Past Issue
December 2023
In this issue
• The Pop sculptures of Marisol
• The rise of the Renaissance woman
• Canine art at the Kennel Club
• Building modern India
Plus: festive geese for the table, the demand for French art deco furniture, visions of heaven and hell at the Morgan Library, and reviews of Venetian painting in Munich, John Lavery in Dublin and an 18th-century guide to marble
Past issues
February 2025
Can American art escape the culture wars? | Poking fun at 18th-century Paris | Donald Duck’s fowl play
January 2025
The art of divination | an interview with Jake Grewal | will the market recover in 2025?
December 2024
Rachel Ruysch | What museums think about climate protests | Apollo Awards 2024
November 2024
Japanese art at the MFA Boston | Christian Marclay | collecting haute couture
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The painter who poked fun at 18th-century Paris
The painter who poked fun at 18th-century ParisWorking in the new medium of pastels, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour portrayed the elites of his day in a style to suit the hedonism of the age
The Sienese painters who sparked a revolution in European art
The innovations of artists in the first half of the 14th century created new pathways for painting for centuries to come
The Mughal emperors who forged a new artistic tradition
At its peak, the Mughal empire brought together scholars and artists of different languages and faiths to create art fit for kings
What would Jane Austen say?
Nothing gets a certain type of viewer more hot under the cravat than anachronisms in period drama – but the best inaccuracies are artistically liberating