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January 2018

Vol. 160 | No. 1378

Editorial

The Burlington Magazine scholarship for the study of French eighteenth-century fine and decorative art

THIS MONTH The Burlington Magazine launches an annual scholarship for the study of French eighteenth-century fine and decorative art. Initiated and funded by Richard Mansell-Jones,  a trustee of The Burlington Magazine Foundation, the scholarship  offers £10,000 to a student based anywhere in the world  who has embarked or is about to embark on an M.A. or Ph.D. or is undertaking research in a post-doctoral or independent  capacity. 

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Matisse and Bonnard. Frankfurt

THE THEME OF Matisse Bonnard: “Long Live Painting!” at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt (to 14th January), is the friendship between two artists who at first glance had little in common other than the mutual belief in painting indicated in the exhibition’s title.1 Born within a few years of each other, their friendship survived not only several decades but the difference in their fortunes. Matisse’s reputation was greatly enhanced by a steady market for his work in America.

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  • The Ince Blundell Collection of Classical Sculpture. Volume III – The Ideal Sculpture. By Elizabeth Bartman

    By Susan Walker
  • Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth- century Paintings Come to America. Edited by Edgar Peters Bowron

    By Keith Christiansen
  • Luke Wadding’s Art: Irish Franciscan Patronage in Seventeenth-Century Rome. By Giovan Battista Fidanza

    By Donatella Livia Sparti
  • Bartolomeo Cavarozzi. By Gianni Papi

    By John Gash
  • The Flemish Merchant of Venice: Daniel Nijs and the Sale of the Gonzaga Art Collection. By Christina M. Anderson

    By Gregory Martin
  • Modern Painters, Old Masters: The Art of Imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War. By Elizabeth Prettejohn

    By Nicholas Tromans
  • Henry James and American Painting. By Colm Tóibín, Marc Simpson and Declan Kiely & The Complete Writings of Henry James on Art and Drama, Volume 1: Art. Edited by Peter Collister

    By Jane Martineau
  • Egon Schiele: The Complete Paintings 1909–1918. Edited by Tobias G. Natter

    By Elizabeth Clegg
  • Abstraction in Reverse: The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-Twentieth Century Latin American Art. By Alexander Alberro

    By Edward J. Sullivan
  • Tributes to Jean Michel Massing: Towards a Global Art History. Edited by Mark Stocker and Phillip G. Lindley

    By Elizabeth Savage