By using this website you agree to our Cookie policy

January 2022

Vol. 164 | No. 1426

Italian Baroque art

Editorial

The Courtauld Gallery

Without question the refurbishment and redisplay of the Courtauld Gallery, London, unveiled on 19th November last year, has resulted in a much more enjoyable experience for visitors. Carried out by the architects Witherford Watson Mann over the past three years at a cost of £57 million, the project has been funded by £11 million from the National Lottery Heritage Fund together with grants from a number of private foundations, whose names – Blavatnik, LVMH, Garfield Weston – are now emblazoned in gold on the Gallery’s walls.

Editorial read more
Free review

By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800

Museum acquisitions can be transformative and often lead to exhibitions that stimulate research in new directions. The purchase by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, of Francesco Salviati’s portrait of the medical doctor and academician Carlo Rimbotti in 2017 provided the impetus for the recent exhibition of Medici portraits.

Free review read more
  • St Agatha, by Carlo Dolci. 1664-65. Oil on canvas, 73 by 41 cm. (Private collection).

    Carlo Dolci’s Inscriptions 1 – Dolci’s signatures and prices in context

    By Richard E. Spear
  • Detail of the reverse of the The Adoration of the Kings, by Carlo Dolci. 1649. Canvas, 117 by 92 cm.

    Carlo Dolci’s Inscriptions II – Diligence and devotion in Dolci’s ‘The Adoration of the Kings’ in the National Gallery, London

    By Letizia Treves
  • The east front of St Peter's, Rome. (Bridgeman Images).

    New light on the colossal statues on the façade of St Peter’s, Rome

    By Fernando Loffredo
  • The burial of St Lucy, by Caravaggio. 1608. Oil on canvas, 408 by 300 cm. (S. Lucia; Bridgeman image

    Caravaggio’s ‘Entombment of Christ’ and the birth of Christian archaeology

    By Silvia Danesi Squarzina
  • Pieta (lunette from the Buonvisi Alterpiece), by Francesco Francia. 1510-12. Oil on wood, 94 by 184.

    Edith Coulson James, Francesco Francia and ‘The Burlington Magazine’, 1911–17

    By Maria Alambritis
  • the lute player, by Caravaggio. c.1595-97. Oil on canvas, 94 by 119 cm. (State Hermitage Museum, St

    The Italian Caravaggio, among others

    By Sheila Mctighe
  • Kara Walker: A Black Hole Is Everything a Star Longs to Be

    By Catherine Daunt
  • Allegretto Nuzi e il ’300 a Fabriano: Oro e colore nel cuore dell’Appennino

    By Keith Christiansen
  • Ottaviano Nelli e il ’400 a Gubbio: Oro e colore nel cuore dell’Appennino

    By Keith Christiansen
  • Johannes Vermeer: On Reflection

    By Adriaan E. Waiboer
  • By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800

    By Elizabeth Cropper
  • Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything

    By Ellis Tinios
  • Ingres avant Ingres: Dessiner pour peindre

    By Philippe Bordes
  • Ilya Repin (1844–1930): Painting the Soul of Russia

    By Rosalind P. Blakesley
  • Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel

    By Paula J. Birnbaum
  • Jasper Johns: Mind / Mirror

    By Eileen Costello
  • Portrait of an Artist

    By Kenneth McConkey