Recently added articles from Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art:
Botticelli's Birth of Venus as wedding painting.
Jan 01, 2008; Long, Jane C. ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Vasari's 1550 edition of the Lives contains the earliest description of Botticelli's Birth of Venus: " ... today still at Castello, in the villa of the Duke Cosimo, there are two paintings, one the birth of Venus and those breezes and winds that bring her to ...
Severed torsos and metaphorical transformations: Christina of Sweden's Sale delle Muse and Clytie in the Palazzo Riario-Corsini.
Jan 01, 2008; Zirpolo, Lilian H. ... Art collecting in Rome during the second half of the seventeenth-century was punctuated by an enhanced interest in excavations, the trade of antiquities, and the publication of antiquarian studies. (1) Queen Christina of Sweden, who abdicated the throne in 1654 and moved to Rome in the ...
The Last Supper by Marcos Zapata (c. 1753): a meal of bread, wine, and guinea pig.
Jan 01, 2008; Palmer, Allison Lee ... A large painting entitled The Last Supper can be found today in the Cathedral of Cuzco, Peru. It features an image of Christ surrounded by the apostles, all of whom flank a platter holding what is traditionally considered a roasted guinea pig, which is called cuy in the Spanish adaptation ...
Allegorizing Aryanism: Fernand Cormon's The Human Races.
Jan 01, 2008; Gindhart, Maria P. ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] At the end of the nineteenth century, Fernand Cormon created ten wall paintings depicting prehistoric animals, the beginnings of human industries, and the development of humanity from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age for the amphitheater of the New Galleries of ...
Women, agriculture, and civilization in Diego Rivera's murals of Chapingo.
Jan 01, 2008; Mirkin, Dina Comisarenco ... The association of farming and women is very old and widespread. For some scholars, women, who are biologically linked to nourishing and the provision of food, are to be held responsible for the transcendental discovery of agriculture, and consequently, civilization. (1) The hypothesis is ...
Falling/failing 9/11: Eric Fischl's Tumbling Woman debacle.
Jan 01, 2008; Van Schepen, Randall ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] The following essay is an attempt to grapple with the representability of 9/11 through the supposed failure of one sculpture commemorating the New York attack, Eric Fischl's Tumbling Woman of 2002 (Fig. 1). Fischl's sculpture, publicly exhibited at ...
Ann Roberts, Dominican Women and Renaissance Art: The Convent of San Domenico of Pisa.
Jan 01, 2008; Scott, Karen ... Ann Roberts, Dominican Women and Renaissance Art: The Convent of San Domenico of Pisa, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Ann Roberts' Dominican Women and Renaissance Art belongs to the school of thought that celebrates the achievements of female writers, rulers, or other leaders in the ...
Luke Syson, ed., Renaissance Siena. Art for a City.
Jan 01, 2008; Smith, Timothy B. ... Luke Syson, ed., Renaissance Siena. Art for a City, London: National Gallery, 2007. Fabrizio Nevola, Siena: Constructing the Renaissance City, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, "The Sienese Renaissance was the real thing" (43). This strong statement of ...
Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521-1821.
Jan 01, 2008; Cosentino, Delia A. ... Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521-1821, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. Art historians of all areas, time periods and persuasions ought to acknowledge this work as a significant milestone in the ongoing evolution of ...
