The Art Bulletin articles from December 1999

The Art Bulletin archives from December 1999

Time in Space: Narrative in Classical Art.
December 1, 1999... Debates about how to tell a story go back, no doubt, to the time when some mythical humans sat around some mythical fire in some mythical cave. [1] Most of us today grew up under the premises so aptly described by Lewis Carroll in Alice in...

Sealing Signs and the Art of Transcribing in the Vierzon Cartulary.
December 1, 1999... In the 1150s or 1160s, the Berrichon abbey of St-Pierre at Vierzon produced a manuscript collection of its official transactions. [1] Such collections, known as cartularies, are copies in codex form of individual acts, or charters, in the...

Imagined Pilgrimage in the Itinerary Maps of Matthew Paris.
December 1, 1999... The first seven pages of Matthew Paris's famous Chronica majora make up a kind of medieval road map, linking London through the major cities and towns of Europe with the great European centers of pilgrimage, Rome, and Jerusalem (Figs. 1-7). [1]...

Truth and Bizzarria in an Engraving of Lo stregozzo.
December 1, 1999... It really must be admitted that things seen in sleep are, as it were, painted images, which could have been produced only in the likeness of true things.--Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy [1] Fowl...

Exemplum and Imitatio: Countess Matilda and Lucrezia Pico della Mirandola at Polirone.
December 1, 1999... In 1500, Lucrezia Pico della Mirandola, sister of the humanist Giovanni and wife of Count Gherardo d'Appiano, bequeathed her estates to S. Benedetto Polirone near Mantua for the construction of a new abbey church. Her donation was made possible...

Tiepolo, Theater, and the Notion of Theatricality.
December 1, 1999... In discussing the work of Giambattista Tiepolo it has become commonplace to employ terminology that suggests some kind of affinity between his paintings and the stage. Often, the intent is one of analogy. Such is the case for Antonio Morassi in...

The Romanesque Revival, Mural Painting, and Protestant Patronage in America.
December 1, 1999... Among the recognized achievements of the (so-called) American Renaissance at the turn of the century was the great efflorescence of mural painting that adorned the walls of this country's museums, libraries, churches, and courthouses. As the...

DIETRICH BOSCHUNG.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Die Bildnisse des Augustus, Das romische Herrscherbild, pt. 1, vol. 2 Berlin: Gebruder Mann Verlag, 1993. 252 pp.; 239 b/w ills., 9 foldouts. DM 290. This volume on the sculptural portraiture of Augustus, arguably the most important...

Letters.
December 1, 1999... Joachim Pissarro's Mistake I hasten to correct a mistake I made as the reviewer of Martha Ward's stimulating book Pissarro, Neo-Impressionism, and the Spaces of the Avant-Garde (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). In my review...