publishers Limited, London. The volume is edited by exhibition curators Edgar Peters Bowron and Joseph J. Rishel, and features essays and shorter contributions by some 70 international authorities on the subject.

Michael Duncan is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles.