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Images of arched vaults and stained- glass windows in Gothic cathedrals are projected onto the walls of the Ateneum Art ...
23/01/2025

Images of arched vaults and stained- glass windows in Gothic cathedrals are projected onto the walls of the Ateneum Art Museum, completed in the late nineteenth century. Visitors who pass through them enter an imaginary world of the Middle Ages, filled with the departed, the suffering and others settled into silent devotion. They are the subject of the exhibition ‘Gothic Modern: From Darkness to Light’ which reveals the uncanny and hidden night-side of modern art. The show covers the entire third floor, its walls glowing in shades of purple, turquoise and orange. The exhibition and the book that accompanies it refer to and play with discourses and imagery typical of esotericism. Both are based on a research project led by the guest curator, Juliet Simpson, which explored the interest that artists of the modern era took in medieval art.

Read Nina Kokkinen’s review of this exhibition, showing until the 26th January 2025, in our January issue: https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/back-issues/202501?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Jan+25+issue+promo

Image: ‘By the death-bed', by Edvard Munch. 1896. Lithograph, 39.5 by 50 cm. (Finnish National Gallery; exh. Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki).

The restoration that followed the disastrous fire that destroyed the roof of Notre-Dame, Paris, on 16th April 2019, invo...
21/01/2025

The restoration that followed the disastrous fire that destroyed the roof of Notre-Dame, Paris, on 16th April 2019, involved not only the building but also the furniture, paintings and various objects in the cathedral, which had fortunately been spared by the flames. Both projects were pursued in parallel and were completed for the reopening on 8th December. Before the reinstallation in the cathedral, the objects were on display in an exhibition (closed 20th July 2024) at the Mobilier national, Paris. The accompanying catalogue – ‘Grands décors restaurés de Notre-Dame de Paris’ – includes five essays followed by twenty-six entries, divided into five sections, each covering a group of objects.

Read Delphine Bastet’s review of this publication in our January issue: https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/back-issues/202501?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Jan+25+issue+promo

⁠Image: ‘Interior of Notre-Dame, Paris’. c.1650. Oil on canvas, 83 by 93 cm. (Société des amis de Notre-Dame de Paris).

A devotional work by the fifteenth-century painter Lorenzo d’Alessandro da San Severino, who worked in the Marche, emerg...
19/01/2025

A devotional work by the fifteenth-century painter Lorenzo d’Alessandro da San Severino, who worked in the Marche, emerged at a recent Paris auction. It was commissioned by a friend of the artist and adds significantly to our understanding of this fascinating but neglected painter.⁠

Read Amanda Hilliam’s article ‘A rediscovered “Madonna and Child with angels” by Lorenzo d’Alessandro da San Severino’ in our January issue: https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/back-issues/202501?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Jan+25+issue+promo

Image: ‘Madonna and Child with angels’ (after conservation), by Lorenzo d’Alessandro da San Severino. c.1475. Tempera on panel, 70.4 by 40.5 cm. (Private collection; A.R.T & Co., Unicam).

In an absorbing exhibition, the Courtauld Gallery has gathered twenty-one of the ninety-two canvases that Claude Monet i...
16/01/2025

In an absorbing exhibition, the Courtauld Gallery has gathered twenty-one of the ninety-two canvases that Claude Monet initiated in London during three campaigns of painting in September to October 1899, February to April 1900 and January to April 1901. Thirty-seven were exhibited in Paris at the Galerie Durand-Ruel in May 1904. Monet had hoped to show much the same body of work in London the following year, but the project did not materialise. The current exhibition is a welcome latter-day realisation of that plan, and it is entirely appropriate that it should be staged at the Courtauld, as Somerset House abuts the very stretch of the Thames that Monet painted.

Read Richard Thomson’s review of ‘Monet and London: Views of the Thames’, showing until the 19th January 2025, and the publication ‘Monet and the Impressionist Cityscape’ in our January issue: https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/back-issues/202501?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Jan+25+issue+promo

Image: ‘Charing Cross Bridge, la Tamise (the Thames)’, by Claude Monet. 1903. Oil on canvas, 73.4 by 100.3 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon; exh. Courtauld Gallery, London).

