Calasso has written a brilliant, eccentric, provocative, annoying, and thoroughly splendid celebration of a great painter.
The New Republic
As one has come to expect of this polyglot and polymathic author, the range of references that inform his viewings is broad, deep and effortless
The Art Newspaper
The next best thing to visiting Europe and seeing the painter's work . . . Calasso is one of the most demanding and intoxicating critics writing today.
Los Angeles Times