The Magazine Antiques articles from October 2004

The Magazine Antiques archives from October 2004

Spain in the Old World ...(Current and Coming)
October 1, 2004... Toward the close of the sixteenth century Spain's landholdings were so vast as not to have been equaled since the Roman Empire. At various times Spain ruled the Low Countries, Portugal, the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily; several islands in the...

... and Spain in the New World.(Current and Coming)
October 1, 2004... The immense riches that Spanish explorers discovered in the New World starting in the early years of the sixteenth century were principally derived from the enormous deposits of silver and gold in present-day Peru and Bolivia. This land was...

Spain and Indians in the American West.(Current and Coming)
October 1, 2004... Over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries trade routes across the American West became well established, ensuring frequent contact between Indians and their trading partners. Pueblo weavings, for example, could be purchased in...

A silver anniversary.(Current and Coming; for National Antique and Art Dealers Association of America)
October 1, 2004... Like marriages, some institutions withstand the test of time better than others. Thus when an association achieves the age of fifty, it has reached a milestone worth celebrating. The New York Antique and Art Dealers Association (later renamed...

Hidden meaning.(Dutch-American Andreas Everardus van Braam Houckgeest (1739-1801).)
October 1, 2004... The travels and immense collection of Chinese decorative arts assembled by the colorful eighteenth-century Dutch-American Andreas Everardus van Braam Houckgeest (1739-1801) have been of great interest to antiquarians over the years. In our July...

Some frames border on high art.(Advertisement)
October 1, 2004... 'The Art of the Frame: Gems From the Simoni Collection," at the Pensacola Museum of Art through Saturday, features work from the world's only private collection of American 19th- and early-20th-century picture frames. They hang empty, defiantly...

Museum accessions.
October 1, 2004... In 1854 Honore Theodoric Paul Joseph d'Albert, duc de Luynes, commissioned the exquisite bloodstone, gold, and enamel cup illustrated below from Jean Valentin Morel, one of the greatest mid-nineteenth-century Parisian jewelers. In 1649 Dai...

Watts centenary.(Report from Europe; George Frederic Watts )
October 1, 2004... George Frederic Watts was born in London in 1817. From about 1827 he studied with the sculptor William Behnes, and in 1835 he entered the Royal Academy Schools. In 1843 he went to Italy for four years and on his return to Britain became...

Carel Fabritius.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... The Dutch artist Carel Fabritius was born in 1622 and studied in Rembrandt van Rijn's Amsterdam studio. He later moved to Delft, where he was well known and became a syndic of the Guild of Saint Luke. His arrival coincided with, and perhaps...

Raphael's travels.(Report from Europe; exhibition of Raphael's work at National Gallery in London )(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... A major exhibition of Raphael's work is at the National Gallery in London from October 20 until January 16, 2005. Entitled Raphael--From Urbino to Rome, it traces his progress from his birthplace, Urbino, via Citta di Castello, Perugia, and...

Wallpaper in perspective.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... The annual Decorative Antiques and Textiles Fair in London features a loan exhibition from the archives of Cole and Son, a major London designer and manufacturer of wallpaper since 1873. It explores the history of wallpaper from its earliest...

Trinity Church, Boston.(Books about Antiques.)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Of all the social clubs at Harvard College, the Porcellian is the most exclusive. It is not a very large club, just as Boston, down the Charles River from Cambridge, is not a very large city. At least in the nineteenth century, the city was a...

Calendar.(Calendar)
October 1, 2004... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Alabama BIRMINGHAM Birmingham Museum of Art: "Eighteenth-Century English Ceramics from the Catherine H. Collins Collection"; October 3 to February 6,...

Antiques.(end of the modernist era)
October 1, 2004... He told himself that in the American motor-world he was... the authority on automobile-designing, as the first man to advocate four-wheel brakes.... He had created something!... every one of the twenty million motors on the roads of...

Adolescence in the art of John Singer Sargent and his contemporaries.
October 1, 2004... [T]he young people are eating us up,--there is nothing in America but the young people. The country is made for the rising generation.... Longfellow wrote a charming little poem called "The Children's Hour," but he ought to have called it "The...

Streamlining and art deco in American industrial design.(Cover Story)
October 1, 2004... A NEW AESTHETIC EVOLVED IN AMERICAN DESICN OF THE 1930S THAT DEFIED BOTH ART DECO AND FUNCTIONALIST MODERNISM. This was streamlining. From the Graf Zeppelin to the 20th Century Limited train and the Chrysler Airflow, it gave products of the...

Dresden's Princely Splendor at home and abroad.
October 1, 2004... The State Art Collections Dresden (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden) have never before been as well represented in the United States as during the current year. Fine baroque examples were included in The Glory of Baroque Dresden: The State...

Swedish mirrors, 1650-1850.
October 1, 2004... This article considers the making of Swedish looking glasses between 1650 and 1850, a period often termed the age of the guild in Sweden, when production of finely crafted mirrors, furniture, and silver was at its height. In Sweden, as in other...

Patronage and the Burgundian court (1364-1419).
October 1, 2004... After the investiture in 1364 of Philip the Bold as duke of Burgundy, the duchy of Burgundy became a cadet branch of the French royal house of Valois. The fourth and last reigning duke of Burgundy of the Valois line, Charles the Bold (r....

The Regency style's debt to Napoleon.
October 1, 2004... England's greatest worry at the dawn of the nineteenth century was the growing power of France under Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821). England had been at war with France ever since the French Revolution took a bloody turn in 1793. Napoleon's...

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
October 1, 2004... October 8-10. Sewickley, PA, CHILD HEALTH ASSOCIATION 5th ANNUAL SEWICKLEY VALLEY ANTIQUES SHOW. Location: The Edgeworth Club. Preview Party Friday October 8th, 6:30-9:30pm. Show Saturday October 9th 10am-5pm, Sunday October 10th, 10am-4pm....

Clearing House.(Column)
October 1, 2004... Rates: $130.00 per single insertion for 25 words. $115.00 per issue under contract for 6 months per year. $100.00 per issue under contract for 12 consecutive months. $3.50 per additional word. Deadline for the December issue is October 21,...

Lighting devices.(Column)
October 1, 2004... The firm founded by Edward F. Caldwell and his partner Victor F. von Lossberg in New York City in 1895 became one of the leading manufacturers of high-quality lighting devices and desk-top accessories in bronze, silver, iron, brass, and copper....