The Art Bulletin articles from June 2001

The Art Bulletin archives from June 2001

Aeneas or Numa? Rethinking the meaning of the Ara Pacis Augustae.
June 1, 2001... For the modern world, the Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace) has come to symbolize the artistic, political, and social achievements of the early Roman Empire, just as the Parthenon at Athens has for Classical Greece. (1) Constructed...

On Carolingian book painters: The Ottoboni Gospels and its Transfiguration Master.
June 1, 2001... Although Jan Steen is a famously funny painter, the only picture in the splendid exhibition of his work at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., that caused me to laugh aloud was the self-portrait of 1670 (Fig. 1). (1) On first viewing...

The city's new clothes: Ambrogio Lorenzetti and the poetics of peace.
June 1, 2001... The pain that nevertheless remains bears witness to... the experience of having been able to exist for, through, with another mind. When one dreams of a happy, harmonious, utopian society, one imagines it built on love, since love exalts me at...

The Farnese circular courtyard at Caprarola: God, geopolitics, genealogy, and gender.
June 1, 2001... About thirty miles north of Rome, within the former state of Ronciglione, the Villa Farnese dominates the village of Caprarola, situated on a steep lava ridge just over the rim to the southeast of the volcanic crater forming the Lago di Vico...

Desire and domestic economy.
June 1, 2001... Seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting, at its best, derives an unsettling power from its transfiguration of the commonplace. (1) Subjects often banal in the extreme are removed from the ordinary context of experience and, perpetually fixed...

Ise Shrine and a Modernist construction of Japanese tradition.
June 1, 2001... Today the Shinto shrines at Ise embody some of the most treasured aesthetic values associated with Japan (Fig. 1). (1) The image of stout columns of unfinished cypress, standing in a court of white pebbles and sheltered by a dense cryptomeria...

Architecture's place in art history: Art or adjunct?
June 1, 2001... In a community discussion of the look of Chicago led by a working group of three faculty and three visiting journalists from the University of Chicago's Franke Institute for the Humanities, W.J.T. Mitchell observed that he and his fellow...

The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 2001... JEFFREY F. HAMBURGER New York: Zone Books, 1998. 608 PP., 5 color ills., 241 b/w. $45.00 Following The Rothschild Canticles and Nuns as Artists (1997), Jeffrey Hamburger continues his study of the relationship between images and...

The Florentine Tondo & "Cassone" Painting, Humanism, and Gender in Early Modern Italy. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 2001... ROBERTA OLSON The Florentine Tondo Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 408 pp.; 12 color ills., 297 b/w. $145.00 CRISTELLE BASKINS "Cassone" Painting, Humanism, and Gender in Early Modern Italy, Cambridge Studies in New...

Renaissance Self-Portraiture: The Visual Construction of Identity and the Social Status of the Artist. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 2001... JOANNA WOODS-MARSDEN New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. 295 pp.; 57 color ills., 110 b/w. $60.00 One's first reaction to this book's title is likely to be "Of course!" and to wonder why it was not written fifty or a hundred years...

At Memory's Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 2001... JAMES E. YOUNG New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. 256 pp.; 47 color ills., 56 b/w. $35.00 The study of memory is one of the most fashionable branches of scholarly inquiry in a wide variety of disciplines. The problem remains,...

Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 2001... T. J. CLARK Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. 451 pp.; 100 color ills., 152 b/w. $45.00 In the introduction to his always thoughtful and often moving...

Letters.
June 1, 2001... I have just read and much admired Nancy Locke's learned and sensitive interpretation of Manet's Burial ["Unfinished Homage: Manet's Burial and Baudelaire, the Art Bulletin, March 2000]. I was somewhat baffled, however, by the fact that she did...