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A place in the trinity: this superb book gives Pietro da Cortona his due as one of Rome's great baroque architects
Pietro da Cortona and Roman Baroque Architecture JORG MARTIN MERZ Yale University Press 45 [pounds sterling]/$85 ISBN 9780300111231...
Apollo, 09/01/09 by Andrew Hopkins · More from publication -
King of carving: an exhibition in his native Belluno amply confirms the stature of the baroque carver Andrea Brustolon as—in Balzac's words-'the Michelangelo of wood'
Despite the ravishing quality of the 40 pieces of furniture making up the 'fornimento Venier'--the suite commissioned in 1690 by the nobleman...
Apollo, 07/01/09 by Andrew Hopkins · More from publication -
Masters of majolica: a remarkably beautiful exhibition in Arezzo sets the achievements of the Della Robbias in their artistic context
[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] According to Giorgio Vasari, money was one of the main motives that prompted Luca della Robbia in the mid...
Apollo, 05/01/09 by Andrew Hopkins · More from publication -
Palladio at 500: Vicenza and London are celebrating the anniversary of the birth of Europe's most influential architect with an exhibition full of new ideas and information
[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] It's a life that lends itself to obvious storytelling: the humble stonemason Andrea della Gondola, born...
Apollo, 02/01/09 by Andrew Hopkins · More from publication -
Faces and spaces: an ambitious but unsatisfactory survey of renaissance portraits reveals glaring problems with the exhibition galleries at both the Prado and the National Gallery, London
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Like films, exhibitions based on books don't always work. Possibly the worst show at the National...
Apollo, 12/01/08 by Andrew Hopkins · More from publication -
A palace in search of a role: Andrew Hopkins visits the newly restored Venaria Reale near Turin, a palatial hunting lodge built for the dukes of Savoy in the 17th and 18th centuries. Its restoration fails to answer the question: what should it be used for
[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Ten years ago the series of Savoy residences in and around Turin finally was added to the UNESCO World...
Apollo, 11/01/08 by Andrew Hopkins · More from publication -
In search of Sebastiano: fine as it is, the exhibition currently in Rome on Sebastiano del Piombo suffers from a lack of generosity in loans from some major collections
In late 1516 Cardinal Giulio de' Medici, the future Pope Clement VH, commissioned Raphael to paint a Transfiguration and Sebastiano del Piombo a...
Apollo, 05/01/08 by Andrew Hopkins · More from publication -
Byzantium on the Volga: Andrew Hopkins applauds a rich account of Russian architecture and the west
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Russian Architecture and the West DMITRY SHVIDKOVSKY Yale University Press, 50 [pounds...
Apollo, 11/01/07 by Andrew Hopkins · More from publication -
Tintoretto triumphant: the first exhibition in 70 years devoted to Venice's only native-born painter of genius reveals an artist of astonishing daring, whose innovations have never received adequate acknowledgment
Jean-Paul Sartre called Tintoretto 'the Venetian Pariah', as he upset the city's golden apple-cart of painting. Instead of imitating the prince of...
Apollo, 05/01/07 by Andrew Hopkins · More from publication -
Michelangelo's true heir: Annibale Carracci's place at the highest level of Italian art is gloriously—and subtly—confirmed in Bologna and Rome
The overexposure in recent years of Caravaggio's searing, often sexual, imagery reminds me of the obsessive exhibiting of Robert Mapplethorpe's...
Apollo, 04/01/07 by Andrew Hopkins · More from publication
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