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October 1979

Vol. 121 | No. 919

The Burlington Magazine

  • Front Matter

  • Agostino Tassi: Some New Attributions

    By Marco Chiarini

    IN considering the oeuvre of Agostino Tassi (1580/85 - c.1644) we shall find that the least known period of his activity is that of his youth, which appears, according to the sources (Mancini, Passeri, Soprani), to have been spent mainly in Tuscany and Genoa. The works he painted there, which consisted mostly of decorations on the facades of buildings and some interiors of Genoese villas, are all lost. 

  • Angelo Michele Colonna: A Profile

    By Ebria Feinblatt

    AS the most productive in the field of seventeenth-century Bolognese ceiling decoration, Angelo Michele Colonna (1604-1687) has not been the subject of a general essay for a great many years. Increasing efforts at lifting the veil obscuring the work of the Bolognese decorative school have, however, been made from several sides in recent times, and a fuller picture of these ceiling frescoists is beginning to emerge. 

  • Filippo Brunelleschi's Political Career

    By Diane Finiello Zervas
  • A Further Inventory of Gabriel Vendramin's Collection

    By Jaynie Anderson

    ONE of the most celebrated collections in sixteenth-century Venice was that of Gabriel Vendramin, who is remembered today principally because he was the first recorded owner of Giorgione's Tempesta. Our knowledge of what his collection contained has until now been based on Marcantonio Michiel's tantalisingly laconic notes of 1530 and a later inventory compiled some fifteen years after Gabriel's death on the instructions of his heirs. This article is prompted by the discovery of a further inventory of the collection made in 1601, together with a collection of documents from other sources.

  • Back Matter

  • Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Venetian Seventeenth Century Painting at the National Gallery

    By Jennifer Fletcher
  • Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: The Medal - Mirror of History at the British Museum

    By Graham Pollard
  • Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: In and out of Place 'The Horses of San Marco' and 'A View from the Iron Bridge' at the Royal Academy. Turner's Petworth Album at Petworth

    By Neil (N. M.) MacGregor
  • Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Portsmouth [Vanessa Bell at the Portsmouth Museum]

    By Richard Shone
  • Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Degas in Edinburgh

    By Richard Thomson