The Art Bulletin articles from June 2000

The Art Bulletin archives from June 2000

The Wall Paintings in the Panteon de los Reyes at Leon: A Cycle of Intercession.
June 1, 2000... The Pante[acute{o}]n de los Reyes, or Pantheon of the Kings, attached to the church of San Isidoro has often been at the center of debates about Spanish Romanesque art. Some have claimed it as prime evidence for the precocity of Spanish...

Renaissance Gothic in the Netherlands: The Uses of Ornament.
June 1, 2000... During the final years of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the century that followed, there arose in the Netherlands a highly refined variant of Late Gothic architecture. [1] Most familiar through the sophisticated baldachins,...

Dosso Dossi, Garofalo, and the Costabili Polyptych: Imaging Spiritual Authority.
June 1, 2000... In the 1568 edition of his Life of the Ferrarese painter Benvenuto Tisi, called Garofalo (ca. 1476 or 1481-1559), Giorgio Vasari provides a detailed account of the artist's education and early career, including specific information on the...

Romanita and Grazia: Giulio Clovio's Pauline Frontispieces for Marino Grimani.
June 1, 2000... When the miniaturist Giulia Clovio reentered the household of his former patron Cardinal Marino Grimani in 1534, he was returning to the sophisticated environment in which he had been trained. [1] Between 1516, when Clovio left his native...

Color and the Exchange of Ideas between Patron and Artist in Renaissance Italy.
June 1, 2000... In 1542 the confraternity of the church of S. Maria della Steccata in Parma complained to Giulio Romano about a Coronation of the Virgin fresco they had commissioned him to design (Fig. 1). [1] The colors, the confraternity claimed, appeared...

Desiderio and Diletto: Vision, Touch, and the Poetics of Bernini's Apollo and Daphne.
June 1, 2000... The gods, that mortal beauty chase, Still in a tree did end their race. Apollo hunted Daphne so, Only that she might laurel grow. And Pan did after Syrinx speed, Not as a nymph, but for a reed. -Andrew Marvell, from...

Mounting Vision: Charles Eastlake and the National Gallery of London.
June 1, 2000... In an essay of 1848 on the National Gallery in London Charles Kingsley laid out the following vision for the museum: Therefore I said that picture-galleries should be the townsman's paradise of refreshment.... There, in the space of a...

A Patron for Lorenzo Monaco's Uffizi: Coronation of the Virgin.
June 1, 2000... In 1413 Gamaldolese monks at S. Maria degli Angeli installed Lorenzo Monaco's Coronation of the Virgin on the high altar of their monastic church (Fig. 1). [1] Now located in the Uffizi Galleries and recognized as one of the most important Late...

Worldview in Painting--Art and Society.(Review)
June 1, 2000... MEYER SCHAPIRO New York: George Braziller, 1999. 256 pp.; 26 b/w ills. $30 This collection of essays includes two discussions of "Philosophy in Painting" and various accounts, some dating as far back as the 1930s, of art and society....

Low and High Style in Italian Renaissance Art.(Review)
June 1, 2000... PATRICIA EMISON New York: Garland Publishing Company, 1997. 209 pp., 40 b/w ills. $75 Patricia Emison's Low and High Style in Italian Renaissance Art is an intriguing, rather offbeat attempt to address a set of images that in some way...

Flemish Art and Architecture 1585-1700.(Review)
June 1, 2000... HANS VLIEGHE New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. 339 pp.; 100 color ills., 306 b/w, 1 map. $75 Hans Vlieghe's new edition in the Pelican History of Art series has moved far from its predecessor, coauthored by Horst Gerson and...

The "Divine" Guido: Religion, Sex, Money and Art in the World of Guido Reni.(Review)
June 1, 2000... RICHARD E. SPEAR New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. 430 pp.; 39 color ills., 134 b/w. $65 On the cover of Richard Spear's The "Divine" Guido one sees a virginal Hippomenes shoving Atalanta off the page, over the spine, and onto...

Rembrandt's Eyes.(Review)
June 1, 2000... SIMON SCHAMA New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. 728 pp.; 359 color and b/w ills. $50 What does it mean to see through Rembrandt's eyes? Simon Schama aims in his new book to restore an appreciation of Rembrandt's genius, under assault...

Rembrandt by Himself.(Review)
June 1, 2000... CHRISTOPHER WHITE AND QUENTIN BUVELOT, eds., et al. London: National Gallery Publications; The Hague: Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis, distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven, 1999. 272 PP., 103 color ills., 203 b/w. $45 ...

Gustave Moreau: Between Epic and Dream.(Review)
June 1, 2000... GENEVI[grave{E}]VE LACAMBRE, ed., et al. Paris: R[acute{e}]union des Mus[acute{e}]es Nationaux; Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1999. 308 pp., 162 color ills., 129 b/w. $60 As any visitor to the slightly bizarre Mus[acute{e}]e...

Degas at the Races.(Review)
June 1, 2000... JEAN SUTHERLAND BOGGS et al. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. 272 pp.; 144 color ills., 149 b/w. $50 The exhibition Degas at the Races ran from April to July 1998 at a single venue, the National Gallery of Art in Washington,...