Apollo - The International Magazine for Collectors

July-August 2010

Professor Kurt Salfeld and his wife, Jutta, have loaned their collection of Meissen porcelain birds – among the rarest of all Meissen creations – to the Porzellansammlung of Dresden’s Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, marking the tercentennial of the Meissen manufactury’s foundation

Professor Kurt Salfeld and his wife, Jutta, are standing in the arched gallery at Dresden’s Zwinger Palace. Light streams in through conservatory-like windows as they gaze up, in silent rapture,...

The iconography of Titian’s early masterpiece in Rome is open to interpretation, but the inclusion of a winged cupid suggests a subtle political message for the painting’s recipient, Alfonso I d’Este

a mong his early work, one of Titian’s most splendid and admired compositions is the half-length image of decapitation in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome. Datable to about 1515, its...

The elegant lawn of F. Scott Fizgerald’s fictional hero serves as a symbol for the forgotten history of Art Deco gardens, long overshadowed by the spectre of Modernism

'Every period of architecture has had its gardens with a character proper to the period. We must have ours.’1 The gardens Jean- Jacques Haff ner designed in 1931 to animate...

The recent exhibition of drawings by Agnolo Bronzino at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, has yielded important conclusions about the artist’s techniques and the process by which attributions are made

The Metropolitan Museum’s recent exhibition on ‘The Drawings of Bronzino’ (19 January–18 April 2010) was the first monographic treatment of Agnolo Bronzino (1503–72). It presented all of his extant drawings...

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