The Art Bulletin

Against a searing yellow sky, Gauguin painted trees as rivulets of blue--as pure, exquisite forms that would be utterly illegible if plucked from the context he made for them (Les Arbres bleus, 1888; Fig. 1).(Figure 1 omitted) Seurat invented the Neo-Impressionist...

Not one shred of the Battle of Anghiari has been preserved, yet generations of scholars have tried to reconstruct the painting. Could there possibly be anything further to investigate? The historical occasion for the commission is too well known to bear...

Andrew Hemingway, Landscape Imagery and Urban Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. 355; 120 black-and-white ills. $95.00.During the first decades of the 19th century, some of the most remarkable...

ALOIS RIEGL, Problems of Style. Foundations for a History of Ornament, trans. Evelyn Kain, annot. and intro. David Castriota, pref. Henri Zerner, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1992. Pp. xxxiii + 406; 197 black-and-white ills. $45.00.MARGARET...

In memory of Odette Sterekx (1905-1993)The painters whom the invading Jurchens pushed to the Yangzi River Valley by the twelfth century were fascinated by the southern vistas of lakes and misty hills. They found there the visual inspiration not only...