The Art Bulletin articles from March 2000

The Art Bulletin archives from March 2000

"Excellent Offerings": The Lausos Collection in Constantinople.
March 1, 2000... In 324 C.E., the emperor Constantine the Great (r. 324-37) founded the city of Constantinople as a new imperial capital on the site of the old Greco-Roman town of Byzantium. In so doing he undertook one of the greatest projects of urban renewal...

"Per Ornato Della Citt[grave{a}]": Siena's Strada Romana and Fifteenth-Century Urban Renewal.
March 1, 2000... On January 19, 1468, a cloth merchant named Paolo di Antonio di Vitello petitioned the Sienese government for financial incentives to help him restore his house in Siena [1] Paolo referred to the "great beauty of the whole city and satisfaction...

Aretino and Michelangelo, Dolce and Titian: Femmina, Masculo, Grazia.
March 1, 2000... ... you could truly say it was maidenly for a boy or boyish for a girl.--Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.322-23 [1] Between October 1545 and March 1546 Titian resided in Rome under the auspices of the Farnese. Little more than a decade earlier the...

Unfinished Homage: Manet's Burial and Baudelaire.
March 1, 2000... Little precise documentation exists for [acute{E}]douard Manet's The Burial, a painting that has been in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since 1909 (Fig. 1) [1] The work, which Manet listed in an inventory of his...

Dis/Continuities in Dresden's Dances of Death.
March 1, 2000... My own role in this strange dance was the embodiment of that figure standing between the beast and group in a highly passive mood. She was the last figure moving into... This figure was called upon, to endure, as it were, but not to suffer...

Ernst Kirchner's Streetwalkers: Art, Luxury, and Immorality in Berlin, 1913-16.
March 1, 2000... An article entitled "Culture in the Display Window," which surveyed the elegant artistry of Berlin's display windows, appeared in Der Kritiker, a Berlin cultural journal, during the summer of 1913. Its author stated that these windows were an...

Minimalism and Biography.
March 1, 2000... Ever greater, apparently indelible, claims are being made for Minimalism as a movement occupying "a place in the second half of our century akin to the one held by Cubism in the first half," [1] or as crucially defining the very cusp between...

The Birth Date, Early Life, and Career of Piero di Cosimo.
March 1, 2000... Among the many biographical uncertainties surrounding Piero di Cosimo (whose familiar name derives from his teacher, Cosimo Rosselli), the ambiguity of his birth date has been one of the most obstinate. The confusion over the birth date has...

Fact, Fiction, Hearsay: Notes on Vasari's Life of Piero di Cosimo.
March 1, 2000... "I should prefer to consider the artists," Bernard Berenson wrote in 1938, "as discarnate torch-bearers, with no civic existence whatsoever." [1] This famous remark--reflecting a view tacitly shared by many art historians--was made [grave{a}]...