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June 2017

Vol. 159 | No. 1371

Editorial

Changing the British Museum

IN A YEAR in which visits to the United Kingdom’s national museums declined overall, the British Museum bucked the trend. With 6.42 million visits in 2015–16, it was the country’s top attraction for the ninth year running. It is hard to remember a time when it played second fiddle to the previous longstanding front-runner, Blackpool Pleasure Beach.

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An unusual gift of Russian prints to the British Museum in 1926

By Galina Mardilovich

IN MARCH 1926, at a time of cautious diplomacy between the Soviet Union and Britain, the British Museum, London, received a gift of 218 Russian prints presented by a group of twenty Russian artists. The impetus for the donation was a gift of prints by the British artist Frank Brangwyn to the Moscow Museum of Fine Arts in the late summer of 1925.1

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Piety at home in Renaissance Italy. Cambridge

IN RECENT YEARS we have been blessed with exhibitions that have moved beyond the hierarchies of technique and in which the ‘fine arts’ are placed within the context of the ‘decorative arts’, or, from a more enlightened point of view, in which the histories of art and of material culture are seen to be one and the same thing.

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  • Signorelli in Rome

    By Tom Henry
  • Signorelli, the Vitelli and the Medici

    By Matteo Mazzalupi
  • The painters of late medieval London and Westminster

    By Sonja Drimmer
  • The patronage and date of a late altarpiece by Guercino

    By Piero Boccardo
  • 7. Illustration to Nikolai Gogol’s The Portrait

    An unusual gift of Russian prints to the British Museum in 1926

    By Galina Mardilovich
  • The Rodin centenary

    By Melanie Vandenbrouck
  • The Art of Conservation XI. Mary Merrifield’s quest: a new methodology for technical art history

    By Zahira Veliz
  • Obituary: Charles Truman (1949–2017)

    By Timothy Shroder
  • Modern Art in America 1908–86. By William C. Agee

    By A. J. Taylor
  • Jerusalem 1000–1400: Every People Under Heaven. Edited by Barbara Drake Boehm and Melanie Holcomb

    By Monica Chojnacka
  • Michael Pacher: Zwischen Zeiten und Räumen. By Lukas Madersbacher

    By Giorgio Bonsanti
  • The Print before Photography: An Introduction to European Printmaking 1550–1820. By Antony Griffiths

    By Marjorie B. Cohn
  • Elisabetta Sirani ‘Virtuosa’: Women’s Cultural Production in Early Modern Bologna. By Adelina Modesti

    By Babette Bohn
  • Fiji: Art and Life in the Pacific. By Steven Hooper

    By Hermione Waterfield
  • Transatlantic Romanticism: British and American Art and Literature, 1790–1860. By Andrew Hemingway and Alan Wallach

    By Andrew Wilton
  • Copied by the Sun: Talbotype Illustrations to the ‘Annals of the Artists of Spain’ by Sir William Stirling Maxwell. Edited by Hilary Macartney and José Manuel Matilla

    By Patrick Lenaghan
  • Polychrome Sculpture: Meaning, Form, Conservation. By Johannes Taubert

    By Gauvin Alexander Bailey
  • Modern American prints. London

    By Jeremy Lewison
  • Michelangelo and Sebastiano. London

    By Hugo Chapman
  • The Japanese house. London

    By Owen Hopkins
  • Maeve Brennan. London

    By Richard Martin
  • Vanessa Bell. London

    By Richard Cork
  • Piety at home in Renaissance Italy. Cambridge

    By Richard Stemp
  • Victor Pasmore. Nottingham and Chichester

    By Rachel Smith
  • Pissarro. Paris

    By Patrick Bade
  • Drawings for paintings in the age of Rembrandt. Washington and Paris

    By An Van Camp
  • Frédéric Bazille. Montpellier, Paris and Washington

    By Kathleen Adler
  • Prints in Paris 1900. Amsterdam and Tokyo

    By Laura Prins
  • Bellini & Co. Conegliano

    By Caroline Campbell
  • Guercino. Piacenza

    By Xavier F. Salomon