Books
After Caravaggio: Michael Fried on the painter's enormous influence
The art historian examines the long legacy of the Baroque painter
Undermined by silence: lack of provenance is devastating flaw of al-Sabah collection catalogue
Scholarly assessment is greatly hampered by the lack of detail on where and how the objects were acquired
All together now: on the Francis Bacon catalogue raisonné
The complete collection of Francis Bacon’s paintings is published—at last
From marriage bed to painted pottery: on Geothe's collection
The writer seriously collected maiolica—and enjoyed its light relief and eroticism
Putting history into art history: on 18th-century British Art
Recent scholarship examines the social context
The sedulous Stanleys: power at Knowsley Hall
The cultural intersection of power, patronage and politics
Very sharp, but not long enough
This account of Islamic arms and armour is superb, but a complete catalogue would have been better
Atmosphere, thought and feeling: on Giorgione and his contemporaries
The mastery of his art and that of his Venetian contemporaries
A monument to the living and the dead: on the Queen's arms and armour
Long in the making, the catalogue of her collection has been worth the wait
Loose language: on Liam Gillick's Industry and Intelligence
The artist's new book is confused and lacking in rigour
A sickly flower of Decadent London: on the work of Aubrey Beardsley
The complete works of the illustrator, presented in all their “corrupting” glory
The stones cry out: on Medieval art in war-torn Syria
The Ayyubid glories of Syria, now mostly in ruins
‘Utterly abolished, eradicated and erased out’—but never forgotten
The iconoclasms of the English Reformation may shed light on today’s cultural destructions
Painting outclassed by bricks and mortar: on the arts in Rome under Clement VIII
Did the arts really flourish the Pope's patronage?
Badlands Unlimited launches series of e-books by artists
Rachel Rose and Howie Chen are among the first artists to work on the new project
Flavour in the grain and on the surface: on the Ellsworth Kelly catalogue raisonné
How Ellsworth Kelly’s art came of age
Where did it come from? On developments in icon painting
The source of a major change in icon painting may have been discovered
The false Gods of Dada: on Dada Presentism by Maria Stavrinaki
A new book on the movement draws lessons on the dangers of eclecticism
More royalty required: on the al-Sabah Collection
The non-courtly manuscripts and miniatures of the al-Sabah Collection come together in a new publication
The power of the imagination: on Bernini's drawings
His drawings in the collection of the Vatican Library are the subject of a new book
The Divine Comedy, a German classic: on Dante's German debut
After Schlegel, Dante was loosed from the Romantic moorings and entered the mainstream of German letters
Deutschland über alles? On the early Renaissance art market
Contrary to popular opinion, the Early Renaissance German art market developed simultaneously with, not later than, those in Italy and the Low Countries
Vision, virtuosity, versatility: on Hellenistic bronzes
A valuable overview of the current state of scholarship
Only for the rich: Islamic art is overshadowed by morally questionable Gulf labour conditions
Jane Jakeman reviews two very different takes on art in the Middle East
