Editorial

The Parthenon sculptures

It is now forty years since Melina Mercouri, the Greek Minister for Culture from 1981 to 1989, famous also as a film star and singer, addressed UNESCO’s World Conference on Cultural Policies to draw international attention to the campaign with which she would be identified until her death in 1994, the repatriation to Athens of the Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum.

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Exhibition Review

The Painters of Pompeii

As images, ancient Roman wall paintings command attention for their bold compositions, vibrant and saturated colours, convincing naturalism and the fantastical mythologies they depict. As objects they also captivate for the dramatic circumstances surrounding their near- destruction, the miracle (or rarity) of their survival and the alchemical nature of lime plaster and pigment.

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• Articles (8)
• Books (8)
• Exhibitions (11)

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  A boxwood ‘Calvary’ attributed to Claus Sluter

  By Frits Scholten
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  ‘An Antiquity of Piety’

  By Jonathan Marsden
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  Paolo Stella’s Belvedere: a Genoese outpost in Prague

  By Anne Markham Schulz
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  Reconstructing the Renaissance: the collection of Edgar and Leonora Speyer

  By John Hilary
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  Soldani’s ‘Lamentation’ in Córdoba

  By Fernando Loffredo
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  Moderno and Severo da Ravenna in the Duclaux collection, Angers

  By Emmanuel Lamouche
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  An ‘Allegory of Prudence’ attributed to Nicola Pisano’s workshop

  By Luca Palozzi,Graziano A. Vergani
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• Mark Girouard (1931–2022)

  By Michael Hall
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• Bernini and His World: Sculpture and Sculptors in Early Modern Rome

  By Joseph Connors
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• Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence: Screens and Choir Spaces, from the Middle Ages to Tridentine Reform

  By Michela Young
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• Il Maestro dei bambini turbolenti: Sandro di Lorenzo scultore in terracotta agli albori della Maniera

  By Charles Avery
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• Antoine Coysevox (1640–1720): Le sculpteur du Grand Siècle

  By Jamie Mulherron
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• The Italian Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Teyler Museum

  By Hugo Chapman
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• Die Kunst der Außenseiter: Ausstellungen und Künstlerkarrieren im absolutistischen Paris jenseits der Akademie

  By Christoph Martin Vogtherr
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• Miniature Painting in the National museum: A World-Class Collection

  By Stephen Lloyd
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• Two Women Patrons of the Russian Avant-Garde: Nadezhda Dobychina and Klavdia Mikhailova

  By Christina Lodder
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• Edward Lear: Moment to Moment

  By Richard Green
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• A Taste for Impressionism: Modern French Art from Millet to Matisse

  By Richard Thomson
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• Richard Gerstl: Inspiration – Legacy

  By franz zelger
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• Cranach: The Early Years in Vienna

  By Larry Silver
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• Lucas Cranach der Ältere und Hans Kemmer: Meistermaler zwischen Renaissance und Reformation

  By Hiltrud Westermann-Angerhausen
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• Ritratti d’oro e d’argento: Reliquari medievali in Piemonte, Valle d’Aosta, Svizzera e Savoia

  By Kirstin Kennedy
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• Rubens: Picturing Antiquity

  By David Jaffé
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• Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape

  By Amy Golahny
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• Renoir: Rococo Revival

  By Colin B. Bailey
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• Ludwig Wittgenstein: Fotografie als analytische Praxis / Photography as Analytical Practice

  By Lisa Stein
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• Robin White: Something is Happening Here

  By Mark Stocker
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