January 2024, No. 1450


The Golden Age of Avignon
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Editorial

  • 3 The Walpole Society

Articles

  • 4 Introduction
    by ALEXANDRA GAJEWSKI
  • 5 Avignon as ‘nova Roma’
    by CLAUDIA BOLGIA
  • 16 Two music theory manuscripts reunited: book illumination in the circle of Matteo Giovannetti
    by FRANCESCA MANZARI and JASON STOESSEL
  • 30 The Medieval Palace of the Commune in Avignon: a forgotten building
    by SIMONE BALOSSINO
  • 38 Italians in Avignon in the late fourteenth century: in search of the painters
    by GUIDO CASTELNUOVO
  • 44 Avignon around 1500: the workshop of Jean II Changenet
    by FRÉDÉRIC ELSIG

Article review

  • 54 Matteo Giovannetti, the painter and his work: an assessment in the light of recent restorations
    by DOMINIQUE VINGTAIN

Exhibitions

  • 62 China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta
    by LIHONG LIU
  • 65 Journey into Crystal
    by MARIAM ROSSER-OWEN
  • 68 Dieric Bouts: Creator of Images
    by KATRIN DYBALLA
  • 70 Venezia 500: The Gentle Revolution of Venetian Painting
    by ANNETTE HOJER
  • 73 The Inverted World of Adriaen van de Venne; and Ick soeck en vind: De schilderijen van Adriaen van de Venne, E. Buijsen
    by LUUK PIJL
  • 75 Rubens & Women
    by KATLIJNE VAN DER STIGHELEN
  • 79 Spirit and Invention: Drawings by Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo
    by WILLIAM BARCHAM
  • 81 Matisse, Derain, and Their Friends: The Parisian Avant-Garde 1904–1908
    by LOUIS DELTOUR
  • 84 Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso: The Invention of Language
    by SILVIA LORETI
  • 87 Buffalo AKG Art Museum
    by ELIZABETH A. PERGAM

Books

  • 92 Toulouse 1300–1400: L’éclat d’un gothique méridional, B. de Chancel-Bardelot and C. Riou, eds
    by PAUL WILLIAMSON
  • 93 Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages, L. Donkin
    by AMANDA LUYSTER
  • 94 Botticelli’s Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance, J. Luzzi
    by MARK EVANS
  • 96 Titian: Sources and Documents, C. Hope
    by GIORGIO TAGLIAFERRO
  • 97 Nicholas Barbon: Developing London, 1667–1698, F. Kelsall and T. Walker
    by CHRISTINE STEVENSON
  • 98 All Walks of Life. A Journey with the Alan Shimmerman Collection: Meissen Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century, M. Chilton and V. Sigalas, eds
    by TESSA MURDOCH
  • 100 Hersilia’s Sisters: Jacques-Louis David, Women, and the Emergence of Civil Society in Post-Revolution France, N. Bryson
    by PHILIPPE BORDES
  • 101 Modelling the Metropolis: The Architectural Model in Victorian London, M. Wells
    by BARRY BERGDOLL
  • 102 Studio Ceramics: British Studio Pottery 1900 to now, A. Graves
    by HELEN WALSH
  • 104 Scotland and the Origins of Modern Art, D. Macmillan
    by SUSANNAH THOMPSON

Obituaries

  • 105 Allen Staley (1935–2023)
    by CHARLOTTE GERE
  • 107 David Mannings (1940–2023)
    by BRIAN ALLEN
  • 108 AMONG THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS