Introducing a new monthly column for aficionados of ceramics and glass.
Getting hitched: The St. John Altarpiece
With its tenderly human tableaux painted on a golden background, the St. John Altarpiece, attributed to Francescuccio Ghissi (active 1359–1374), was a gem of Italian art at the dawn of the Renaissance. But at some point in the nineteenth or early twentieth century, the altarpiece was sawn apart to separate its nine constituent panels.
Of an artist dying young
Frédéric Bazille at the National Gallery of Art.
A Fighting Chance
The Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia opened on April 19th.
Dispatch 8: The invasion of the modern
The eighth edition of Dispatches, a new sporadical email newsletter about the arts of the past as they live in the present day by Elizabeth Pochoda, Advisory Editor, The Magazine ANTIQUES.
Mad as Hellas at the Onassis Cultural Center
We think of the art of ancient Greece as the epitome of serene beauty and refinement, but a new exhibition at the Onassis Cultural Center in New York reveals how often deep, even combustible, feelings were expressed in the artifacts of the Hellenic civilization.
Lulu and the Shadow Catcher
An adventurous photographer and a Midwestern librarian—trailblazers both.
Metal of Honor
Portrait medals at the Frick.
Dispatch 7: The Past Resurgent
The seventh edition of Dispatches, a new sporadical email newsletter about the arts of the past as they live in the present day by Elizabeth Pochoda, Advisory Editor, The Magazine ANTIQUES.
Edgewater, paradise for a preservationist
What the name of the house lacks in poetry it makes up in simplicity.