The Magazine Antiques articles from March 2002

The Magazine Antiques archives from March 2002

Tapestries come of age. (Current and Coming).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Tapestries were designed by some of the most esteemed artists of their day for important church officials and members of the royal families of England and Europe between the fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries. Nonetheless, tapestries have...

Botanical art in Renaissance Italy. (Current and Coming).(National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... During the Italian Renaissance, under the enlightened patronage of several generations of the Medici family, an interest in science in general and botany in particular, led to the flourishing of a genre of painting we now call botanical art....

Turner and the sea. (Current and Coming).(Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... At this death in 1851 the visionary artist Joseph Mallord William Turner bequeathed three hundred oils, more than twenty thousand drawings and watercolors, and some three hundred sketchbooks to Great Britain's national collections (then housed...

Chinese mirrors. (Current and Coming).(China Institute Gallery, New York, New York)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... In a noteworthy accomplishment, Thomas Lynn Carter and his wife, Martha Limback Carter, have assembled a collection of 143 Chinese bronze mirrors that span nearly twenty-five hundred years. Not only chronologically wide-ranging, the collection...

Waste paper? (Collectors' Notes).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... In my office, awash with paper, despite the wonders of computers and the World Wide Web, the following contribution from Thomas Suarez, a dealer in and researcher of antiquarian maps, gives pause. He writes: Until the advent of machine-made...

Tiaras. (Report from Europe).(Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The tiara, now so beloved of brides, originated thousands of years ago. The name is derived from an ancient Persian word, and the original was a purple and white cloth to bind the head of a king. The idea was taken up by Alexander the Great,...

Michael Sweerts. (Report from Europe).(painter)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The painter Michael Sweerts was baptized in Brussels in 1618 in a Roman Catholic church. Nothing is known about his training, but he probably moved to Rome in the mid-1640s, where he appears in a church register from 1646 to 1651. He worked for...

Great houses of Scotland. (Report from Europe).(Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... For the past three or four centuries the owners of grand country houses throughout the United Kingdom have taken great pride in building them and filling them with outstanding objects and pictures worthy of their setting. In the twentieth...

Berthe Morisot retrospective. (Report from Europe).(Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Berthe Morisot was born in Bourges France, in 1841 into an upper middle-class family directly related to Jean Honore Fragonard. She and her sister Edma were encouraged to draw and paint, and among their teachers was Jean Baptiste Camille Corot:...

Gorham Martele. (Books About Antiques).
March 1, 2002... In his acknowledgments, L. J. Pristo thanks Fred for "rides back into town after the last bus, those extra minutes were precious." Fred Roy was at Lenox Incorporated in Smithfield, Rhode Island, which now incorporates the Gorham Company and...

Antiques.(Caribbean history)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... I have traveled everywhere in your sea of the Caribbean...from Haiti to Barbados, to Martinique and Guadeloupe, and I know what I am speaking about....You are all together, in the same boat, sailing the same uncertain sea...citizenship and race...

Spanish colonial furniture of the West Indies.
March 1, 2002... During the great age of discovery Christopher Columbus stopped at the island of Cuba on his first voyage to the new world in 1492 (see Pl. IV). His ship anchored on the island's northeastern coast, where he recorded in his journal in October:...

Francisco Goya, tapestry painter.
March 1, 2002... In late 1774 the twenty-nine-year-old Francisco Goya was called from the city of Saragossa to Madrid to paint tapestry cartoons for the Real Fabrica de Tapices de Santa Barbara (Royal Tapestry Factory of Santa Barbara). Today, the recently...

The Centennial Exhibition, the Philadelphia museum of art, and Hector Tyndale.
March 1, 2002... May 10, 2002, marks the 125th anniversary of the opening of what is now the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Pl. I). Originally called the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, it was an offspring of the Centennial Exhibition, which...

Two Philadelphia shadow-box grottoes.
March 1, 2002... From ancient times, people have enjoyed shells for their beauty, usefulness, and symbolism. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries they were among the natural specimens collected by virtuosi, or amateur scientists, who kept their...

The Pennsylvania railroad photographs of William H. Rau.
March 1, 2002... The railroad and photography were two technologies that truly came of age in the second half of the nineteenth century while exerting a powerful influence on each other and on the nation that embraced and sustained them. Photography afforded...

Parlor at the Winterthur museum.(Delaware)
March 1, 2002... In June 1928, a little more than a year after inheriting Winterthur; his family's estate in Delaware, (1) Henry Francis du Pont (1880-1969) made a very important purchase: he acquired twenty-two rolls of Chinese painted wallpaper from the...

Art deco carpets. (Design Notes).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Decorative arts of the art deco period, sometimes known as the machine age, are characterized by angular lines and an absence of ornament that give them a streamlined appearance. Carpets woven from the mid-1920s through the 1930s reflect this...