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The Art Bulletin archives from September 2006
Herri met de Bles's sleeping peddler: an exegetical and anthropomorphic landscape.(essay)(16th century painter)(Belgium)(Critical essay)
September 1, 2006... The Sleeping Peddler Robbed by the Apes (Fig. 1) is one of the most significant works of the exegetical painter Herri met de Bles, a Flemish artist working in the second third of the sixteenth century. (1) Given the fact that the profane...
Sex and spirituality in 1500s Rome: Sebastiano del Piombo's martyrdom of Saint Agatha.(essay)(Critical essay)
September 1, 2006... Sebastiano del Piombo's Martyrdom of Saint Agatha (Fig. 1) is an unsettling image. A woman, naked apart from a cloth loosely knotted at her hips, stands in the center of the composition. Swarthy men at either side of her brandish pincers that...
Treasuring the gaze: eye miniature portraits and the intimacy of vision.(essay)(Maria Fitzherbert and the Prince of Wales)(Britain, 1784)(Critical essay)(Cover story)
September 1, 2006...
Which eye can see itself?--Stendhal, The Life of Henry Brulard (1)
In March 1784, shortly after his first meeting with the recently widowed Mrs. Maria Fitzherbert at the opera in London, the smitten twenty-one-year-old Prince of Wales...
Allan Ramsay's Enlightenment: or, Hume and the patronizing portrait.(essay)(Critical essay)
September 1, 2006... In 1932 Edgar Wind published "Humanitatsidee und heroisiertes Portrat in der englischen Kultur des 18. Jahrhunderts" while still a privatdozent at Hamburg University within the orbit of Aby Warburg's library and method. (1) Wind eventually...
Ingres's studio between history and allegory: Rachel, antiquity, and tragedie.(essay)(Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres)(Critical essay)
September 1, 2006... In 1855 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres finally broke the vow he had made more than twenty years earlier never again to exhibit his work at an annual Salon. At the Exposition Universelle that year, as one of four painters granted a retrospective...
Woman with a fan: Paul Gauguin's heavenly Vairaumati--a parable of immortality.(essay)(Critical essay)
September 1, 2006...
I work a bit like the Bible, where the doctrine is pronounced in
symbolic form, presenting a double aspect...; it's the sense literal,
superficial, figurative, mysterious of a parable.--Paul Gauguin to
Andre Fontainas, August 1899...
A newer Protagoras.(essay)(Critical essay)(Excerpt)
September 1, 2006... In 1929, The Art Bulletin published a mock Platonic dialogue, "The New Protagoras," by the philosopher and historian of art theory A. Philip McMahon. With a text only five pages in length but outfitted with exactly one hundred learned...
The End of Caravaggio.(Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio)("Caravaggio: L'ultimo tempo 1606-1610", Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, October 23, 2004 - January 23, 2005)("Caravaggio: The Final Years", National Gallery, London, February 23 - May 22, 2005)
September 1, 2006... The End of Caravaggio
Caravaggio: L'ultimo tempo 1606-1610 Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, October 23, 2004-January 23, 2005
Caravaggio: The Final Years, National Gallery, London, February 23-May 22, 2005
Nicola Spinosa, ed., with...
Mutilation and Transformation: Damnatio Memoriae and Roman Imperial Portraiture.(essay)(Critical essay)
September 1, 2006... ERIC R. VARNER
Mutilation and Transformation: Damnatio Memoriae and Roman Imperial Portraiture
Leiden: Brill, 2004. 340 pp.; 215 b/w ills. $287.00
In the last three decades, scholars and students of Roman art have become...
Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Netherlandish Proverbs and the Practice of Rhetoric.(essay)(Critical essay)
September 1, 2006... MARK A. MEADOW
Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Netherlandish Proverbs and the Practice of Rhetoric Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 2002. 176 pp.; 50 color ills., 50 b/w. $60.00.
JOHANN JOSEF BOKER
Architektur der Gotik/ Gothic...
Inventions of the Studio, Renaissance to Romanticism.(book)(Critical essay)
September 1, 2006... MICHAEL COLE AND MARY PARDO, EDS.
Inventions of the Studio, Renaissance to Romanticism
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. 264 pp.; 8 color ills., 110 b/w. $49.95
Artists have been defined by their inner nature...
Modern German Art for Thirties Paris, Prague, and London: Resistance and Acquiescence in a Democratic Public Sphere.(essay)(Critical essay)
September 1, 2006... KEITH HOLZ
Modern German Art for Thirties Paris, Prague, and London: Resistance and Acquiescence in a Democratic Public Sphere
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. 359 pp.; 6 color ills., 86 b/w ills.
With this book...
Books received January-March 2006.(The Art Bulletin)(Bibliography)
September 1, 2006... ARTUNDO, PATRICIA M., JORGE SCHWARTZ, AND DANIEL NELSON. Xul Solar: Visions and Revelations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. 268 pp.; 139 color ills.; 5 b/w ills. Paper $50.00 (0300117116)
BIESBOER, PIETER. Pieler Claesz: Master of...
Reviews online (February-April 2006).(The Art Bulletin)(Bibliography)
September 1, 2006... CAA.Reviews, published online by the College Art Association, posts additional reviews of books, catalogues, and exhibitions in the arts on an on-going basis. The website address is http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/. Recently posted reviews...