The Burlington Magazine - n° 1374 vol CLIX - September 2017

Editorial

Researching the researchers

Articles

Andrew Chen, The provenance and function of a tabernacle by Paolo Schiavo in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Angelamaria Aceto, From building to print : Giovanni Giacomo de’ Rossi and the making of architectural books

Peter Cooke, Gustave Moreau and the theatre

Emily Christensen, The Tunisian sources of Kandinsky’s ‘Improvisation on mahogany’

Carol Jacobi, Picasso’s portraits of Isabel Rawsthorne

Books

Christopher Short, Kandinsky : The Elements of Art. By Philippe Sers

Sarah Whitfield, Dufy : le bonheur de vivre. Edited by Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Olivier Le Bihan, Cécile Navarra and Anne Devroye-Stilz

Tony Godfrey, Reading Cy Twombly : Poetry in Paint. By Mary Jacobus

Robin Middleton, Jacques-François Blondel. Un architecte dans la ‘République des Arts’. Etude et edition de ses ‘Discours’. Edited by Aurélien Davrius

Samuel Raybone, Gustave Caillebotte : Painting the Paris of Naturalism, 1872–1887. By Michael Marrinan

Richard Ormond, Frank Dicksee, 1853–1928 : His Art and Life. By Simon Toll

David Ekserdjian, Il Maestro di Ozieri : Le inquietudini nordiche di un pittore nella Sardegna del Cinquecento. By Maria Vittoria Spissu

Hans Vlieghe, St Jacob’s, Antwerp : Art and Counter Reformation in Rubens’s Parish Church. By Jeffrey Muller

Wayne E. Franits, Genre paintings in the Mauritshuis. By Edwin Buijsen, Quentin Buvelot and Ariane van Suchtelen

Beverly Louise Brown, Venezia e Parigi, 1600–1700. La pittura veneziana e la Francia : fortuna e dialoghi. By Laura de Fuccia

Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, Gardens of Court and Country : English Design 1630–1730. By David Jacques

Exhibitions

David Anfam, Giancarlo Vitali. Milan

Julian Stallabrass, documenta 14. Athens and Kassel

Catherine Craft, Robert Rauschenberg. London and New York

Matthew J. Abrams, Florine Stettheimer. New York and Toronto

Colin Westerbeck, Irving Penn. New York, Paris and São Paulo

Elizabeth C. Childs, Gauguin. Chicago and Paris

Simon Martin, Queer British Art. London

Kathleen Adler, Sargent’s watercolours. London

Matthew Cheale, Dreamers awake. London

Michael Hall, The National Gallery of Ireland. Dublin

Gavin Parkinson, André Breton. Villeneuve d’Ascq

Aileen Dawson, Doccia porcelain sculpture. Florence

Gijs van Hensbergen, Picasso’s path to ‘Guernica’. Madrid