Apollo Book Competition
For our last competition, we offered you the chance to win ‘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.
We asked you: In ‘Leonardo, A Memory of his Childhood’, Sigmund Freud famously mistranslated a kite as which bird?
Answer: Vulture
Congratulations to Adrian Petrenco, winner of this competition, drawn at random from the hundreds of correct answers we received.
We are pleased to announce that our new competition prize is ‘The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710–50’ by Cassidy-Geiger, Sebastian Kuhn and Heike Biedermann (The Frick Collection, $275), to coincide with our just published July/August issue, which celebrates the 300th anniversary of the Meissen manufactury’s foundation. The Arnhold porcelain collection is one of the most important great prewar Meissen collections to have survived intact. Uniquely, most of the pieces date from the first decades of the royal factory, established by August II, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, in 1710. The collection features a broad range of early work – much of it experimental, including table and chocolate services; figures; European porcelains and Asian ceramics.
For your chance to win, simply answer the following question:
In what year did Johann Joachim Kändler become Modellmeister at the Meissen factory?
Email your answers to offers@apollomag.com using 'Meissen' as the subject of your email. Only answers received before midday on 7th July will be entered into the competition draw.
Good luck!
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