The Art Bulletin articles from September 1998

The Art Bulletin archives from September 1998

Die Domfassade in Orvieto: Studien zur Architektur und Skulptur 1290-1330.(Review)
September 1, 1998... Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1996. 143 pp.; 115 b/wills. DM 98 Antje Middeldorf Kosegarten's monograph on the facade of Orvieto Cathedral represents the most significant contribution to literature on the cathedral since 1959. It is also...

"A Dance to the Music of Time".(Review)
September 1, 1998... Nicolas Poussin London: Trustees of the Wallace Collection, 1995.79 pp.; 11 color ills., 55 b/w. $21.95 "Perhaps the subtlest art exhibition in New York City at the moment," so one could read in the New York Times on Wednesday, October 22,...

Nicolas Pousin's Landscape Allegories.(Review)
September 1, 1998... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 212 pp.; 8 color ills., 41 b/w. $70.00 "Perhaps the subtlest art exhibition in New York City at the moment," so one could read in the New York Times on Wednesday, October 22, 1997, "is the...

Poussin: Works on Paper: Drawings from the Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.(Review)
September 1, 1998... Houston: Museum of Fine Arts and London: Merrell Holberton, 1995. 208 pp.; 110 color ills., 71 b/w. $35.00 "Perhaps the subtlest art exhibition in New York City at the moment," so one could read in the New York Times on Wednesday, October...

Poussin Before Rome: 1594-1624.(Review)
September 1, 1998... London: Richard L. Feigen and Co., 1995. 119 pp.; 6 color ills., 42 b/w. $70.00 "Perhaps the subtlest art exhibition in New York City at the moment," so one could read in the New York Times on Wednesday, October 22, 1997, "is the single...

The Flight into Egypt: Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665).(Review)
September 1, 1998... Monaco: Musee de la Chapelle de la Visitation, 1997. 44 pp.; 8 color ills., 3 b/w. "Perhaps the subtlest art exhibition in New York City at the moment," so one could read in the New York Times on Wednesday, October 22, 1997, "is the single...

Rome, 1630: L'horizon du premier baroque suivi de Un des siecles du culte des images.(Review)
September 1, 1998... Paris: Flammarion, 1994. 208 pp.; 177 color and b/w ills. 450 FF "Perhaps the subtlest art exhibition in New York City at the moment," so one could read in the New York Times on Wednesday, October 22, 1997, "is the single painting by...

L'ecole du silence: Le Sentiment des images au 17 siecle.(Review)
September 1, 1998... Paris: Flammarion, 1994. 511 pp.; 251 b/w ills. 295 FF "Perhaps the subtlest art exhibition in New York City at the moment," so one could read in the New York Times on Wednesday, October 22, 1997, "is the single painting by Nicolas Poussin...

Poussin: Beaute de l'enigme.(Review)
September 1, 1998... Paris: Editions Jean-Michel Place, 1994. 162 pp.; 90 b/w ills. 195 FF "Perhaps the subtlest art exhibition in New York City at the moment," so one could read in the New York Times on Wednesday, October 22, 1997, "is the single painting by...

Nicolas Poussin: Friendship and the Love of Painting.(Review)
September 1, 1998... Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. 374 pp.; 12 color ills., 165 b/w. $95.00 "Perhaps the subtlest art exhibition in New York City at the moment," so one could read in the New York Times on Wednesday, October 22, 1997, "is the...

Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665): Actes du colloque organise au Musee du Louvre.(Review)
September 1, 1998... Paris: La Documentation Francaise, 1996. 2 vols., 996 pp.; many b/w ills. 540 FF "Perhaps the subtlest art exhibition in New York City at the moment," so one could read in the New York Times on Wednesday, October 22, 1997, "is the single...

The Romantic Spirit in German Art: 1790-1990.(Review)
September 1, 1998... London: Thames and Hudson, 1994. 504 pp.; 185 color ills., 155 b/w. $75.00 The fall of the Berlin .Wall in November 1989 was undoubtedly one of the most important events of the last half-century. Its political effects were in some ways...

Imagining Modern German Culture: 1889-1910.(Review)
September 1, 1998... Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1996. 312 pp.; 8 color ills., 149 b/w. $55.00 The fall of the Berlin .Wall in November 1989 was undoubtedly one of the most important events of the last half-century. Its political effects were in...

