Burlington Contemporary is the Burlington Magazine’s free online platform for reviews and research on international contemporary art.
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Burlington Contemporary is the Burlington Magazine’s free online platform for reviews and research on international contemporary art.
BRITAIN IS SUFFERING from a rash that erupts with no known pattern but which spreads at an alarming rate. It is called Public Sculpturitis. We have written twice on the condition in recent years,1 but it seems to be immune to treatment. Like the common cold, it has been present for centuries but recently it has become an epidemic.
An examination of the French Gothic ivory carvings on some writing tablets, which amusingly depict the story of The knight with the red robe, a rare secular thirteenth-century fabliau.
A discussion of the varied European origins of the decorations on a fifteenth-century gamesboard now in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence.
An attribution on stylistic grounds of a polychromed wood sculpture to Andrea Sansovino.
An examination of the various versions of Medardo Rosso’s Enfant malade (c.1895) in the light of the recent discovery and subsequent purchase of one version by the Reina Sofia, Madrid.
A discussion of Rachel Whiteread’s cast room Untitled (Room 101), which was shown in the Italian Cast Court at the V. & A. in 2003.
