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A question of style: the Victoria & Albert Museum's magnificent exploration of the baroque makes up in visual flair what it lacks in scholarly depth
While rehearsing the role of Sieglinde in his grandfather s opera Die Walkure Wieland V c Wagner asked the great Austrian soprano Leonie Rysanek to...
Apollo, 06/01/09 by Robert Oresko · More from publication -
A dynastic enterprise: two exhibitions, in Dusseldorf and Munich, on the art collections of Johann Wilhelm, elector palatine from 1690 to 1716, make a major contribution to the study of baroque patronage and collecting
It is a truism to note that, uniquely among European state collections, the origins of the National Gallery of London lay in an urge for a national...
Apollo, 05/01/09 by Robert Oresko · More from publication -
Ornament of the academy: academician Marc Fumaroli, president of the Amis du Louvre, is a distinguished scholar and essayist, whose writings on 17th-century art reveal a profound knowledge of its cultural context
[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] On 2 March 1995 Marc Fumaroli was elected to the sixth fauteuil of the Academie Francaise in succession...
Apollo, 09/01/08 by Robert Oresko · More from publication -
A family affair: the Liechtenstein Museum's exhibition of one of Italy's greatest private family collections is a revelation
For most students of Italian patronage and collecting, the Borromeo family of Milan are most closely associated with two key figures of...
Apollo, 02/01/08 by Robert Oresko · More from publication -
Riches in Ferrara: the artistic achievements of the d'Este court in the 15th century are being celebrated in a two-part exhibition that has Cosme Tura at its heart
In 1453 Borso d'Este, Marquess of Ferrara, was created Duke of Modena and Reggio--territories falling within the confines of the Holy Roman...
Apollo, 01/01/08 by Robert Oresko · More from publication -
Palazzo Madama Turin: the complete restoration of Palazzo Madama and its reopening is a magnificent accomplishment, writes Robert Oresko. A major collection, the Museo Civico d'Arte Antica di Torino, can now be enjoyed in the setting of a spectacular baro
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On 16 December 2006, Palazzo Madama in Turin, one of the most important baroque buildings in...
Apollo, 12/01/07 by Robert Oresko · More from publication -
Collecting for his country: Robert Oresko applauds a definitive biography of Andrew Mellon, which illuminates his key role in the creation of the National Gallery in Washington, DC
Mellon: An American Life DAVID CANNADINE Knopf (US), $35; Allen Lane (UK), 30 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0 713 99508 4 Mellon: An American Life DAVID...
Apollo, 04/01/07 by Robert Oresko · More from publication -
Dear B.B.: Hugh Trevor-Roper's entertaining letters to Bernard Berenson reveal a great deal about attitudes to art history in post-war Oxford, and demonstrate the significance of Trevor-Roper's own approach to the subject
Letters from Oxford to Bernard Berenson Hugh Trevor-Roper Edited by Richard Davenport-Hines Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 20 [pounds sterling] ISBN 13 9...
Apollo, 11/01/06 by Robert Oresko · More from publication -
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Among the more significant and--because of its catalogue--durable events surrounding the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin is an exhibition at the...
Apollo, 05/01/06 by Robert Oresko · More from publication -
A Franco-German affair: an exhibition in Paris, Munich and Bonn of French paintings from German collections is chiefly important because of its mighty accompanying catalogue
For a generation of historians of art, the Grand Palais has presented a series of exhibitions, many of them devoted to a single painter, that have...
Apollo, 03/01/06 by Robert Oresko · More from publication