Charles Gleyre (1806-1874).(Review)
September 1, 1998... Zurich: Swiss Institute for Art Research and Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. 988 pp. $160 For those who believe that recent art historical writing has gone off the theoretical deep end, William Hauptman's new book on the...

Early Impressionism and the French State (1866-1874).(Review)
September 1, 1998... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 318 pp.; 153 b/w. $60.00 Both individually and collectively, the artists of the Impressionist circle have been the subjects of numerous monographs and exhibitions, especially in the past decade....

Impressionism: Reflections and Perceptions.(Review)
September 1, 1998... New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1997. 359 pp.; 106 color ills., 37 b/w. $50.00 Both individually and collectively, the artists of the Impressionist circle have been the subjects of numerous monographs and exhibitions, especially in the...

Degas: Beyond Impressionism.(Review)
September 1, 1998... London: National Gallery Publications and Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1996. 324 pp.; 171 color ills., 138 b/w. $50.00 Both individually and collectively, the artists of the Impressionist circle have been the subjects of numerous...

Dazwischen: Kulturwissenschaft auf Warburgs Spuren (Saecula Spiritalia, 29).(Review)
September 1, 1998... Baden-Baden: Verlag Valentin Koerner, 1996. 2 vols., 886 pp.; 4 color ills.; 180 b/w. "Uber Geschichte reden ist ein schwieriges Geschaft" (Talking about history is a difficult business) - so begins Dieter Wuttke's "Renaissance-Humanismus...

Winckelmann and the Notion of Aesthetic Education.(Review)
September 1, 1998... Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. 274 pp. $90.00 "Uber Geschichte reden ist ein schwieriges Geschaft" (Talking about history is a difficult business) - so begins Dieter Wuttke's "Renaissance-Humanismus und Naturwissenschaft in Deutschland."...

The Absolute Artist: The Historiography of a Concept.(Review)
September 1, 1998... Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. 206 pp.; 8 b/w ills. $17.95 paper "Uber Geschichte reden ist ein schwieriges Geschaft" (Talking about history is a difficult business) - so begins Dieter Wuttke's "Renaissance-Humanismus...

Past Looking: Historical Imagination and the Rhetoric of the Image.(Review)
September 1, 1998... Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996. 214 pp.; 60 b/w ills. $39.95, $15.95 paper "Uber Geschichte reden ist ein schwieriges Geschaft" (Talking about history is a difficult business) - so begins Dieter Wuttke's "Renaissance-Humanismus und...

The Columba Altarpiece and the time of the world.
September 1, 1998... Pictorial manipulations of time, ranging among moments, lifetimes, and centuries, were a chief concern of late medieval and Renaissance painters. Countless sacred and secular images propose one or more distinct temporal dimensions, as in the...

The public commemorative monument: Mino da Fiesole's Tombs in the Florentine Badia.
September 1, 1998... In the third quarter of the fifteenth century Mino da Fiesole carved two tombs for the oldest monastic foundation in Florence, the Benedictine abbey known as the Badia.(1) The first tomb, completed about 1468, was essentially a private...

"Causa di Stravaganze": order and anarchy in Domenico Gargiulo's Revolt of Masaniello.
September 1, 1998... In July 1647, the Neapolitan populace rose in arms against the government of the Spanish viceroy. The revolt is named after its first leader, Masaniello, a poor fisherman in his twenties whose meteoric rise to fame was matched only by his rapid...

The Monument, or, Christopher Wren's Roman accent.
September 1, 1998... The dumbnesse of it (vnlesse the letters be worne quite away) speakes; that it was not any worke of the ROMANS. For they were wont to make stones vocall by inscriptions. - [Edmund Bolton], 1627(1) Irridenda est eorum socordia, qui praesenti...

The "foreignness" of classical modern art in Romania.
September 1, 1998... Much of what has become accepted as canonical modern art was born on the eastern margins of industrial Europe - Dadaism in royal Romania, Constructivism in the czarist Russian empire and its successor states, and uniquely creative forms of...

French art of the present in Hitler's Berlin.
September 1, 1998... On June 5, 1937, an exhibition of French modern art, Ausstellung Franzosischer Kunst der Gegenwart (French Art of the Present), opened at the Preussische Akademie der Kunste in Berlin.(1) It featured works by, among others, Henri Matisse,...