The Art Bulletin articles from December 2001

The Art Bulletin archives from December 2001

Past presents: New year's gifts at the Valois courts, CA. 1400.
December 1, 2001... While art historians have steadily pursued the study of patterns of artistic consumption and production, they have paid much less attention to the distribution of artistic goods. What follows proposes to address this aspect of the "life of...

God in the details: Bosch and Judgment(s).
December 1, 2001... And the two angels came to Sodom at even; and Lot saw them.... And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great....--Genesis 19:1, 11 For we see divine retribution revealed from heaven and...

The Petite Commande of 1664: Burlesque in the gardens of Versailles.
December 1, 2001... It was Pierre Francastel who christened the most famous program of sculpture in the history of Versailles: the Grande Commande of 1674. (1) The program consisted of twenty-four statues and was planned for the Parterre d'Eau, a square puzzle of...

Blemished physiologies: Delacroix, Paganini, and the cholera epidemic of 1832.(portrait of Niccolo Paganini by Eugene Delacroix)
December 1, 2001... It was a strange Paris, that one. You do remember it: cholera was everything; it had absorbed everything, politics, uprisings, theater, intrigues. It was the whole of society, morality, belief, the end goal of every thought, the center of all...

Art, politics, and the politics of art: Ingres's Saint Symphorien at the 1834 Salon.
December 1, 2001... When the doors of the Louvre opened at noon on March 1, 1834, the public received its first glimpse of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's long-awaited painting Le Martyre de Saint Symphorien (The Martyrdom of Saint Symphorien, Fig. 1)....

Modern Native American art: Angel DeCora's transcultural aesthetics.
December 1, 2001... The point at which Native American art (or indeed any indigenous tradition) became "modern" is a matter of much debate. Some locate it as soon as artists began producing objects for Western viewers. Others identify it with the point when they...

L'image a' l'epoque romane and Le croire et le voir: L'art des cathedrales (XIIe-XVe siecles).
December 1, 2001... JEAN WIRTH L'image a' l'epoque romane Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 1999. 506 pp.; 186 b/w ills. 310FF ROLAND RECHT Le croire et le voir: L 'art des cathedrales (XIIe-XVe siecles) Paris: Gallimard, 1999. 456 pp.;...

Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs & Maya Art and Architecture & Pre-Columbian Art & Teotihuacan: An Experiment in Living.
December 1, 2001... ELIZABETH HILL BOONE Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. 296 pp.; 159 b/w ills. $55 MARY ELLEN MILLER Maya Art and Architecture London:...

The Invention of the Italian Renaissance Printmaker.
December 1, 2001... EVELYN LINCOLN The Invention of the Italian Renaissance Printmaker New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. 224 pp., 150 color and b/w ills. $65 Books on Italian Renaissance prints do not come along very often, and when they do, as...