Art history
Books: Two books attempt to correct views of pre-Raphaelite art—held by no one
Traditional understandings of the brotherhood are addressed, again
The new Dictionary of National Biography is much more comprehensive than the Victorian original it replaces
More artists, more women, more sex
The spread of Venetian glass-making techniques and styles across Europe, from the 15th to the 18th centuries
How cristallo conquered the continent
The story of the Thornham Parva retable shows how technology is increasingly influencing art history
Conservation and connoisseurship joined at the altar
Klaske Muizelaar and Derek Phillips, Picturing men and women in the Dutch Golden Age
A review of the new volume on Dutch painting
Germaine Greer’s synopsis of pubescent males in art is flawed, but fun
Beautiful boys—now available for women, too
Modigliani and the artists of Montparnasse at the Albright Knox Art Gallery
Exhibition in Buffalo shows 60 works by the master
Books: American art from Norsemen to Culture Wars
A well-written history of art in North America for students
Letter: Modigliani needs art historical approach
Dr Kenneth Wayne says scholarship is the way forward
The publication of 'The splendour of Iran' is a landmark of the independence of native academics.
Archaeologically, architecturally and art-historically, Iran is very much on the move
Danto explains why there are no constraints on what a work of art looks like today but why the critic has also become essential to its making
A commentary on the end of art
Peeling potatoes, painting pictures: women artists in post-Soviet Russia, Estonia and Latvia
Renée Baigell and Matthew Baigell's book reviewed
Books: Latest assessment of Anselm Kiefer proves to be a book without a spine
An uncritical, adoring treatment of the artist has not served him well
The public may decide the fate of Leonardo’s “Adoration of the Magi”
Antonio Paolucci states he will halt the Uffizi’s planned restoration of the painting if he hears convincing arguments as to why it should not take place
Questionable curatorial decisions favour words over image in Tate Modern's new hang
Tate: Meeting Place or Museum?
A new book explores Walter Sickert's innovative work as a printmaker
Nine years of painstaking research have revealed this technically adventurous side of the artist’s work
The use of American art in the Cold War
This book reveals how the CIA’s promoted US artists as a way of stopping the spread of Communism in the years after World War II
Books: Expanding on Hallmark's photographic collection
This second edition includes even more of the collection, providing a fine survey of the medium in America
Books: Essays on sex, gender and identity in Dada
Naomi Sawelson-Gorse edits this collection on the often overlooked women of Dada
The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany
Medieval German women’s art and spirituality examined with too much of the gender-studies approach
Two new books examine ceramics from different points of view
One is a technical and stylistic analysis; the other a cultural critique. Both are well worth a read
How Surrealism has shaped the self-portraits of three generations of women artists
Women and Surrealism at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Books: Caroline Tisdall's new book is the way to go on anything Beuys
This substantial volume, predominantly photographic, is the comprehensive account of Joseph Beuys’s life and work
Giorgione: the painter of “poetic brevity”
This study is based on a close look at conservation and restoration research, a scientific examination of the artist’s technique, and new documentary evidence
Portraiture and physiognomy exhibition shows Leonardo as the father of Western soul-searching
The relationship between painting and physiognomy explored in Milan, from Da Vinci to Bacon
"Renaissance women patrons, wives and widows in Italy, c. 1300-1550"
Catherine E. King's book reviewed
Books: Guido Reni, loved by the Victorians, despised by modernists and purists
Reni is in for a late twentieth-century treatment as political activist and secretly gay
Ferrara pays homage to Aby Warburg
Palazzo Schifanoia displays archive material from the Warburg Institute to commemorate her work