The Magazine Antiques articles from March 2005

The Magazine Antiques archives from March 2005

American drawings and watercolors.(Current and coming.)
March 1, 2005... This is the moment for university collections of works on paper by American artists. In the autumn of 2004 highlights from the American drawings and watercolors at the Princeton Art Museum in New Jersey formed a traveling exhibition and...

The Berkshires as muse.(Current and coming.)
March 1, 2005... Berkshire County in western Massachusetts is one of the most visually captivating regions of New England. Nearly equidistant from New York City and Boston, it was discovered in the nineteenth century by affluent residents of those cities and by...

Cameos.(Current and coming)(art work)
March 1, 2005... Cameos are, in effect, sculptures on a very small scale, and the skill required to fashion them was highly appreciated by collectors from the Middle Ages forward. By the early nineteenth century the demand for antique cameos nearly outstripped...

From life to immortality.(Current and coming.)
March 1, 2005... The preparations for a Chinese nobleman's or ruler's passage into the afterlife were complicated during the Western Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 9), before the introduction of Buddhism into China. It was then thought that the deceased split into two...

Museum accessions.
March 1, 2005... Several recent additions to the collection have allowed George Washington's Mount Vernon, in Virginia, to present an ever clearer picture of the first president's personal taste and style of life. In June a great-great-granddaughter of John...

Archaeology in Geneva.(Report from Europe.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... The Allobroges were an important Celtic tribe in Gaul, situated in southeastern France in what is now Dauphine and Savoy and extending across the Alpine border into Switzerland. They were a warlike tribe and controlled many of the passes...

Salvator Rosa landscapes.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Salvator Rosa was born near Naples in 1615 and spent much of his life in Naples and Rome and a period of nine years as a Medici court painter in Florence. His initial subjects were battles, but he soon specialized in landscapes. Rosa's...

Evelyn De Morgan.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Evelyn De Morgan (nee Pickering) was born in 1855 and was among the first women to study at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where she won a number of prizes. She then worked and studied in Italy and, on her return to Britain,...

Late Caravaggio.(Report from Europe)(artists)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Following its exhibition on Raphael's early years, the National Gallery in London is holding one devoted to the final years of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. According to the curator, Dawson Carr, Carvaggio was "one of the first great...

Arts and crafts.(Report from Europe.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... The arts and crafts movement began in Britain in reaction to the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century. The idea behind the movement was to teach the common man to design and make his own goods, rather than rely on machine-made...

Ancient Roman painted walls.(Books about antiques)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Ancient Roman wall painting is not quite Peto or Harnett and certainly not Pollock. Think rather of realistic wraparound stage sets, opening and closing vistas, extending and fore-shortening walls, creating gardens, and peopling rooms with gods...

Wine Labels, 1730-2003: A Worldwide History.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Wine Labels, 1730-2003: A Worldwide History Edited by John Salter MA-276 Our price $150.00 This is the first book published on this engaging subject since 1947. It covers the enormous range of materials used for wine...

New Hall Porcelains.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... New Hall Porcelains By Geoffrey A. Godden MA-277 Our price $125.00 What is today known as New Hall porcelain was manufactured in Staffordshire from about 1781 until the mid-1830s. This book records the various shapes and...

Classical Norfolk Furniture, 1810-1840.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Classical Norfolk Furniture, 1810-1840 By Thomas R. J. Newbern and James R. Melchor MA-278 Our price $63.00 The authors investigate the large body of surviving furniture made in Norfolk, Virginia, in the first part of the...

Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America By Margaretta M. Lovell MA-279 Our price $39.95 Lovell concentrates on the colonial period, focusing on patrons and the artists they commissioned...

American Furniture 2004.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... American Furniture 2004 Edited by Luke Beckerdite MA-280 Paper covers Our price $55.00 This annual, now in its tenth year, presents the latest scholarship in American furniture studies by leading furniture historians....

Castellani and Italian Archaeological Jewelry.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Castellani and Italian Archaeological Jewelry Edited by Susan Weber Soros and Stefanie Walker MA-281 Our price $75.00 This dynasty of Italian jewelers, founded by Fortunato Pio Castellani in 1814, made fascinating jewelry...

American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum, Volume 1: Drawings and Watercolors.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum, Volume 1: Drawings and Watercolors By John Wilmerding with an essay by Kathleen A. Foster MA-282 Our price $65.00 Princeton University has one of the most important...