The Museo Del Prado, Madrid, preserves in its rich collection of drawings an interesting study with a composition in a m...
14/01/2025

The Museo Del Prado, Madrid, preserves in its rich collection of drawings an interesting study with a composition in a mixtilinear frame. It is identified as an ‘Ecstasy of a Jesuit saint’ and categorised as an anonymous work from the second half of the seventeenth century. Published in our January issue, this drawing, which can be dated more accurately to the 1730s, unquestionably demonstrates the stylistic characteristics of the Portuguese painter Francisco Vieira de Matos (1699–1783) – better known as Vieira Lusitano – and can be identified as the Ecstasy of St John of God.

Read Pilar Diez Del Corral Corredoira’s shorter notice ‘A project for the church of Menino Deus, Lisbon, by Vieira Lusitano’ in our January issue: https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/back-issues/202501?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Jan+25+issue+promo

Image: Compositional study identified as the ‘Ecstasy of St John of God’, here attributed to Vieira Lusitano. c.1730–37. Red chalk on paper, 24 by 37.2 cm. (Museo del Prado, Madrid).

We are hiring an Editorial Assistant. This role will support the Editor and wider Editorial team with administrative tas...
13/01/2025

We are hiring an Editorial Assistant.

This role will support the Editor and wider Editorial team with administrative tasks, planning and liaising with colleagues and external contacts to help ensure the smooth running of the department and delivery of key responsibilities – such as the monthly publication of The Burlington Magazine, Burlington Contemporary, the work of Burlington Press and the Burlington’s prizes and lunches.

The deadline is 3rd of February.

For more information, including requirements and how to apply: https://www.burlington.org.uk/jobs-noticeboard/jobs-opportunities?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Organic+social&utm_campaign=Editorial+Assistant+job %20Assistant

New analysis of two drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, made by Raphael for his Norton Simon ‘Virgin and Child wit...
11/01/2025

New analysis of two drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, made by Raphael for his Norton Simon ‘Virgin and Child with a book’, confirms they were cut from a single sheet, allowing the landscape study they contain to be understood properly. Together with other studies by the artist, the drawings provide important evidence of Raphael’s earliest encounters with Florentine art.

Read Angelamaria Aceto’s article ‘Raphael in 1503: new findings on the “Virgin and Child with a book” and other contemporaneous drawings’ in our January issue: https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/back-issues/202501?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Jan+25+issue+promo

Images:

‘Virgin and Child with a book’, by Raphael. c.1503. Oil on panel, 55.2 by 40 cm. (Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena; Bridgeman Images).

‘Studies for Virgin and Child with a book’, by Raphael. Mounted in the 20th century. Pen and brown ink over blind stylus on paper, 11.4 by 13 cm. (top: Parker 508a recto, felt side) and 11.5 by 13.2 cm. (bottom: Parker 508b recto, mould side). (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).

In 2024, to mark seventy-five years since the artist’s death, four concurrent exhibitions dedicated to Ensor have been s...
09/01/2025

In 2024, to mark seventy-five years since the artist’s death, four concurrent exhibitions dedicated to Ensor have been staged in Antwerp. The most substantial of these is ‘In Your Wildest Dreams: Ensor Beyond Impressionism’ at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, which is the culmination of years of research into the museum’s collection of Ensor’s works – the largest in the world.

The exhibition presents many of Ensor’s major works from the collection alongside loans from other Belgian museums. It is not an encyclopaedic retrospective. Instead, the curator, Herwig Todts, has combined a broad survey approach with a consideration of Ensor’s contemporaries. In contextualising Ensor, the exhibition hopes to puncture the myth of a ‘tormented, eccentric loner’ and to situate him within the artistic climate of his time.

Read Joe Lloyd’s review of the show for free in our January issue: https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/exhibition-review/in-your-wildest-dreams-ensor-beyond-impressionism-and-ensors-states-of-imagination?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Jan+25+issue+promo_free+rev

Image: ‘Temptation of St Anthony’, by James Ensor. 1887. Coloured pencil and scraping, graphite, charcoal, crayon, coloured chalk and watercolour with cut and pasted elements on fifty-one sheets of paper laid on canvas, 179.5 by 154.7 cm. (Art Institute of Chicago; exh. Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp).

