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March 2023

Vol. 165 | No. 1440

Delacroix in Africa and Spain: newly discovered sketchbooks

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Editorial

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Given his undisputed central place in the history of British art, it is surprising that the three-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Joshua Reynolds is not being celebrated this year with more éclat. The principal tribute will be an exhibition Family & Friends: Reynolds at Port Eliot (24th July–5th September) at the Box in Plymouth, the city where Reynolds made his reputation – he was born on 16th July 1723 at Plympton, on its outskirts. The exhibition will explore the patronage he enjoyed from the Eliot family of Port Eliot, St Germans, and will be supplemented by the museum’s collection of paintings by Reynolds, the largest outside London.

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Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color

If asked to name the most successful exhibition of contemporary German art, few people would intuitively think of an exhibition presenting vivid reconstructions of the polychromy of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture. In part, this is due to the tendency to see the exhibition’s principal attractions, the colourful sculptures produced by the archaeologists Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, as something more akin to pedagogical tools rather than works of art.

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Delacroix in Morocco and Andalusia: rediscovered notebooks and drawings

By Michèle Hannoosh

Two recently rediscovered sketchbooks from Delacroix’s travels in northern Africa and southern Spain in 1832, presented here in full, reveal important details about his working process and the variety of ways in which his notes and drawings informed his paintings. These visual diaries of Delacroix’s experiences also highlight the ways he revisited and reimagined certain themes and compositions over time.

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    Delacroix in Morocco and Andalusia: rediscovered notebooks and drawings

    By Michèle Hannoosh
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