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August 2023

Vol. 165 | No. 1445

Manet’s model: in search of Victorine Meurent

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Editorial

Don’t believe your eyes

As an avid art enthusiast, I recently had the pleasure of visiting the Art and Artifice exhibition at the esteemed Courtauld Gallery in London. The unique theme of showcasing fakes from their collection had piqued my interest, and I must say, the exhibition did not disappoint. This fascinating display challenged conventional notions of authenticity and offered a thought-provoking experience that left a lasting impression.

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Lavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, Rule Breaker

For the majority of visitors, this exhibition of sixty-seven objects constitutes an introduction to Lavinia Fontana (1552–1614). As introductions go, however, this one is a century and a half overdue, given that the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, has owned one of Fontana’s most spectacular works, Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon (cat. no.51; Fig.14), since 1872.

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Naming Parmigianino’s Antea

By Mary Vaccaro

In the third and final article of this series highlighting discoveries about the networks of artists and patrons in the sixteenth-century baptismal registers of Parma, the much-debated identity of the female sitter in one of Parmigianino’s most enigmatic portraits, known as ‘Antea’, comes into clearer focus.

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  • Victorine Meurent

    Victorine Meurent: new evidence from America and Paris

    By James Fairhead
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  • 1. Portrait of a young woman, possibly Antea Smeraldi

    Naming Parmigianino’s Antea

    By Mary Vaccaro
  • Raphael and the Fornarina

    Ingres, Raphael and the ‘tableaux de tapisserie’ in Meaux Cathedral

    By Alexandra Morrison
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  • The Duchess of Kent’s mausoleum, Frogmore

    Prince Albert, architect: the Duchess of Kent’s mausoleum

    By Michael Hall
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  • Gertrud Bing, Aby Warburg and Franz Alber in their sitting room at the Palace Hotel, April 1929

    Aby Warburg’s Hertziana lecture, 1929

    By Elizabeth Sears
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  • Installation view of De Bentvueghels at Centraal Museum

    The lure of the south

    By Wayne E. Franits
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  • Whitney Museum of American Art

    Behind the scenes at the modern art museum

    By Elizabeth Pergam
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  • Shulamith Behr

    Shulamith Behr (1946–2023)

    By Christian Weikop
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  • Building Greater Britain: Architecture, Imperialism, and the Edwardian Baroque Revival c.1885–1920

    By Ian Lochhead
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  • Giotto’s Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility

    By Péter Bokody
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  • Genealogy and the Politics of Representation in the High and Late Middle Ages

    By Zoë Opacic
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  • Sebastiano del Piombo and the Sacred Image: Mediating the Divine in the Age of Reform

    By Piers Baker-Bates
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  • Dessins bolonais du XVIe siècle (Dessins italiens du Musée du Louvre, 12)

    By Benjamin Couilleaux
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  • Anatomical Studies (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, 20.1)

    By Hans Jakob Meier
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  • Scottish Portraiture 1644–1714: David and John Scougall and Their Contemporaries

    By Stephen Lloyd
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  • James Gillray: A Revolution in Satire

    By Frédéric Ogée
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  • Radical Art and the Formation of the Avant-Garde

    By Christopher Green
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  • Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat

    By Tabitha Oost
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  • Van Gogh in Auvers: His Final Months

    By Richard Thomson
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  • Van Gogh’s Cypresses

    By Jonathan Lopez
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  • Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece

    By Christine Gardner-Dseagu
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  • Normands: Migrants, conquérants, innovateurs

    By John McNeill
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  • Lavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, Rule Breaker

    By Sheila Barker
  • Trädgården: Konst och natur under sex sekler

    By Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
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  • Futurism and Europe: The Aesthetics of a New World

    By Talia Kwartler
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  • American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light

    By Timothy J. Standring
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  • Roni Horn: I am paralyzed with hope

    By Kathryn Lloyd
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