Burlington Magazine

Happy World Book Day

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:32:01 -0500

The Books That Shaped Art History reassesses the impact of the most important art history books published during the twentieth century. Each of the sixteen incisive essays focusing on a single title is written by a leading art Historian, curator or one of the finest emerging scholars. In bringing these essays together, this book provides a varied and invaluable overview of the history of art, told through its most enduring literature.

The sixteen books include Nikolaus Pevsner’s gospel of Modernism, Pioneers of the Modern Movement, Alfred Barr’s now legendary monograph on Matisse, E.H. Gombrich’s Art and Illusion, Clement Greenberg’s Art and Culture, which had a seismic impact when it was published in 1961 and Rosalind Krauss’s The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths, which introduced structuralist and post-structuralist philosophy into art-historical study.

Commissioned by The Burlington Magazine, each essay - with writers including John Elderfield, Richard Verdi and Susie Nash - analyses a single major book, mapping the intellectual development of its author, setting out the premises and argument of the book, discussing its position within the field of art history, and looking at its significance in the context both of its initial reception and its legacy.

An introduction by John-Paul Stonard explores how art history has been forged by these outstanding contributions to scholarship, as well as by the dialogues and ruptures between them. The book is supplemented by contextual essays summarising the achievements of each art historian and offering a detailed publication history of their texts, with suggestions for further reading.

Enlivening debates and questioning the very status of art history itself, The Books That Shaped Art History is a concise and brilliant overview of the discipline and an invaluable resource for students, teachers, bibliophiles and all those interested in visual culture and its histories.

To pre-order your copy please visit http://www.burlington.org.uk/subscriptions-and-sales/the-books-that-shaped-art-hist

March 2013 issue

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:29:54 -0500

Editorial

Mind your language

Articles

‘A new drawing by Titian’ by Matthias Wivel

‘Nicolas Poussin’s “Juno, Argus, Io and Mercury in a landscape” in Berlin: a preparatory study and a new date’ by Ann Sutherland Harris

‘Greuze’s “L’Accordée de village”: a rediscovered première pensée’ by Perrin Stein

‘Picasso, a political enemy of Francoist Spain’ by Genoveva Tusell García

‘Cézanne and the past’ by John-Paul Stonard

Books

Engraving and etching 1400-2000: a history of the development of manual intaglio printmaking processes, A. Stijnman by Antony Griffiths

Illuminating the End of Time: The Getty Apocalypse Manuscript, N.J. Morgan by Suzanne Lewis

Reuse Value. Spolia and appropriation in Art and Architecture from Constantine to Sherrie Levine, R. Brilliant and D. Kinney, eds. by James Cahill

The Geometry of Creation: Architectural Drawing and the Dynamics of Gothic Design, R. Bork by Eric Fernie

Zeichnen im Zeitalter Bruegels: Die niederländischen Zeichnungen des 16. Jahrhunderts im Dresdner Kupferstich-Kabinett. Beiträge zu einer Typologie, T. Ketelsen et al, eds. by Stephanie Buck

Vasari and the Renaissance Print, S. Gregory by Michael Bury

Das Elfenbein der Medici. Bildhauerarbeiten für den Florentiner Hof, E.D. Schmidt by Marjorie Trusted

Zeichner in Rom 1550-1700, K. Zeitler by David Scrase

Murillo Virtuoso Draftsman, J. Brown by Zahira Veliz Bomford

Cézanne, a life, A. Danchev by Richard Verdi

Publications Received

Exhibitions

Peter Lely by Friso Lammertse

New Art from Russia by Anne Blood

Sanja Ivekovic by Christopher Griffin

Seventeenth-century paintings in churches in Paris by Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnée and Jean-Claude Boyer

Renaissance by Neville Rowley

Rapahel’s drawings by Sylvia Ferino-Pagden

Johann Christian Reinhart by Claudia Nordhoff

Serodine by Xavier F. Salomon

Matisse: In Search of True Painting by Lee Hallman

Veronese by Peter Humphrey

Picasso Black and White by Lewis Kachur

Bernini’s sculpture in clay by Sarah McPhee

Calendar

Notes on contributors

Next month’s issue is devoted to art in Britain with two articles on portraits by Gainsborough; the Montagu monuments in Warkton church; and discoveries concerning Constable; the Wests; Lawrence; and Sickert.

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Cover illustration: Study for L’Accordée de village, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. c.1761. Red and black chalk over traces of graphite, watercolour and gouache, 30.8 by 44.3 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

February 2013 issue - Northern European Art

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 05:37:39 -0500

Editorial

Filling the bathtub: the new Stedelijk Museum

Articles

‘The identification of a family portrait by Frans Hals recently acquired by the Toledo Museum of Art’ by Pieter Biesboer

‘Jan Lievens’s “The Apostle Paul at his writing desk”’ by Carina Fryklund

‘The final convulsions of Brussels tapestry: “The legend of the miraculous Host”, 1769-85’ by Koenraad Brosens

‘Robert Dighton and his spurious collectors’ marks on Rembrandt prints in the British Museum, London’ by An Van Camp

‘The rediscovery of Vilhelm Hammershøi: two recent acquisitions in New York and Frankfurt’ by Felix Krämer

