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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• Articles (9)
• Books (16)
• Exhibitions (7)

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  Newly attributed drawings by Botticelli

  By Furio Rinaldi
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  The young Jordaens

  By Joost Vander Auwera
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  The design of Cape Coast Castle and Dixcove Fort, Ghana

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

  By James Hall
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  A panel painting of Our Lady with the Child by Leonardo

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

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

  By Thomas Cooper
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  Looking slowly with Cezanne

  By Paul Smith
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  Hans Belting (1935–2023)

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

  By Simon Jervis
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• 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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