THE BURLINGTON MAGAZINE

Editorial

Mild and bitter

Articles

Antoine Dubost’s ‘Sword of Damocles’ and Thomas Hope: an Anglo-French skirmish
by RICHARD SPEAR

The exhibition of Chinese art at Burlington House, London, 1935–36
by JASON STEUBER

Shorter notices

Early Italian paintings at Washington and Philadelphia
by EVERETT FAHY

Antonello da Messina
by LUKE SYSON

Raphael’s ‘Annunciation’ predella panel and a perspective drawing
by EUN-SUNG KANG

Book reviews

Chinese Sculpture, Angela Falco Howard, Li Song, Wu Hung and Yang Hong
by ROSE KERR

The Art and Architecture of English Benedictine Monasteries, 1300-1540. A Patronage History,Julian Luxford
by NICOLA COLDSTREAM

The Franciscans and Art Patronage in Late Medieval Italy, Louise Bourdua
by JOANNA CANNON

Siena e Roma. Raffaello, Caravaggio e i protagonisti di un legame antico,ed. Bruno Santi and Claudio Strinati
by JOHN MARCIARI

Daniele Ricciarelli. Da Volterra a Roma, Roberto Paolo Ciardi and Benedetta Moreschini
by MORTEN STEEN HANSEN

Women of Distinction. Margaret York and Margaret of Austria, ed. Dagmar Eichberger
by LARS HENDRIKMAN

Pirro Ligorio: the Renaissance Artist, Architect, and Antiquarian; with a checklist of drawings,David R. Coffin
by SUSAN RUSSELL

Building the Bank of England: Money – Architecture – Society 1694–1942, Daniel M. Abramson
by TIM KNOX

I giardini delle regine: il mito di Firenze nell’ambiente preraffaellita e nella cultura americana fra Ottocento e Novecento, ed. Margherita Ciacci and Grazia Gobbi Sica
by JANE MARTINEAU

Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Cultureed. Stephanie Trigg
by JULIAN M. LUXFORD

Continental Crosscurrents. British Criticism and European Art 1810–1910,J.B. Bullen
by JOHN-PAUL STONARD

Jane Freilicher,Klaus Kertess
by NATHAN KERNAN

Exhibition reviews

Undercover Surrealism
by GAVING PARKINSON

Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
by SHULAMITH BEHR

Musée de l’Orangerie
by JOHN HOUSE

Michel Corneille
by BARBARA BREJON DE LAVERGNEE

Zero
by JOHN-PAUL STONARD

Adam Elsheimer
by LUUK PIJL

Hockney’s portraits
by NATHAN KERNAN

Andrew Wyeth
by DAVID ANFAM

Constable
by MICHAEL ROSENTHAL