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07/01/2025

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As the year turns and resolutions are made and abandoned, happily The Burlington Magazine continues to deliver exception...
06/01/2025

As the year turns and resolutions are made and abandoned, happily The Burlington Magazine continues to deliver exceptional art history. This month’s Magazine features fascinating articles that focus on Italian and Portuguese paintings and drawings.

Angelamaria Aceto presents a new analysis of two drawings by Raphael in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, which are connected with the artist’s ‘Virgin and Child with a book’ in the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena. This research provides intriguing evidence of Raphael’s earliest encounters with Florentine art. Alexander Collins reassesses a drawing in the collection of the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, which is by Vieira Lusitano and can be associated with the decoration of the Church of Menino Deus in Lisbon.

Exhibitions reviewed include ‘Monet and London: Views of the Thames’ by Richard Thomson, ‘Art and War in the Renaissance: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries’ by Elizabeth Cleland, ‘Guercino e i Ludovisi a Roma’ by David M. Stone and ‘IMAGINE! 100 Years of International Surrealism’ by David Hopkins. An impressively wide selection of new books being assessed ranges from a study of the restored objects and furnishings from Notre-Dame, Paris, by Delphine Bastet, to research on art and Modernism in Socialist China by Angie Baecker. A forensic analysis of the goldsmiths’ trade in Elizabethan and Stuart London is praised by Timothy Schroder.

Discover the full list of content: https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/back-issues/202501?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Jan+25+issue+promo
January's Editorial: https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/editorial/a-one-billion-pound-gift?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Jan+25+issue+promo_editorial
This month's free review: https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/exhibition-review/in-your-wildest-dreams-ensor-beyond-impressionism-and-ensors-states-of-imagination?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Jan+25+issue+promo_free+rev

A finely engraved Roman carnelian intaglio, dating from the late first century BCE, depicts an actor playing a cook dres...
31/12/2024

A finely engraved Roman carnelian intaglio, dating from the late first century BCE, depicts an actor playing a cook dressed as Herakles. He may be the title character of a lost play by Menander, ‘Pseudherakles’. ⁠

Read Ittai Gradel’s article ‘A crazy cook: Menander’s “Fake Herakles” on a Roman gem’ in our December issue: https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/back-issues/202412?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Dec+24+issue+promo

Image: Intaglio, backlit. Roman, mid- to late 1st century BCE. Carnelian, height 8.5 mm, thickness 1.5 mm. (Private collection; photograph the author).

‘Cecco Bravo (vol.1: Dipinti, vol.2: Disegni)’ is the most comprehensive monograph to date on one of the most enigmatic ...
30/12/2024

‘Cecco Bravo (vol.1: Dipinti, vol.2: Disegni)’ is the most comprehensive monograph to date on one of the most enigmatic and idiosyncratic figures of the Florentine seicento: Francesco Montelatici (1601–61), more commonly known as Cecco Bravo. ⁠

The book builds on sixty years of previous research on the artist: Gerhard Ewald’s articles in this Magazine, which formed the basis for subsequent studies; Anna Rosa Masetti’s 1962 book, based on her doctoral thesis from 1958; Piero Bigongiari and Giuseppe Cantelli’s catalogue of the landmark exhibition of Cecco’s drawings at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, in 1970; and the catalogue by Anna Barsanti and Roberto Contini of the first retrospective on Cecco to include both paintings and drawings at the Casa Buonarroti, Florence, in 1999. ⁠

Read Letizia Treves’s review of this publication in our December issue: https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/back-issues/202412?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Dec+24+issue+promo

Image: ‘Angelica and Ruggiero’, by Cecco Bravo. 1650–55. Oil on canvas, 32.4 by 44.5 cm. (David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago).

In the popular imagination Vincent van Gogh’s art is indelibly linked to his tumultuous life, and his emotional state is...
29/12/2024

In the popular imagination Vincent van Gogh’s art is indelibly linked to his tumultuous life, and his emotional state is often read into the subject matter, colour and surfaces of his paintings. The National Gallery's 'Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers' eschews a biographical or psychological framework, concentrating instead on the projects and ideas that drove the artist during the two years he spent in the south of France. ⁠

It interweaves sixty paintings and drawings made in Arles and Saint- Rémy, resisting organisation by date, site or medium and displaying works in inventive ways that mirror Van Gogh’s own creative reshuffling of his art. The result is a striking exhibition that reveals a meticulous and ambitious artist, one marked by a poetic and literary sensibility. ⁠

Read Jennifer A. Thompson’s review of the show, exhibiting until the 19th January 2025, in our December issue: https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/back-issues/202412?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Dec+24+issue+promo

Image: ‘L’Arlesienne’, by Vincent van Gogh. 1890. Oil on canvas, 60 by 50 cm. (Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome; exh. National Gallery, London).

