The Art Bulletin articles from December 2000

The Art Bulletin archives from December 2000

Beyond the Barrier: The Unifying Role of the Choir Screen in Gothic Churches.
December 1, 2000... Thomas Hardy's early novel A Laodicean (first published in 1881) focuses on the relationship between Paula Power, a spirited young woman intent on breathing new life into a ruined medieval castle, and George Somerset, a brilliant neo-Gothic...

Corporate Colors: Bonifacio and Tintoretto at the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi in Venice.
December 1, 2000... Of all the testaments to the golden age of Venetian painting, perhaps the most ignored--and least understood--is the extensive decoration of the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi, originally the site of the Venetian Treasury. Gracefully anchored at the...

The Unified Church Interior in Baroque Italy: S. Maria Maggiore in Bergamo.
December 1, 2000... In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Italy, altarpieces were essentially hybrid entities; most often they were privately commissioned works of art, but they stood in the public spaces of churches. During the early part of this period...

David's Telemachus and Eucharis: Reflections on Love, Learning, and History.
December 1, 2000... [Mentor:] Son of the wise Ulysses... He who has not felt his weakness and the violence of his passions is not yet wise; for he does not yet understand himself and does not know how to distrust himself.--Francois de La Mothe-Fenelon, Les...

The Fourth Dimension and Futurism: A Politicized Space.
December 1, 2000... In the opening lines to his 1914 volume Pittura scultura Futuriste: Dinamismo plastico (Plastic Dynamism), Umberto Boccioni announced his desire to transform Italy. Dedicated to "the genius and muscles of my brothers Marinetti, Carra, Russolo,"...

Beyond the Grave: The Twentieth-Century Afterlife of West Mexican Burial Effigies.
December 1, 2000... In the 1890s, Norwegian anthropologist Carl Lumholtz set out to explore the Sierra Madre Occidental, a mountain chain that runs from Arizona to central Mexico. A committed practitioner of what James Clifford calls "salvage ethnography,"...

Concepts of Beauty in Renaissance Art.(Review)
December 1, 2000... FRANCIS AMES-LEWIS AND MARY ROGERS, EDS. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998. 241 pp.; 48 b/w ills. $84.95 Elizabeth Cropper's hugely influential 1976 article, "On Beautiful Women: Parmigianino, Petrarchismo, and the Vernacular Style," pursued...

Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture.(Review)
December 1, 2000... LEONARD BARKAN New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999, 428 pp.; 199 b/w ills. $35 Sir Thomas Browne, publishing in 1658 his Hydriotaphia, a treatise on sepulchral urns lately discovered in Norfolk, was moved to comment: ...

Renaissance und Religion: Die Kunst des Glaubens im Zeitalter Raphaels.(Review)
December 1, 2000... JORG TRAEGER Munich: Beck, 1997. 552 pp.; 17 color ills., 241 b/w. DM178.00; DM78.00 paper Richard Trexler said it three decades ago: "The pagan Renaissance is no more." One hundred years of scholarship since Burckhardt had made it...

Painting in Spain 1500-1700.(Review)
December 1, 2000... JONATHAN BROWN New Haven and London: Yale University Press, Pelican History of Art, 1999. 293 pp.; 89 color ills., 239 b/w. $75; $35 paper Jonathan Brown's Painting in Spain 1500-1700, originally published as The Golden Age of Painting...

Nietzsche and "An Architecture of Our Minds".(Review)
December 1, 2000... ALEXANDRE KOSTKA AND IRVING WOHLFARTH, EDS. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1999. 376 pp.; 75 b/w ills. $45 paper In the final section of Ecce Homo, entitled "Why I Am a Destiny,"...

Modern Art in Eastern Europe: From the Baltic to the Balkans, Ca. 1890-1939.(Review)
December 1, 2000... S. A. MANSBACH Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 384 pp. 384 ills.; 48 colorplates, 6 maps. $65 Modern Art in Eastern Europe is the only study of its kind in any language, and it is the only recent survey of modernism in a...