A Yachtsman's Eye: The Glen S. Foster Collection of Marine Paintings.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... A Yachtsman's Eye: The Glen S. Foster Collection of Marine Paintings Edited by Alan Granby MA-283 Our price $75.00 The late Glen S. Foster, an avid Olympic-class sailor, assembled an excellent collection of American and...

Object Design in the Age of Enlightenment: The History of the Royal Free Drawing School in Paris.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Object Design in the Age of Enlightenment: The History of the Royal Free Drawing School in Paris By Ulrich Leben MA-284 Our price $60.00 The Royal Free Drawing School, founded in Paris in 1766, trained a number of highly...

Impressions of New York: Prints from the New-York Historical Society.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Impressions of New York: Prints from the New-York Historical Society By Marilyn Symmes MA-285 Our price $50.00 The print collection at the New-York Historical Society is highly regarded for the depth and breadth of its...

Art in a Mirror: The Counterproofs of Mary Cassatt.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Art in a Mirror: The Counterproofs of Mary Cassatt By Jay E. Cantor and Pamela A. Ivinski MA-286 Paper covers Our price $38.00 In the years before and after the turn of the twentieth century the great pastel artist Mary...

Directory of European Porcelain.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Directory of European Porcelain By Ludwig Danckert MA-287 Our price $75.00 This enormous compendium greatly expands and revises that first published in English more than twenty years ago and reprinted many times since. This...

Claude Raguet Hirst: Transforming the American Still Life.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Claude Raguet Hirst: Transforming the American Still Life By Martha M. Evans MA-288 Our price $45.00 Hirst is notable not only for being one of a very few women artists to paint trompe I'oeil still lifes of exceedingly high...

The Furniture Collection, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1850-2000/From Michael Thonet to Marcel Wanders.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Furniture Collection, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1850-2000/From Michael Thonet to Marcel Wanders By Luca Dosi Delfini et al. MA-289 Our price $110.00 This fine and decorative arts museum in the Netherlands has a...

Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: Volume 1, 1826-1925.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: Volume 1, 1826-1925 General editor, David B. Dearinger MA-290 Our price $95.00 Founded in 1826 the National Academy of Design in New York City is...

Calendar.(Calendar)
March 1, 2005... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "In Monet's Light: Theodore Robinson at Giverny"; to May 8.* California BERKELEY Berkeley Art Museum,...

Antiques.
March 1, 2005... There exists among us by ordinary--both North and South--a profound conviction that the South is another land, sharply differentiated from the rest of the American nation.... the notion that the country is--not quite a nation within a...

Georges de Feure.
March 1, 2005... Today it is generally accepted that art nouveau, the celebrated international stylistic movement in the decorative arts, owes its name to a Parisian gallery opened in 1895 by Siegfried Bing, a renowned dealer in oriental art. However, it is...

Discovered: an unknown painting by John Trumbull.
March 1, 2005... There is no documentary evidence that John Trumbull painted, or even intended to paint, a scene depicting the burning of Charlestown, Massachusetts, which was torched by the British in June 1775, while the Battle of Bunker Hill was being fought...

American Indian beaded bags of the Columbia River region.
March 1, 2005... Beadwork is one of the most recognizable and visually striking of American Indian art forms. Glass beads made in Europe were among the most highly prized trade items throughout North America. A variety of bead-work techniques and elaborate...

MESDA and the study of early southern decorative arts.(Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts )
March 1, 2005... It has become almost a folk legend among decorative arts scholars: the story of Joseph Downs (1895-1954), then curator of the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, announcing at the 1949 Williamsburg Antiques Forum...

Eighteenth-century Chinese export porcelain for the French market.
March 1, 2005... Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), Louis XIV's minister of finance, founded the Compagnie des Indes orientales, or French East India Company, in 1664. Two years later he ordered the construction of the port of L'Orient (now Lorient) (1) on the...

Travel guide.(Directory)
March 1, 2005... ALABAMA Fairhope BETTY G. HAYNIE ANTIQUES & FINE ART, 15 North Section St., 36532. Offers a fine selection of American, English, and French furniture, also ceramics, silver and 19th century paintings; located in downtown Fairhope, a...

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
March 1, 2005... March 4-6, 2005. New York City, NY. GRAMERCY GARDEN & ANTIQUES SHOW. A beautiful springtime tradition, the show has 80 exhibitors selling chic and fanciful antique garden furniture, ornaments, planters, pots, fences, gazebos and other garden &...

Preservation with a British twist.(Design notes)(Royal Oak Foundation)
March 1, 2005... In the 1890s a triad of British philanthropists--Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter, and Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley--realized that they shared a common concern about unchecked development throughout the British Isles since the industrial...