Letter

‘The provenance of Carel Fabritius’s “Mercury and Argus” and “Mercury and Aglauros”’ by Sophie Raux

Books

Hieronymus Bosch. Late work, C.D. Cuttler by Paul Huys Janssen

Translating Nature into Art. Holbein, the Reformation and Renaissance Rhetoric, J. Nuechterlein by Susan Foister

The Cartoons of the Sint-Janskerk in Gouda, Z. Van Ruyven-Zeman, A.R. de Koomen, A.L.H. Hage and J.P. Filedt Kok, eds. by Ilja M. Veldman

Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Art Discourse in the Sixteenth-Century Netherlands, T.M. Richardson by Walter Gibson

The Court Art of Friedrich Sustris. Patronage in Late Renaissance Bavaria, S. Maxwell by Stijn Alsteens

Pieter Lastman. Studien zu Leben und Werk. Mit einem kritischen Verzeichnis der Werke mit Themen aus der antiken Mythologie unde Historie, C. Tico Seifert by Luuk Pijl

The Religious Paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen. Reinventing Christian Painting after the Reformation in Utrecht, N.T. Seaman by Xander Van Eck

Catalogue of drawings by Rembrandt and his school in the British Museum: online research catalogue, 2011, M. Royalton-Kisch by Holm Bevers

Art and Allegiance in the Dutch Golden Age. The Ambitions of a wealthy widow in a painted chamber by Ferdinand Bol, M. van Eikema Hommes by Albert Blankert

Elegance and Refinement. The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst, T. Paul, J. Clifton, A. Wheelock Jr., J. Berger Hochstrasser et al. by Fred G. Meijer

Eglon van der Neer (1635/36-1703): His Life and Work, E. Schavemaker by Quentin Buvelot

Old Masters’ Gallery Catalogues. Szépmüvészeti Múseum Budapest. Volume I. Dutch and Flemish Portraits 1600-1800, R. Ekkart by John Loughman

Old Masters’ Gallery Catalogues. Szépmüvészeti Múzeum Budapest. Volume 2. Dutch and Flemish Still Lifes 1600-1800, I. Ember by John Loughman

Frits Lugt 1884-1970. Living for Art: A Biography, J.F. Heijbroek by Quentin Buvelot

Le Corbusier. Furniture and Interiors 1905-1965, A. Rüegg by Christopher Wilk

John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné Volume One: 1956-1974, P. Pardo and R. Dean, eds. by Lucy Bradnock

Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art 1945-1980, R. Peabody et al., eds. by James Boaden

Publications Received

Exhibitions

Dancing around Duchamp’s Bride by Anne Blood

Painting after performance by Celia White

1913: The Shape of Time by Rosalind McKever

Rembrandt and the Passion by Richard Verdi

Flemish landscape by Paul Huys Janssen

Jan Rombouts by Vanessa Paumen

Cornelis van Haarlem by Lawrence W. Nichols

Medieval sculpture in Utrecht by Paul Williamson

Guardi and Canaletto by Bernard Aikema

The young Van Dyck by Gregory Martin

Goya and the Infante Don Luis by Xavier F. Salomon

Rico; Sorolla; Blanchard; the 1930s by Chris Michaelides

Tokyo 1955-70 by Jonathan M. Reynolds

Richard Artschwager by James Lawrence

Becoming Van Gogh by Richard R. Brettell

Calendar

Notes on contributors

Supplement

Acquisitions at the Dallas Museum of Art

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Cover illustration: The Van Campen family in a landscape, by Frans Hal. Early 1620s. Canvas, 151 by 163.6 cm. (Toledo Museum of Art)

January 2012 issue

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 04:36:28 -0500

Editorial

2012-13: a look backwards and forwards

Articles

‘A portrait of “Girolamo Fracastoro” by Titian in the National Gallery’ by Jill Dunkerton, Jennifer Fletcher and Paul Joannides

‘Titian’s Barbarigo portrait and Lord Darnley’ by Burton Fredericksen

‘A recently identified painting by Tintoretto in the Victoria and Albert Museum’ by Ana Debenedetti

‘Two newly identified panels from Mariotto di Nardo’s altarpiece for the Da Filicaia chapel in S. Maria degli Angeli, Florence’ by Dillian Gordon

‘Giambologna’s rented house in Florence’ by Meghan Callahan

Obituary

Rosemarie Mulcahy (1942-2012) by Peter Cherry

Books

La storia del palazzo di Venezia dalle collezioni Barbo e Grimani a sede dell’ambasciata veneta e austriaca, M. Giulia Barberini, M. De Angelis d’Ossat and A. Schiavon by Kathleen Wren Christian

Rinascimento in Lombardia. Foppa, Zenale, Leonardo, Bramantino, G. Romano by Charles Robertson

Nuns and Reform Art in Early Modern Venice. The Architecture of Santi Cosma e Damiano and its Decoration from Tintoretto to Tiepolo, B. Paul by Valentina Sapienza

Citizen Portrait: Portrait and the Urban Elite of Tudor and Jacobean England and Wales, T. Cooper by Elizabeth Goldring

