Editorial

Banishing the blues

Fifteen years ago a clever British public-relations agency nominated the third Monday in January ‘Blue Monday’, on the basis that a combination of short days, cold weather, holiday-incurred debt and the failure of new year’s resolutions makes it the most depressing day of the year (in the northern hemisphere at any rate).

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Exhibition Review

Artemisia

When Eleanor Tufts published Our Hidden Heritage: Five Centuries of Women Artists in 1974, she lamented in concluding a short chapter on Artemisia Gentileschi that ‘despite all the recognition given to her paintings [...] no book has ever been written on this major artist of the seventeenth century’.

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• Articles (7)
• Books (14)
• Exhibitions (8)

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  Adam Elsheimer’s ‘The martyrdom of St Lawrence’ rediscovered

  By Tico Seifert
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  Anthonie Palamedes’s paintings for the Delft Surgeons’ Guildhall

  By Jochai Rosen
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  Drawings of Van Vianen silver in an eighteenth-century collection

  By Esther Van Der Hoorn
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  El Lissitzky as a furniture designer, 1925–30

  By Bennett Tucker
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• Rubens and Dirce, a source in plain sight

  By David Jaffé
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• New information about Jacques Jordaens’s portraits of Johannes I Wierts and his wife

  By Katharina van Cauteren
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  J.R.J. van Asperen de Boer (1935–2020)

  By Arie Wallert
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• The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde

  By Gavin Parkinson
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• 1000 Jahre Bartholomäuskapelle in Paderborn: Geschichte – Liturgie – Denkmalpflege

  By Richard Plant
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• Eloquent Bodies: Movement, Expression, and the Human Figure in Gothic Sculpture

  By Julian Luxford
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• Bernard Palissy: nouveaux regards sur la céramique française aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles (Technè 47)

  By Dora Thornton
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• Arrayed in Splendour: Art, Fashion, and Textiles in Medieval and Early Modern Europe Undressing Rubens: Fashion and Painting in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp

  By Erin Griffey
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• René-Antoine Houasse: Peindre pour Louis XIV

  By François Marandet
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• Building Reputations: Architecture and the Artisan, 1750–1830

  By Colin Thom
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• Gustave Dreyfus: Collectionneur et Mécène dans le Paris de la Belle Epoque

  By Jeremy Warren
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• Matisse: The Books

  By Sarah Whitfield
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• London’s New Scene: Art and Culture in the 1960s

  By Anne Massey
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• Early Irish Sculpture and the Art of the High Crosses

  By Elizabeth Alexander
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• Devotional Portraiture and Spiritual Experience in Early Netherlandish Painting

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• The Athenaeum: More Than Just Another London Club

  By Bruce Boucher
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• Creative Gatherings: Meeting Places of Modernism

  By Matthew Holliday
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• Renaissance Watercolours: From Dürer to Van Dyck

  By Christopher Baker
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• Gold und Ruhm: Kunst und Macht unter Kaiser Heinrich II

  By Andrew Sears
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• Zeitenwende 1400: Hildesheim als Europäische Metropole

  By Patricia Strohmaier
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• Renaissance Invention: Stradanus’s ‘Nova Reperta’

  By Larry Silver
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• Artemisia

  By Aoife Brady
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• Face to Face: Thorvaldsen and Portraiture

  By Satish Padiyar
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• Mondrian and De Stijl

  By Lieke Wijnia
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• Elijah Pierce’s America

  By Colin Rhodes
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