At the Scuderie del Quirinale 
Peter Campbell
Despite everything Auden said, there are plenty of works by Old Masters, even at the Musée des Beaux Arts in Brussels, in which suffering and death take centre stage, in which the drama is concentrated, the tragedy given nobility, the idle crowd banished and the bystanders made to pay attention.
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Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
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