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Editorial
The British Museum
09/2023 | 1446 | 165
Pages: 931
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Subjects
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Fischer, Hartwig / Osborne, George / Stolen works of art / Repatriation / sponsorship / Funding / Restitution / Museum directors
Obituary
Duncan Robinson (1943–2022)
05/2023 | 1442 | 165
Pages: 578-580
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Author:
Pergam, Elizabeth (Pergam, Elizabeth)
Subjects
art literature:
The Burlington Magazine
museums and institutions:
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States / Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Great Britain
museums and institutions:
Magdalene College, Cambridge, Great Britain
subjects:
Robinson, Duncan, Cambridge, Great Britain / Art historians / Museum directors / scholars / British art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Duncan Robinson, by Peter Mennim. 2011. Oil on canvas, 81.3 by 61 cm. (Magdalene College, Cambridge).
Attributed works:
2. Nude in an interior, by Harold Gilman. c.1911. Oil on canvas, 50.5 by 35.4 cm. (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
3. A folio from the Macclesfield Psalter, showing a historiated initial containing the Annunciation to the Shepherds. England, c.1330–40. Tempera and gold on vellum, 17 by 6.2 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, MS 1-2005, fol.139v; Bridgeman Images).
Obituary
Richard Verdi (1941–2022)
03/2023 | 1440 | 165
Pages: 351-352
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Author:
Spencer-Longhurst, Paul (Spencer-Longhurst, Paul)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, Great Britain
subjects:
Verdi, Richard, Birmingham, Great Britain
subjects:
Art historians / Museum directors / scholars / Curators / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Richard Verdi, photographed at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts in 2004. (Photograph Edward Moss).
Obituary
Katharine Lee Reid (1941–2022)
02/2023 | 1439 | 165
Pages: 215-216
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Author:
Donahue Kuretsky, Susan (Donahue Kuretsky, Susan)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, United States / Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, United States
subjects:
Lee Reid, Katharine
subjects:
Museum directors / Curators / Art historians
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Katharine Lee Reid, photographed in 2022. (Photograph Margaret Lee Bachenheimer).
Article
A museum asserts its identity: the reopening of the Musée de Cluny
10/2022 | 1435 | 164
Pages: 1000-1007
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Author:
Gajewski, Alexandra (Gajewski, Alexandra)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Musée de Cluny (Musée National du Moyen Âge), Paris, France
subjects:
Museums / Museology / Restoration (process) / Displays / Architecture / French medieval art / Roman (ancient) / Collections / Collections, Public / Statues / Stained glass / Tapestries / Altarpieces / Carvings / Furniture / Museum extensions / Sculpture
subjects:
Collectors / Curators / Museum directors / Architects
subjects:
Remodelling (buildings)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. Installation view of Room 13 of the Musée de Cluny. (Musée de Cluny - musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris; photograph Alexis Paoli, OPPIC).
Attributed works:
3. The Hôtel de Cluny from rue Du Sommerand, by Léon et Lévy. 1864–73. (École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris; photograph © Beaux-Arts de Paris, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / image Beaux-Arts de Paris).
Attributed works:
4. The room of François I in the Hôtel de Cluny. 1840. Print. (Musée de Cluny, Musée National du Moyen Âge, Paris; photograph © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée de Cluny - Musée National du Moyen Âge) / musée Cluny).
Attributed works:
5. The thermes of the Musée de Cluny and the entrance hall designed by Bernard Desmoulin. (Musée de Cluny - Musée National du Moyen Âge, Paris; photograph M. Denancé).
Attributed works:
6. Plan of the of the ground floor of the Musée de Cluny. (After Bernard Desmoulin).
Attributed works:
7. North wall of the frigidarium, Musée de Cluny. c.1880. Watercolour on paper. (Musée de Cluny, Musée National du Moyen Âge, Paris; photograph © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée de Cluny - Musée national du Moyen Âge) / Franck Raux).
Attributed works:
8. Installation view of Room 9 of the Musée de Cluny. (Photograph Alexandra Gajewski).
Attributed works:
9. Installation view of Room 21 of the Musée de Cluny. (Photograph Alexandra Gajewski).
Western art unattributed:
1. Octagonal table. c.1480. Oak, height 75 cm. (Musée de Cluny, Musée National du Moyen Âge, Paris; photograph © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée de Cluny - Musée National du Moyen Âge) / Gérard Blot).
Obituary
Michel Laclotte (1929–2021)
12/2021 | 1425 | 163
Pages: 1217-1218
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Author:
Rosenberg, Pierre (Rosenberg, Pierre; R., P.)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France / Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
places:
Paris
subjects:
Laclotte, Michel / Museums / Museum directors
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Michel Laclotte in 2006. (Courtesy Musée du Louvre, Paris; © Agence VU; photograph Gérard Rondeau).
