The Magazine Antiques articles from December 2004

The Magazine Antiques archives from December 2004

Revival styles in jewelry.(Current and coming)(jewelry firm founded by Fortunato Pio Castellani, antique designs)
December 1, 2004... One of the most prolific proponents of revival styles during the nineteenth century was the jewelry firm founded by Fortunato Pio Castellani in Rome in 1814. During the firm's first few decades it made its reputation by producing jewelry that...

Interior design in the 1930s.(Current and coming)(interior design exhibition, great depression era)
December 1, 2004... During the Great Depression in the United States, taste in interior design continued to swing between the colonial revival and the latest in elegant, pared down furnishings and modern conveniences. A small exhibition that examines the latter...

American folk art in California.(Current and coming)(exhibition)
December 1, 2004... In 1961 Thomas H. Oxford and Victor Gail of Long Beach, California, set out to form a collection of Americana that would span the period from the seventeenth through the early nineteenth century. It was to include the achievements of American...

Napoleon's bicentenary.(Report from Europe)
December 1, 2004... On December 2, 1804, for the first time in centuries, France had an emperor. The ceremony for Napoleon Bonaparte's coronation was one of the most elaborate ever held anywhere for any occasion. The setting was the cathedral of Notre-Dame in...

Oriental art in Europe.(Report from Europe)
December 1, 2004... Three European museums are showing exhibitions of Far Eastern art. At the Musee Rath in Geneva, the show is called In the Shade of the Pine Trees: Chinese Masterpieces from the Shanghai Museum, and contains seventeenth-century works. The title...

A Dutch bequest.(Report from Europe)(paintings exhibition)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Adriaan van der Hoop was born in Amsterdam in 1778. A self-made millionaire, he became a partner in the Amsterdam banking firm of Hope en Compagnie in 1815. His contacts with Russia were particularly strong, and he was host to the czars on...

The bullet in the easel.(Books about antiques)(The Cities, the Towns, the Crowds: The Paintings of Robert Spencer)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... In 1970, nearly forty years after her father shot himself, Margaret Spencer found the fatal bullet embedded in the immense easel he built in his studio in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Robert Spencer was fifty-one when he committed suicide, after...

Eli Wilner's job: putting the frame in the picture.(ART)
December 1, 2004... YOU know that dour Victorian portrait your Aunt Tellie left you? Get it down from the attic. Even if the painting's not worth anything, the frame might fetch up to $200,000. And if it does, Eli Wilner will be the man to thank. In 1982, when...

Calendar.(Calendar)
December 1, 2004... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures. Alabama BIRMINGHAM Birmingham Museum of Art: "Eighteenth-Century English Ceramics from the Catherine H. Collins Collection"; to February 6, 2005.* **...

Antiques.(American small town culture)
December 1, 2004... She's one of the two best states in the Union. Vermont's the other. And the two have been Yoke-fellows in the sap-yoke from of old In many Marches. And they lie like wedges, Thick end to thin end and thin end to thick end, And are a figure...

George Stubbs: his patrons and collectors.(painter, horse paintings)(Cover Story)
December 1, 2004... Arguably the world's greatest painter of horses, George Stubbs worked mostly for the horse-loving British nobility and gentry. Although he took advantage of the increasing number of public art exhibitions in his lifetime, showing and selling...

History in towns: Haverhill Corner, New Hampshire.(advertisements)
December 1, 2004... The advertisements of local merchants and innkeepers in Haverhill Corner's weekly newspapers in the early decades of the nineteenth century evoke the style of life in the village. In January 1823, for example, Noah Davis (see Fig. 1) announced...

Oriental carpets in Italian Renaissance paintings: art objects and status symbols.
December 1, 2004... Western fascination with oriental carpets dates from the fifteenth century, when European painters began to celebrate the artistry of pile carpets imported from the Islamic world. The Netherlandish artist Jan van Eyck (c. 1395-1441) was the...

Childe Hassam en plein air.
December 1, 2004... Painting outdoors is a time-honored tradition. It is particularly favored by artists who wish to convey a distinct experience, and it was extensively practiced by the American impressionist Childe Hassam. Versatile and prolific. Hassam was a...

Travel guide.
December 1, 2004... The year 2004 marks the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Explorers Club, whose New York City headquarters, like its membership, reflects a wide-ranging fascination for the world's wilder places and how to reach them. The...

Travel guide.
December 1, 2004... CALIFORNIA Los Angeles ADAMSON DUVANNES GALLERIES, 484 S. San Vincente Blvd., 90048. Showing American and European fine art of investment quality. Featuring paintings of the American West, its history and settlement. Also showing...

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
December 1, 2004... December 9-12. New York, NY. THE NEW YORK ARMORY ANTIQUES & DESIGN SHOW, 7th Regiment Armory, Park Avenue & 67th Street, New York City. 80 top quality dealers from the US, Canada, England, France and Argentina--featuring 17th-20th century...

Refreshing a twentieth-century mansion.(Design notes)
December 1, 2004... Glens Falls, New York, is a small city in eastern New York State near Lake George and the Hudson River. It is also the unlikely site of a museum in the style of a Florentine Renaissance palazzo that houses an impressive art collection. The...