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Croatia across borders

In January this year Croatia adopted the euro in place of the kuna and joined the European Union’s Schengen Area, allowing free movement across the country’s borders with Slovenia and Hungary. In the words of the country’s prime minister, Andrej Plenković, ‘nothing is the same after this’. These developments are a culmination of thirty-five years of change that have steadily drawn Croatia more closely into the orbit of western Europe: its first democratic elections, in 1990; its declaration of independence from Yugoslavia in 1991; the conclusion of the War of Independence in 1995; and membership of the European Union from 2013.

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Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris

With the recent trend to ‘discover’ women artists who have been previously overlooked and underappreciated in the history of art, many are finally getting the recognition they deserve. However, we are not the first generation to undertake this task, and some artists being ‘rediscovered’ have in fact never been lost. What then, if anything, can be learnt about such artists as Gwen John (1876–1939), who was brought to the fore during the first wave of feminist art history in the 1970s and 1980s?

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• Articles (6)
• Books (12)
• Exhibitions (9)

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  Artemisia Gentileschi’s ‘Susanna and the elders’ painted for Henrietta Maria

  By Niko Munz,Adelaide Izat

   

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  A new attribution to Giovanni Bellini: the ‘Virgin and Child’ in Pag

  By Beatrice Tanzi
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  Rediscovered drawings by Bartolomeo Spani for sculpture and goldsmithery

  By Marcello Calogero
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  Girodet’s ‘Coriolanus taking leave of his family’ rediscovered

  By Aaron Wile
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  Paolo Portoghesi (1931–2023)

  By Andrew Hopkins
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  John Newman (1936–2023)

  By Simon Bradley
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• Handbook of the Colour Print in China, 1600–1800

  By Malcolm McNeill
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• China and the West: Reconsidering Chinese Reverse Glass Painting

  By Edward S. Cooke
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• Portable Panel Paintings at the Angevin Court of Naples: Mobility and Materiality in the Trecento Mediterranean

  By Imogen Tedbury
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• Simon de Châlons

  By Céline Cachaud
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• Vittoria Colonna e l’eredità degli spirituali Vittoria Colonna: Poetry, Religion, Art, Impact

  By Andrea Zezza
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• Italian Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

  By David Ekserdjian
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• Architecture and Sculpture: Rubens’s House (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, 22.2)

  By Christopher Brown
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• Public Sculpture of Kensington and Chelsea with Westminster South-West

  By Ann Compton
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• The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club

  By Rowan Watson
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• Inside the Spiral: The Passions of Robert Smithson

  By Richard J. Williams
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• Un pittore conteso nella Napoli del Settecento: L’epistolario e gli affari di Francesco de Mura

  By Stefan Albl
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• Abstract Expressionists: The Women

  By Cora Chalaby
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• Reframing Reynolds: A Celebration

  By Mark Bills
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• Signorelli 500: Maestro Luca da Cortona, pittore di luce e poesia

  By Lydia Goodson
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• Ingres: The Artist and his Princes

  By Beth McKillop
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• Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris

  By Helena Anderson
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• Yevonde: Life and Colour

  By Lisa Stein
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• Sade: Freedom or Evil

  By Satish Padiyar
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• Herzog & de Meuron

  By Catherine Croft
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• Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque galleries

  By Stephen Lloyd
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• China’s Hidden Century

  By Beth McKillop
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