The Magazine Antiques articles from October 2007

The Magazine Antiques archives from October 2007

Early photography.(Current and coming)
October 1, 2007... No one really knows the exact date when photography was invented. But once the Frenchman Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre announced his discovery of the daguerreotype in 1839, it compelled others who had been experimenting in the same areas to come...

Modern design in San Francisco.(Current and coming)(Calendar)
October 1, 2007... Many of those think-outside-the-box designers of the early modern period in Europe and the United States--Jean Dunand, Josef Hoffmann, Gerrit Rietveld, Mies van der Rohe, Paul T. Frankl, Frances Elkins, and others-got a lot of things right....

Storing sugar in Kentucky.(Current and coming)(Kentucky Sugar Chests)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Before steamboats began plying the Mississippi River in 1818, it could take a flatboat more than a year to make the journey from New Orleans to Nashville. This made goods expensive, and none more so than cane sugar, which was deemed superior to...

Museum accessions.
October 1, 2007... A number of institutions have recently added to their collections exquisite objects that display the richness and variety of some of the world's great religions. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City acquired the important French...

Courbet.(Report from Europe)(Gustave Courbet )
October 1, 2007... Gustave Courbet was born in 1819 in Ornans, in eastern France, and arrived in Paris to study painting in 1839. He avoided the official schools and learned by copying the works of seventeenth-century naturalists such as Caravaggio, Ribera,...

The Courtauld at seventy-five.(Report from Europe)(Courtauld Institute of Art )(Calendar)
October 1, 2007... The Courtauld Institute of Art was founded in London in 1932, and a series of three exhibitions is being held to mark its seventy-fifth anniversary: one devoted to Walter Sickert, another to Pierre Auguste Renoir, and the third to Paul Cezanne....

Briefly noted.(Report from Europe)(Calendar)
October 1, 2007... Two commercial galleries are mounting interesting non-selling exhibitions this month. L'Oeil gourmand--A Journey through Neapolitan Still Life of the 17th Century is the title of a show at the Galerie Canesso in Paris until October 27. It...

Quilts made by pioneers.(Books about antiques)(Book review)
October 1, 2007... With women's studies now a mainstream offering in institutions of higher learning, long-neglected avenues of research, such as women's letters and diaries, are getting the attention they so richly deserve. One topic that has recently been mined...

Calendar.(Calendar)
October 1, 2007... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "A Century of Retablos: The Janis and Dennis Lyon Collection of New Mexican Santos, 1780-1880"; October 6 to January...

Antiques.
October 1, 2007... I enjoy Homer in his own language infinitely beyond Pope's translation of him.... I thank on my knees, him who directed my early education, for having put into my possession this rich source of delight, and I would not exchange it for...

Making an uncollectible collectible: American silver, 1810-1840.
October 1, 2007... "Don't ever buy a piece of American silver made after 1800" was the refrain I heard in the mid-1960s in response to my initial inquiries to several dealers about the availability of early nineteenth-century American silver. "It is all junk."...

New light on Henry Roderick Newman as an oil painter: recent rediscoveries.
October 1, 2007... The use of watercolor was one of the major distinguishing features of American Pre-Raphaelite art. "The American Pre-Raphaelites loved watercolor," Kathleen A. Foster has written, "most of [them]... worked frequently in watercolor, and some...

Sir John Soane's Moggerhanger: a very personal work.
October 1, 2007... It would be incorrect to say that there have been three houses at Moggerhanger, for each survives and is embedded in the next. A house of the 1750s forms the southeast corner, an extension designed by Sir John Soane in 1791 completes the east...

An Italian idyll: Meissen porcelain gifts and gift-giving.
October 1, 2007... Chinese porcelain arriving in Venice by the fifteenth century paved the way for Italy's unparalleled appreciation for this fragile curiosity from abroad. The Venetian glass industry and majolica workshops responded to these princely collector's...

Piranesi: the aesthetic of eclecticism and his Egyptian style.(Giovanni Battista Piranesi )(Critical essay)
October 1, 2007... Giovanni Battista Piranesi is undoubtedly best known for his extraordinary and prolific work as a printmaker. His vedute and capricci of an imaginatively re-created Rome, his archaeological reconstructions, and his fantastic Carceri series of...

Gilt bronze in French decorative arts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.(Decorative Arts of the Kings )
October 1, 2007... Earlier this year an exhibition entitled The Decorative Arts of the Kings was held at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, one component of an important three-year program that associates the High Museum with the Musee du Louvre in Paris. In 2003...

Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner's military and civil silver and gold.
October 1, 2007... When the merchant Thomas Fletcher and silversmith Sidney Gardiner moved their silversmithing and jewelry firm from Boston to Philadelphia in November 1811, Fletcher wrote to his father that "although the removal of our business here has been...

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
October 1, 2007... October 5-10. New York, NY. THE HAUGHTON INTERNATIONAL ART + DESIGN FAIR, 1900-2007. New York's Finest. All exhibits for sale and all strictly vetted. 54 international dealers presenting furniture, paintings, sculpture, photography, jewelry,...

Silver conservation and restoration.(Design notes)(Occupation overview)
October 1, 2007... In 1905 the Danish silversmith and jewelry designer Georg Jensen (1806-1935) began to revolutionize silver holloware design with the introduction of his Blossom tea and coffee service number 2D. An example from this service is the coffeepot...