Burlington Contemporary is the Burlington Magazine’s free online platform for reviews and research on international contemporary art.
Burlington Contemporary is the Burlington Magazine’s free online platform for reviews and research on international contemporary art.
In May 1547 Paolo Giovio predicted that his friend Giorgio Vasari’s recent paintings would be consumed by saltpetre and worms, but that his Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects would make him immortal. Five centuries after Vasari’s birth on 30th July 1511, even though many of his paintings still survive and, among his architectural projects, that for the Uffizi is celebrated, his fame is solidly based on his book.1 It is by no means clear that he would have welcomed this because he always seems to have seen himself primarily as a painter.
A technical examination of the recently restored Virgin and Child with two Angels (c.1467–69) in the National Gallery, London, now firmly attributed to Andrea del Verrocchio.
New documentation on Bartolomeo Montagna’s altarpiece The Virgin and Child with Sts James and Philip (c.1492) in Glasgow Museums.
A newly discovered inventory of Giorgione’s belongings made shortly after his death in 1510.
Three new documents on the Coronation of the Virgin (1520–25) altarpiece, begun by Raphael for the monastery of Monteluce, Perugia, but later completed by Guilio Romano and Gianfrancesco Penni following Raphael’s death.
A re-examination of the subject of a painting of the Magdalene by Veronese in the National Gallery, London.
An unpublished fresco by Tommaso Laureti in the monastery of Tor de’ Specchi, Rome, is examined in the light of its recent restoration.
Two paintings, a Penitent St Peter (c.1612–14) and a Martyrdom of St Lawrence (c.1615–16), are here linked to the early practice of Jusepe de Ribera.
