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A new books makes a passionate argument for museums
Not everyone could afford their own mortuary churches or chapels
This small book is ground-breaking, bringing to light Islamic beliefs and superstitions
Diana Widmaier Picasso, granddaughter of the artist, reveals this secret
Quite suddenly, a sophisticated and passionate discussion has sprouted about this fine needlework
The uses of magnificence at the Stuart Court is the subject of a new book
Alexandre Lenoir, the founder of the Musée des Monuments Français
Richard Diebenkorn’s four-volume catalogue raisonné reveals his variable styles
For 45 years in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the silversmith made exuberant work
Scientists matched DNA from the artist’s teeth with bones belonging to Clovis Gauguin—and confirmed the ancestry of Paul’s grandson
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
