Features
Purity in Porcelain
Based in Hong Kong, Richard Kan is a collector of coins, cars and cameras. However, as he tells Susan Moore, his central interest is Chinese porcelain in its purest, monochrome forms. Portrait by Michael Coyne.
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Ideal Forms
Brancusi often said that ‘only fools …could say my works are abstract’, yet that is how they are usually described. Eric Shanes reveals the philosophy that underlay the sculptor’s true intentions.
Berenson’s Michelangelo
One of Bernard Berenson’s central concerns was the attribution of drawings by Michelangelo. In the first instalment of a two-part article, Carmen C. Bambach analyses Berenson’s methods, with a particular focus on the drawings for the Sistine ceiling and tomb of Julius II.
The Work of Mark
Paul Hetherington unveils a remarkable discovery: an unknown Byzantine silver processional cross of the 10th or 11th centuries, inscribed by its maker, Mark, a monk.
Vasari & the Medici
Research on a rare Italian 16th-century tapestry in the Acton Collection at Villa La Pietra in Florence provides new evidence about the magnificent interiors designed by Giorgio Vasari for Cosimo i de’ Medici at Palazzo Vecchio in the 1550s, as Helen Spande explains.
Treasures from TEFAF
Maastricht offers museum directors, curators and trustees the opportunity to add to their collections and tefaf has seen many once-in-a-lifetime purchases. Annie Blinkhorn and Adélia Sabatini select some of the most memorable recent acquisitions.
Art’s Ambassador
Michael Hall meets Willem Baron van Dedem, president of the board of the European Fine Art Fair, and owner of one of the finest private collections of 17th-century Dutch paintings. Portrait by Derry Moore.
Maastricht Beckons
Susan Moore makes a selection of the treasures that will be brought to tefaf this year by some 260 exhibitors from all over the world. Among the new initiatives is a section devoted to works of art on paper, ranging from medieval manuscripts to modern photographs
Island of Art
Princess Bona Borromeo talks to Susan Moore about the recent restoration of her family’s great art collection and the redisplay of the baroque picture gallery in the Borromeo palace on Isola Bella. Photographs by Daniel Kennedy.
