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April 2023

Vol. 165 | No. 1441

Van Gogh's obelisks

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Editorial

Politics versus archaeology in Paris

An air of anticipation has greeted the fourth anniversary of the fire that broke out on 15th April 2019 and destroyed the medieval roof of Notre-Dame, Paris, together with its flèche, designed by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in 1859. The main controversies surrounding the restoration having been settled – as reported in this Magazine, in July 2020 the French government announced that the roof and flèche will be rebuilt as they were, using the same materials as the original – attention has turned to the discoveries being made and to the restoration process.

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Process: Design Drawings from the Rijksmuseum 1500–1900

Over the past decade the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, has formed a large collection of design drawings. A selection is on view at the Fondation Custodia, Paris.

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  • Detail from Virgin and Child with the young St John the Baptist

    Newly attributed drawings by Botticelli

    By Furio Rinaldi
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  • Detail from X-radiographs of Holy Family with St Anne, the young St John the Baptist and his parents, revealing the original central composition

    The young Jordaens

    By Joost Vander Auwera
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  • Courtyard

    The design of Cape Coast Castle and Dixcove Fort, Ghana

    By Gauvin Alexander Bailey
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  • Still-life with blue enamel coffeepot, earthenware and fruit

    Becoming ‘obeliscal’: Van Gogh, ancient Egypt and the global Orient – II: obelisks

    By James Hall
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  • Virgin and Child enthroned with Sts Dionysius the Aeropagite, Domenic, Clement and Thomas Aquinas,

    A panel painting of Our Lady with the Child by Leonardo

    By Marco Spallanzani
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  • Detail of St Thecla Altarpiece

    Giulio Cesare Procaccini’s earliest known drawing and his contacts with Aurelio Luini

    By Lucia Tantardini
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  • Detail from a Acanthus bedcover

    A ‘Morris room’ in Cardiff: Mary Lobb and the National Museum of Wales

    By Thomas Cooper
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  • Detail from Three skulls on a patterned carpet

    Looking slowly with Cezanne

    By Paul Smith
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  • Hans Belting

    Hans Belting (1935–2023)

    By Christopher Wood
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  • Process: Design Drawings from the Rijksmuseum 1500–1900

    By Simon Jervis
  • Giulio Romano: La forza delle cose

    By Camilla Pietrabissa
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  • Anne de France (1522–2022): Femme de pouvoir, princesse des arts

    By Nathalie Roman
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  • Johann Gottfried Schadow: Embracing Forms

    By Philip Ward-Jackson
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  • Thomas Cole’s Studio: Memory and Inspiration

    By John Wilson
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  • An Italian Impressionist in Paris: Giuseppe De Nittis

    By Jane Becker
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  • The Art of Tapestry

    By Thomas P. Campbell
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  • Venus and the Arts of Love in Renaissance Florence

    By Paula Nuttall
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  • Study Heads (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, 20.2)

    By Victoria Sancho Lobis
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  • La collezione Corsini di Roma: Dalle origini alla donazione allo Stato italiano. Dipinti e sculture

    By Fiorenza Rangoni
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  • Courbet’s Landscapes: The Origins of Modern Painting

    By Mary Morton
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  • Nicolas de Staël: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings

    By Merlin James
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  • Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects

    By Charles Saumarez Smith
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  • Saint Cecilia in the Renaissance: The Emergence of a Musical Icon

    By Patrick Bade
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  • Stourhead: Henry Hoare’s Paradise Revisited

    By John Martin Robinson
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  • Love Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud, 1939–1954

    By Beth Williamson
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  • In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900–1930s

    By Maria Mileeva
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  • Cecco del Caravaggio: L’allievo modello

    By John Gash
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  • Spain and the Hispanic World: Treasures from the Hispanic Society Museum and Library

    By Morlin Ellis
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  • Impressionism: Franco-German Encounters

    By franz zelger
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  • Shōji Hamada: A Japanese Potter in Ditchling

    By Julian Stair
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  • Jannis Kounellis in Six Acts

    By Robert Silberman
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  • Sydney Modern at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

    By Kate Goodwin
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