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March 2022

Vol. 164 | No. 1428

Editorial

Art in the age of digital reproduction

 

One of the most remarkable museums to have opened in Britain in many years, the Spanish Gallery at Bishop Auckland, County Durham, is impressive in a number of ways over and above the fact that it is devoted to that seemingly most unEnglish of subjects: the art of Counter-Reformation Spain. 

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La Collezione di Medaglie Mario Scaglia

Following the publication ten years ago of the rich collection of Renaissance plaquettes assembled by the Milanese industrialist and philanthropist Mario Scaglia, this splendid two-volume catalogue presents his outstanding collection of Renaissance and Baroque medals.

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The Chipperfield extension and private collections

With its third extension, the Kunsthaus Zurich can legitimately claim to be the largest museum in Switzerland. The competition is fierce in a country where recent initiatives to expand museums have multiplied, such as the extension of the Kunsthaus Basel by Christ & Gantenbein (2016) and more recently the erection of the new Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne (MACBA) by the Estudio Barozzi Veiga (2019).

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    Piranesi’s ‘Catalogo delle Opere’

    By Andrew Robison
  • Head of a woman – Françoise

    Picasso’s ‘Faun musician’: revealing the making, contextualising the meaning

    By Kristi Dahm,Francesca Casadio,Jean-Louis Andral
  • Sir Kenelm Digby

    Anthony van Dyck in London: newly discovered documents

    By Justin Davies,James Innes-Mulraine
  • The Barberini Venus

    Carlo Maratti’s additions to the ‘Barberini Venus’

    By Giovan Battista Fidanza
  • Detail of St Barbara

    A pastel ‘Study for a head’ by Boltraffio in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan

    By Antonio Mazzotta,Agostino Allegri
  • Frontispiece of Purgatory,

    Dante 1321–2021

    By David Ekserdjian
  • St Ferdinand

    The Spanish Gallery, Bishop Auckland

    By Isabelle Kent
  • Richard Kendall

    Obituary: Richard Kendall (1946–2021)

    By James A. Ganz
  • The Presentation of the Virgin,

    Obituary: John White (1924–2021)

    By Julian Gardner