The Magazine Antiques articles from November 2002

The Magazine Antiques archives from November 2002

Florence in the late Renaissance. (Current and Coming).
November 1, 2002... During the lifetime of Michelangelo, the patronage of all the arts in Florence revolved around members of the Medici family and their court. The fine arts flourished in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and the decorative arts were...

California quilts. (Current and Coming).
November 1, 2002... Nineteenth-century quilts represented hundreds of hours of work and were full of sentimental significance because they were often bestowed as gifts to mark an important occasion. Therefore it is not surprising that Americans on the move in the...

Decorative arts of New York. (Current and Coming).
November 1, 2002... Some thirty years ago John Scherer, a curator at the New York State Museum in Albany, met a visionary collector and philanthropist, E. Martin Wunsch, who at the time was interested in finding an institution with collections that focused on New...

Catlin's Indian gallery. (Current and Coming).
November 1, 2002... In 1827 George Catlin, a lawyer by training, was living in New York City and pursuing a career as a portrait painter. Visiting Philadelphia the following year he saw a delegation of American Indians from the western United States and in them he...

Museum accessions.
November 1, 2002... In the early years of the nineteenth century Baltimore was booming, a city alive with opportunities of all sorts, both commercial and social. It was home to Joshua Johnson, the first known African-American artist to earn his living as a...

Aztec exhibition. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... The Aztecs, who from the fifteenth century until the Spanish conquest in 1519 created a large empire in what is now southern and central Mexico, evolved from a nomadic culture. According to their histories, they came from a mythical island...

Madame de Pompadour. (Report from Europe).
November 1, 2002... The birth of Jeanne Antoinette Poisson in 1721 was unremarkable. She was the daughter of an official linked to Paris financiers and was educated in a convent away from the capital. At the age of twenty she married the nephew of her mother's...

American needlework. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... In the eighteenth century both men and women wore quilted clothes, and bedcovers were filled with padding for warmth. Quilting was a necessity on both sides of the Atlantic, but in the new world it also became an artistic and social pastime....

Manet/Velazquez. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Although Edouard Manet studied for six years with Thomas Couture, his painting style was primarily influenced by studying the old masters in the Musee du Louvre in Paris, particularly the works of the Spanish painters Bartolome Esteban Murillo,...

Gainsborough at the Tate. (Report from Europe).
November 1, 2002... Thomas Gainsborough was born in 1727 in Sudbury, Suffolk, the son of John Gainsborough and Mary Burroughs. At the age of thirteen he was apprenticed to the French draftsman and engraver Hubert Francois Gravelot in London, and that same year he...

American Civil War. (Books about Antiques).
November 1, 2002... Like the Underground Railroad for the salvation of slaves, the American Civil War itself has assumed mythic proportions in the century and a half since the last man fell. The railroad was, in fact, a haphazard affair, not the Twentieth-Century...

Calendar.
November 1, 2002... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Alabama MOBILE Mobile Museum of Art: "Picturing French Style Three Hundred Years of Art and Fashion"; to January 5, 2003. * California LAGUNA...

Antiques.
November 1, 2002... Correctness of outline, and the justness of character in the human figure are eternal; all other points are variable, all other points are in a degree subordinate and indifferent--such as colour manners and costume; they are marks of various...

The making of Audubon's The Birds of America.
November 1, 2002... John James Audubon's four-volume The Birds of America, the grandest and most sumptuous colorplate folio ever produced, was a massive and unprecedented undertaking. Arguably the most important natural history publication of all time, the...

Charles Sheeler and film.
November 1, 2002... Charles Sheeler is recognized as a major American modernist painter and one of the master photographers of the twentieth century, yet what is seldom acknowledged is the impact of his early experiments in film on his work in both fields....

Charles Codman: from limner to landscape painter.
November 1, 2002... In 1838, the first exhibition and fair of the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association in Portland included a fine arts display, the centerpiece of which was a group of thirty-six oils, the majority of them landscapes, by Charles Codman (Pl. II)....

Impressionism versus the aesthetic movement.
November 1, 2002... The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), Oscar Wilde's redoubtable Lady Bracknell announces, 'We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces." (1) Her observation sets the tone for an exploration of the aesthetic movement and its relation to...

Launt Thompson, New York sculptor.
November 1, 2002... The mature career of Launt Thompson (see Fig. 1) coincided with the exciting period of public sculpture after the Civil War, when the United States began to mine its history for subjects worthy of representation in marble or bronze. Gradually...

Moses B. Russell: Yankee miniaturist.
November 1, 2002... Although time has obscured his name, his art, and the renown of his sitters, Moses B. Russell was a highly celebrated and acclaimed portrait painter in his day. A native of North Woodstock in the wilds of New Hampshire's White Mountains, he...

Edwin Lord Weeks, painter and explorer.
November 1, 2002... Edwin Lord Weeks occupied a unique position among American painters, even by the standards of those who, like him, dedicated their careers to orientalism as a subject. The scion of an old New England family he left his native Boston for Paris...

Calendar of Shows.
November 1, 2002... November 2002 Calendar of Shows November 1-3. Rosemont, IL. O'HARE FALL ANTIQUE SHOW & SALE, Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL. Bob Smith & Dolphin Promotions presents the Midwest's largest quality antiques event - 200...

The care of photographs. (Design Notes).
November 1, 2002... Starting with the invention of the daguerreotype in France in the late 1830s, photography has undergone a succession of technical innovations. Virtually all of them have in common a reliance on light as a catalyst for fixing the image on a...