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September 2024

Vol. 166 | No. 1458

Art in Italy

Editorial

Turner 250

J.M.W. Turner’s work has a wonderful quality of generosity about it. He was so prolific, varied and inventive in his painting that it can be enjoyed and studied in numerous ways and retains an extraordinary popularity. As 2025 is the 250th anniversary of Turner’s birth in 1775, we can look forward to attractive initiatives that celebrate the artist’s achievement.

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Obituary

Oliver James Watson (1949–2023)

By Mariam Rosser-Owen

A distinguished scholar of Islamic art, who worked at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Oliver Watson also published on Studio Ceramics and nurtured the careers of many younger colleagues.

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Book Review

Warhol After Warhol: Power and Money in the Modern Art World

The story that Richard Dorment tells in this meticulously researched book should be a cause of considerable concern to museum directors, curators, art historians, art dealers, conservators and collectors, as well as those engaged in art law. As Dorment shows with devastating clarity, the business of authenticating works by Andy Warhol (1928– 87) in the early 2000s was indeed a business.

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  • Self-portrait in the studio

    Two unpublished portraits by Lavinia Fontana

    By Antonio Ernesto Denunzio
  • Detail of Map of Bologna in 1600

    The ‘Madonna del Baraccano’: Francesco del Cossa’s reworking of a miraculous fresco

    By Julie Hartkamp
  • Moses with raised hands; mount depicts a fanciful border with leaves, a shell, humanoid figures, and a cartouche that has been cut

    Guercino’s ‘Moses’: a recent addition to the artist’s ‘prima maniera’

    By Letizia Treves
  • Detail of Madonna and Child enthroned, with saints and the donor Giuliano Della Rovere (Della Rovere Altarpiece)

    New documents for Vincenzo Foppa and Ludovico Brea in Liguria

    By Michela Zurla
  • Virgin and Child with St Anne and the infant St John the Baptist (the Burlington House Cartoon)

    Leonardo da Vinci’s Burlington House Cartoon: a new hypothesis

    Shorter notice by Per Rumberg
  • Study for Madonna of the long neck

    Parmigianino, Damiano Pieti and the beauty of architecture in the ‘Madonna of the long neck’

    Shorter notice by Mary Vaccaro
  • Sestertius of Maximinus.

    A newly discovered Anguissola portrait

    Shorter notice by Emanuele Lugli
  • Detail of Capra di Cipro, fol.21r of De Rebus Indicis & ex aliis mundi regionibus, tam Orientalibus quam Occidentalibus, valde curiosis & visu dignis,

    Even more about the Andrea Vendramin collection

    Shorter notice by Lauren Murphy
  • 1. Oliver Watson photographed next to one of his favourite objects in the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

    Oliver James Watson (1949–2023)

    By Mariam Rosser-Owen