The New York Review of Books

Mysterious Masterpieces

February 18, 1999

Lorenzo Lotto: Master Painter of the Renaissance 1997-March 1, 1998; the Accademia di Belle Arti, Bergamo, April 2-June 28, 1998; the Grand Palais, Paris, October 12, 1998-January 11, 1999. an exhibition at the National Gallery, Washington, D.C., November 2,, Catalog of the exhibition by David Alan Brown, by Peter Humfrey, by Mauro Lucco

Dosso Dossi: Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara Ferrara, September 26-December 14, 1998; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 14-March 28, 1999; and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, April 27-July 11, 1999. an exhibition at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea,, Catalog of the exhibition by Peter Humfrey, by Mauro Lucco, edited by Andrea Bayer

Dosso’s Fate: Painting and Court Culture in Renaissance Italy edited by Luisa Ciammitti, by Steven F. Ostrow, by Salvatore Settis

The Art of the Possible

March 5, 1998

Pierre-Paul Prud’hon 12, 1998, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 10, 1998-June 7, 1998. by 1997-January an exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris, September 23, Catalog of the exhibition by Sylvain Lavessière

Augustin Pajou, Royal Sculptor and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 26-May 24, 1998. byan exhibition at the Louvre, Paris, October 20, 1997-January 19, 1998, Catalog of the exhibition by James David Draper, by Guilhelm Scherf

In Love with Light

February 6, 1997

Giambattista Tiepolo, 1696-1770 1996, and the Metropolitan Museum, New York, January 24-April 27, 1997 Exhibition at the Ca' Rezzonico, Venice, September 5-December 9,

Giambattista Tiepolo, 1696-1770 Catalog of the exhibition, edited by Keith Christiansen

Der Himmel auf Erden—Tiepolo in Würzburg February 15-May 19, 1996 Exhibition at the Prince-Bishop's Residenz, Würzburg, Germany.

Heaven on Earth: Tiepolo—Masterpieces of the Würzburg Years by Peter O. Krückmann

Tiepolo and His Circle: Drawings in American Collections the Pierpont Morgan Library Catalog of the exhibition at the Harvard University Art Museums and, by Bernard Aikema, translated by Andrew McCormick

Ah! Sweet History of Life

April 4, 1996

The Autumn of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga, translated by Rodney J. Payton, by Ulrich Mammitzsch

The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance by John Hale

Poussin’s Season

March 23, 1995

Nicolas Poussin 1594–1665 Paris, September 1994–January 1995, by catalog of the exhibition at the Grand Palais, Pierre Rosenberg, by Louis-Antoine Prat

Nicolas Poussin 1594–1665 January 19–April 9, 1995, by Richard Verdi and others. catalog of the exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London,

Nicolas Poussin 1594–1665: Catalogue raisonné des dessins by Pierre Rosenberg, by Louis-Antoine Prat

Nicolas Poussin: La Collection du Musée Bonnat à Bayonne by Pierre Rosenberg, by Louis-Antoine Prat

Poussin before Rome, 1594–1624 by Jacques Thuillier, translated by Christopher Allen

A Dance to the Music of Time by Nicolas Poussin by Richard Beresford

Nicolas Poussin: La Collection du Musée Condé à Chantilly by Pierre Rosenberg, by Louis-Antoine Prat

Nicolas Poussin by Anthony Blunt

Nicolas Poussin by Jacques Thuillier

Autour de Poussin Musée du Louvre, 1994, by Dossier-Exposition du Département des Peintures, Gilles Chomer, by Sylvain Laveissiére

Poussin’s Paintings: A Study in Art-Historical Methodology by David Carrier

Art & the Apocalypse

July 15, 1993

Only Collect

January 30, 1992

Le Géant, La Licorne et La Tulipe: Collections françaises au XVII siècle by Antoine Schnapper

Les Frères Goncourt: collectionneurs de dessins by Elizabeth Launay

J.P. Morgan: The Financier as Collector by Louis Auchincloss

Collectors and Curiosities: Paris and Venice, 1500–1800 by Krzysztof Pomian

Pricing the Priceless: Art, Artists, and Collectors by William D. Grampp

The Return of Cultural Treasures by Jeanette Greenfield

The Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property: Whose Culture? Whose Property? edited by Phyllis Mauch Messenger

Titian and the Perils of International Exhibition

August 16, 1990

Titian 1990 and at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC October 28, 1990–January 27, 1991 an exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale, Venice June 1, 1990–October 7,

Titian catalog of the exhibition, Introduction by Francesco Valcanover

Artemisia’s Revenge?

July 20, 1989

Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art by Mary D. Garrard

Pietro Testa, 1612–1650: Prints and Drawings (November–December 1988) by Elizabeth Cropper catalog of an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with essays by Charles Dempsey, by Francesco Solinas, by Anna Nicolò, by Francesca Consagra

Thanks for the Memory

December 8, 1988

Les lieux de mémoire edited by Pierre Nora

Painting Politics for Louis-Philippe: Art and Ideology in Orléanist France, 1830–1848 by Michael Marrinan

The Artist and the Museum

December 3, 1987

What’s in a Portrait?

