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November 2022

Vol. 164 | No. 1436

Sculpture

Editorial

The Parthenon sculptures

It is now forty years since Melina Mercouri, the Greek Minister for Culture from 1981 to 1989, famous also as a film star and singer, addressed UNESCO’s World Conference on Cultural Policies to draw international attention to the campaign with which she would be identified until her death in 1994, the repatriation to Athens of the Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum.

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The Painters of Pompeii

As images, ancient Roman wall paintings command attention for their bold compositions, vibrant and saturated colours, convincing naturalism and the fantastical mythologies they depict. As objects they also captivate for the dramatic circumstances surrounding their near- destruction, the miracle (or rarity) of their survival and the alchemical nature of lime plaster and pigment.
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  • Calvary

    A boxwood ‘Calvary’ attributed to Claus Sluter

    By Frits Scholten
  • Pietas.

    ‘An Antiquity of Piety’

    By Jonathan Marsden
  • Detail of 'Miracle of the Goblet', showing the central kneeling woman

    Paolo Stella’s Belvedere: a Genoese outpost in Prague

    By Anne Markham Schulz
  • Lady Speyer

    Reconstructing the Renaissance: the collection of Edgar and Leonora Speyer

    By John Hilary
  • Chapel of St Teresa of Ávila, also known as the Chapel of the Cardinal

    Soldani’s ‘Lamentation’ in Córdoba

    By Fernando Loffredo
  • Young woman running with a shell and a candlestickx

    Moderno and Severo da Ravenna in the Duclaux collection, Angers

    By Emmanuel Lamouche
  • Detail of Faith on a holy-water basin in S. Giovanni Fuorcivitas, Pistoia

    An ‘Allegory of Prudence’ attributed to Nicola Pisano’s workshop

    By Luca Palozzi,Graziano A. Vergani
  • Mark Girouard (1931–2022)

    By Michael Hall
  • Edward Lear: Moment to Moment

    By Richard Green
  • The Painters of Pompeii

    By Christine Gardner-Dseagu
  • A Taste for Impressionism: Modern French Art from Millet to Matisse

    By Richard Thomson
  • Richard Gerstl: Inspiration – Legacy

    By franz zelger
  • Cranach: The Early Years in Vienna

    By Larry Silver
  • Lucas Cranach der Ältere und Hans Kemmer: Meistermaler zwischen Renaissance und Reformation

    By Hiltrud Westermann-Angerhausen
  • Ritratti d’oro e d’argento: Reliquari medievali in Piemonte, Valle d’Aosta, Svizzera e Savoia

    By Kirstin Kennedy
  • Rubens: Picturing Antiquity

    By David Jaffé
  • Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape

    By Amy Golahny
  • Renoir: Rococo Revival

    By Colin B. Bailey
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein: Fotografie als analytische Praxis / Photography as Analytical Practice

    By Lisa Stein
  • Robin White: Something is Happening Here

    By Mark Stocker