La Villa Médicis. Le collezioni del cardinale Ferdinando. I dipinti e le sculture. Vol.4, A. Cecchi and C. Gasparri by Clare Robertson

La Villa Médicis. Fonti documentarie. Vol.5, S.B. Butters, E. Fumagalli and S. Deswarte-Rosa, eds. by Clare Robertson

Venice Disputed 1550-1600. Marc’Antonio Barbaro and Venetian Architecture, D. Howard by Richard Schofield

Andrea Ansaldo 1584-1638, M. Priarone by Xavier F. Salomon

State Hermitage Museum Catalogue: Sixteenth to Nineteenth-Century British Painting, E. Renne by Stephen Lloyd

The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Glass and Limoges Painted Enamels, S. Higgott by Florian Knothe

Richard Parkes Bonington. The complete drawings, P. Noon by Stephen Duffy

John La Farge: A Biographical and Critical Study, J.L. Yarnall by Barbara Dayer Gallati

The Rise of the Modern Art Market in London, 1850-1939, P. Fletcher and A. Helmreich, eds. by Giles Waterfield

Publications Received

Exhibitions

Henry Stuart by Karen Hearn

Seduced by Art by Marina Vaizey

Cotman in Normandy by Sarah Moulden

Contemporary exhibitions by James Cahill

Gwen John and Celia Paul by Teresa Drace-Francis

Barbara Hepworth by Frances Spalding

Labrouste and Baltard by Louis Cellauro

Soutine by Merlin James

Edward Hopper by David Anfam

The road to Van Eyck by Jan Piet Filedt Kok

Jordaens and the Antique by Hans Vlieghe

Caillebotte and photography by Hans Rooseboom

Roentgen by Simon Swynfen Jervis

Calendar

Notes on contributors

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Cover illustration: Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro, by Titian. After treatment. c. 1528. Canvas, 84 by 73.5 cm. (National Gallery, London).

The February issue is devoted to art in Northern Europe with articles identifying the sitters in a family portrait by Frans Hals recently acquired by the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio; newly discovered information relating to the theft of Rembrandt prints from the British Museum in the early nineteenth century; a painting by Jan Lievens for the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, and a Vilhelm Hammershøi for the Städel Museum; and a Supplement of recent acquisitions at the Dallas Museum of Art.

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Wed, 21 Nov 2012 05:21:48 -0500

December 2012 issue

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 05:17:43 -0500

Editorial

Regional museums: mixed signals

Articles

‘Artemisia Gentileschi’s “Suffer the little children to come unto me”’ by Gianni Papi

‘The iconography of “Saint” Edward II’ by Julian Luxford

‘Scissors-and-paste in two paintings of Elizabeth I’ by Anthony Wells-Cole

‘More on Pissarro’s “Four seasons”’ by Andrea van Houtven

‘A rediscovered English review of the 1874 Impressionist exhibition’ by Ed Lilley

Books

Western Illuminated Manuscripts. A Catalogue of the Collection in Cambridge University Library, P. Binski and P. Zutshi by Catherine Reynolds

Illuminated Manuscripts in Cambridge. A catalogue of Western book illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part Two, Italy & the Iberian Peninsula, volumes one and two, N. Morgan, S. Parayotova and S. Reynolds, eds. by Rowan Watson

Giotto and his Publics: Three Paradigms of Patronage, J. Gardner by John Osborne

National Gallery Catalogues. The Italian Paintings before 1400, D. Gordon by Victor Schmidt Museo di palazzo Ducale di Mantova. Catalogo generale delle collezioni inventariate. Dipinti fino al XIX secolo, S. L’Occaso by Guido Rebecchini

Michelangelo. The Achievement of Fame, 1475-1534, M. Hirst by Hugo Chapman

The Afterlife of Raphael’s Paintings, C. Hoeniger by Giorgio Bonsanti

Francisco Pacheco y su Libro de Retratos, M.P. Cacho Casal by Rosemarie Mulcahy

Rethinking the Baroque, H. Hills, ed. by Owen Hopkins

Grabadores extranjeros en la Corte española del Barroco, J. Blas, M. Cruz de Carlos Varona and J. Manuel Matilla by Mark McDonald

Pittori Senesi del Seicento, M. Ciampolini by John Marciari

Roma Britannica. Art Patronage and Cultural Exchange in Eighteenth-century Rome, D.R. Marshall, S. Russell and K. Wolfe, eds. by Susan Jenkins

Imperial Landscapes: Britain’s Global Visual Culture, 1745-1820, J.E. Crowley by Rosie Dias

Thomas Bewick. The Complete Illustrative Work, N. Tattersfield by Martin Postle

John Everett Millais, J. Rosenfeld by Alastair Grieve

Arrangement in Business. The Art Market and the Career of James McNeill Whistler, G. Petri by Robin Spencer

Nancy Spero, Encounters, J.S. Walker by Catherine Grant

A Story of Ruins. Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture, W. Hung by Rose Kerr

