Burlington Contemporary is the Burlington Magazine’s free online platform for reviews and research on international contemporary art.
Burlington Contemporary is the Burlington Magazine’s free online platform for reviews and research on international contemporary art.
While in britain there is still serious concern about the Witt and Conway Libraries at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, which remain on life-support machines, attended to by nurses but with the doctors not quite knowing – or at least keeping family and friends in the dark – about the patients’ chances for survival, it should not be forgotten that they have a relative who is in rather more robust health: the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Rijksinstituut voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie; RKD) in The Hague. It is not only in excellent shape, it has also recently moved to completely refurbished premises, opened by the Queen of the Netherlands in 2007.
The redating of a medieval Islamic metalwork pomander in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
An examination of the imagery and inscriptions on an early sixteenth-century prayer-nut in the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Unpublished letters on the commissions by Pietro Bembo of goldsmith’s work by Antonio da San Marino to designs by Raphael.
Stained-glass by Wouter Crabeth in England.
Unpublished documents on the Anciennes Indes tapestry set (1708–10) woven by Etienne Le Blond for the Order of St John, Valletta, Malta.
A discussion of the marble Fighting bulls (1863) by J.B.A. Clésinger in the grounds of Lynford Hall, Norfolk.
A review of the exhibition The young Ribera currently on show at the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (to 31st July).
