With the opening of the Leonardo exhibition just days away. the National Gallery are marking the event with the publication of their latest Technical Bulletin, no. 32,.all on Leonardo da Vinci. As Art History News says- thanks for the link- this is “art history nirvana.” Better still, it’s free. While you’re here, also download another free edition of the Bulletin, no. 31, which looks at a Verrocchio work, and the wider question of the relationship between Verrocchio and his students, including Leonardo. The essays on Leonardo in Verrocchio’s studio, in no. 32, and this essay should ideally be read back to back.
I took time out from my busy teaching schedule to visit the NG last Monday. I wanted to look at the exhibition on Sir Charles Locke Eastlake before it closed, at the end of this month. I was a bit disappointed that it wasn’t a bigger installation, just five pictures acquired by the first director of the NG, and one of the instigators of “scientific connoisseurship.” However, it was worth visiting, especially for the opportunity to peek at some pages of Eastlake’s travel journals, see his passport, and some letters. A nice little ensemble celebrating the man’s achievements. In addition to a copy by Eastlake of Titian’s Martyrdom of St Peter Martyr, there are works by well known artists like Pisanello, Giovanni Bellini;, G. Catena; there’s also pictures by obscure artists like Bona da Ferrara and Ambrogio Bergogne. Hurry, if you want to see it as it’s due to close very soon.
| Pisanello, Apparition of the Virgin to Sts George and Anthony Abbot, 1445, egg tempera on poplar, 46.5 x 29 cm. Presented by Lady Eastlake to the NG, in memory of her husband, in 1867. |
Though there wasn't any literature to accompany the exhibition, I did visit the bookshop and pick up a copy of Susanna Avery-Quash and Julie Sheldon’s Art for the Nation: The Eastlakes and the Victorian Art World, which I daresay I’ll read and review on the blog, when time permits. I also bought a copy of John Brewer’s The American Leonardo, a tale of connoisseurship, greed and deceit. Can’t wait to read that! I still have more Leonardo lectures to put up and one connoisseurship- oriented post on the Raphael Judgement of Paris. So much to do, so little time- the common complaint!
I've had my eye on that Brewer book for a while too - but may leave it and read you review instead.
I'm still wading through the evidence for my summary of Forcellino's book on the 'new' Michelangelo(s) not to mention the new epic biography of the Hangman(to paraphrase Raphael's descriptiuon of the grumpy sculptor) by Hirst...
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Posted by: HNiyazi | 10/29/2011 at 03:09 PM
Hi H,
I had a long phone conversation with somebody who's interested in that painting. Still got my doubts,though some Michelangelo scholars are claiming it as the maestro's own.
I'm looking forward to reading the Brewer book.
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