In his second book, devoted to “David”s studio”, Thomas Crow admits to “having more keenly felt what an intellectual community is”. These words which introduce the traditional “acknowledgements” assume their full import once one has read this fine work. In it, and in a spirit of sound interdisciplinarity, art history marshals a store of information -as is evident from the bibliography and the copious notes-which is at once historical and literary (about Sedaine’s entourage, Sedaine being a mu..
