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This Festschrift for Peter Hecht illuminates the transformative powers of museum acquisitions
A farewell collection of reviews by the American-born, British art critic
Roman art shared a common visual repertory throughout the Empire, but there were significant variations in local styles
A new history of Britart is long on anecdote but short on critical insight
Rumors of the death of painting have been greatly exaggerated
A complete historical catalogue of the Wallace Collection’s Italian sculptures
Writings, new and old, by the nonagenarian, Marxist and self-confessed “stop-gap” storyteller
New discoveries are changing how we understand ancient domesticity
A splendid new book examines what the poet Rainer Maria Rilke learned from Auguste Rodin
Goods and culture traveled in both directions
Chinese painted enamels on copper are now valued in their own right
How one branch of a German noble family married into every European royal family and acquired spectacular works of art
A new book surveys four generations of abstract art in the Joyner/Giuffrida Collection
The artist’s soulful portraits conferred high status on his sitters—and on subsequent owners
A new book offers a study of Jewish patrons in fin de siècle Vienna
A revised catalogue of the artist's work brings his achievements into view
A new book explores the social history of these homes
Essays on the appropriation of cultural memory, identity and power
This volume falls short of the “definitive” one that was intended
Few books adequately explain Bonnard’s intentions and achievements. A new one is no exception
Although critics such as John Ruskin and Roger Fry rejected his work, collectors came around to Caravaggio's style
Her private writings are moving but share few of her ideas about art
