Editorial

Fashionistas

The costume institute and its annual gala in May at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (the Met), have become fixtures on the museum world’s map and calendar. Whether you delight in them or are bemused by the spectacle they provide, or indeed try and take no notice at all, they are hard to ignore. The alignment they represent between fashion history, contemporary celebrity and the gravitas of a major museum is immensely beneficial in terms of fundraising and profile.

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Exhibition Review

Maria Lai: A Journey to America

In the past two decades the art world has increasingly turned its attention to Italian feminism and the contributions of Italian women artists, particularly those active in the twentieth century, among whom is the Sardinian artist Maria Lai (1919– 2013). Despite her posthumous rise to prominence, Lai resists the ever-present tendency to categorise artists as a central tenet of the historicising process.

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Obituary

Rosalind Joy Savill (1951–2024)

By Stephen Duffy,Christopher Baker

An immensely successful director of the Wallace Collection, London, and a pre-eminent scholar of eighteenth-century Sèvres porcelain, Rosalind (‘Ros’) Savill had a profound and enduring impact both on the museum and the research she cared passionately about.

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• Articles (7)
• Books (10)
• Exhibitions (8)

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  Rosalind Joy Savill (1951–2024)

  By Stephen Duffy,Christopher Baker
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  A new border from Abbot Suger’s Saint-Denis

  By Michael W. Cothren,Mary B. Shepard
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  Friendship tokens: Jean-Baptiste Greuze’s paintings for Madame de Pompadour

  By Yuriko Jackall,John K. Delaney,Michael Swicklik
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  British press reaction to the London exhibitions of David, Lefèvre, Wicar and Lethière

  By Humphrey Wine
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  Recasting and republicanising Millet’s horizons: Félicien Rops, Jean-François Raffaëlli and Jean-Charles Cazin

  By Richard Thomson
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  Bravery, ingenuity and aerial post: an enamelled bowl by Joséphine-Arthurine Blot

  By Daniëlle O. Kisluk-Grosheide
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  Antoine Caron and Italy

  By David Ekserdjian
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• Private Collectors in Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent, ca.1780–1914: Between Public Relevance and Personal Pleasure

  By Mark Evans
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• Julian Stair: Memory, Materials, Ceramics

  By Tanya Harrod
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• Panni Tartarici: Seidengewebe aus Asien im spätmittelalterlichen Europa

  By Lisa Monnas
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• La Tabatière Choiseul: un monument du XVIIIe siècle

  By Céline Cachaud
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• Réinventer l’art sacré: Le Groupe de Saint-Luc (1919–1945)

  By Louis Deltour
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• Ribera: Ténèbres et lumière

  By Francesca Cappelletti
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• The Mystery of Master Fortezza: The Šibenik Engraver’s European Legacy

  By Josip Belamarić
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• Die Neue Sachlichkeit: Ein Jahrhundertjubiläum / The New Objectivity: A Centennial Anniversary

  By Sergiusz Michalski
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• Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930

  By Mary Ann Caws
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• Nicolas Besnier (1686–1754): Architecte, orfèvre du roi et échevin de la Ville de Paris

  By Alice Minter
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• Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet

  By Ian (I. C.) Campbell
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• Unfolding Time: The Medieval Pocket Calendar

  By Karen Limper-Herz
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• A New Look at Cimabue: At the Origins of Italian Painting

  By Francesca Aimi
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• Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature

  By Nina Amstutz
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• Breaking Lines: Futurism and the Origins of Experimental Poetry: Dom Sylvester Houédard and Concrete Poetry in Post-war Britain

  By Greg Thomas
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• Maria Lai: A Journey to America

  By Giulia Schirripa
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• Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui

  By Mark Stocker
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• The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998

  By Emilia Terracciano
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