Recently added articles from Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art:
Botticelli's Birth of Venus as wedding painting.
Jan 01, 2008; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Vasari's 1550 edition of the Lives contains the earliest description of Botticelli's Birth of Venus: " ... today still at Castello, in the villa of the Duke Cosimo, there are two paintings, one the birth of Venus and those breezes and winds that bring her to ...
Severed torsos and metaphorical transformations: Christina of Sweden's Sale delle Muse and Clytie in the Palazzo Riario-Corsini.
Jan 01, 2008; ... Art collecting in Rome during the second half of the seventeenth-century was punctuated by an enhanced interest in excavations, the trade of antiquities, and the publication of antiquarian studies. (1) Queen Christina of Sweden, who abdicated the throne in 1654 and moved to Rome in the ...
The Last Supper by Marcos Zapata (c. 1753): a meal of bread, wine, and guinea pig.
Jan 01, 2008; ... A large painting entitled The Last Supper can be found today in the Cathedral of Cuzco, Peru. It features an image of Christ surrounded by the apostles, all of whom flank a platter holding what is traditionally considered a roasted guinea pig, which is called cuy in the Spanish adaptation ...
Allegorizing Aryanism: Fernand Cormon's The Human Races.
Jan 01, 2008; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] At the end of the nineteenth century, Fernand Cormon created ten wall paintings depicting prehistoric animals, the beginnings of human industries, and the development of humanity from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age for the amphitheater of the New Galleries of ...
Women, agriculture, and civilization in Diego Rivera's murals of Chapingo.
Jan 01, 2008; ... The association of farming and women is very old and widespread. For some scholars, women, who are biologically linked to nourishing and the provision of food, are to be held responsible for the transcendental discovery of agriculture, and consequently, civilization. (1) The hypothesis is ...
Falling/failing 9/11: Eric Fischl's Tumbling Woman debacle.
Jan 01, 2008; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] The following essay is an attempt to grapple with the representability of 9/11 through the supposed failure of one sculpture commemorating the New York attack, Eric Fischl's Tumbling Woman of 2002 (Fig. 1). Fischl's sculpture, publicly exhibited at ...
Ann Roberts, Dominican Women and Renaissance Art: The Convent of San Domenico of Pisa.
Jan 01, 2008; ... Ann Roberts, Dominican Women and Renaissance Art: The Convent of San Domenico of Pisa, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Ann Roberts' Dominican Women and Renaissance Art belongs to the school of thought that celebrates the achievements of female writers, rulers, or other leaders in the ...
Luke Syson, ed., Renaissance Siena. Art for a City.
Jan 01, 2008; ... Luke Syson, ed., Renaissance Siena. Art for a City, London: National Gallery, 2007. Fabrizio Nevola, Siena: Constructing the Renaissance City, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, "The Sienese Renaissance was the real thing" (43). This strong statement of ...
Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521-1821.
Jan 01, 2008; ... Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521-1821, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. Art historians of all areas, time periods and persuasions ought to acknowledge this work as a significant milestone in the ongoing evolution of ...
Saintly beauty and the printed portrait.
Jan 01, 2007; ... Two portraits of religious persons were engraved eight years apart by the same artist working in viceregal Mexico City. The first pictured Sor Maria Ynes de los Dolores (Fig. 1), a mystic poetess from the Augustinian Convent of San Lorenzo in Mexico City. The second likeness belonged to ...
Transition and transformation in John Everett Millais' Ferdinand Lured by Ariel.
Jan 01, 2007; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] John Everett Millais' Ferdinand Lured by Ariel (Fig. 1), painted during the early years of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, takes its subject from William Shakespeare's The Tempest. The painting occupies a prominent place among the artist's early pictures and ...
The pictorial trans-rationalism of Kazimir Malevich.
Jan 01, 2007; ... Introduction. Trans-rationalism or Russian zaum' (literally "beyond reason") formed the most radical tendency in Russian Futurism and was the leading artistic and literary movement in the Russian avant-garde in the early 1910s. Embodied in an absurd poetic language opposed to standard ...
Wild Western lesbian feminist Asian American artist: Hanh Thi Pham's Expatriate Consciousness and the unpacking of identities.
Jan 01, 2007; ... ... it is Asian Americans themselves who ate turning back to see what was left behind, not only in history, but in their childhoods or in the present lives of relatives in the homelands or the Chinatowns or Japantowns of this country. (1) Some scholars place immigrant artists in ...
David Bomford, Jo Kirby, Ashok Roy, Axel Ruger, Raymond White, Art in the Making: Rembrandt.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; ... David Bomford, Jo Kirby, Ashok Roy, Axel Ruger, Raymond White, Art in the Making: Rembrandt, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Rembrandt. That name, a single word evoking greatness and suggesting mastery in art. A name that resonates. Who was Rembrandt? A miller's son, a ...
Georg Simmel. Rembrandt: An Essay in the Philosophy of Art, Alan Scott and Helmut Staubmann.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; ... Georg Simmel. Rembrandt: An Essay in the Philosophy of Art, Alan Scott and Helmut Staubmann, trans, and eds., New York: Routledge, 2005. This is a major work: the first English translation of Georg Simmel's last monograph, which first appeared in Leipzig in 1916, two years ...
Charles Merewether, ed., The Archive.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; ... Charles Merewether, ed., The Archive, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006. In December of 1958, the Situationists Guy Debord and Asger Jorn published the first edition of Memoires, a collaged compilation of discarded imagery, text, and freely applied gestural drips of color that was ...
Botticelli's Venus and Mars and other apotropaic art for Tuscan bedrooms.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Botticelli's Venus and Mars (Fig. 1) exemplifies apotropaic art produced for Tuscan bed chambers, a neglected category that reveals much about early modern popular culture. Little attention has been given to evidence that Quattrocento Tuscan bedrooms contained images to ward off the ...
Conceiving the child: British illustrator Kate Greenaway's determining influence on the graphic work of Mary Cassatt.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Mary Cassatt's canonical graphic imagery of children has traditionally been interpreted as the result of her interest in Japanese ukiyo-e prints, received through direct exposure to Japanese objects and second-hand awareness from contemporary artists such as Edgar Degas. (1) This ...
La Creacion by Diego Rivera.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2006; ... The mural cycle, La Creacion, painted by Diego Rivera (1886-1957) (Fig. 1) between December 1921 and March 1923, (1) is the inaugural work of the celebrated Mexican art movement of the twentieth century. Sponsored by Jose Vasconcelos (1882-1959), Secretary of Public Education and one of ...
Emma Stafford and Judith Herrin, eds. Personification in the Greek World: From Antiquity to Byzantium.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Emma Stafford and Judith Herrin, eds. Personification in the Greek World: From Antiquity to Byzantium (Hampshire: Ashgate Press, 2005) The last fifteen years have seen marked increase in scholarly interest in the concept of personification in Greek antiquity, not apparent since ...