The Art Bulletin articles from March 1999

The Art Bulletin archives from March 1999

Reconfiguring the gods on the Parthenon frieze.
March 1, 1999... One of the greatest enigmas of classical art is the low-relief frieze executed for the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis sometime between 447 and 432 B.C.E. In spite of over two hundred years of scholarship extending as far back as the second...

The Warren Cup: homoerotic love and symposial rhetoric in silver.
March 1, 1999... One of the most exquisite works of toreutic art to have been created in the early Roman Imperial period is a silver ovoid scyphus,(1) or drinking vessel, approximately 6 inches (15 centimeters) high, known as the Warren Cup [ILLUSTRATION FOR...

A 'secret and feverish genesis': the prefaces of the Old English Hexateuch.
March 1, 1999... God made for us two eyes and two ears, two nostrils and two lips, two hands and two feet and he wished also to have two Testaments established in this world, the Old and the New, because he does as he pleases. - AElfric of Eynsham, "Preface to...

The Neville of Hornby Hours and the design of literate devotion.
March 1, 1999... The later Middle Ages witnessed a veritable "explosion of devotional forms,"(1) both literary and pictorial, a phenomenon that enriched the religious experience of an increasingly broad lay public. A notable rise in lay literacy, particularly...

Giotto's 'Annunciation' in the Arena Chapel, Padua.
March 1, 1999... Giotto's Annunciation fresco in the Arena Chapel, Padua, occupies a focal position above the chancel arch of the church and is central to the iconographic program of the entire fresco cycle of The Life of the Virgin and The Life of Christ...

Van Eyck's Washington 'Annunciation': technical evidence for iconographic development.(Jan van Eyck's painting)
March 1, 1999... The recent conservation treatment of Jan van Eyck's Annunciation in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 1 OMITTED], has uncovered an exceptionally beautiful work. The removal of heavily discolored varnish and...

Van Eyck's Washington 'Annunciation': narrative time and metaphoric tradition.(Jan van Eyck's painting)
March 1, 1999... It is the goal of this article to consider the iconographic implications of Jan van Eyck's compositional decisions in his Annunciation at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., in light of the painting's recent examination (see E....

Pseudo-science and mythic misogyny: Oskar Kokoschka's 'Murderer, Hope of Women.'.
March 1, 1999... In his provocative book Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siecle Culture, Bram Dijkstra provides a comprehensive survey and convincing analysis of the broad range and pervasive manifestations of misogyny in the art,...

An introduction to the classical modern art of Bulgaria.
March 1, 1999... For more than a half century the history of modern art has been presented in the West as if twentieth-century culture had been almost exclusively created in and defined by a succession of styles in Paris, Munich, New York, Berlin, or London....

New findings in Titian's fresco technique at the Scuola del Santo in Padua.
March 1, 1999... Among Titian's very few surviving frescoes, the well-preserved group painted in 1511 in the Scuola del Santo representing three miracles of Saint Anthony is his earliest work in this medium still in its original setting.(1) In one of the scenes...

Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer.(Review)
March 1, 1999... STEPHEN WILDMAN AND JOHN CHRISTIAN with essays by ALAN CRAWFORD AND LAURENCE DES CARS New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1998. Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 372 pp.; 173 ills., mostly color, 109 b/w. $75.00 cloth....

The Age of Rossetti, Burne-Jones and Watts: Symbolism in Britain.(Review)
March 1, 1999... ANDREW WILTON AND ROBERT UPSTONE with contributions by BARBARA BRYANT, CHRISTOPHER NEWALL, MARYANNE STEVENS, AND SIMON WILSON Paris: Flammarion for Tate Gallery Publishing, Ltd., 1997. 304 pp.; 139 color ills., 60 b/w. $55.00 cloth....

Neo-Impressionism and the Search for Solid Ground: Art, Science, and Anarchism in Fin-de-siecle France.(Review)
March 1, 1999... JOHN G. HUTTON Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994, 276 pp.; 67 b/w ills. This is a tale of two superb dissertations - one on Camille Pissarro in the 1880s and the other on Neo-Impressionist science and politics - and...

Pissaro, Neo-Impressionism, and the Spaces fo the Avant-Garde.(Review)
March 1, 1999... MARTHA WARD Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996, 353 pp.; 6 color ills., 95 b/w. This is a tale of two superb dissertations - one on Camille Pissarro in the 1880s and the other on Neo-Impressionist science and politics - and...