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Sir Richard Westmacott was commissioned to create a monumental marble vase as part of the campaign to commemorate victor...
16/11/2025

Sir Richard Westmacott was commissioned to create a monumental marble vase as part of the campaign to commemorate victory at the Battle of Waterloo. Its origins and intriguing later history – including a period of display in the heart of London’s National Gallery – are discussed here in detail following a close reading of the related documentation in the Royal Archives and elsewhere. ⁠
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Read Peter T.J. Rumley’s article ‘The history of Westmacott’s Waterloo Vase in the gardens of Buckingham Palace’ in our November issue: https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/back-issues/202511?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Nov+25+issue+promo
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Image: ‘Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, when Queen Elizabeth, Buckingham Palace Gardens’, by Cecil Beaton. 1939. Gelatin silver print, 24.2 by 19.2 cm. (© His Majesty King Charles III, 2025, Royal Collection Trust).

The Burlington Magazine’s Sculpture Prize is now open for entries.Supported by Stuart Lochhead Sculpture, this new annua...
14/11/2025

The Burlington Magazine’s Sculpture Prize is now open for entries.

Supported by Stuart Lochhead Sculpture, this new annual prize is intended to inspire the development and publication of innovative object-based scholarship on sculpture from the Renaissance to 1900.

£2500 will be awarded, with publication in The Burlington Magazine’s annual issue dedicated to Sculpture (at the Editor’s discretion), plus a one year subscription.

We seek previously unpublished articles of 1000–1500 words from early career scholars worldwide. Preference will be given to object-related scholarship. Submissions should be in English and should include the candidate’s CV, all as a single PDF.

Deadline for applications: Monday 4 May 2026

For more information and how to apply: https://www.burlington.org.uk/jobs-noticeboard/academic-noticeboard?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Sculpture+Prize+26

There is one week left to apply for the role of Marketing and Advertising Executive.⁠⁠The Burlington Magazine is the wor...
12/11/2025

There is one week left to apply for the role of Marketing and Advertising Executive.⁠
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The Burlington Magazine is the world's leading English language monthly publication devoted to the fine and decorative arts. We are seeking a Marketing and Advertising Executive to work across The Burlington Magazine, Burlington Contemporary, The Burlington Press and our range of scholarships and prizes. ⁠
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This is a great opportunity for the right candidate to excel in an all-round marketing role that covers all online and offline channels. ⁠
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To apply, please submit a CV and covering letter to [email protected] by 19 November. ⁠
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For more information: https://www.burlington.org.uk/jobs-noticeboard/jobs-opportunities

Scientific analysis and study of the related documentary and visual evidence plausibly links a group of terracotta sculp...
11/11/2025

Scientific analysis and study of the related documentary and visual evidence plausibly links a group of terracotta sculptural fragments at Westminster Abbey, London, with the work undertaken there by the Florentine sculptor Pietro Torrigiano (1472–1528) and especially with the adornment of the high altar of the Abbey’s Henry VII Lady Chapel.⁠
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Read Susan Jenkins, Charlotte Hubbard, Elizabeth Miller and Patrick Quinn’s article ‘New perspectives on fragments of terracotta sculpture associated with Pietro Torrigiano at Westminster Abbey’, in our November issue: https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/back-issues/202511?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Nov+25+issue+promo
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Image: High altar of the Henry VII Lady Chapel, Westminster Abbey, London. (Courtesy the Dean and Chapter of Westminster).

It is striking that in an age when deference to traditional institutions is declining, the interest in the trappings of ...
09/11/2025

It is striking that in an age when deference to traditional institutions is declining, the interest in the trappings of monarchy is flourishing. Three contrasting examples illustrate this phenomenon particularly well: the French Crown Jewels in the Musée du Louvre, Paris; the United Kingdom’s Crown Jewels in the Tower of London; and the Honours of Scotland in Edinburgh Castle. All attract vast numbers of curious visitors, hungry for a glimpse of priceless, glittering relics.

