The Magazine Antiques articles from March 2001

The Magazine Antiques archives from March 2001

Decorative painting in France.(exhibition)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... At the turn of the twentieth century in Paris a group of painters known as the Nabis were united in the goal of tearing down the aesthetic barriers that separated the fine and decorative arts. As Pierre Bonnard wrote, "Our generation always...

Medieval treasures in New York City.(exhibition)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The long, rich history of Basel, Switzerland, began about 1200 B.C. The city flourished in the Middle Ages, and by the fifteenth century it was a center for the printing industry, the arts, and scholarship--particularly after the founding of...

Photography in California.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... When the news spread that gold had been discovered at Captain Sutter's sawmill in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, would-be prospectors everywhere pulled up stakes and headed west in search of their fortune. Less well known is the fact that...

An individual look at the origins of culture.(exhibit of rare books and manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Bodmeriana)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... With some regularity, institutions find it necessary to renovate their building so that they can better preserve and exhibit their permanent collections. Sometimes these renovations mandate closing the doors to the public for a specified...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
March 1, 2001... IN HIS ARTICLE about John Singer Sargent in our February issue (pp. 314-323), Trevor Fairbrother wrote that one of the artist's watercolors of the Scuola di San Rocco in Venice was a distillation of his multifaceted interests beyond the...

Paul Signac.(painting exhibition)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Impressionism took many forms in France. The original nucleus of artists included Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Frederic Bazille. Although they had shown works together as early as 1863, they held their first official...

Century City.(various artists, Tate Modern, London, Enbgland)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Century City: Art and Culture in the Modem Metropolis is the title of the first major loan exhibition at the Tate Modern in London, where it will be on view until April 29. Nine cities are featured at times during the twentieth century when...

Tiepolo's century.(eighteenth-century Italian painting exhibit)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Eighteenth-century Italian painting is held in special affection in France, and French museums have particularly fine and comprehensive holdings of works in this category. The French tourist in Italy had taste different from his English...

Nineteenth-century German paintings.(exhibition at National Gallery of London, England)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... While the Alte National-galerie in Berlin is closed for renovations, a substantial part of its holdings are on view in the National Gallery in London in an exhibition entitled Spirit of an Age: 19th-Century Paintings from the Nationalgalerie,...

The French country house.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Crossing the English Channel, Mark Girouard has produced a sequel to his engrossing study of life in the English country house. He limits his subject to chateaux, excluding royal residences, town houses, parks, gardens, and furnishings. Still,...

ANTIQUES.(China had a highly advanced civilization centuries before medieval Europe, but it withdrew into isolation in the 16th and 17th centuries)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The Chinese do habitually call and consider Europeans "barbarians"; meaning by that term "peoples in a rude, uncivilized state, morally and intellectually uncultivated"....Those Chinese who have had direct opportunities of learning something...

Collecting Qing dynasty textiles.(China, 1644-1911)
March 1, 2001... The Forbidden City stands eerily empty, its massive courtyards colorless under gray Beijing skies despite hordes of dusty tourists who pass through its south-north axis from the Gate of Heavenly Peace to the Gate of Spiritual Valour. They peer...

JAPANISM in the Cos Cob art colony.(the influence of Japan at the Cos Cob, Connecticut art colony, 1890-1920)
March 1, 2001... In September 1899, an article in the Art Interchange described the summer school that the American impressionist artist John H. Twachtman conducted in the waterfront hamlet of Cos Cob, Connecticut. The writer differentiated rustic Cos Cob from...

Hirado porcelain of Japan.(history of porcelain production in Japan)
March 1, 2001... From a domestic porcelain patronized by a lordly family, Hirado ware evolved into a Japanese export ware widely known in the West. Only recently has this ware, made in the Mikawachi kilns since about 1650, begun to attract sufficient scholarly...

Chateau de Coppet near Geneva, Switzerland.(history of the chateau)
March 1, 2001... When Napoleon I, then first consul, forced the liberal novelist and essayist Madame de Stael (nee Anne Louise Germaine Necker) into exile from Paris in 1803, she settled just north of Geneva in the Chateau de Coppet on the banks of the lake....

Hairwork of the nineteenth century.(hair jewelry: 19th century United States and Europe)
March 1, 2001... The nineteenth century saw an explosion in the popularity of hairwork in Europe and the United States. Indeed, most surviving examples originate from this period. [1] Today, nineteenth-century hair jewelry is invariably associated with...

English textiles.(Gainshorough Silk Weaving Co.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The bucolic setting of the town of Sudbury on the bonier between Suffolk and Essex Counties in England is well known through the works of two of the country's most venerated artists: John Constable and Thomas Gainsborough. Gainsborough actually...