Jackie Wullschlager reviews From Giotto to Caravaggio: The Passions of Roberto Longhi at the Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, on view through July 20, 2015.

Wullschlager writes: "A century ago Italian art historian Roberto Longhi radically reconsidered Renaissance pictures in the light of the contemporary avant-garde… [this exhibition] is a thoughtful, sensitively selected, exquisite connoisseur’s show recounting how one man set out to change the history of taste, the extent of his triumphs and, intriguingly, the areas where he was less persuasive."