In September 1933, Nikolaus Pevsner travelled to England as a refugee from National Socialist Germany. This article investigates Pevsner’s continuing debt at this time to German art history in general, and to […]
The present essay aims to remap the modernist writing of Clement Greenberg and his successor Michael Fried from the late 1930s to the 1960s. Attentive reading of the canonical texts they authored will surprisingly reveal that […]
Altichiero was the dominant north Italian painter of the later Trecento. In Padua, in the 1370s and early 1380s, he worked for patrons close to Petrarch and […]
This article discusses the Dutch contribution to the International Architecture Exhibition that was part of the Bauhaus Manifestation in 1923. The Dutch architect J.J.P. Oud, together with […]
Already in his early youth Sebastiano Serlio’s writings were well-known to Vincenzo Scamozzi. In particular Serlio’s third book, dedicated to ancient Roman architecture, and his first two books on geometry and perspective, formed […]
This article presents the Serlio-copy of 1551 with the glosses of Scamozzi which the Ernst von Siemens Foundation has acquired for the library of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte. We present the realia of the volume and the glosses in the conte…
This article discusses the Dutch contribution to the International Architecture Exhibition that was part of the Bauhaus Manifestation in 1923. The Dutch architect J.J.P. Oud, together with […]
This analysis of the reception of the Great German Art Exhibitions in presses in the Western democracies identifies limits, oversights, and key assumptions in these texts. Over time these assumptions […]
The 1889 Military Law, far from being of no concern to neo-impressionists, was the subject of antimilitarist cartoons by Maximilien Luce and antimilitarist paintings by the neo-impressionist outsider, ‚Le douanier‘ Rousseau. […]
Was Monet the father of neo-impressionism? This article investiges the various answers that have been offered to this controversial question by examining the relationships […]
Powered by
WordPress and plainscape theme.