Publications Received

Exhibitions

Bronze by Mark Stocker

Spanish prints and drawings by Zahira Veliz Bomford

Pre-Raphaelites by Julian Treuherz

Cecil Beaton. Theatre of War by Marina Vaizey

Photography in the 1960s and 1970s by Anne Blood

Edward Lear by Richard Green

Emperor Maximilian I by Mark Evans

Italian art of the 1930s by Robert Radford

Vermeer and Dutch painting by Quentin Buvelot

Caravaggio and his followers by Neville Rowley

Calendar

Notes on Contributors

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Burlington Conference Programme: The Art Press in the Twentieth Century

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:21:09 -0500

Registration is open

The Art Press in the Twentieth Century: History, criticism and the art market in magazines and journals

Date: 1st February 2013

Location: Sotheby’s Institute of Art, 30 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3EE

Programme

09.45–10.20 Registration and coffee

10.20–10.30 Opening remarks – Jos Hackforth-Jones, Director, Sotheby’s Institute of Art

10.30–12.30 SESSION 1: 1890–1929

Chaired by Ysanne Holt (University of Northumbria) and Barbara Pezzini (The Burlington Magazine)

10.30–10.55 Meaghan Clarke (University of Sussex) – The art press at the fin-de-siècle: women, collecting and connoisseurship

11.00–11.25 Yu-Jen Liu (Academia Sinica) – Art, reproduction and the market: the politics and poetics of Chinese art illustration 1908–11

11.30–11.55 Poppy Sfakianaki (University of Crete) – Promoting the value(s) of Modernism: the interviews of Tériade and Zervos with art dealers in Cahiers d’art, 1927–28

12.00–12.30 Panel Discussion

12.30–13.30 LUNCH

13.30–15.30 SESSION 2: 1930–69

Chaired by Bernard Vere (Sotheby’s Institute of Art) and Anne Blood (The Burlington Magazine)

13.30–13.55 Sam Rose (Courtauld Institute of Art) – The visual arts in the BBC Listener magazine 1929–39

14.00–14.25 Adrian Clark (British Art Journal) – The art contributions to Horizon (1940–50)

14.30–14.55 Dorothea Schoene (University of Hamburg) – Shaping the perception of German art after 1945 – MoMA and the New York Times

15.00–15.30 Panel Discussion

15.30–16.00 TEA AND COFFEE

16.00–18.00 SESSION 3: 1970–present

Chaired by Lis Darby (Sotheby’s Institute of Art) and Clive Phillpot

16.00–16.25 J.J. Charlesworth (Royal College of Art) – Young Conservatives: the formalist revival from One magazine to Artscribe

16.30–16.55 Patricia Bickers (Art Monthly) – Partial History: Art Monthly 1976–

17.00–17.25 Samuel Bibby (Art History) – ‘The pursuit of understanding’: towards a history of Art History

17.30–18.00 Panel Discussion

18.00–19.00 Drinks reception – Hosted by Sotheby’s Institute of Art

Registration fee: £25 – Students £10 – no registration fee for speakers

Due to high interest, register early to avoid disappointment. Please visit our website to download the registration form http://www.burlington.org.uk/art-world/burlington-conference

For any queries, please email conference@burlington.org.uk or tel: +44 (0)20 7388 8157

Contemporary Art Writing Prize 2013

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 05:24:48 -0400

The Burlington Contemporary Writing Prize, awarded annually, seeks to discover talented young writers on contemporary art, with the winner receiving £1000 and the opportunity to publish a review of a contemporary art exhibition in The Burlington Magazine.

Since its founding in 1903, The Burlington Magazine has always considered the art of the present to be just as worthy of study as the art of the past. The Burlington Contemporary Writing Prize advances the Magazine’s commitment to the study of contemporary art by encouraging aspiring young writers to engage critically with its forms and ideas. The Prize also promotes clear, concise and well-structured writing that is able to navigate complicated territory without recourse to complicated language.
Submissions will be assessed by a panel of judges from The Burlington Magazine and specialists in contemporary art.

Each applicant will be offered a specially reduced online subscription to The Burlington Magazine, providing digital access to all the latest articles and reviews.

Submission requirements
    •    Applicants must submit one unpublished review of a contemporary art exhibition of no more than 1000 words in length.
    •    ‘Contemporary’ is defined as work produced in the last 10 years.
    •    All submissions must be written in English (although the art considered may be international).
    •    If possible, low-resolution digital images should be sent to illustrate the review.
    •    The submitted review should be emailed as a Word document to editorial@burlington.org.uk.
    •    Applicants must be no older than 30 years of age (proof of age may be required).
    •    The applicant’s name, age, country of residence and occupation must be clearly stated in the application email.
    •    We suggest applicants carefully read recent Burlington reviews of contemporary exhibitions for guidance.

Deadline for 2013 Prize
The deadline for submissions is Thursday 31st January 2013.

The Prize winner will be announced in April 2013.

