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Acquisitions of the Month: April 2020
Portraits of an 18th-century comedian and the ‘real’ Lydia Bennet are among this month’s highlights
Vote winner – a newly discovered portrait of Millicent Fawcett is a significant find
The painting at Royal Holloway presents a more reflective side of the tireless campaigner
The Huguenot doctor who helped to fight smallpox – and worked at the British Museum
Matthew Maty, a leading advocate for inoculation, was also a librarian at the British Museum – and one of its early donors
King of the Zwinger – Dresden’s most important museum is more majestic than ever
The jewel in the crown of the city’s palatial complex of museums now shows off its masterpieces to even better effect
Making a scene – how the Victorians brought the past to life
Recreating scenes from famous paintings has been all the rage of lockdown, but it’s the Victorians who first played make-believe in earnest
How my mudlarking finds have kept me company in convalescence
Beads, bottles, broken plates… these scraps of London’s history provide a welcome distraction in a time of sickness and solitude
‘A giant of Italian art’ – on Germano Celant (1940–2020)
The critic and curator, who coined the term Arte Povera, played a large part in shaping the art world as we know it
Trial by fire – the rush to rebuild Notre-Dame
Was the pledge to restore the cathedral in just five years a reasonable commitment or a rash promise?
How Victorian artists saw Florence Nightingale
The bicentenary of the founder of modern nursing has a particularly topical resonance, but how did her contemporaries regard the Lady with the Lamp?
Getting the hang of it – a look inside the home of an 18th-century collector in Paris
An illustrated inventory made for Jean de Jullienne shows us how his paintings were displayed
The trials and triumphs of Artemisia Gentileschi
The artist knew exactly how to cultivate her own image, ensuring her great success – both then and now
Knight riders – displays of chivalry at the Louvre Abu Dhabi
The museum makes the most of its French connections in this survey of conduct across medieval Europe and the Middle East
The modern artists who made the most of isolation
Sequestered in a French chateau in the 1940s, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Jean Arp, Sonia Delaunay and Alberto Magnelli joined forces to create the ‘Album Grasse’
When the medium is the messenger – the art of communicating with spirits
From Victorian spiritualists to contemporary practitioners, there is a long history of art – and drawing in particular – taking an interest in the unseen
How photography has shaped our experience of pandemics
From lockdowns to mass burials, the ways we visualise Covid-19 were established by photographers in the late 19th century
Artists on the books keeping them company in isolation
From Nikolai Gogol to Susan Sontag, Joan Didion to Olga Tokarczuk: the authors inspiring artists during a time of lockdown
Lads and lobsters – John Minton’s food illustrations
The artist’s designs for Elizabeth David’s cookery books evoke a happy world of fine living and dining
Fashion forward – the dashing designs of Antoine Watteau
The artist’s fashion etchings hint at the delight in transient pleasures that is so evident in his paintings
Behind the screens – how museums and galleries are going virtual
What exactly does it take to create an online exhibition? And will such platforms still be of use after lockdown?
Acquisitions of the Month: March 2020
A transformative gift for Cleveland Museum of Art and some metal detectorists’ finds are among this month’s highlights
The inward eye – painting, poetry and the world of William Wordsworth
The 250th anniversary of the poet’s birth prompts a reflection on his complicated relationship with the visual arts
Schoolchildren, science and smartphones shine new light on a Florentine masterpiece
An interdisciplinary project at the Fitzwilliam Museum has revealed tantalising possibilities about Jacopo del Sellaio’s Cupid and Psyche
Mischief-making mistresses at the court of Charles II
How the women at the heart of the Restoration court ‘weaponised’ portraits that flaunted their influence over the king
Keeping up with Artemisia
The National Gallery’s Artemisia exhibition may be postponed, writes its curator, but there are plenty of ways to explore her work in the meantime
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