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.
Iconoclasm is a fashionable subject. Art historians have always had an interest in it – the work of Dario Gamboni, Robin Cormack, Margaret Aston and Wendy Bellion immediately comes to mind – but there has recently been a flurry of scholarly activity on the history of the destruction of images.
One could illustrate changing attitudes to Victorian art through the vicissitudes of Leighton House. When Frederic Leighton died in January 1896 this most opulent of studio-homes was lined with works of art, from Islamic tiles to nineteenth-century French paintings, displayed in an interior ‘built’, as his sisters wrote, ‘for his own artistic delight’.
