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 growing impact of financial cuts, resulting from the present Government’s Spending Review of last October in a bid to reduce national debt, is made abundantly clear in the press and media, day after day. The effects range across the board from, for example, redundancies at the highest level in the public sector and the rise in university students’ tuition fees to the probable closure of public libraries and the continuing disrepair of school buildings. As might be expected, in all the ensuing hand-wringing resulting from these cuts, the plight of museums, especially the non-national regional museums, has garnered only faint sympathy beyond the museum world itself.
The provenance of two sets of ‘cartoon’ heads of Christ and the Apostles after Leonardo’s Last Supper.
A drawing by Michelangelo for the finestre inginocchiate (‘kneeling windows’) in Palazzo Medici, Florence.
Two drawings by Giovan Battista Ricci da Novara for the decoration of the portico of new St Peter’s, Rome.
A drawing by Pietro da Cortona in Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, is here identified as a study for the Age of Bronze fresco in Palazzo Pitti, Florence.
An attribution to Delacroix of a nineteenth-century watercolour study after Rubens’s Allegory of Peace and War.
An examination of Seurat’s early attendance at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the influence of Adolphe Yvon’s drawing classes on his studies of the figure.
