Editorial

A Frick renaissance

On 17th April 2025 the Frick Collection on Fifth Avenue re-opens after a long period of redevelopment. When an old friend has a face lift, the results can be disconcerting. Happily, the impact here is, however, reassuringly subtle – as the splendid Gilded-age character of one of New York’s iconic cultural institutions has been retained, while elegant new facilities have been deftly integrated.

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Exhibition Review

Faire parler les pierres: Sculptures médiévales de Notre-Dame

By Paul Williamson

There was a distinct atmosphere of celebration in Paris in early December 2024. A little over five years after the shocking fire of 15th April 2019, the cathedral of Notre-Dame rather miraculously reopened to the public, as President Macron had vowed the day after the conflagration. It now stands restored, cleaned both inside and out, its roof and spire rebuilt, and the exhibition under review was planned to coincide with this new phase of the cathedral’s life.

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• Articles (7)
• Books (11)
• Exhibitions (10)

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  Cristoforo de Predis at the Sforza Court

  By Jeffrey Schrader
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  A portrait of an unknown woman by Titian

  By Peter Humfrey,Paul Joannides
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  A Safavid ambassadress in Rome: the last testament of Teresa Sampsonia Shirley

  By Alexandria Brown-Hedjazi
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  Additions to Ter Brugghen in Italy: ‘Christ bound to the column’ and ‘St John the Baptist in the wilderness’

  By John Gash
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  ‘Two boys with a bladder’ in the J. Paul Getty Museum and Joseph Wright of Derby’s early candlelights

  By Julia Siemon
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  Paul Sandby and Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn revisited

  By Oliver Fairclough
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  Observations about the abandoned portrait beneath Gainsborough’s ‘Blue boy’

  By Christina Milton O'Connell
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• Roma medievale: Il volto perduto della città

  By Hugh Doherty
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• Être sculpteur à Florence au temps des derniers Médicis

  By Nicola Ciarlo
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• Statues and Busts (The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo, Series A: Antiquities and Architecture, Part 4)

  By Peter Stewart
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• Scottish Furniture 1500–1914

  By Adam Bowett
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• Souvenirs de jeunesse: Entrer aux Beaux-Arts de Paris 1780–1980

  By Penelope Curtis
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• The Language of Architectural Classicism: From Looking to Seeing

  By Alan Powers
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• Résistances à l’idée d’art moderne dans la peinture: Paris, Londres, New York, 1848–1931

  By Louis Deltour
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• Life and Afterlife in Ancient China

  By Nancy S. Steinhardt
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• The Illuminated Window: Stories across Time

  By Tim Ayers
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• The Literature of Art: A Manual for Source Work in the History of Early Modern European Art Theory

  By Max Marmor
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• Mapping Art Collecting in Europe, 1860–1940: Eastern and Western Sociocultural Perspectives

  By Alice S. Legé
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• Drawing the Italian Renaissance Italian Renaissance Drawings from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

  By Catherine Whistler
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• Faire parler les pierres: Sculptures médiévales de Notre-Dame
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• Medieval Women: In Their Own Words

  By Diane Antille
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• Carpaccio, Bellini and the Early Renaissance in Venice

  By Irene Brooke
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• Dans l’atelier de Guido Reni

  By Catherine R. Puglisi
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• Leighton and Landscape: Impressions from Nature

  By Christopher Baker
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• Jugendstil: Made in Munich

  By Sabine Wieber
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• Winifred Nicholson: Cumbrian Rag Rugs

  By Helen Wyld
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• The History of Department Stores: From 1850 to Nowadays

  By Catherine Croft
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• Fracta Doces: Thirteenth-Century Insular Visitors to Rome

  By Sible L. de Blaauw
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