Stories Collection

  1. [Mentor:] Son of the wise Ulysses ... He who has not felt his weakness and the violen...
  2. In July 1793, the government of the new French Republic ordered the "tombs and mausol...
  3. DONALD ALBRECHT, ED. The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention New Yor...
  4. Systematically organized collections of contemporary art, unusual at any time, were e...
  5. MATTHEW BIRO Anselm Kiefer and the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger New York: Cambridge...
  6. On completing the plaster model for his California (Fig. 1) in 1855, Hiram Powers (18...
  7. Comets and Altdorfer's Art This letter attempts to set the record straight regardin...
  8. I actually value indifference. I think it's something that has aesthetic possibilitie...
  9. "I find myself with a female daughter and three other sons, and this daughter, as it ...
  10. LESLIE BRUBAKER Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium: Image as Exegesis in t...
  11. One Sunday morning, near the time of my election to this editorship, my Washington Po...
  12. JEAN C. WILSON Painting in Bruges at the Close of the Middle Ages: Studies in Society...
  13. The set of nine early seventh-century silver plates known as the David Plates (Figs. ...
  14. HENRI ZERNER L'art de Ia Renaissance en France: L'invention du classicisme Paris: Fla...
  15. Soon after becoming abbot of the Benedictine abbey of St-Vaast in Arras in 1428, Jean...
  16. SARAH BURNS Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America New Ha...
  17. It is true that this is makeup (un fard), but we should wish that all current paintin...
  18. LEAH BENDAVID-VAL Propaganda and Dreams: Zurich: Edition Stemmle, 1999. 224 pp.; 25...
  19. The gods, that mortal beauty chase, Still in a tree did end their race. Apollo hu...
  20. CHRISTOPHER WHITE AND QUENTIN BUVELOT, eds., et al. London: National Gallery Public...
  21. GENEVI[grave{E}]VE LACAMBRE, ed., et al. Paris: R[acute{e}]union des Mus[acute{e}]e...
  22. In an essay of 1848 on the National Gallery in London Charles Kingsley laid out the f...
  23. JEAN SUTHERLAND BOGGS et al. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. 272 pp.; 144 c...
  24. The Pante[acute{o}]n de los Reyes, or Pantheon of the Kings, attached to the church o...
  25. In 1413 Gamaldolese monks at S. Maria degli Angeli installed Lorenzo Monaco's Coronat...
  26. MEYER SCHAPIRO New York: George Braziller, 1999. 256 pp.; 26 b/w ills. $30 This c...
  27. During the final years of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the century that...
  28. PATRICIA EMISON New York: Garland Publishing Company, 1997. 209 pp., 40 b/w ills. $...
  29. In the 1568 edition of his Life of the Ferrarese painter Benvenuto Tisi, called Garof...
  30. HANS VLIEGHE New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. 339 pp.; 100 color ills., 30...
  31. RICHARD E. SPEAR New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. 430 pp.; 39 color ills., 1...
  32. When the miniaturist Giulia Clovio reentered the household of his former patron Cardi...
  33. In 1542 the confraternity of the church of S. Maria della Steccata in Parma complaine...
  34. SIMON SCHAMA New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. 728 pp.; 359 color and b/w ills. $50 ...
  35. In 324 C.E., the emperor Constantine the Great (r. 324-37) founded the city of Consta...
  36. On January 19, 1468, a cloth merchant named Paolo di Antonio di Vitello petitioned th...
  37. ... you could truly say it was maidenly for a boy or boyish for a girl.--Ovid, Metamo...
  38. Little precise documentation exists for [acute{E}]douard Manet's The Burial, a painti...
  39. My own role in this strange dance was the embodiment of that figure standing between ...
  40. An article entitled "Culture in the Display Window," which surveyed the elegant artis...
  41. Ever greater, apparently indelible, claims are being made for Minimalism as a movemen...
  42. Among the many biographical uncertainties surrounding Piero di Cosimo (whose familiar...
  43. "I should prefer to consider the artists," Bernard Berenson wrote in 1938, "as discar...
