The Athenaeum


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The Athenæum


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The Bader Collection


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For many decades the Agnes Etherington Art Centre has received European paintings from the Bader Collection from a wide range of periods and schools, from the German Renaissance to the Italian Rococo. This book features the centre's substantial group of over 50 remarkable paintings from European schools, notably Italy, Germany, France and England.




The Universal Art of Samuel Van Hoogstraten (1627-1678)


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The versatile painter, poet, courtier and European traveller Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-1678), one of Rembrandt's pupils, has received much scholarly attention in the last two decades. Whereas older historians allotted him a marginal role as a minor figure in his master's studio, he is now recognized for his central position in the world of art and letters in the Dutch Golden Age. This new evaluation is mainly due to careful studies of his treatise on painting, 'Inleyding tot de Hooge Schoole der Schilderkonst' (Introduction to the Academy of Painting, 1678). His book has been mined for unique insights not only into Rembrandt's working methods but also into profounder problems relative to Dutch art and culture, such as pictorial realism, imitation and illusion, the rise of landscape and still life and the status of the 'learned artist'.




A Reservoir of Ideas


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9 Tabula Gratulatoria11 Paul Williamson, ScholarPETA MOTTURE15 Paul Williamson, CuratorMARJORIE TRUSTED19 Contributors' Biographies2 3 'Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation': The Iconography of St PaulDAGMAR TAÜBE35 The Grado Ivories: A Forensic ExaminationANTHONY CUTLER45 Late Antique or Carolingian? The Ivory of the Prediction of the Denialof St Peter at the Bargello MuseumDANIELLE GABORIT-CHOPIN55 The 'Foundation Reliquary' of Hildesheim and OrnamentalArt at the Court of CharlemagneLAWRENCE NEES67 Relics, Qgotations, Spolia: Revisiting Art in in Egbert's TrierHILTRUD WESTERMANN-ANGERHAUSEN81 The Cluny CloisterNEIL STRATFORD95 Gregory X and St Anne: The Arezzo ScapularJULIAN GARDNER103 The 'Bust of Sigilgaita' at Ravello: From Secular Portrait to Marian Image?VALENTINO PACE115 Seal Matrices of Ivory and Bone: A Bad Idea?JOHN CHERRY123 Synergy Across Media: Gothic Sculptors in Wood and IvorySARAH M. GUÉRIN137 Saint for All Seasons: A Gothic Ivory Statuette of Francis of AssisiCHARLES T. LITTLE151 The Return of Gawain: Thoughts on Composite Caskets inthe Light of Some Recent AcquisitionsÉLISABETH ANTOINE-KÖNIG163 The Embroiderers of Charles VI and Isabeau of Bavariathrough Records Held in the French National ArchivesÉLISABETH TABURET-DELAHAYE175 'A Second Martyrdom': An Alabaster Panel from the Story of St John the BaptistELEANOR TOWNSEND187 Gothic Ivories and their Owners: An OverviewCATHERINE YVARD203 A Recently Acquired Christ Child at The Metropolitan Museum of Artand Sculptures for Medieval NunsPETER BARNET215 The Blythburgh Choirstall CarvingsRICHARD MARKS223 Less Can Mean More: Notes on the Ecce HomoCOLUM HOURIHANE235 The Tree of Jesse Gates from Scarisbrick HallKIM WOODS245 Francis Douce, FSA (1757-1834): Scholar and Collector of Gothic Ivory CarvingsGLYN DAVIES25 5 Restoring and Exhibiting War-Damaged SculptureJULIEN CHAPUIS270 Paul Williamson: Publications274 Bibliography290 Index292 Photographic Credits.




The Dance of Death...


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