Apollo Book Competition
For our last competition, we offered you the chance to win 'Mrs. Delany & Her Circle' (Yale; £40), the catalogue to the exhibition at the Soane Museum, London, reviewed in the February 2010 issue of Apollo. At the age of 72, Mary Delany embarked on a series of nearly 1,000 botanical collages, which would prove to be the crowning achievement of her rich creative life. Although best known for these works, Mrs Delany was also an amateur artist, woman of fashion, and commentator on life and society in 18th-century England and Ireland. This superb survey illustrates the full range of Mrs Delany's creative endeavours. Our reviewer, Timothy Wilcox, wrote, '"Mrs Delany and her Circle" is a model of inter-disciplinary collaboration. In future, she will be known not by the still dubious epithet of "amateur", but as a sublime example of another 18th-century phenomenon, the virtuoso.'
We asked you: Which museum houses the botanical collages of Mrs Delany?
Answer: The British Museum, London
Congratulations to Agnes Schutte, winner of this competition, drawn at random from the hundreds of correct answers we received.
For the re-launch of the APOLLO BOOK COMPETITION, we are pleased to announce that our new competition prize is ‘Fra Angelico to Leonardo, Italian Renaissance Drawings’ by Hugo Chapman and Marzia Faietti (The British Museum, £45), which accompanies the major exhibition currently on show at the British Museum. The catalogue includes 330 colour illustrations charting the development of Italian drawing from 1400 to 1510. This catalogue combines highlights from two of the best collections of 15th century Italian quattrocento drawings – the British Museum, London and Uffizi in Florence. Included are 10 drawings by Leonardo and key works by nearly 50 other artists of the period, ranging from Filippino Lippi, Botticelli, Raphael, Michelangelo and Titian, to reveal fresh insight into how the drawings – and their related works – were created.
For your chance to win, simply answer the following question:
In ‘Leonardo, A Memory of his Childhood’, Sigmund Freud famously mistranslated a kite as which bird?
Email your answers to offers@apollomag.com using 'Leonardo' as the subject of your email. Only answers received before midday on 30th June will be entered into the competition draw.
Good luck!
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