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Art History Today

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art history news, commentary and analysis

• Added on: Sep 18th, 2009
• Country: United Kingdom
• Language: English

• Author: David Packwood
• Listed in: Art History Artists
• Tags: art history renaissance art market baroque art theft museum matters

Recent Posts

• Who Nose?

  Posted on Thursday December 3rd, 2009 at 16:15 in metropolitan museum of art, jonathan brown, velasquez, keith christensen

  The 19th century physician and Italian critic, Giovanni Morelli pioneered a method of art analysis based on comparing the physiognomy of figures within renaissance paintings. To Morelli, attention directed to lips, eyebrows, fingernails, ears, even ...

• Publishing and the Powergame

  Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 14:08

  I received this from some UK colleagues….This happened to me and other scholars last year. Click on this link to discover the perils of trying to get things published in this gatekeeper riddled profession. ...

• The Afterlife of Las Meninas (1). Firing the Starting Gun.

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 10:19 in velasquez, 17th century painting, hubert damisch, del mazo

  This is the first of a projected series on the afterlife of a painting that has resonated in myriad ways in debates about art since its inception in 1656. I'm going to look at its afterlife: its re-appearance in a variety of disparate contexts ...

• Disliking Delaroche

  Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 14:07 in exhibitions, London, paul delaroche, eugene delacroix, 19th century painting, erica langmuir

  A painting of Charles I by Paul Delaroche, the 19th century French artist, is being restored in readiness for a forthcoming exhibition at the National Gallery, London. So what? I must admit to having a problem with Delaroche's art: it is ...

• Poussin v Jonathan Jones

  Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 16:26 in exhibitions, poussin, jonathan jones, 17th century painting

  I've objected to Jonathan Jones's reductive view of 17th century art before- see here- so when he wrote an article on Poussin denouncing the artist and accusing Poussin scholars of snobbery, I felt compelled to post. Sadly, Jones's view ...

• Inside the Artist’s Studio

  Posted on Sunday November 22nd, 2009 at 14:22 in exhibitions, francis bacon, mark gertler, compton verney, c n gijsbrechts, rodrigo moynihan, william orpen

  On Friday I went to a superb exhibition on the theme of the artist in the studio. Held at Compton Verney, the show comprises a plethora of studio images and artifacts spread across 9 rooms in the neo-classical mansion. For those unfamiliar with Comp...

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