Editorial

The purposes of art

O welche Lust! The prisoners’ hymn of joy on being released from the dungeons in Beethoven’s Fidelio came to mind as this issue passed for press on 17th May, the day that saw a major advance in the United Kingdom’s emergence from COVID-inspired lockdown.

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The Frick Reframed

Liberated from the barrier of an angular, velvet-covered sofa, J.M.W. Turner’s Cologne, the arrival of the packet-boat: evening (1826) can now be seen from a few inches away. The delicate sepia strokes that render a procession of figures and carriage along the distant pier are easily distinguishable. 

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• Articles (6)
• Books (14)
• Exhibitions (5)

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  Clérisseau’s journey to Dalmatia: a newly attributed collection of drawings

  By Ana Sverko
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  A newly discovered figure study for Francesco Vanni’s ‘Return of the Holy Family from Egypt’

  By Tobias Kämpf
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  A drawing attributed to Adam Elsheimer in the Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid

  By Isabel García-Toraño Martínez,Álvaro Pascual Chenel,Ángel Rodríguez Rebollo
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  Trading in art: Antonio Cesare di Poggi (1744–1836)

  By Tony Barnard
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  Reminiscences of the British Museum Print Room, 1954–65

  By Christopher White
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  The new Whistler catalogue raisonné

  By Kenneth McConkey
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• Les dessins de la collection Mariette: Écoles italienne et espagnole

  By Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò
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• The Conservation of Medieval Polychrome Wood Sculpture: History, Theory, Practice

  By Paul Williamson
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• Das Berner Münster. Das erste Jahrhundert: Von der Grundsteinlegung bis zur Chorvollendung und Reformation (1421–1517/1528)

  By Jens Rüffer
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• Art and Faith in the Venetian World: Venerating Christ as the Man of Sorrows

  By Linda Borean
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• Alessandro Turchi detto l’Orbetto, 1578–1649

  By Stéphane Loire
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• Die Zeichnungen des Giovan Battista Beinaschi aus der Sammlung der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf am Kunstpalast

  By Oliver Tostmann
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• L’Art et la manière: Dessins français du XVIIIesiècle des musées de Marseille

  By Christoph Martin Vogtherr
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• Victorian Artists’ Autograph Replicas: Auras, Aesthetics, Patronage and the Art Market

  By Emily M. Weeks
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• Dusti Bongé, Art and Life: Biloxi, New Orleans, New York

  By Joan Marter
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• The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution

  By Konstantin Akinsha
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• Thinking the Plant: The Watercolour Drawings of Rebecca John

  By Susan Owens
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• Portrait of a Muse: Frances Graham, Edward Burne-Jones and the Pre- Raphaelite Dream

  By Charlotte Gere
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• Thomas MacGreevy and the Rise of the Irish Avant-Garde

  By Roísín Kennedy
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• Vitamin D3: Today’s Best in Contemporary Drawing

  By Kathryn Lloyd
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• The Frick Reframed

  By Elizabeth Pergam
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• Une des provinces du rococo: La Chine rêvée de François Boucher

  By Yuriko Jackall
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• Turner’s Modern World

  By Jonathan Yarker
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• Maurice Denis: Love

  By Louis Deltour
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• Museo del Prado 1819–2019: Un lugar de memoria

  By Amanda Dotseth
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