March 27, 1986

Degas: His Life, Times, and Work by Roy McMullen

Pompeo Batoni Introductory Text edited and prepared for publication by by Anthony Clark, A Complete Catalog of His Works with an Edgar Peters Bowron

Reynolds Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (to be published by Abrams in the fall) edited by Nicholas Penny

The Voyage of Watteau

December 20, 1984

Watteau: 1684–1721 by Margaret Morgan Grasselli, by Pierre Rosenberg, with the assistance of Nicole Parmantier

Antoine Watteau by Donald Posner

Le Serment du Jeu de Paume de Jacques-Louis David by Philippe Bordes

Enemies of Modern Art

June 30, 1983

Secrets of Caravaggio

May 12, 1983

Circa 1600:A Revolution of Style in Italian Painting by S.J. Freedberg

Caravaggio by Alfred Moir

Caravaggio by Howard Hibbard

Famous but Unknown

April 15, 1982

French Sculptors of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: The Reign of Louis XIV by François Souchal

Out of the Picture

June 25, 1981

Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot by Michael Fried

Re-inventing the Eighteenth Century

October 9, 1980

La Peinture d’histoire en France de 1747 à 1785 by Jean Locquin

1700 tal: Tanke och form i rokokon an exhibition at the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm October 5, 1979-January 6, 1980

L’Arte del Settecento Emiliano: La Pittura an exhibition at Palazzo di Re Enzo, Bologna, September-November, 1979

L’Arte del Settecento Emiliano: L’Arte a Parma dai Farnese ai Borbone an exhibition at Palazzo della Pilotta, Parma, 1979

Chardin, 1699-1779 by Pierre Rosenberg. catalogue of the exhibition at Le Grand Palais, Paris, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979

Chardin and the Still-Life Tradition in France by Gabriel P. Weisberg, with William S. Talbot. catalogue of the exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979

Civiltà del ‘700 a Napoli, 1734-1799 an exhibition at the Palazzo di Capodimonte, Naples, December 1979-October, 1980

The Architecture of the French Enlightenment by Allan Braham

Alessandro Magnasco by Fausta Franchini Guelfi

Goya: The Origins of the Modern Temper in Art by Fred Licht

John Flaxman edited by David Bindman. catalogue of the exhibition at the Hamburg Kunsthalle and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, Winter 1979

The Fuseli Circle at Rome: Early Romantic Art of the 1770s by Nancy L. Pressly. catalogue of the exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art 1979

L’Art européen à la cour d’Espagne au XVIIIe siècle exhibition at La Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, Le Grand Palais, Paris, and Prado, Madrid, May 1979-April 1980

Yesterday’s Today Show

October 12, 1978

The Shows of London: A Panoramic History of Exhibitions 1600-1862 by Richard D. Altick

The Ideal Director

June 15, 1978

Sir Charles Eastlake and the Victorian Art World by David Robertson

The Uses and Abuses of Art History

March 17, 1977

Princes and Artists: Patronage and Ideology of Four Habsburg Courts 1517-1633 by Hugh Trevor-Roper

The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe by Theodore K. Rabb

The Baroque Age in England by Judith Hook

The Not-So-Innocent Eye

December 9, 1976

Landscape into Art by Kenneth Clark

Le Paysage français au XIX siècle, 1824-1874: L’École de la nature by Pierre Miquel

Perplexing Painters

October 2, 1975

El Greco: The Expressionism of His Final Years by Enrique Lafuente Ferrari, with an Appendix by José Manuel Pita Andrade, translated by Robert Erich Wolf

Zurbarán by Jonathan Brown

Velázquez by José Gudiol

The Changing Image: Prints by Francisco Goya by Eleanor A. Sayre. the Department of Prints and Drawings

Goya: 67 Drawings Introduction and comments by A. Hyatt Mayor

The English Invade Paris

June 1, 1972

“Peinture Romantique Anglaise” Petit Palais (Paris) Winter/Spring, 1972

Rubens and Marie

December 30, 1971

Rubens’ Life of Marie de’ Medici by Jacques Thuillier, by Jacques Foucart

The Raw & The Cooked

December 16, 1971

John Singer Sargent: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors by Richard Ormond

Gauguin’s Paradise Lost by Wayne Andersen, by Barbara Klein

Go for Baroque

June 17, 1971

Roma Barocca by Paolo Portoghesi, by Barbara Luigia La Penta

From Courbet to Che

January 7, 1971

Social Radicalism and the Arts: Western Europe by Donald Drew Egbert

Explaining Titian’s Egg Seller

July 2, 1970

Problems in Titian, Mostly Iconographic by Erwin Panofsky

Tiziano by Rodolfo Pallucchini

Titian—The Religious Paintings by Harold E. Wethey

Giorgione by Terisio Pignatti

The Beholder’s Eye

December 18, 1969

Prints and Visual Communication by William Ivins Jr.

Prints and Books: Informal Papers by William Ivins Jr.

Notes on Prints by William Ivins Jr.

How Prints Look, Photographs with a Commentary by William Ivins Jr.

