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December 2024

Vol. 166 | No. 1461

Collecting in Britain

Editorial

A ‘grand life’: Belle da Costa Greene

New York’s Morgan Library & Museum was founded as a public institution in 1924 and its centenary this year has been celebrated in style. The most substantial project to form part of the anniversary is the exhibition (25th October–4th May 2025) on Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950), the museum’s inaugural Director. This is an exercise in fascinating institutional storytelling, but at the same time also considerably more, as Greene was an extraordinary and accomplished figure.

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Obituary

Georg Himmelheber (1929–2024)

By Simon Jervis

A pioneering historian of furniture and a curator at Karlsruhe and Munich, Georg Himmelheber was also a founder member of the Furniture History Society; although his expertise encompassed many periods and styles, he was perhaps best known for his work on ‘Biedermeier’ furniture.

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Exhibition Review

Caillebotte: Painting Men

Gustave Caillebotte (1848–94) was many things: a painter in the Impressionist circle, a patron of the arts, a flâneur in the modern city, a boat builder, a regatta sailor, a gardener and a philatelist, whose extensive collection now forms the basis of the stamp collection of the British Library, London. Coming from a wealthy family, he was long regarded primarily as a rich eccentric. That he was also a talented artist was discovered only decades after his death, partly because he kept most of his paintings to himself and chose not to exhibit them later in life.

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  • Shrine of St Edward

    Veiled in precious cloth: a seal bag from Westminster Abbey and its connections with Charlemagne’s shrine in Aachen

    By Corinne Mühlemann,Matthew Payne,Helen Wyld,Elizabeth A. New
  • Hercules and Omphale

    A crazy cook: Menander’s ‘Fake Herakles’ on a Roman gem

    By Ittai Gradel
  • Goten’yama

    Unclogging the eye: Matisse, the ‘Joy of life’ and ‘Japonisme’

    By Nicole M. Holland
  • Record I

    New evidence concerning the original version of Robert Delaunay’s ‘The runners’

    By Anne Greeley
  • 1. Georg Himmelheber.

    Georg Himmelheber (1929–2024)

    By Simon Jervis
  • Revoir Watteau: Un comédien sans réplique. Pierrot, dit le ‘Gilles’

    By Richard Rand
  • Corvey und das Erbe der Antike: Kaiser, Klöster und Kulturtransfer im Mittelalter

    By Isabella Schwarzer
  • The Northern Renaissance Galleries

    By Paula Nuttall
  • Il Cinquecento a Ferrara: Mazzolino, Ortolano, Garofalo, Dosso

    By Richard Stemp
  • Paris through the Eyes of Saint-Aubin

    By Gauvin Alexander Bailey
  • The Legacy of Vesuvius: Bourbon Discoveries on the Bay of Naples

    By Denise Amy Baxter
  • Caillebotte: Painting Men

    By franz zelger
  • Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers

    By Jennifer A. Thompson
  • Legacies: Asian American Art Movements in New York City (1969–2001)

    By Kolleen Ku
  • Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis MTO (MACS MTO)

    By Susan Babaie