The Art Bulletin articles from December 1998

The Art Bulletin archives from December 1998

Court, Cloister and City: The Art and Culture of Central Europe, 1450-1800.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. 576 pp.; 235 b/w ills. $45.00 The two books considered here contribute to our view of the Renaissance as an international phenomenon that developed in Italy as a revival of antiquity and was then...

The Renaissance Print: 1470-1550.(Review)
December 1, 1998... New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. 434 pp.; 50 color ills., 355 b/w. $65.00 The two books considered here contribute to our view of the Renaissance as an international phenomenon that developed in Italy as a revival of antiquity and...

Lorenzo Lotto: Rediscovered Master of the Renaissance.(Review)
December 1, 1998... New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. 272 pp.; 80 color ills., 100 b/w. $55.00 The Lorenzo Lotto exhibition that opened in November 1997 in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and that traveled to Bergamo and Paris in 1998,...

Lorenzo Lotto.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Paris: Adam Biro, 1996. 208 pp.; 118 color ills., 2 b/w. $55.00 The Lorenzo Lotto exhibition that opened in November 1997 in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and that traveled to Bergamo and Paris in 1998, hailed Lorenzo...

Lorenzo Lotto e l'Immaginario Alchemico: Le "imprese" nelle tarsie del coro della basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Clusone: Ferrari, 1997. 210 pp.; 45 color ills., 40 b/w. 60,000 lire The Lorenzo Lotto exhibition that opened in November 1997 in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and that traveled to Bergamo and Paris in 1998, hailed...

Gericault.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Paris: La Documentation Francaise, 1996. 2 vols.; 1094 pp.; 430 b/w ills. Fr 550.00 paper

Paul Delaroche: History Painted.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. 304 pp.; 35 color ills., 132 b/w. $49.50 The 1995-96 blockbuster exhibition at the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Nantes and the Grand Palais in Paris and its accompanying catalogue, Les annees...

Painting and History During the French Restoration: Abandoned by the Past.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 269 pp.; 8 color ills., 60 b/w. $70.00 The 1995-96 blockbuster exhibition at the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Nantes and the Grand Palais in Paris and its accompanying catalogue, Les annees...

Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Manchester, Eng.: Manchester City Art Gallery, 1997-98. 159 pp.; 65 color ills., 163 b/w. [pounds]19.95 There has been a spate of important exhibitions and accompanying catalogues in the realm of Victorian art in 1997. Among the most...

The Victorians: British Painting, 1837-1901.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1997. 156 pp.; 68 color ills., 99 b/w. $49.50 There has been a spate of important exhibitions and accompanying catalogues in the realm of Victorian art in 1997. Among the most notable were...

Mikhail Larionov and the Russian Avant-Garde.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. 254 pp.; 28 color ills., 216 b/w. $80.00; $29.95 paper On a bitterly cold morning in Moscow in January 1927, Walter Benjamin visited the former residence of Sergei Shchukin, a textile merchant...

The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia.(Review)
December 1, 1998... New York: Henry Holt, Metropolitan Books, 1997. 192 pp.; 4 color ills., 271 b/w. $35.00 A slim volume with little text and full of intriguing and somewhat perverse pictures, The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art...

The Languages of Landscape.(Review)
December 1, 1998... University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. 303 pp.; 13 color ills., 80 b/w. $65.00. Almost at the very end of his book on The Languages of Landscape, Mark Roskill rehearses the passage from John Ruskin's Modern...

What is 'Chinese narrative illustration.'.
December 1, 1998... In modern writings on Chinese pictorial art, the term narrative illustration is loosely applied to a diverse array of works. Although there seems to be an implicit consensus that the designation is appropriate to pictures that illustrate a...

The painter's presence: signatures in Venetian Renaissance pictures.
December 1, 1998... The placing of a signature on a painting is a conscious act by the painter that establishes his or her presence. That presence communicates outward to the viewer, but it also communicates information about the painter's relationship inward, to...

Thomas Gainsborough's Ann Ford.
December 1, 1998... In 1758, finding trade slack in Ipswich, where he had been based since 1752, Thomas Gainsborough made a reconnaissance trip to Bath, to see if richer pickings were to be had, and discovered that they were. So, in October 1759, he removed there...

The expressive body in Goya's Saint Francis Borgia at the Deathbed of an Impenitent.
December 1, 1998... Saint Francis Borgia at the Deathbed of an Impenitent [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 1 OMITTED], painted by Francisco Goya (1746-1828) in 1788, is one of the most astonishing works in an oeuvre replete with remarkable images. In the decade and a half...

Structure/ornament and the modern figuration of architecture.
December 1, 1998... Roman architecture often reduced the Greek orders to mere ornament applied to arcuated structures. The Lombard chapel piled up ornament on the purist structure of the Florentine model. In the nineteenth century a building was made a...

Pissarro, landscape, vision, and tradition.
December 1, 1998... Paul Cezanne once remarked that if Camille Pissarro "had gone on painting as he was doing in 1870, he would have been the strongest of us all."(1) Cezanne did not make clear why he found Pissarro's early work so compelling, but he implied that...