Catching Up with the Avant-Garde

July 10, 1969

Art News Annual, XXXIII “The Academy: Five Centuries of Grandeur and Misery from the Carracci to Mao Tse-Tung” edited by Thomas B. Hess, edited by John Ashbery

Art News Annual, XXXIV “The Avant-Garde” edited by Thomas B. Hess, edited by John Ashbery

Art Forum, March 1969 “Manet’s Sources—Aspects of His Art, 1859-1865” by Michael Fried

Word and Image: Posters from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Museum of Modern Art

Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist in the USSR by John Berger

Daumier’s Human Comedy

December 19, 1968

Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Water Colors and Drawings by K.E. Maison

A Strange Painter

July 11, 1968

“Ingres” Petit Palais, Paris. Oct. 27, 1967—January 29, 1968

“Ingres in Italia” Villa Medici, Rome. February 26, 1968—April 28, 1968

Ingres Centennial: Drawings, Water-colors, and Oil Sketches from the American Collection, Fogg Art Museum by Agnes Mongan, by Dr. Hans Naef

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres by Robert Rosenblum

Ingres—A Biographical and Critical Study by Gaëtan Picon

Transformation in Late Eighteenth Century Art by Robert Rosenblum

Super-Painter

February 15, 1968

Nicolas Poussin (A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts) by Sir Anthony Blunt

The Paintings of Nicolas Poussin: A Critical Study by Sir Anthony Blunt

Poussin by Sir Anthony Blunt

Nicolas Poussin: Lettres et propos sur l’art compiled by Sir Anthony Blunt

Poussin by Walter Friedlaender

Le voir et le savoir—essai sur Nicolas Poussin by Pierre Schneider

Expo 1900

December 7, 1967

Paris 1900: The Great World’s Fair by Richard D. Mandell

Odd Man In

June 29, 1967

The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley by Aubrey Beardsley

The Later Work of Aubrey Beardsley by Aubrey Beardsley

The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley by Aubrey Beardsley

The Later Work of Aubrey Beardsley by Aubrey Beardsley

Aubrey Beardsley Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley

The Story of Venus and Tannhauser by Aubrey Beardsley

Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography by Stanley Weintraub

Aubrey Beardsley by Brian Reade

The Art Nouveau Book in Britain by John Russell Taylor

The Flowering of Art Nouveau by Maurice Rheims

Who’s Eccentric?

May 18, 1967

The Horror in Hogarth

April 6, 1967

Hogarth’s Graphic Works compiled and with a commentary by Ronald Paulson

The World of Hogarth: Lichtenberg’s Commentaries on Hogarth’s Engravings translated and with an Introduction by Innes Herdan, by Gustav Herdan

News from Nowhere

March 9, 1967

The Grand Eccentrics—Art News Annual XXXII edited by Thomas B. Hess

The Founding Father

December 1, 1966

J. M. W. Turner: A Critical Biography by Jack Lindsay

The Sunset Ship: The Poems of J. M. W. Turner edited, with an essay, by Jack Lindsay

Turner by John Rothenstein, by Martin Butlin

Turner: Imagination and Reality by Lawrence Gowing

Constable: The Dark Side

August 18, 1966

Constable Oil Sketches Watson-Guptill this Fall) by John Baskett

John Constable: The Man and His Work by Carlos Peacock

Gauguin’s Arcadia

July 7, 1966

Gauguin in the South Seas by Bengt Danielsson

The Cathedrals of Rodin

December 9, 1965

Cathedrals of France by Auguste Rodin, translated by Elisabeth Chase Geissbuhler

The Breakup

September 30, 1965

Canvases and Careers: Institutional Change in the French Painting World by Harrison White, by Cynthia White

In Russia’s Museums

August 5, 1965

The Hermitage Museum, Leningrad by Pierre Descargues

Great Paintings from the Pushkin Museum, Moscow by K.M. Malitskava

Medieval Georgian Enamels of Russia by Shalva Amiranahvili

The Art and Artists of Russia by Richard Hare

A Hidden Life

April 8, 1965

John Addington Symonds: A Biography by Phyllis Grosskurth

Whistler and Lautrec

December 3, 1964

Art Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler by Denys Sutton

Lautrec by Lautrec by P. Huisman, by M.G. Dortu

Impressions of Degas

November 19, 1964

My Friend Degas by Daniel Halévy, translated and edited, with notes by Mina Curtiss

The Unknown Degas and Renoir in the National Museum of Belgrade by Denis Rouart

Delacroix

September 10, 1964

Delacroix by Lee Johnson

Delacroix by René Huyghe

Art & Society

September 10, 1964

Art and Society Again

June 11, 1964

Art, Artists and Society by Geraldine Pelles

Bohemian versus Bourgeois by César Graña

Ruskin

April 2, 1964

The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings edited with an Introduction by John D. Rosenberg

Mannerisms

February 6, 1964

Mannerism and Maniera by Craig Hugh Smyth

Italian Mannerism by Giuliano Briganti

Mannerism, the European Style of the Sixteenth Century by Franzsepp Würtenberger