THE BURLINGTON MAGAZINE

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Issue contents

Editorial

The William Morris Gallery

Articles

'The Story of Theodosius the Younger': a rediscovered tapestry set by Jacob Jordaens and his studio
by KOENRAAD BROSENS

Chinoiserie at Buckingham Palace in the nineteenth century
by CHRISTOPHER MAXWELL

Kunstkammer objects in the age of the World Fairs: Charles Duron in 1867
by OLIVIER GABET

Duveen and the decorators
by NICHOLAS PENNY and KAREN SERRES

Shorter notices

A fifteenth-century English alabaster altarpiece in the church of Saint-Martin, Gondreville, Picardie
by ISABELLE ISNARD

Filippo della Valle and 'le più belle statue': a new early work in bronze
by JONATHAN MARSDEN

Obituary

Dennis Farr (1929-2006)
by RICHARD GREEN

Peter Thornton (1925-2007)
by SIMON SWYNFEN JERVIS


Book reviews

Chinese Sculpture. A Great Tradition, A. Paludan  
by ROSE KERR

Maioliche Ispano-moresche a Firenze nel Rinascimento, M. Spallanzani
by ANTHONY RAY

Japanese Export Lacquer 1580-1850, O. Impey and C. Jörg
by SIMON SWYNFEN JERVIS

Noble Households: Eighteenth-Century Inventories of Great English Houses. A Tribute to John Cornforth, ed. T. Murdoch
by ANDREW MOORE

Beyond the Maker's Mark: Paul de Lamerie Silver in the Cahn Collection, E. Alcorn
by CHRISTOPHER HARTOP

Tommaso e Luigi Saulini. Incisori di cammei nella Roma dell'Ottocento, M.D. de Petra and F. Barberini
by JAMES DAVID DRAPER

Art, Design and Architecture in Central Europe 1890-1920, E. Clegg
by ANTHONY ALOFSIN

Picasso's Collection of African and Oceanic Art: Masters of Metamorphosis, P. Stepan
by ELIZABETH COWLING

 

Exhibition reviews

Surreal Things
by TANYA HARROD

Léon Spilliaert: self-portraits
by ELIZABETH CLEGG

Le Nouveau Réalisme
by JOHN-PAUL STONARD

Jasper Johns
by CATHERINE CRAFT

I Macchiaioli
by PHILIP RYLANDS

Desiderio da Settignano
by JEREMY WARREN

Giorgio de Chirico
by MARIA GRAZIA MESSINA

Kara Walker
by ROBERT SILBERMAN

Icons from Sinai
by ROBIN CORMACK

Australian Impressionism
by MICHAEL ROSENTHAL

 

In next month's issue

Next month's issue is devoted to Italian art, with articles on:

The murals in the Chiostro degli Aranci, Florence, and the role of Fra Angelico
The dismembering of an altarpiece by Veronese
An unpublished drawing of a design by Bernini for the Louvre