Following last year’s exhibition ‘Rinascimento a Ferrara: Ercole de’ Roberti e Lorenzo Costa’, at the Palazzo dei Diaman...
28/12/2024

Following last year’s exhibition ‘Rinascimento a Ferrara: Ercole de’ Roberti e Lorenzo Costa’, at the Palazzo dei Diamanti, Vittorio Sgarbi and Michele Danieli now present a continuation of the story of Ferrarese art, as embodied in the four major painters of the first third of the sixteenth century.

Told across fourteen rooms on the Palazzo dei Diamanti’s ground floor and including 116 works in different media (predominantly painting), ‘Il Cinquecento a Ferrara: Mazzolino, Ortolano, Garofalo, Dosso’ is a thorough and carefully organised exhibition, which allows the work of the protagonists to be seen and studied in great depth. ⁠

Read Richard Stemp’s review of the show, exhibiting until the 16th February 2025, in our December issue: https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/back-issues/202412?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Dec+24+issue+promo

Image: ‘God the Father with the dove of the Holy Spirit’, by Ludovico Mazzolino. 1524. Oil on panel, 103.5 by 101 cm. (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna; exh. Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara).

Best wishes for the festive period from The Burlington Magazine and Burlington Contemporary. While we wait for the new y...
26/12/2024

Best wishes for the festive period from The Burlington Magazine and Burlington Contemporary. While we wait for the new year and the publication of our January issue, we have collated our favourite articles and reviews of 2024. ⁠

Part 2:

- Andrew Dunn, Managing Director: ‘No sorrow like unto my sorrow: Philip the Bold, the Great Cross at Champmol and the Battle of Nicopolis’, by Susie Nash in our October issue⁠
- Sarah Bolwell, Head of Partnerships: ‘“Upon his visit to see my paintings”: sonnets by Artemisia Gentileschi and Pietro della Valle’, by Eric Bianchi and Sheila Barker in our February issue⁠
- Chris Hall, Head of Commercial Design & Production: ‘Making New Worlds: Li Yuanchia & Friends’, reviewed by Sarah Bowell in our February issue⁠
- Jessie Sullivan, Marketing and Readership Consultant: ‘“The swing” by Jean-Honoré Fragonard: new hypotheses’, by Yuriko Jackall in our May issue⁠
- Nicole Gilchrist-Reeves, Senior Marketing and Advertising Executive: ‘Inside Pompeii’, reviewed by Christine Gardner-Dseagu in our May issue⁠
- Rachel Dastgir, Office Administrator: ‘The art of Qing imperial afterlife: the “Pictures of ancient playthings” (Guwantu 古玩圖) revisited’, by Ricarda Brosch in our June issue⁠

⁠All available in our archive, and this season we're offering 40% off all our individual annual subscriptions: https://shop.burlington.org.uk/christmas-offer.htm?promo=festive40&utm_source=xmas&utm_medium=FB+post&utm_campaign=Organic+social

Images: Emile Sagot, Artemisia Gentileschi, Li Yuan-chia, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Luigi Spina and Giuseppe Castiglione.

Although a painting in the Musée d’art moderne de Troyes has long been recognised as the earliest in the series ‘The run...
24/12/2024

Although a painting in the Musée d’art moderne de Troyes has long been recognised as the earliest in the series ‘The runners’, it was thought that the painting was never exhibited in his lifetime. New research has revealed that it was shown in Paris in 1925 under a different title and in Düsseldorf in 1926, after which Delaunay made important modifications to the canvas, so obscuring its earlier history. ⁠

Read Anne Greeley’s article ‘New evidence concerning the original version of Robert Delaunay’s “The runners”’ in our December issue: https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/back-issues/202412?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Dec+24+issue+promo

Image: ‘The runners’, by Robert Delaunay. 1924. Oil on canvas, 114 by 146 cm. (Musée d’art moderne de Troyes; photograph Olivier Frajman).

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