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.
Our may editorial discussed several aspects of the current situation at Tate Britain. In particular it criticised the display of the permanent collection and the haemorrhaging of a number of curators. A reply from the Director, Penelope Curtis, is published on p.491 of this issue. It is hardly the robust response that we had expected – indeed, it endorses some of our misgivings – and it does not fully address the question as to why so little space was allocated in the current temporary hang to British art pre-1900.
New documents establish the commission by the lawyers of Siena for a St Jerome (1482) by Matteo di Giovanni, now in the Fogg Art Museum.
A woodland scene, Landscape with hunters (c.1588), by Jan Brueghel the Elder, which is included in the Allegory of Sight (1617) by Brueghel and Peter Paul Rubens.
A discussion of the impact on John de Critz's career and portrait workshop of his considerable loss of sight by 1608.
New information on the provenance of Caravaggio's Denial of St Peter (c.1609–10), which was acquired by Guido Reni in 1613.
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