THE BURLINGTON MAGAZINE

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Issue contents

Editorial

The photographic libraries at the Courtauld

Articles

'A great sumptuousness of paintings': frescos and Franciscan poverty at Assisi in 1288 and 1312
by DONAL COOPERand JANET ROBSON

The patronage and date of the legend of St Francis in the Upper Church of S. Francesco at Assisi
by PAUL BINSKI

'Beautiful in form and execution': the design and construction of Andrea Riccio's Paschal candlestick
by SHELLEY STURMAN, SIMONA CRISTANETTI, DEBRA PINCUS, KAREN SERRES and DYLAN SMITH

Abbé Celotti and the provenance of Antonello da Messina's 'The condottiere' and Antonio de Solario's 'Virgin and Child with St John'
by ANNE-MARIE EZE

A double-portrait attributable to Marietta Tintoretto
by DUNCAN BULL

A Caravaggesque 'Christ' in Scotland
by JOHN GASH

An addition to the provenance of Caravaggio's 'Taking of Christ'
by JAKE WILSON

 

Art History Reviewed

Bernard Berenson's 'The Drawings of the Florentine Painters Classified, Criticised and Studied as Documents in the History and Appreciation of Tuscan Art, with a Copious Catalogue Raisonné', 1903
by CARMEN BAMBACH



Book reviews

Giotto's O: Narrative, Figuration, and Pictorial Ingenuity in the Arena Chapel, A. Ladis

The Usurer's Heart: Giotto, Enrico Scrovegni, and the Arena Chapel in Padua, A. Derbes and M. Sandona

Giotto and the Arena Chapel: Art, Architecture and Experience, L. Jacobus

L'affare migliore di Enrico. Giotto e la cappella Scrovegni, C. Frugoni
by JOHN OSBORNE

La O di Giotto, S.Romano
by DONAL COOPER

The Power of Images, the Images of Power: Lucca as an Imperial City; Political Iconography, M. Seidel and R. Silva
by FLAVIO BOGGI

Rinascimento Ritrovato: Nell'età di Bramante e Leonardo tra i Navigli e il Ticino, P. De Vecchio and G. Bora, eds.
by CHARLES ROBERTSON

Pintoricchio, V. Garibaldi and F.F. Mancini, eds.
by CAROL PLAZZOTTA

Michelangelo, Zeichnungen und Zuschreibungen/Drawings and Attributions, M. Sonnabend
by CHARLES DAVIS

La Galleria Farnese. Gli affreschi dei Carracci, S.Ginzburg
by XAVIER F. SALOMON

Andrea Lanzani 1641–1712. Protagonista del Barocchetto Lombardo , S. Colombo and M. Dell'Omo
by MARCO RICCOMINI


Exhibition reviews

Pieter de Witte - Pietro Candido
by ERIKA LANGMUIR

Cardinal Pallotta's collection
by XAVIER F. SALOMON

Eighteenth-century Florence
by PAOLO COEN

Charles IV of Spain and the decorative arts
by ALVAR GONZALEZ-PALACIOS

The conversation piece
by KATE RETFORD

Charles Darwin and the visual arts
by LAURENCE SHAFE

J.W. Waterhouse
by JULIAN TREUHERZ

Musée Magritte Museum
by JORG ZUTTER

Barry Flanagan
by FRANCES SPALDING

Isabel Toledo
by LYNNE COOKE


Calendar

 

Supplement

In next month's issue

The November issue is devoted to sculpture and marks the new Medieval and Renaissance rooms at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, with articles on the Museum’s Romanesque window from Trie-Château and on its Venetian tympanum by Bartolomeo Bon. Also in the issue are the Curzon Memorial at Kedleston and the commission for the Edith Cavell Memorial in London.