¿Qué es la calidad en el arte?

The concept of quality has always been elusive. The relativity of value judgments in aesthetics is something that has been well established in European thought from Aristotle to Kant and Croce, which put a brake on any attempt to define and establish with conceptual clarity what quality in art consists of. . Alejandro Vergara faces the difficult task of "enclosing" this concept convinced of the importance of this intellectual effort and for this he will first expose the sinuous and elusive path of the idea of quality throughout the history of Western thought and later, based on in his extensive and recognized knowledge of European painting from the 15th to the 18th centuries, he will delve into a practical exhibition, accompanying us to discover, as if it were a detective investigation, what quality was understood in Europe for three long centuries in the which produced much of the best European painting.