Burlington Contemporary is the Burlington Magazine’s free online platform for reviews and research on international contemporary art.
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Burlington Contemporary is the Burlington Magazine’s free online platform for reviews and research on international contemporary art.
The recent sale at a modest auction house in West London of an eighteenth-century Chinese vase for a world record price for porcelain of £43 million (£51.6 million including buyer’s premium) is symbolic of the current booming international market for Chinese artefacts. This has been fuelled by Chinese buyers and reflects the rise of wealthy collectors, signifying China’s resurgence as an economic, industrial and trading superpower, asserting itself as an influential player both regionally and globally.
An examination of the Trivulzio candelabrum in Milan Cathedral, including new documentation on this vast object of French origin, which came to the Cathedral in 1562.
A discussion of a bronze Bacchus wearing a Silenus mask made for Antonio Londonio.
The identification of a new portrait bust by Antico.
An attribution to Gorg Pencz of a painting of Tomyris in the Mimara Museum, Zagreb.
An unpublished letter from Salvator Rosa in the Victoria State Archive in Melbourne.
A reconstruction of the interior of the late eighteenth-century Persian Bedroom at Fawley Court, near Henley-on-Thames.
A discussion of James McNeill Whistler’s portrait of the violinist Sarasate (1884), his only life-size portrait of a professional musician.
A re-examination of Hans Belting’s Bild und Kult, 1990.