Read November’s Editorial ‘Crown jewels’ for free: https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/editorial/crown-jewels?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Nov+25+issue+promo_editorial

*This Editorial went to press three days before the events in Paris on the 19th of October 2025.

Image: Galerie d’Apollon, Musée du Louvre, Paris. (© Musée du Louvre, Paris; Dist. GrandPalaisRmn).

The importance and aesthetic benefit of presenting historic paintings in their original frames or in frames that complem...
08/11/2025

The importance and aesthetic benefit of presenting historic paintings in their original frames or in frames that complement them is explored in this polemical analysis. Drawing on examples from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century, it traces the pioneering use of historic frames in collections in Berlin and London, and analyses the shifting philosophies that have led to a more sympathetic approach to framing in museums. ⁠
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Read Peter Schade’s article review ‘Framing in museums’ in our November issue: https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/back-issues/202511?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Nov+25+issue+promo
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Image: ‘St Jerome in his study’, by Antonello da Messina. c.1475. Oil on panel, 45.7 by 36.2 cm. (National Gallery, London).

Are you a motivated, creative and experienced marketing professional?⁠⁠The Burlington Magazine is one of the world’s lea...
06/11/2025

Are you a motivated, creative and experienced marketing professional?⁠
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The Burlington Magazine is one of the world’s leading art publications, published without interruption since 1903. Each monthly issue is devoted to art of all ages and media, with richly illustrated articles presenting significant discoveries and fresh interpretations.⁠
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We are looking for a Marketing and Advertising Executive to join our dedicated and friendly team in Bloomsbury WC1 to manage our social media and newsletter programmes and website content updates. The role also supports the commercial team in delivering marketing and subscriptions campaigns, paid social advertising, and other commercial initiatives.⁠
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For more information, including how to apply: https://www.burlington.org.uk/jobs-noticeboard/jobs-opportunities

The creation of formal, iconographic and symbolic connections between works of art from different cultures and historica...
05/11/2025

The creation of formal, iconographic and symbolic connections between works of art from different cultures and historical periods has become an increasingly central concern for contemporary curators, exhibition organisers and museum directors. Since Against this backdrop, when an artist is invited to set their own works in dialogue with those of a major museum, the potential for tracing conjunctions and disjunctions across the historiographical continuum is immense. Since Aby Warburg’s ‘Bilderatlas Mnemosyne’ (1927–29), numerous exhibitions have sought to dissolve chronological classifications and stylistic taxonomies in order to open up new territories of meaning.

At the invitation of Chiara Parisi, the Director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz, Maurizio Cattelan was given the opportunity to do just that. He has delved into the collection of the Centre Pompidou, Paris – soon to close for five years of renovation – and co-curated ‘Endless Sunday: Maurizio Cattelan and the Centre Pompidou Collection’ at Centre Pompidou-Metz, together with Parisi. The resulting visions are at times sarcastic, at times poetic and almost always desacralising.

Read Rosa Martínez’s review of the show, exhibiting until 1st February 2027, in our November issue: https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/back-issues/202511?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Nov+25+issue+promo

Image: Installation view of ‘Endless Sunday: Maurizio Cattelan and the Centre Pompidou Collection’ at Centre Pompidou- Metz, 2025–27, showing Kaputt, by Maurizio Cattelan. 2013. Stuffed horses, dimensions variable. (© Centre Pompidou-Metz; photograph Marc Domage).