  44. Joachim Pissarro's Mistake I hasten to correct a mistake I made as the reviewer of ...
  45. Debates about how to tell a story go back, no doubt, to the time when some mythical h...
  46. In the 1150s or 1160s, the Berrichon abbey of St-Pierre at Vierzon produced a manuscr...
  47. The first seven pages of Matthew Paris's famous Chronica majora make up a kind of med...
  48. It really must be admitted that things seen in sleep are, as it were, painted images,...
  49. In 1500, Lucrezia Pico della Mirandola, sister of the humanist Giovanni and wife of C...
  50. In discussing the work of Giambattista Tiepolo it has become commonplace to employ te...
  51. Among the recognized achievements of the (so-called) American Renaissance at the turn...
  52. Die Bildnisse des Augustus, Das romische Herrscherbild, pt. 1, vol. 2 Berlin: Gebru...
  53. Furthermore I cannot ever remember having read in history books that any notable poli...
  54. The blood of Benvenuto Cellini's Perseus and Medusa group [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURES 1...
  55. The kitchen and market scenes of Peter Aertsen constitute one of the most remarkable ...
  56. The period defined by Peter Paul Rubens's return to the Spanish Netherlands from Rome...
  57. De arte graphica, a Latin didactic poem on the art of painting, by Charles-Alphonse D...
  58. The literary and historical stature of Henry David Thoreau grows with every passing y...
  59. It is the goal of this article to consider the iconographic implications of Jan van E...
  60. In his provocative book Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Sie...
  61. One of the greatest enigmas of classical art is the low-relief frieze executed for th...
  62. For more than a half century the history of modern art has been presented in the West...
  63. Among Titian's very few surviving frescoes, the well-preserved group painted in 1511 ...
  64. STEPHEN WILDMAN AND JOHN CHRISTIAN with essays by ALAN CRAWFORD AND LAURENCE DES CARS...
  65. One of the most exquisite works of toreutic art to have been created in the early Rom...
  66. ANDREW WILTON AND ROBERT UPSTONE with contributions by BARBARA BRYANT, CHRISTOPHER NE...
  67. God made for us two eyes and two ears, two nostrils and two lips, two hands and two f...
  68. JOHN G. HUTTON Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994, 276 pp.; 67 b/w...
  69. The later Middle Ages witnessed a veritable "explosion of devotional forms,"(1) both ...
  70. MARTHA WARD Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996, 353 pp.; 6 color ills., 95 ...
  71. Giotto's Annunciation fresco in the Arena Chapel, Padua, occupies a focal position ab...
  72. The recent conservation treatment of Jan van Eyck's Annunciation in the National Gall...
  73. Paris: Adam Biro, 1996. 208 pp.; 118 color ills., 2 b/w. $55.00 The Lorenzo Lotto e...
  74. In modern writings on Chinese pictorial art, the term narrative illustration is loose...
  75. Clusone: Ferrari, 1997. 210 pp.; 45 color ills., 40 b/w. 60,000 lire The Lorenzo Lo...
  76. The placing of a signature on a painting is a conscious act by the painter that estab...
  77. Paris: La Documentation Francaise, 1996. 2 vols.; 1094 pp.; 430 b/w ills. Fr 550.00...
  78. In 1758, finding trade slack in Ipswich, where he had been based since 1752, Thomas G...
  79. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. 304 pp.; 35 color ills., 132 b/w. $49.50...
  80. Saint Francis Borgia at the Deathbed of an Impenitent [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 1 OMIT...
  81. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 269 pp.; 8 color ills., 60 b/w. $70.00 ...
  82. Roman architecture often reduced the Greek orders to mere ornament applied to arcuate...
  83. Manchester, Eng.: Manchester City Art Gallery, 1997-98. 159 pp.; 65 color ills., 163 ...
  84. Paul Cezanne once remarked that if Camille Pissarro "had gone on painting as he was d...
  85. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1997. 156 pp.; 68 color ills., 99 b/w. $49...
  86. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. 576 pp.; 235 b/w ills. $45.00 The two b...
  87. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. 254 pp.; 28 color ills., 216 b/w. $80.00...
  88. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. 434 pp.; 50 color ills., 355 b/w. $65.00 Th...
  89. New York: Henry Holt, Metropolitan Books, 1997. 192 pp.; 4 color ills., 271 b/w. $35....
  90. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. 272 pp.; 80 color ills., 100 b/w. $55.00 Th...
  91. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. 303 pp.; 13 color il...
  92. Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1996. 143 pp.; 115 b/wills. DM 98 Antje Middeldorf K...
  93. Paris: La Documentation Francaise, 1996. 2 vols., 996 pp.; many b/w ills. 540 FF "P...
  94. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996. 214 pp.; 60 b/w ills. $39.95, $15.95 paper ...
