Have you ever been underwhelmed?

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No one’s said Mona Lisa yet?

I mentioned a while back that one of the greatest paintings in the Louvre is in the same room, but hardly anyone looks at it because it’s upstaged by the little lady.

What's an underappreciated work of classic art?

I nominate Veronese’s Wedding Feast at Cana. It’s somewhat well known as “the largest painting in the Louvre,” but not many people know much beyond that. And I know it’s underappreciated in person, because it’s in the same room as the Mona Lisa, literally on the opposite wall, facing Leonardo’s famous masterpiece. If you go to the Louvre and stand in that gallery, you will see hordes of people looking at the tiny little art celebrity, with their backs to the Veronese. Maybe one person in a hu…