For more information please contact: editorial@burlington.org.uk

November 2012 issue - Sculpture

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 05:47:15 -0400

Editorial

Less is Moore

Articles

‘Matteo Raverti and Jacopino da Tradate’ by Anne Markham Schulz

‘Rediscovered photographs of two terracotta modelli by Verrocchio’ by Christina Neilson

‘A statuette from the workshop of Leonardo da Vinci’ by Alison Luchs, Shelley Sturman and Katherine May

‘Two eighteenth-century sculpture acquisitions for the Victoria and Albert Museum, London’ by Marjorie Trusted

‘French Rococo prints and eighteenth-century altarpieces in Buenos Aires’ by Gauvin Alexander Bailey

‘Revealing Rodin’ by Melanie Vandenbrouck-Przybylski

Letters

A new sighting of Michelangelo’s ‘Young archer’ by James David Draper

Brett and Constable by Christiana Payne

Obituary

Pieter J.J. van Thiel (1928-2012) by Peter Hecht

Books

Vulcan’s Forge in Venus’ City: The Story of Bronze in Venice, 1350-1650, V. Avery by Claudia Kryza-Gersch

Les Eglises Romanes de Normandie, V. Chaix by Lesley Milner

Renaissance Gothic: Architecture and the Arts in Northern Europe, 1470-1540, E.M. Kavaler by Robert Bork

Leonardo da Vinci Anatomist, M. Clayton and R. Philo by Domenico Laurenza

Cosimo Fanzago Scultore, P. D’Agostino by Nick Napoli

Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia, III, Sculture in Bronzo, P. Cannata by Jennifer Montagu

Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia, IV, Sculture in Terracotta, C. Giometti by Jennifer Montagu

Roman Imperialism and Civic Patronage: Form, Meaning, and Ideology in Monumental Fountain Complexes, B. Longfellow by Harry B. Evans

The Waters of Rome: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Birth of the Baroque City, K. Wentworth Rinne by Harry B. Evans

Inigo Jones. The Architect of Kings, V. Hart by Edward Chaney

Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844), S. Grandesso and L. Skjøthaug by Philip Ward-Jackson

Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture, L. Østermark-Johansen by Elizabeth Prettlejohn

British Sculpture in India: New Views and Old Memories, M.A. Steggles and R. Barnes by Mark Stocker

Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation, 1876-1936, B. Barryte and R.K. Tarbell, eds. by David Getsy

Sculpture and the Museum, C.R. Marshall, ed. by Patrick Elliott

Architecture in Uniform - Designing and Building for the Second World War, J.-L. Cohen by Colin Amery

Hans Arp Sculptures: A Critical Survey, A. Hartog, ed. by Martin Hammer

Publications Received

Exhibitions

Sculpture shows by Celia White

Liverpool Biennale by Isabella Maidment

Sarah Lucas by Brandon Taylor

Late Guston by Merlin James

Late Raphael by Sylvia Ferino-Pagden

Caravaggio and the Caravaggisti by Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnée

International Gothic in Florence by Nathaniel Silver

The English Prize by Christopher Baker

Calendar

Notes on Contributors

This issue devoted to sculpture has been generously supported by the Henry Moore Foundation.

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October 2012 issue

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:34:25 -0400

Editorial

Old versus new in the Berlin museums

Articles

‘War and peace at the Stockholm “Austrian Art Exhibition” of 1917’ by Elizabeth Clegg

‘Harold Gilman’s “Halifax Harbour” (1918): a wartime Canadian episode’ by John Rolfe

‘The Russian section of the “Machine-Age Exposition” (1927)’ by Anne Blood

‘Richard Hamilton’s “Chiara & chair”’ by Fanny Singer ‘“In the same order, but … stronger than ever”: the new Barnes Foundation in Philapdelphia’ by Colin B. Bailey

Letters

Veronese’s skies in S. Sebastiano by Xavier F. Salomon

Veronese’s portrait of Sidney’ by Mark Evans

Books

Museo Statale Ermitage - La pittura italiana dal XIII al XVI secolo: Catalogo della Collezione, T. Kustodieva by David Ekserdjian

The Healing Presence of Art - A History of Western Art in Hospitals, R. Cork by Susan Loppert

Ireland on Show: Art, Union, and Nationhood, F. Cullen by Giles Waterfield

Public Sculpture of Historic Westminster: Volume I, P. Ward-Jackson by Mark Stocker

Joanna, George and Henry, S. Bradbury by Julian Treuherz

Aesthetic Rivalries: Word and Image in France, 1880-1926, L. Goddard by Peter Cooke

The Looshaus, C. Long by Colin Amery

The Collected Writings of Jon Thompson, J. Ackerman and E. Daly, eds. by Michael Bracewell

The Buildings of England: Cheshire, C. Hartwell, M. Hyde, E. Hubbard and N. Pevsner by Peter Broughton

Prunella Clough. Regions unmapped, F. Spalding by Toby Treves

A House Divided: American Art since 1955, A. Middleton Wagner by Karen Lang

Publications Received

Exhibitions

Portrait sculpture by Satish Padiyar

Symbolist Landscape by Rachel Sloan

Cima da Conegliano by Neville Rowley

Cornelis Bega by Eddy Schavemaker

Bramantino by Charles Robertson

Andrea Commodi by Julian Brooks

Luca Signorelli by Frank Dabell

Murillo and Justino de Neve by Xanthe Brooke

Schiaparelli and Prada by Lynne Cooke

Roy Lichtenstein by Robert Silberman

Charles M. Russell by John Wilson

Calendar

Notes on Contributors

Supplement

Recent acquisitions by the Goverment Art Collection The November issue is focused on sculpture with articles relating a cowering warrior to Leonardo’s Milan workshop; a probable attribution to Verrocchio; on Matteo Raverti and Jacopino da Tradate; Rococo alterpiece designs in Buenos Aires; two eighteenth-century acquisitions at the V. & A.; and the newly displayed and refurbished Musée Rodin, Paris.

