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February 2025

Vol. 167 | No. 1463

Bartolini and Scotland

Editorial

Cataloguing

It is one of the basic responsibilities of major collections to research and publish the works of art in their care. Such projects can take many years to mature and are often abandoned because of a lack of funding or shifting institutional priorities. It might be imagined, therefore, that because of these threats and the formidable cost of producing specialist and richly illustrated books, that collection catalogues would have become an extinct species. However, happily, a close reading of this Magazine in recent months would suggest otherwise, across a wide range of media and in terms of a broad chronological span.

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Exhibition Review

Figures du fou: Du Moyen Âge aux Romantiques

This dizzying, ambitious exhibition revolves around the figure of the fool from the thirteenth to the sixteenth and into the nineteenth century. For many viewers the fool will probably bring to mind a court jester, a comedic entertainer clothed in satin motley. However, by displaying a wide selection of works primarily from northern Europe in a range of media, of which painting is the least important, the curatorial team, led by Élisabeth Antoine-König and Pierre-Yves Le Pogam, demonstrate that during this period, the fool wore many faces.
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  • Detail of the Birth of the Virgin

    An Islamic tent in S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara

    By Federica Gigante
  • Crucifixion with the Virgin, Mary Magdalene, St Michael and donor presented by St Anthony Abbot

    Lucchese patronage in Papal Avignon: the chapel of Carlo Spiafame in Notre-Dame-des-Doms

    By Geoffrey Nuttall
  • Bathsheba in the bath

    Two paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi in the Potsdam collection of Frederick the Great

    By Franziska Windt
  • Charles Cumming (later Cumming Bruce) in Turkish dress

    The elder sisters of the ‘The Campbell sisters’: William Gordon Cumming’s patronage of Lorenzo Bartolini

    By Lucy Wood,Timothy Stevens
  • View of the siege of Castro.

    ‘Victory at San Pietro inCasale’ in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome

    By Stephanie C. Leone,Alessandro Serrani
  • Shipwreck on a rocky coast

    Ménage de Pressigny and his art collection

    By Yuriko Jackall
  • Wooded lake

    Lusieri’s mysterious ‘Wooded lake’ identified

    By Dyfri Williams