The Magazine Antiques articles from December 2006

The Magazine Antiques archives from December 2006

Icons from the holy land.(religious exhibition)
December 1, 2006... Geographically remote and with a forbidding climate that is scorching hot during the day and bitterly cold at night, Mount Sinai is one of the holiest places on earth. It is here that Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike believe Moses saw the...

Architectural elements.(John Wilton-Ely's )
December 1, 2006... In John Wilton-Ely's excellent capsule history of architectural models in The Dictionary of Art, one learns that such models were fashioned in a variety of materials in ancient Greece (although none survives today). Fast forward to the Middle...

The American house beautiful.(Frank Lloyd Wright's )
December 1, 2006... Over the course of a highly prolific career lasting some seventy years, Frank Lloyd Wright was first and foremost an architect. But he was concerned with the harmonious dialogue between a building, its landscape setting, and its interiors, and...

Tiffany chimney breast stands tall again.(Louis Comfort Tiffany at Metropolitan Museum of Art )
December 1, 2006... The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has just opened a lavish exhibition about Louis Comfort Tiffany, the centerpiece of which is a reconstruction of the lovely Daffodil Terrace he erected on the south side of his country house,...

Holbein in England.(art exhibitions)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... The term blockbuster is often applied too casually, but it is not an exaggeration in the case of the exhibition called Holbein in England on view at the Tate Britain in London until January 7, 2007. The show, organized by Susan Foister of the...

At home in Renaissance Italy.(Report from Europe)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Italy can with some justification lay claim to being a vital link in the story of Western civilization. The Roman Empire was built on the accomplishments of the Greeks, and after the medieval period it was Italy that gave birth to and nurtured...

Saint Petersburg collectors.(Report from Europe)(Nikolai Borisovich Yusupov, Dmitri Tatishchyev, Prince Alexander Gorchakov, and Count Nikolai Alexandrovich Kushelev-Bezborodko's work exhibited)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... The Russian city of Saint Petersburg was founded in 1703 by Peter the Great, who decreed that Russia's wealthiest families should build, occupy, and furnish palaces there. This became the impetus for members of the Russian aristocracy to become...

Van Gogh and expressionism.(Report from Europe)(exhibition at Amsterdam )(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Vincent van Gogh can be a painter difficult to label. There is a view that he was a postimpressionist, even though that term was not coined until many years after his death. Another opinion is that he was, in fact, the first expressionist. It...

Anatomy of a house.(Books about antiques)(The Warner House: A Rich and Colorful History )(Book review)
December 1, 2006... In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was a thriving and prosperous port on the Piscataqua River, where skilled craftsmen churned out straight and sturdy white pine masts and ships that were the envy of sailors...

Calendar.
December 1, 2006... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Fierce Reality: Italian Masters from 17th Century Naples"; December 10 to March 4, 2007. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...

Antiques.(American history influenced New England)
December 1, 2006... The houses that are of Modern Architecture are large & Exceeding neat this Sort is generally 3 Story high & well Sashed and Glazed with the best glass the rooms are well plastered and many Wainscoted or hung with painted paper from England...

History in towns: Royalston, Massachusetts.
December 1, 2006... At their first meeting, in 1753 at the Bunch of Grapes Tavern in Boston, the nine proprietors who had recently bought 28,357 acres in northern Massachusetts, the last undeveloped landmass in Worcester County, voted unanimously to name the town...

In harmony with nature: Louis Comfort Tiffany's Daffodil Terrace for Laurelton Hall.(Cover story)
December 1, 2006... Louis Comfort Tiffany's extraordinary country estate Laurelton Hall (Fig. 4) was built in Oyster Bay, New York, between 1902 and 1905. He embarked on the design for this ambitious fully integrated work of art at the height of his career, which...

Suitable for framing: landscape prints and city views by the Kelloggs of Hartford, 1830-1886.
December 1, 2006... In "When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloomed," his elegy on the death of Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman mused about appropriate decorations for the tomb of the martyred president, asking "What shall the pictures be that I hang on the walls?"...

An introduction to Spanish baroque frames in the golden age.
December 1, 2006... The seventeenth century represents the golden age of Spanish frame making, perhaps not surprisingly since it was also the age of the great Spanish painters Sanchez-Cotan, El Greco, Velazquez, Zurbaran, Murillo, Ribera, and Valdes Leal, to name...

Calendar of shows.
December 1, 2006... December 7-11. New York, NY. ANTIQUES & FINE ART AT THE ARMORY. FADA, the Fine Art Dealers Association and 60 high quality international dealers of antiques, art, decorative arts, jewelry and more, from antiquities to 21st century, come...

Diagnostic help for buildings.(Design notes)(Building Conservation Associates)(Organization overview)
December 1, 2006... In his article in this issue about Royalston, Massachusetts, William Nathaniel Banks mentions the stenciled walls in several houses in the town. Although stenciling was a simple and colorful way of decorating rooms in the nineteenth century,...