  95. Nicolas Poussin London: Trustees of the Wallace Collection, 1995.79 pp.; 11 color ill...
  96. London: Thames and Hudson, 1994. 504 pp.; 185 color ills., 155 b/w. $75.00 The fall...
  97. Pictorial manipulations of time, ranging among moments, lifetimes, and centuries, wer...
  98. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 212 pp.; 8 color ills., 41 b/w. $70.00 ...
  99. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1996. 312 pp.; 8 color ills., 149 b/w. $55...
  100. In the third quarter of the fifteenth century Mino da Fiesole carved two tombs for th...
  101. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts and London: Merrell Holberton, 1995. 208 pp.; 110 color ...
  102. Zurich: Swiss Institute for Art Research and Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1...
  103. In July 1647, the Neapolitan populace rose in arms against the government of the Span...
  104. London: Richard L. Feigen and Co., 1995. 119 pp.; 6 color ills., 42 b/w. $70.00 "Pe...
  105. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 318 pp.; 153 b/w. $60.00 Both individu...
  106. The dumbnesse of it (vnlesse the letters be worne quite away) speakes; that it was no...
  107. Monaco: Musee de la Chapelle de la Visitation, 1997. 44 pp.; 8 color ills., 3 b/w. ...
  108. New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1997. 359 pp.; 106 color ills., 37 b/w. $50.00 Bo...
  109. Much of what has become accepted as canonical modern art was born on the eastern marg...
  110. Paris: Flammarion, 1994. 208 pp.; 177 color and b/w ills. 450 FF "Perhaps the subtl...
  111. London: National Gallery Publications and Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1996...
  112. On June 5, 1937, an exhibition of French modern art, Ausstellung Franzosischer Kunst ...
  113. Paris: Flammarion, 1994. 511 pp.; 251 b/w ills. 295 FF "Perhaps the subtlest art ex...
  114. Baden-Baden: Verlag Valentin Koerner, 1996. 2 vols., 886 pp.; 4 color ills.; 180 b/w....
  115. Paris: Editions Jean-Michel Place, 1994. 162 pp.; 90 b/w ills. 195 FF "Perhaps the ...
  116. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. 274 pp. $90.00 "Uber Geschichte reden ist ein schwie...
  117. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. 374 pp.; 12 color ills., 165 b/w. $95.00...
  118. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. 206 pp.; 8 b/w ills. $17.95 paper ...
  119. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. 176 pp.; 239 b/w ills. $75.50 Publishe...
  120. In his Entretiens sur l'architecture Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-leDuc presented four sch...
  121. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. 400 pp.; 35 b/w illus. $39.50 For most...
  122. In 1983 Leo Steinberg "rescued from modern oblivion" the theological significance of ...
  123. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996. Vol. 1, The Texts: 592 pp.; 58 color ills., numerous...
  124. Unde fit quidam partus cum denarius ex denario crescit. (Thus, a kind of birth takes ...
  125. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. 258 pp.; 64 b/w ills. $39.50 When Oska...
  126. I have seen Hogarth's print of the Ghost. It is a horrid composition of lewd Obscenit...
  127. New York: Da Capo Press, 1996; New York: Pantheon Books, 1978. 272 pp.; 212 b/w ills....
  128. Wake up the women at the right of Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii of 1785 a...
  129. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. 486 pp.; 8 color ills., 161 b/w. $50.00 ...
  130. Since the Elgin marbles were brought to England, no similar arrival has occurred so c...
  131. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1996. 224 pp.; 11 color ills., 89 b/w. $39.95 The...
  132. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 352 pp.; 60 b/w ills. $95.00 With a fe...
  133. A city has just been born, attached to Paris. In the groves of the Ile-de-France, the...
  134. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. 296 pp.; 45 color ills., 145 b/w. $40.00 Th...
  135. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. 280 pp.; 112 b/w ills. $45.00 With a few ex...
  136. Trans. Gaston du C. de Vere; Intro. and notes, David Ekserdjian New York: Alfred A. K...
  137. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 335 pp.; 48 b/w ills. $39.95; $18.95 pape...
  138. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. 448 pp.; 11 color ills., 153 b/w. $45.00 Pu...
  139. Long considered the hallmark of the art of the Assyrian Empire, the massive stone rel...
  140. 2 vols. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 902 pp.; 32 color i...
  141. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, 413 pp.; 39 b/w ills....
  142. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996, 240 pp.; 50 color ills., 150 b/w. ...
  143. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996, 244 pp.; 60 color ills., 130 b/w. ...
