Editorial

Boughton’s heavenly visions

Boughton in Northamptonshire is an improbable dream of a house. It is an essay in restrained French Classicism that was gently set into the English countryside in the late seventeenth century, encasing an older building (Fig.1). The house was chiefly the creation of the francophile Ralph, 1st Duke of Montagu (1638–1709), who served as Charles II’s ambassador to the court of Louis XIV. Its most splendid internal feature is the so-called Grand Apartment, which consists of a parade of impressive state rooms.

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Exhibition Review

The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence

A once-in-a-lifetime event, this exhibition spans the century of the greatest grandeur enjoyed by the Mughal Empire, from 1560 to 1660. One of the largest centralised states in Early Modern history, it encompassed most of subcontinental India, far outstripping in size and resources both the contemporary Islamic empires of the Safavids and Ottomans, and in global terms it was rivalled only by Ming China.

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• Articles (5)
• Books (5)
• Exhibitions (11)

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  Turner’s ‘Staffa, Fingal’s Cave’: exporting ‘indistinctness’

  By Ian Warrell
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  ‘The monarch of the glen’: painting for the new Houses of Parliament

  By Stephen Duffy
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  The discovery of James Gibbs’s designs for the façade of Burlington House

  By William Aslet
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  A serendipitous discovery: a lost Italian portrait from Horace Walpole’s miniature cabinet

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  The portraits of Alice Spencer, Countess of Derby, and her family by Paul van Somer

  By Edward Town,Jessica David
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• British Portrait Miniatures from the Thomson Collection

  By Stephen Lloyd
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• La peinture murale en Alsace au coeur du Rhin supérieur du Moyen Âge à nos jours / Die Wandmalerei im Elsass im Herzen des Oberrheins vom Mittelalter bis heute

  By Ulrike Heinrichs
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• The Master Builder: William Butterfield and his Times

  By Kenneth Frampton
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• Discovering Women Sculptors

  By Natalie Rudd
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• Paul Huxley

  By Richard Calvocoressi
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• Salvo: Arrivare in tempo

  By Kathryn Lloyd
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• The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence

  By Parshati Dutta
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• Rachel Ruysch: Nature into Art

  By Anna Koldeweij
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• Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious

  By Lotte Crawford
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• Barbara Walker: Being Here

  By Richard Stemp
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• Secessions: Klimt, Stuck, Liebermann

  By Jill Lloyd-Peppiatt
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• Penelope

  By Christine Gardner-Dseagu
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• Empoli 1424: Masolino e gli albori del Rinascimento

  By Livia Lupi
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• Un magico ‘ponte’ da Tiziano a Rubens: La fortuna di un dipinto perduto

  By William L. Barcham
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• Magnificence of Rococo: Kaendler’s Meissen Porcelain Figures

  By Andreina D’Agliano
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• Crafting the Ballets Russes. Music, Dance, Design: The Robert Owen Lehman Collection

  By Eric Zafran
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