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Editorial
Art history in the Anthropocene
10/2021 | 1423 | 163
Pages: 883
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Subjects
subjects:
Ecology / climate change / Environmental protection / Museums / sponsorship
Exhibition Review
Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture
12/2020 | 1413 | 162
Pages: 1095-1097
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Reviewer:
Sullivan, Edward J. (Sullivan, Edward J.; S., E. J.)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, United States
places:
North America / Central America / South America
subjects:
Humboldt, Alexander von / Enlightenment / Environmental protection / Slavery / Colonialism / American art / Hudson River School (art movement) / Travel accounts / Social history
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture By Eleanor Jones Harvey. 448 pp. incl. 215 col. + 22 b. & w. ills. (Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, and Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ and Oxford, 2020), £62. ISBN 978–0–691–20080–4. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
13. Alexander von Humboldt, by Friedrich Georg Weitsch. 1806. Oil on canvas, 126 by 92.5 cm. (Nationalgalerie, Berlin; exh. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington).
Attributed works:
14. Géographie des plantes équinoxiales, by Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland. 1805. Handcoloured print, 61 by 91.4 cm. (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; exh. Smithsonian, American Art Museum, Washington).
Attributed works:
15. Heart of the Andes, by Frederic Edwin Church. 1859. Oil on canvas, 168 by 302.9 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; exh. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington).
Exhibition Review
Fashioned from Nature. Victoria and Albert Museum, London
06/2018 | 1383 | 160
Pages: 497-499
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Reviewer:
Miller, Sanda (Miller, Sanda)
Subjects
art literature:
Pater, Walter
artists:
Klein, Calvin / Gaultier, Jean-Paul / McCartney, Stella / Monet, Claude
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Silks / Textiles / Costume
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
Fashion / Nature / Environmental protection / East-West trade / Collections, Public / Dress / Decorative arts
Illustrations
Attributed works:
12. Green carpet challenge dress, by Calvin Klein. 2016. Recycled plastic bottles. (Photograph Dimitrios Kambouris/ Getty Images; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
11. Court mantua. France, 1760s. Silk, silver and gilded silver thread, silver bobbin lace and ermine, width at hem 195 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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)
Publication Received
The Re-Enchantment of Art
04/1993 | 1081 | 135
Pages: 286
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Reviewer:
Bull, Malcolm (Bull, Malcolm)
Subjects
dates:
1900-1999
subjects:
Art theory / Ethics
subjects:
Environmental protection
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Re-Enchantment of Art | author: Gablik, Suzi