The Magazine Antiques

Posted 07/01/01

Reverie on a pair of Japanese screens

Attempts to describe the rich fabric of human circumstances framed amidst the natural forces of a landscape lie at the heart of landscape painting in Japan. And the appropriate encapsulation of such a singular event and its human consequences enables that event to stand for something considerably more potent than the mere event itself. 

Posted 05/01/66

George IV and the arts of France

By Geoffrey de Bellaigue, Deputy surveyor of the Queen's Works of Art; originally published by The Magazine ANTIQUES in May 1966.