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September 2023

Vol. 165 | No. 1446

Twentieth-century painting

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Editorial

The British Museum

Who would want to be the director of the British Museum? The question is prompted in the first instance by the announcement in July that Hartwig Fischer, who has been the director since May 2016, has resigned. Nobody could ever imagine that his job was easy, but the question has been reinforced in the past few weeks by seemingly relentless bad news.

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Painted Love: Renaissance Marriage Portraits

So few British regional museums are currently holding exhibitions of art that was made prior to the twentieth century that this thoughtful and visually rich one-room show is especially welcome. Between 1400 and 1600 interest in portraiture exploded throughout western Europe. Painted portraits often played a role in marriage negotiations and celebrations among the elites. This exhibition considers the various related roles and purposes of portraiture, especially among ruling and noble families. Marriage alliances were, of course, central to the politics of the period.

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  • Inventions of the monsters

    Tanguy's titles

    By Stephen Mack
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  • Boats at quayside

    Alfred Wallis and Christopher Wood: a meeting on canvas

    By Rupert Featherstone
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  • Roger Fry’s glass slide of Masaccio’s St Peter healing with his shadow.

    Stanley Spencer, postcards, small books and old masters

    By Jane Martineau
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  • L’homme au foulard

    Below the surface of Braque's 'Pitcher, candlestick and black fish'

    By Desirae Dijkema
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  • 1. Denis Wirth-Miller’s studio

    Denis Wirth-Miller’s studio collection

    By Katharina Günther
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  • Cover of the exhibition catalogue for The Responsive Eye at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1965)

    The anxiety of Op: towards a theory of art and the non-visual senses

    By Eva Díaz
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  • Boulle cabinet, on a table stand by Ince and Mayhew

    The industry and ingenuity of William Ince and John Mayhew

    By Lucy Wood
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  • Bernice Rose (1935–2023)

    By Laura Hoptman
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  • Van Dyck and the Making of English Portraiture

    By Desmond Shawe-Taylor
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  • Selected Letters of Clive Bell: Art, Love and War in Bloomsbury

    By Richard Shone
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  • The Architecture of Steam: Waterworks and the Victorian Sanitary Crisis

    By Jonathan Ribner
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  • Rubens’s Spirit: From Ingenuity to Genius

    By Helen Hillyard
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  • Mauro Pellicioli e la cultura del restauro nel XX secolo

    By Stefania Ventra
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  • The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars

    By Emma West
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  • Zola’s Painters

    By Richard Thomson
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  • Zeichnen im Zeitalter Goethes: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle aus dem Freien Deutschen Hochstift

    By Armin Kunz
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  • Great Irish Households: Inventories from the Long Eighteenth Century House and Home in Georgian Ireland: Spaces and Cultures of Domestic Life

    By Christopher Rowell
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  • Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899)

    By franz zelger
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  • Balthazar: A Black African King in Medieval and Renaissance Art

    By Scott Nethersole
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  • Inventing Late Antique Reliquaries: Reception, Material History, and Dynamics of Interaction (4th–6th centuries CE)

    By Julian Luxford
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  • Cy Twombly Inscriptions

    By Richard Shiff
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  • L’Amour en scène! François Boucher, du théâtre à l’opéra

    By Raha Shahidi
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  • Murillo: From Heaven to Earth

    By Peter Cherry
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  • Barbarossa: Die Kunst der Herrschaft

    By Isabella Schwarzer
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  • Alexander the Great: The Making of a Myth

    By Claudia Daniotti
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  • Soutine|Kossoff

    By James Cahill
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  • Painted Love: Renaissance Marriage Portraits

    By Karen Hearn
  • Rosalba Carriera: Perfection in Pastel

    By Christoph Martin Vogtherr
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  • Mina Loy: Strangeness is Inevitable

    By Mary Ann Caws
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  • The National Portrait Gallery, London

    By Christopher Baker
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  • Istanbul Modern

    By Charles Saumarez Smith
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