  144. New York: Continuum, 1996, 442 pp.; 101 b/w ills. $44.50 As in other fields in art ...
  145. For historians of medieval science, a painted depiction of the creative God striding ...
  146. New York: College Art Association, 1996. Distr. University of Washington Press, Seatt...
  147. Each face, each stone of this venerable monument is not only a page of the history of...
  148. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. 318 pp.; 12 color ills., 118 b/w. $55...
  149. In October 1938, as the culmination of a year-long campaign to bring reproductions of...
  150. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 272 pp., 100 b/w ills., 14 diagrams, plan...
  151. There is some art in stacking the hay well. - Robert Ramble's Scenes in the Country (...
  152. Tournhout: Brepols, 1996. 255pp.; 161 b/w ills. BFr 2,750 Hans Mielke's catalogue r...
  153. War has its conventions; so, too, does war imagery. The photographs made by a dozen o...
  154. trans. Andrew P. McCormick Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. 257 pp.; 12...
  155. In 1878, at the age of forty-six, Edouard Manet painted a picture of himself painting...
  156. Vigee-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1...
  157. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, in association with Kimbell Art Museum, Fort ...
  158. If there is one word that, today, seems to express a noble and pure idea, it is the w...
  159. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. 342 pp.; 40 color ills., 256 b/w. $65.00 Thes...
  160. From the time of the posthumous inventory of paintings taken in Edouard Manet's Paris...
  161. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. 220 pp.; 21 b/w ills. $39...
  162. "The fame of great men ought always to be estimated by the means they use to acquire ...
  163. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996, 346 pp.; 30 color ills., 101 b/w. $35...
  164. In a study of that central document of Italian Evangelism before the Council of Trent...
  165. Historians of art have long regarded composition as a major achievement of Renaissanc...
  166. In 907, Constantine Lips, a high-ranking member of the Byzantine court, inaugurated a...
  167. The imperial panels in the church of S. Vitale at Ravenna are perhaps the most famous...
  168. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. 340 pp.; 325 ills., 121 in color, 204 b/w. $6...
  169. At the peak of a debate over the memory and meaning of World War I, the ten-year anni...
  170. Salzburg: Verlag Galerie Welz, 1995. 228 pp.; 219 color ills., 36 b/w. Adolf Loos, th...
  171. Museum histories routinely trace the origins of the modern museum back to 1793 in Rev...
  172. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. 462 pp.; 79 b/w ills. $34.95 Visitors to ...
  173. The palm at the end of the mind, Beyond the last thought, rises In the bronze decor, ...
  174. Three of the most important churches of the Italian Baroque were all designed in the ...
  175. The history of the essence of Western art corresponds to the change of the essence of...
  176. The mystery surrounding the Florentine Pieta [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 1 OMITTED] is p...
  177. The exceptional originality of tenth- and eleventh-century Anglo-Saxon art is justly ...
  178. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. 404 pp.; 417 color and b/w ills. $55.00 "Whil...
  179. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 366 pp., 19 color ills., 300 b/w. $100.0...
  180. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. 264 pp.; 7 color ills., 100 b/w. $65.00 ...
  181. A genuine old Gettysburg relic. If the canvas could hold a nail, we would say that th...
  182. exh. cat. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1...
  183. A taste of painting is too much Wanting ... was it not for preserving the resemble[n]...
  184. (Heidelberger Kunstgeschichtliche Abhandlungen, Neue Folge, XXI) Worms: Wernersche Ve...
  185. When I start a new class in art history and multimedia, I warn my students that they ...
  186. In his landmark study Bernini and the Unity of the Visual Arts, which appeared in 198...
  187. Digital imagery is a seductive topic in cultural studies and visual theory. It is int...
  188. Sixteenth-century Genoa produced a distinctively new type of urban space in the Strad...
  189. The idea of combining computers and the history of art may still be problematic but i...
  190. Leiden, The Netherlands: Primavera Pers, 1995. 284 pp.; 264 b/w ills. Dfl 69,90 Nearl...
  191. In 1988, as the most junior faculty member of my department who happened to be teachi...
  192. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1995. 318 pp.; 8 color ills., 101 b/w. $60.50...
  193. "It's still the same picture, isn't it? What difference does it make if they change t...
  194. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. 240 pp.; 34 color ills., 99 b/w. $45.00 Nearl...
  195. Webraising is a term newly coined to refer to the construction of new sites on the Wo...
  196. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. 428 pp.; 16 color ills., 164 b/w. $75.00 ...
  197. We have finally sailed into the imaging age and, strangely, art history is not at the...
  198. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995, 647 pp.; 16 color ills., 200 b/w. $50.00 ...
  199. John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) is best known today as a painter of society portraits...