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The Art Bulletin archives from December 2004
Art imitates architecture: the Saint Philip reliquary in Renaissance Florence.
December 1, 2004... Public ritual in late medieval and Renaissance Florence was largely dependent on the cults of the city's patron saints, relics, and sacred images. (1) For example, each time a new bishop entered Florence to take possession of the bishopric, on...
Poussin, plague, and early modern medicine.
December 1, 2004...
... every year we have cured a number of the sick, who regained their
health by no other means than the movement of their souls.--Galen, De
sanitate tuenda, 1576
When we endure the smartest sores our crying turns the...
By the sword and the plow: Theodore Chasseriau's Cour des Comptes murals and Algeria.
December 1, 2004... On May 23, 1871, the Palais d'Orsay was ravaged by a fire during the wave of incendiary violence set off by the popular uprising in Paris following the Franco-Prussian War. As the seat of two powerful government agencies, the Cour des Comptes...
Hats and hierarchy in Gustave Courbet's The Meeting.
December 1, 2004... This essay proposes a new reading of Gustave Courbet's The Meeting, better known as Bonjour Monsieur Courbet, through a sustained focus on elements normally considered to be minor details--the hats, beards, canes, and gestures in the painting...
Photography, painting, and Charles Sheeler's View of New York.
December 1, 2004... In 1935, Edith Halpert of the Downtown Gallery, New York, sold Charles Sheeler's View of New York to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, for $2,200 (Fig. 1). Although considerably reduced from her original asking price of $3,500, it nonetheless...
Impossible distance: past and present in the study of Durer and Grunewald.(Albrecht Durer)(Matthias Grunewald)
December 1, 2004...
The past--or, more accurately--pastness--is a position.--Michel-Rolph
Trouillot, Silencing the Past, 1995
One forgets not by cancellation but by superimposition, not by
producing absence but by multiplying presences.--Umberto...
Light and dark: the daguerreotype and art history.
December 1, 2004... The Dawn of Photography; French Daguerreotypes, 1839-1855
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 23, 2003-January 4, 2004, organized by Malcolm Daniel, with the assistance of Stephen Pinson
Malcolm Daniel et al., The Dawn...
Leonardo's Incessant Last Supper.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... LEO STEINBERG
Leonardo's Incessant Last Supper
New York: Zone Books, 2001. 317 pp.; 1 color ill., 203 b/w. $46.00
"But it's only an interpretation; two years from now someone will come up with another interpretation, and then what...
Atlas of World Art.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... JOHN ONIANS, ED.
Atlas of World Art
London: Oxford University Press, 2004. 352 pp.; 300 color ills. $120.00
THOMAS DACOSTA KAUFMANN
Toward a Geography of Art
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 490 pp.; 91 b/w...
Books received (June-September 2004).
December 1, 2004... ACKLEY, CLIFFORD S., RONNI BAER, THOMAS E. RASSIEUR, AND WILLIAM W. ROBINSON. Rembrandt's Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher. Exh. cat. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2003. 344 pp.; 80 color ills.; 160 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (0878466770)
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