Book Review
A Connoisseur and His Clients: The Correspondence of Charles Fairfax Murray with Frederic Burton, Wilhelm Bode and Julius Meyer (1867–1914). Edited by Paul Tucker
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 883-884
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Reviewer:
Avery-Quash, Susanna (Avery-Quash, Susanna; Quash, Susanna Avery-)
Subjects
art literature:
Murray, Charles Fairfax / Burton, Frederic William / Bode, Wilhelm von / Buchanan, William / Smith, John, English dealer and writer, 1781-1855 / Burckhardt, Jacob / Condivi, Ascanio
art literature:
Meyer, Julius / Hauser, Alois, the elder
artists:
Kettle, Tilly / Rossetti, Dante Gabriel / Bellini, Giovanni / Correggio / Benvenuto, Girolamo di / Lorenzetti, Ambrogio / Lorenzetti, Pietro / Sansovino, Jacopo / Lippi, Filippino / Matteo di Giovanni
dates:
1850-1899 / 1900-1949 / 1900-1909 / 1910-1919
media:
Documents / Drawings / Prints / Sculpture / Metalwork / Maiolica
museums and institutions:
National Gallery, London, Great Britain / Welbeck Abbey, London, Great Britain / New Gallery, London, Great Britain / Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great Britain / Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, Great Britain / Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Great Britain / Agnew's, London, Great Britain
museums and institutions:
Durlacher Bros., London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain
subjects:
British painting / Italian painting / Dutch painting / Northern European / Art dealers / Connoisseurs / Collectors / Curators / Museum directors / Restorers / Donors / Art market / Collections / Collecting / Collections, Public / Collections, Private / Libraries / Gifts / Hanging (installation technique) / Restoration (process) / Conservation / Attribution / Attributions / Attributions, former / Copies / Reproductions / Correspondence / Exhibition reviews
Exhibition Review
Frederic William Burton. Dublin
01/2018 | 1378 | 160
Pages: 44-46
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Reviewer:
Avery-Quash, Susanna (Avery-Quash, Susanna; Quash, Susanna Avery-)
Subjects
artists:
Burton, Frederic William
dates:
1830-1909
media:
Watercolours / Drawings
museums and institutions:
National Gallery, London, Great Britain / National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
styles:
Pre-Raphaelite art
subjects:
Irish art / Museum directors
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Frederic William Burton: For the Love of Art at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. The Aran fisherman’s drowned child, by Frederic William Burton. 1841. (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin).
Attributed works:
11. Hellelil and Hildebrand, the meeting on the turret stairs, by Frederic William Burton. 1864. (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin).
Attributed works:
12. Mrs George Smith, by Frederic William Burton. 1873. (Private collection; exh. National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin).
Attributed works:
13. Copy of the head of the Virgin from Leonardo’s ‘Virgin of the rocks’, by Frederic William Burton. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; exh. National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin).
Obituary
Giles Waterfield (1949–2016)
03/2017 | 1368 | 159
Pages: 219-220
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Author:
Harrod, Tanya (Harrod, Tanya)
Subjects
art literature:
Waterfield, Giles
dates:
1940-1949 / 1950-1999 / 2000-2009 / 2010-2019
subjects:
Obituaries / Art historians / Museum directors
Illustrations
Attributed works:
43. Giles Waterfield, Suffolk, 2016 (Photograph, Cassandra Nash)
Article
The Art of Conservation II: Sir Charles Eastlake and conservation at the National Gallery, London
12/2015 | 1353 | 157
Pages: 846-854
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Author:
Avery-Quash, Susanna (Avery-Quash, Susanna; Quash, Susanna Avery-)
Subjects
art literature:
Eastlake, Charles Lock
dates:
1850-1869
museums and institutions:
National Gallery, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Conservation / Restoration (process) / Museum techniques / Techniques / Gallery directors / Museum directors / Environmental protection / Glazing (glass) / Damage to works of art
subjects:
Collections, Public
Illustrations
Attributed works:
36. Sir Charles Eastlake, by Francis Grant. 1853 (National Gallery, London)
Attributed works:
38. Ralph Nicholson Wornum, Keeper at the National Gallery during Eastlake's directorship. Portrait photograph taken in the studio of William Green, Northumberland, 1873 (National Gallery, London)
Attributed works:
39. Page from Wornum's Diary: the entry for 17th October 1859 condemns the use of patent parchment to cover the backs of Gallery pictures (National Gallery archive: NGA2/3/2/13. National Gallery, London)
Attributed works:
40. Photograph of An Allegory with Venus and Cupid, by Agnolo Bronzino, showing Raffaele Pinti's overpainting of Venus's tongue and nipple and adding draperies, after the picture's acquisition in 1860. Pinti's changes were removed in 1958 (National Gallery, London)
Attributed works:
41. Eastlake's 'Manuscript Catalogue', showing his entry for Sebastiano del Piombo's Raising of Lazarus (NG1). Under the heading 'On what material painted', Eastlake notes that the picture had been 'Transferred to canvas by Hacquin in 1771' and under 'When repaired', he notes that the picture had been retouched by Benjamin West (National Gallery archive: NG10/1. National Gallery, London)
Western art unattributed:
37. A gallery in the Barry Rooms complex showing National Gallery pictures protected by glass before being put on display. 1876 (National Gallery, London)
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