Recent Criminal News. Report by Eleni Vassilika. Over this period of lockdown, shielding or imposed furlough, many of us have turned to reading crime novels. However, within our field there has been enough criminal activity to absorb art historians. Hackers posing as London art dealer Simon C. Dickinson Ltd tricked the Rijksmuseum Twenthe (Enschede, Netherlands) … Continue reading SHC Report: Recent Criminal News. Report by Eleni Vassilika.
SHC Review: Wolfram Koeppe Ed., Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe (New York: Metropolitan Museum & New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019), published in conjunction with the MMA exhibition 25 November 2019-1 March 2020. Review by Eleni Vassilika.
Wolfram Koeppe Ed., Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe (New York: Metropolitan Museum & New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019), published in conjunction with the MMA exhibition 25 November 2019-1 March 2020. Review by Eleni Vassilika. If there was ever an exhibition that one regrets not having seen, it was this … Continue reading SHC Review: Wolfram Koeppe Ed., Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe (New York: Metropolitan Museum & New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019), published in conjunction with the MMA exhibition 25 November 2019-1 March 2020. Review by Eleni Vassilika.
SHC Review: Geoffrey Robertson, Who Owns History? Elgin’s Loot and the Case for Returning Plundered Treasure (London: Biteback, 2019). Review by Eleni Vassilika.
Geoffrey Robertson, Who Owns History? Elgin’s Loot and the Case for Returning Plundered Treasure (London: Biteback, 2019). Review by Eleni Vassilika. Beginning with Cicero’s famous prosecution of Verres, who stole privately owned art while he was Governor in Sicily, the human rights barrister Robertson discusses recent (and promised) repatriations of cultural and human remains of … Continue reading SHC Review: Geoffrey Robertson, Who Owns History? Elgin’s Loot and the Case for Returning Plundered Treasure (London: Biteback, 2019). Review by Eleni Vassilika.
SHC Notice: Henry Hoare the Collector. A notice by John Harrison.
Henry Hoare the Collector. A notice by John Harrison. The banker Henry Hoare (1705-1785) is perhaps best known for the extant eighteenth-century landscape garden at Stourhead in Wiltshire. However, Henry was also a prodigious collector of fine art and of artefacts purchased whilst on Grand Tour in 1739-1740. Probably the most famous example of his … Continue reading SHC Notice: Henry Hoare the Collector. A notice by John Harrison.
SHC Review: Charlotte Guichard, Bénédicte Savoy, Acquiring Cultures: Histories of World Art on on Western Markets (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2019). Review by Eleni Vassilika
Charlotte Guichard, Bénédicte Savoy, Acquiring Cultures: Histories of World Art on on Western Markets (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2019). Review by Eleni Vassilika. Bénédicte Savoy is also known to us from her report written together with the Senegalese economist Felwine Sarr on sub-Saharan cultural material in Europe. Their report was so persuasive, it led to President … Continue reading SHC Review: Charlotte Guichard, Bénédicte Savoy, Acquiring Cultures: Histories of World Art on on Western Markets (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2019). Review by Eleni Vassilika