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September 2012 issue - Seventeenth-century art

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 06:40:28 -0400

Editorial

The Italian earthquake

Articles

‘New documents for Cigoli’s “Jacob’s dream” and Baglione’s “St John the Baptist” by Yvan Loskoutoff

‘A letter of introduction for Velázquez in Bologna’ by Salvador Salort Pons

‘Velázquez in Fraga: a new hypothesis about the portraits of El Primo and Philip IV’ by Pablo Pérez D’Ors, Richard Johnson and Don Johnson

‘The provenance of Nicolas Poussin’s “Landscape with Polyphemus” and “Landscape with Hercules and Cacus”’ by François Marandet

‘Gasparo Marcaccioni (1620-74), his portrait by Carlo Maratti and his chapel’ by Xavier F. Salomon

Books

Caravaggio. The Complete Works, S. Schütze by John Gash

Caravaggio. Un ritratto somigliante, F. Cappelletti by John Gash

The Moment of Caravaggio, M. Fried by John Gash

Caravaggio. A Life Sacred and Profane, A. Graham-Dixon by John Gash

Caravaggio. The Art of Realism, J. Varriano by John Gash

Caravaggio’s Eye, C. Whitfield by John Gash

Caravaggio and Pictorial Narrative. Dislocating the “Istoria” in Early Modern Painting, L. Pericolo by John Gash

I Caravaggeschi: Percorsi e protagonisti, A. Zuccari, ed. by John Gash

Caravaggio. Adorazione dei pastori, V. Merlini and D. Storti, eds. by John Gash

L’Annonciation du Caravage: La restauration d’un chef-d’oeuvre du Musée des beaux-arts de Nancy, C. Stoullig, ed. by John Gash

Caravaggio: The Artist and His Work, S. Ebert-Schifferer by John Gash

Los Bassano en España, J.M. Ruiz Manero by Beverly Louise Brown

Frans Pourbus le Jeune (1569-1622). Le portrait d’apparat à l’aube du Grande Siècle entre Habsbourg, Médicis et Bourbons, B. Ducos by Hans Vlieghe

Pieter Soutman. Life and oeuvre, K. Barrett by Paul Huys Janssen

David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690) A Biography, H. Vlieghe by Gregory Martin

Il giovane Ribera: tra Roma, Parma, e Napoli 1608-1624, N. Spinosa, ed. by John Marciari

Watteau at the Wallace Collection, C.M. Vogtherr by Humphrey Wine

Jean de Jullienne: Collector and Connoisseur, C.M. Vogtherr and J. Tonkovich by Humphrey Wine

Paris: Life & Luxury in the Eighteenth Century, C. Bremer-David, ed. by Humphrey Wine

The Pamphilj and the Arts. Patronage and Consumption in Baroque Rome, S.C. Leone, ed. by Clare Robertson

Spanish Drawings in the Courtauld Gallery: Complete Catalogue, Z. Véliz by Rosemarie Mulcahy

The London Square: Gardens in the Midst of Town, T. Longstaffe-Gowan by Gillian Darley

Publications Received

Exhibitions

Master Drawings by Richard Green

Munch by Merlin James

The art of the sword by Donald J. La Rocca

Animals in art by Nicholas Watkins

Sculpture in London by Marina Vaizey

Dickens and the artists by Jane Martineau

Lusieri by Xavier F. Salomon

Manifesta 9 by Anne Blood

Maiolica by J.V.G. Mallet

Visions of Arcadia by Susan Grace Galassi

Calendar

Notes on Contributors

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Contemporary Art Writing Prize 2013

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 05:52:18 -0400

Submissions will be assessed by a panel of judges from The Burlington Magazine and specialists in contemporary art.

Each applicant will be offered a specially reduced online subscription to The Burlington Magazine, providing digital access to all the latest articles and reviews.

Submission requirements

Applicants must submit one unpublished review of a contemporary art exhibition of no more than 1000 words in length.
‘Contemporary’ is defined as work produced in the last 10 years.
All submissions must be written in English (although the art considered may be international).
If possible, low-resolution digital images should be sent to illustrate the review.
The submitted review should be emailed as a Word document to editorial@burlington.org.uk.
Applicants must be no older than 30 years of age (proof of age may be required).
The applicant’s name, age, country of residence and occupation must be clearly stated in the application email.
We suggest applicants carefully read recent Burlington reviews of contemporary exhibitions for guidance.

Deadline for 2013 Prize

The deadline for submissions is Thursday 31st January 2013.

The Prize winner will be announced in April 2013.

