Art History Today

Sir Denis Mahon's £100m art collection left to nation.

nice news to wake up, for a change.

the 57 pictures can be viewed here.

Vienna- slight return

Michael Savage who writes Grumpy Art Historian tells me he's been to Vienna. 

I'd like to believe him that the museum authorities read my account of a journey to the KH, Vienna last year, where I challenged the attribution of several Raphaels. Wether AHT has any influence or not on curators, I'm glad that the Holy Family and St Margaret have been updated to "Raphael and Studio", though I tend to agree with Michael that Raphael's hand doesn't seem to be present in either of these two works. Might be an idea to re-visit the literature on the Louvre St Margaret, which is thought to be a Gulio Romanao work based on a Raphael model. Maybe more about this another time.....

Apologies for the slowdown- plenty of posting on my History of Painting in Florence blog though.

Enjoy!