I found this article on Vincent Desiderio in The New York Times.

Marlborough Gallery
”Cockaigne, 1993-2003”

A 10-Year-Long Art History Course
By MIA FINEMAN

In Vincent Desiderio’s ambitious new painting, “Cockaigne,” six centuries of Western art lie scattered on the floor like the remains of a really great party. A virtuoso representational painter known for his large-scale, postmodernist allegories, Mr. Desiderio worked on the 13-by-9-foot “Cockaigne” on and off for 10 years. On the pages of the books in the painting, he painstakingly reproduced miniature versions of his favorite works by artists ranging from Masaccio, Vermeer and van Eyck to Matisse, Jasper Johns and Chuck Close.
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