The British dealer Joseph Duveen was responsible for exporting the finely carved frames, based on... more The British dealer Joseph Duveen was responsible for exporting the finely carved frames, based on 18th-century French designs, that appear on many works of art in North American galleries. Duveen's frames may be divided into three stylistic types, and are generally found on portraits by Reynolds, Gainsborough, Romney, Raeburn, Lawrence, and Hoppner, as well as occasionally appearing on paintings by other British artists, including Turner. Curiously, for French paintings, Duveen rarely used these frames for French portraits, preferring to display them within existing period frames, either a preserved or an adapted original. The appeal of the French designs for Duveen is explained by his ambition, as a dealer in the decorative arts as well as paintings, to supply his clients with entire interiors that were predominantly French in style.
The Courtauld Gallery holds the most important collection of works in the United Kingdom by the P... more The Courtauld Gallery holds the most important collection of works in the United Kingdom by the Post-impressionist master Paul Gauguin (1841 1903). Assembled by the pioneering collector Samuel Courtauld (1876 1947), it includes major paintings and works on paper as well as one of the only two marble sculptures ever created by the artist. This special Summer display presents the complete collection together with the loan of two important works by Gauguin formerly in Courtauld's private collection: Martinique Landscape (Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh), and Bathers at Tahiti (The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham)."
Accompanying a focused display at The Courtauld Gallery that will bring together for the first ti... more Accompanying a focused display at The Courtauld Gallery that will bring together for the first time Pieter Bruegel the Elder's only three known grisaille paintings - the Courtauld's Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (which is barred from travel), The Death of the Virgin from Upton House in Warwickshire (National Trust) and Three Soldiers from the Frick Collection in New York - this book will examine the sources, function and reception of these three exquisite masterpieces. The panels will be complemented by prints and contemporary replicas, as well by other independent grisailles in order to shed light on the development of this genre in Northern Europe. Despite his status as the seminal Netherlandish painter of the 16th century, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525-1569) remains an elusive artist: fewer than forty paintings are ascribed to him. Of these, a dozen are cabinet-sized. These small-scale works offer key insights as they often bear a personal significance for th...
The writer discusses the design and construction of the bronze paschal candlestick made by goldsm... more The writer discusses the design and construction of the bronze paschal candlestick made by goldsmith and sculptor Andrea Brisosco, known as Il Riccio, for the Basilica del Santo in Padua, Italy. Almost four meters high, the candlestick was acknowledged as a masterpiece immediately upon its completion in 1516. While its iconography has been extensively analyzed, the candlestick has not been closely examined in terms of its manufacture and assembly. It can be asked whether such a complex work was cast in one piece, as 19th-century guidebooks claimed; and, more crucially, if made in parts, how Riccio cast the separate units and assembled them into a monumental bronze. The writers go on to examine these issues on the basis of a technical examination of the piece, involving close visual inspection, detailed photography, and surface analysis of the metal alloys.
The British dealer Joseph Duveen was responsible for exporting the finely carved frames, based on... more The British dealer Joseph Duveen was responsible for exporting the finely carved frames, based on 18th-century French designs, that appear on many works of art in North American galleries. Duveen's frames may be divided into three stylistic types, and are generally found on portraits by Reynolds, Gainsborough, Romney, Raeburn, Lawrence, and Hoppner, as well as occasionally appearing on paintings by other British artists, including Turner. Curiously, for French paintings, Duveen rarely used these frames for French portraits, preferring to display them within existing period frames, either a preserved or an adapted original. The appeal of the French designs for Duveen is explained by his ambition, as a dealer in the decorative arts as well as paintings, to supply his clients with entire interiors that were predominantly French in style.
The Courtauld Gallery holds the most important collection of works in the United Kingdom by the P... more The Courtauld Gallery holds the most important collection of works in the United Kingdom by the Post-impressionist master Paul Gauguin (1841 1903). Assembled by the pioneering collector Samuel Courtauld (1876 1947), it includes major paintings and works on paper as well as one of the only two marble sculptures ever created by the artist. This special Summer display presents the complete collection together with the loan of two important works by Gauguin formerly in Courtauld's private collection: Martinique Landscape (Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh), and Bathers at Tahiti (The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham)."
Accompanying a focused display at The Courtauld Gallery that will bring together for the first ti... more Accompanying a focused display at The Courtauld Gallery that will bring together for the first time Pieter Bruegel the Elder's only three known grisaille paintings - the Courtauld's Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (which is barred from travel), The Death of the Virgin from Upton House in Warwickshire (National Trust) and Three Soldiers from the Frick Collection in New York - this book will examine the sources, function and reception of these three exquisite masterpieces. The panels will be complemented by prints and contemporary replicas, as well by other independent grisailles in order to shed light on the development of this genre in Northern Europe. Despite his status as the seminal Netherlandish painter of the 16th century, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525-1569) remains an elusive artist: fewer than forty paintings are ascribed to him. Of these, a dozen are cabinet-sized. These small-scale works offer key insights as they often bear a personal significance for th...
The writer discusses the design and construction of the bronze paschal candlestick made by goldsm... more The writer discusses the design and construction of the bronze paschal candlestick made by goldsmith and sculptor Andrea Brisosco, known as Il Riccio, for the Basilica del Santo in Padua, Italy. Almost four meters high, the candlestick was acknowledged as a masterpiece immediately upon its completion in 1516. While its iconography has been extensively analyzed, the candlestick has not been closely examined in terms of its manufacture and assembly. It can be asked whether such a complex work was cast in one piece, as 19th-century guidebooks claimed; and, more crucially, if made in parts, how Riccio cast the separate units and assembled them into a monumental bronze. The writers go on to examine these issues on the basis of a technical examination of the piece, involving close visual inspection, detailed photography, and surface analysis of the metal alloys.
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