The Art Bulletin

During his lifelong quest to develop a Realist aesthetic, Gustave Courbet elaborated on the Romantic legacy that emphasized artistic subjectivity and natural vision. With the goal of interpreting the manners and ideas of his time, he produced an oeuvre...

Studies of sixteenth-century South Asian art are dominated by the achievements of the Mughal Empire in north India. Later Hindu architecture, that is, after the twelfth century, has been neglected until comparatively recently, under the assumption that...

In 1815-in his seventieth year-Francisco Goya began etching the plates for a series of prints depicting the bullfight. The Tauromaquia, as this set of thirty-three aquatint etchings would come to be known by the 1840s, was the third of five print series...

TODD PORTERFIELD AND SUSAN L. SIEGFRIED Staging Empire: Napoleon, Ingres, and David University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. 272 pp.; 48 color ills., 82 b/w. $55.00A few years after the bicentenaire of Napoleon's coronation, Jean-Auguste-Dominique...

Experimentation means learning by experience. . . .-Josef Albers, September 19411A most poignant document of Black Mountain College's early years is the snapshot of Josef and Anni Albers's arrival, published in Nordi Carolina's AsheviUe Citizen on December...

CHRISTOPHER H. HALLETT The Roman Nude: Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 B.C.-A.D. 300 Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 416 pp.; 160 b/w ills. $150.00Respectable Roman merchants as Greek heroes, virtuous Roman matrons as Veneres flirtatiously flaunting...