Books
Art critic Michael Fried’s new poems dwell on past love, childhood—and his predilection for high Modernism
The poet draws parallels between making sculpture and writing verse
First renowned, then overlooked, now rediscovered: on Edme Bouchardon
The artist worked with obsessional care, but only now is his versatility being recognised
Towering triumph: on the scholarly resurrection of Joseph de Levis
The Renaissance bronze-founder has been brought back to life by scholarly research
Abstraction in reverse: how Latin American Modernists changed how we see
The art historian Alexander Alberro explains how action and participation drove new forms of art
A panoply of plastic poses: on Emma Hamilton
A new book explores her extraordinary personal and social transformations
The parrot point of view: on Edward Lear's natural history studies
Such works were the basis of his later landscapes
Vermeer and the masters of genre painting
The Dutch painter and his contemporaries could not resist the temptation to improve one another's compositions
The Donald Trump style of art history
The greatest works of Western art vindicate the US president’s ideas of democracy, according to his senior director for strategic assessments
Banking and benevolence: on the Rothschild family
A century and a half of generosity is recorded in a wide-ranging history of the family
Circumstantial evidence clinches the case: how careful archaeology corrects misunderstandings
A new book will undoubtedly change the way we talk and think about Early Cycladic objects
A bottomless repository of culture: on illuminated Medieval manuscripts
There are remarkable riches to be mined from a group of new books
What a Renaissance artist taught Freud about memory
A new book looks at the psychoanalyst’s favourite Old Master fresco—and his inability to remember the artist’s name
Dissatisfactions and aspirations in pen and ink
A multifaceted artist’s monumental engagements with drawing
Worth the detour: on the National Gallery's lesser-known Renaissance masterpieces
Works from Bologna and Ferrara are the subject of a comprehensive new catalogue
Nudity, high living, intense emotion, danger, tragedy and erotic allure
A new book looks at Roman choices of mythological subjects
The connoisseurs’ preserve needs expansion
The study of carpets has changed little since the 19th century and new approaches are needed
Let perception be your guide: how to see the Rococo
A virtual reality tour of an 18th-century German abbey
Life at the high end: what it is like to work at an auction house
Memoirs by Charles Hindlip and Simon de Pury, and a history of Christie’s, shed light from above
The whole world in wood and copper
Prints were the main source of visual (mis)information for three centuries
The persistent disbeliever: on Donald Judd's writings
A new book of his collected essays reveals the ferocity with which he questioned almost everything
Oedipal susceptibilities: on rivalry and friendship among artists
Skilfully interwoven stories cast new light on the artistic and personal dynamics behind some of the greatest works of Modern art
The comprehensive corpus on Peter Paul Rubens
Two new titles are added to the peerless catalogue of Rubens’s work
Marsden Hartley's Maine: what the Modern painter took from his home state—and what he left behind
An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum looks at the profound role Maine played in peripatetic artist's life and work
Did he influence Dürer or Dürer him? On Jacopo de’ Barbari
As an artist, Jacopo de’ Barbari became almost invisible
The devil is always lurking: on Hieronymous Bosch
A survey of the best books that have come out of Hieronymus Bosch’s quincentenary