For more information please contact: editorial@burlington.org.uk

August 2012 issue

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 05:51:00 -0400

Editorial

The London scene

Articles

‘The triptych of the Apocalypse by Master Bertram’ by Mark Evans, Nicola Costaras, Rachel Turnbull and Lara Wilson

‘The provenance of Antonello da Messina’s “Portrait of a man in a red cap” in the National Gallery’ by Roberto Santamaria

‘A portrait of Sir Philip Sidney by Veronese at Leicester House, London’ by Elizabeth Goldring

‘Burne-Jones’s “Tristam and Iseult” rediscovered’ by John Christian

‘The spirit of France: the 1940-46 exhibition of French art in the United States’ by Nancy H. Yeide

‘Klimt 2012: the 150th anniversary exhibitions in Vienna’ by Elizabeth Clegg

Obituary

John Golding (1929-2012) by Christopher Green

Letters

Veronese’s skies in S. Sebastiano by Diana Gisolfi

Books

Italian Drawings at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, David Scrase by Hugo Chapman

Andrea Mantegna. Impronta del genio. Convegno internazionale di studi. Padova, Verona, Mantova 8, 9, 10 novembre 2006, Rodolfo Signorini, Viviana Rebonato and Sara Tammaccaro, eds. by Guido Rebecchini

Römische Grabmäler der Hochrenaissance. Typologie - Ikonographie - Stil, Jutta Götzmann by Jan L. De Jong

La Cena in casa di Levi di Paolo Veronese. Il processo riaperto, Maria Elena Massimi by Xavier F. Salomon

Robert Nanteuil (ca. 1623-1678), Audrey Adamczak by Neil Jeffares

Rossetti: Painter and Poet, J.B. Bullen by Julian Treuherz

The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857: Entrepreneurs, Connoisseurs and the Public, Elizabeth Pergam by Giles Waterfield

The New Painting of the 1860s. Between the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement, Allen Staley by Alastair Grieve

Publications Received

Exhibitions

Titian’s “Flight into Egypt” by Paul Hills

Fiona Rae; Gary Hume by James Cahill

Tours 1500 by Catherine Yvard

dOCUMENTA by Anne Blood

The Sistine Madonna by Leonée Ormond

The early Dürer by Robert Suckale

Catalan Gothic by Carl Brandon Strehlke

Cai Guo-Qiang by James Lawrence

Australian Symbolism by Angela Dunstan

Calendar

Notes on Contributors

Next month’s issue is devoted to art in Europe in the seventeenth century. Articles include two contributions on Velázquez, in particular new information on his first visit to Italy; the provenance of two Poussins; and hitherto unpublished portrait by Carlo Maratti.

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FUNDING OPPORTUNITY

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 04:51:15 -0400

Francis Haskell Memorial Fund

The Burlington Magazine Foundation

2012 Scholarships

Grants of up to £2000 will be awarded from the Francis Haskell Memorial Fund this year to enable scholars to spend time in libraries or archives carrying out advanced research in the history of western art. Preference may be given to candidates in the early stages of their careers; to subjects related to the commissioning, collecting or interpretation of works of art made before 1914; and to research carried out outside the applicant’s country of residence. Scholars from any country may apply. An additional award may be made by the Trustees of The Burlington Magazine Foundation in conjunction with the Francis Haskell Trustees.

Applications, including a two-page proposal, a C.V. and a budget, should be sent by email to carolineelam@yahoo.co.uk by 10th September 2012 – please label all attachments with surname of applicant. There is no application form. Applicants should ask two referees to write separately to the same email address by the same deadline in support of their proposals. Awards will be made by 31st October 2012.

Clipping from London Evening Standard

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 04:46:11 -0400

See here a clipping from last night’s London Evening Standard:

After 32 years at the Burlington, the 110-year-old magazine for art collectors, Kate Trevelyan, wife of veteran broadcaster Robert Kee, stepped down as managing director on Friday with a farewell party at Brooks’s Club. Kate thanked former editor Neil MacGregor, now director of the British Museum, and ex-chairman Sir Nicholas Goodison, “whose steady hands guided us wisely”.

Kate, the daughter of former British ambassador Lord [Humphrey] Trevelyan, added: “As my father always used to say, ‘you are only as good as those who work with you’.” What a diplomat.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/star-winners-in-the-conflict-over-army-cuts-7924676.html?origin=internalSearch

Robert Adam

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 11:03:00 -0400

Portrait attributed to George Willison, c. 1770-1775 (Image from wikipedia)

Robert Adam, Scottish neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer was born on this day in 1728. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Adam

** Click here for a free article from our archives **

http://burlington.org.uk/research/robert-adam-article

CALL FOR PAPERS

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 07:29:00 -0400

Call for Papers

The Art Press in the Twentieth Century

A one-day conference on the mediation of art history, criticism and the art market in magazines and journals organised by The Burlington Magazine and Sotheby’s Institute of Art on 1st February 2013

The Burlington Magazine is one of Britain’s oldest monthly art-historical publications. Founded in 1903 by a group of art writers that included Robert Dell, Roger Fry, Bernard Berenson and Herbert Horne, its aim was to cover all aspects of the fine and decorative arts, to combine scholarship with critical insight and to treat the art of the present with the same seriousness as the art of the past.

Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London was founded by Sotheby’s auction house in 1969. It is now an independent not-for-profit institute and offers six MA programmes across a range of visual art disciplines and art business, together with semester and summer courses. These are validated by the University of Manchester with whom there is also a joint PhD programme. Research and teaching at Sotheby’s Institute focuses on the art work and its context within the framework of the art world and market.

The aim of the joint conference is to explore how the international press, via art-historical writing and criticism in magazines and journals, has intersected with the reception and understanding of art, collecting, the art market and the teaching of art history.

Preference will be given to submissions based on art publications from the twentieth century, although proposals outside of this time period will be considered.

Topics for discussion may include but are not limited to:

History of individual journals
Current state of the art press/digital media
How the art press has facilitated and documented changing patterns and transnational connections
How journals have shaped the foundation of the discipline of art history
The influence of the art press on current educational programmes in museums
The critic/dealer system
Audience and reception of art magazines and journals
How the art press has interacted with museums, reflecting, criticising or influencing their acquisition policy
Female journalists and art periodicals
Artists as critics
Artists’ magazines

Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes. Please send proposals of no more than 250 words by 30th September 2012 to Anne Blood (conference@burlington.org.uk).

Registration fee: £25 – Students £10 – no registration fee for speakers

http://www.burlington.org.uk/art-world/burlington-conference

storie dell'arte . com: Top 10 della settimana

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 05:21:10 -0400

storie dell'arte . com: Top 10 della settimana:

storiedellarte:

10. Cimabue in America insieme al Satiro Danzante — Occasione irripetibile per Arezzo
L’addetto culturale dell’Ambasciata italiana a Washington chiede di esporre in un museo degli Stati Uniti il Crocefisso ligneo del Cimabue conservato nella chiesa di San Domenico… Continua
Si veda…

July 2012 issue

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 05:11:00 -0400

Editorial

Tate Britain revisited

Articles

‘Matteo di Giovanni’s “St Jerome” for the notaries’ Guild of Siena’ by Gabriele Fattorini

‘An early wooded landscape by Jan Brueghel the Elder’ by Louisa Wood Ruby

‘“Whilst he had his perfect sight” - new information on John de Critz the Elder’ by Edward Town

‘Caravaggio’s “Denial of St Peter” acquired by Guido Reni in 1613’ by Patrizio Barbieri

Obituaries

Allan Braham (1937-2011) by John Newman

Judy Egerton (1928-2012) by Brian Allen

Letters

Tate Britain by Penelope Curtis

Not nicotine by Henry Smith

Books

Building-in-Time: From Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion, M. Trachtenberg by David Hemsoll

The Vatican Necropoles: Rome’s City of the Dead, P. Liverani and G. Spinola by Jas Elsner

Jacques Androuet du Cerceau: ‘un des plus grands architectes qui se soient jamais trouvés en France’, J. Guillaume and P. Fuhring et al. by Mia Jackson

Jacques Androuet du Cerceau: Les dessins des plus excellents bâtiments de France, F. Boudon and C. Mignot by Mia Jackson

Piranesi. Taccuini di Moderna, M. Bevilacqua by John Wilton-Ely

Il cardinal Angelo Maria Durini (1725-1796). Un mecenate lombardo nell’Europa dei Lumi fra arte, lettere e diplomazia, C. Geddo by Xavier F. Salomon

Englishness: Beiträge zur englischen Kunst des 18. Jahrhunderts von Hogarth bis Romney, W. Busch by David Bindman

Futures and Ruins: Eighteenth-Century Paris and the Art of Hubert Robert, N.L. Dubin by Yuriko Jackall

Filippo Juvarra. Gli anni giovanili, T. Manfredi by David R. Marshall

John Brett - Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Painter, C. Payne and C. Brett by Christopher Newall

Women Artists in Interwar France. Framing Femininities, P.J. Birnbaum by Catherine Grant

Visions of Mughal India - The Collection of Howard Hodgkin, A. Topsfield by Milo C. Beach

Publications Received

Exhibitions

Zoffany by Christine Riding

Damien Hirst by Lynne Cooke

Photography in London by Anne Blood

Chardin by Richard Rand

Edward Burra by Richard Shone

Miró; Caro by Nicholas Watkins

Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘St Anne’ by Scott Nethersole

The ideal Renaissance city by Frank Dabell

Cindy Sherman by Christopher Griffin

Art, love and politics in the 1980s by Daniel R. Quiles

Calendar

Notes on Contributors

Supplement

Recent acquisitions (2005-11) at the Cleveland Museum of Art

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March 2013 issue

February 2013 issue - Northern European Art

January 2012 issue

Christmas gift subscription offer

December 2012 issue

Burlington Conference Programme: The Art Press in the Twentieth Century

Contemporary Art Writing Prize 2013

November 2012 issue - Sculpture

October 2012 issue

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September 2012 issue - Seventeenth-century art

Contemporary Art Writing Prize 2013

August 2012 issue

** FUNDING OPPORTUNITY **

Clipping from London Evening Standard

Robert Adam

** CALL FOR PAPERS **

storie dell'arte . com: Top 10 della settimana

July 2012 issue

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY

CALL FOR PAPERS