The great French Baroque sculptor François Girardon (1628–1715) assembled an extraordinary sculpture collection, which i...
04/11/2025

The great French Baroque sculptor François Girardon (1628–1715) assembled an extraordinary sculpture collection, which is recorded in a sequence of prints. But what was the fate of the remarkable works he owned? In a fascinating article published in the November issue, six of them are traced to the Hôtel Bondy, Paris, in the eighteenth century. Spectacular but little-known eighteenth-century sculpture in Poland is considered in an innovative assessment of the monument to Jan Bonawentura Krasiński (1639–1717), which combined central European goldsmithing with Italian stucco work.⁠
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In addition, the critical fortunes of nineteenth-century sculptures are analysed this month. The complex history of the monumental vase (now in the gardens of Buckingham Palace) carved by Sir Richard Westmacott (1775–1856) is plotted; before finding its definitive home, it was displayed in the centre of London’s National Gallery. Meanwhile, the Duchess of Castiglione Colonna (1836–79) was also a sculptor and adopted the male pseudonym ‘Marcello’ when she exhibited. Her mixed reception at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, is analysed here for the first time.⁠
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Wide-ranging book reviews include the revised edition of ‘Taste and the Antique’, as well as studies of Bernini’s baldacchino, Pierre Puget, Meissen porcelain modellers, Hawksmoor and Oxford, Venetian drawings and Futurism. Exhibitions on Marcus Aurelius, Michel Colombe and Maurizio Cattelan are also analysed. Finally, exhibition catalogues assessed feature Joseph Wright of Derby’s drawings, J.M.W. Turner’s ‘Liber Studiorum’, Gabriele Münter and European Realism in painting of the 1920s and 1930s.⁠
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Discover the full list of content: https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/back-issues/202511?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Nov+25+issue+promo
November's Editorial: https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/editorial/crown-jewels?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Nov+25+issue+promo_editorial
This month's free review: https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/book-review/turner-in-light-and-shade?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Nov+25+issue+promo_free+rev

03/11/2025

Issue 13 of 'Burlington Contemporary Journal' is now live. This issue features an article commission by Peggy Phelan alongside five peer-reviewed essays that bring to light obscured or overlooked histories, exploring how they intersect with the present and imagined futures. The issue spans subjects including ephemeral performance art, dandyism, mapmaking, emotional labour, colonial wealth and more-than-human entities.

The journal is open access.
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Full list of contents:⁠
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- Animating cartography: Joyce Kozloff’s histories, by Peggy Phelan

- Emotional labour of social practice artists: moving towards sustainable collective care, by Rebecca Gordon and Naomi White⁠

- Food matters: more-than-human agency in food-based participatory art, by Zihong Zhang⁠

- On the museum’s latent violence: Cameron Rowland’s ‘Amt 45 i’, by Genevieve Lipinsky de Orlov
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- ‘In the vicinity of dandyhood’: Yinka Shonibare, the Grand Tour and the criminal gallantry of modern s*x tourism⁠, by Madeline Drace

- The art of transgression: Elisabeth Jappe, the Moltkerei Werkstatt and the development of performance art in Europe, by Anja Segmüller

Read here: https://contemporary.burlington.org.uk/journal?utm_source=TBMFB_LN&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=BCJ13

In June 2022 Christie’s offered for sale an oil sketch titled 'The Holy Family with St Anne, other saints and angels' by...
31/10/2025

In June 2022 Christie’s offered for sale an oil sketch titled 'The Holy Family with St Anne, other saints and angels' by Theodoor van Loon (c.1582–1649). This shorter notice presents evidence that the sketch was made by Van Loon as a preparatory model for his now lost altarpiece, painted around 1628, for the chapel of St Anne in S. Maria dell’Anima, Rome. Its peculiar iconography lends credence to the hypothesis that the German pontifical herbalist Johannes Faber (also Johan Schmidt) was behind the commission.⁠
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Read Sabine Van Sprang’s shorter notice ‘Theodoor van Loon’s sketch of St Anne and her family with angels and St Gertrude’ in our October issue: https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/back-issues/202510?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Oct+25+issue+promo
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Image: ‘St Anne and her family with angels and St Gertrude’, by Theodoor van Loon. c.1628. Oil on paper laid on panel, 31.7 by 21.9 cm. (Present location unknown).

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