Apollo weekly competition
Each Friday Apollo offers you the chance to win a superb prize. Simply answer the question set each Friday (www.apollo-magazine.com/competitions) and you could win some of the finest art history books reviewed in Apollo.
Thursday, 4th September 2008
The prize for our competition last week was the lavish hardback 'Nineteenth Century French Art' (Flammarion; £60) that explores the extraordinarily rich and productive period of French art, described by the book's editor Henri Loyrette as "France's 'Quattrocento'".
We asked you: Which artist painted Un Enterrement a Ornans? (1850-51)
Answer: Gustave Courbet
Congratulations to Pallas Athene, the winner this week, drawn at random from the correct answers.
This Friday, following the hundreds of competition entries we received, we have decided to extend the Francophile theme. Our prize is the extremely handsome hardback 'Empire Style: Authentic Decor' by Bernard Chevallier (Thames & Hudson; £32). This book explores the furniture and interior design of France's Empire period that was guided by the tastes of Emperor Napoleon and Empress Josephine. Chevallier discusses the design of the finest Neoclassical antechambers, bedrooms, libraries and salons, accompanied by superb photography by Marc Walter.
For your chance to win, simply answer the following question:
Percier and Fontaine were pupils of which architect?
Email your answer to offers@apollomag.com using 'Empire' as the subject of your email.
Best of luck!
LATEST NEWS & COMMMENT
Seeing Sound
Moma's show on the impact of new media in the 1960s and 1970s recalls an idealistic age, before art aspired to control its audience.
Palladian games
The 500th anniversary of Palladio's birth is rightly being celebrated, but his influence on architects has in many ways been pernicious.
The Treasury's little rays of sunshine
The National Galleries in Edinburgh and London and the National Trust have formidable fund-raising tasks in hand, but the targets would be even higher were it not for Britain's tax laws – which could be about to get better.
Comments
Post a comment