The Art Institute of Chicago
Museum Studies
Volume 21, no. 1 (Spring 1995)
Edited by Michael Sittenfeld
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, published twice annually, presents articles on the collections and history of the Art Institute. The objects discussed in this issue have been selected by James N. Wood, Director and President of the Art Institute, and are representative of the many important acquisitions made by the museum since 1980. One essay examines a superb pastel study by Eugene Delacroix for his painting The Death of Sardanapalus. Another essay explores the history of Strawberries, Nuts, &c., a masterpiece of still-life painting by the American artist Raphaelle Peale. Other essays discuss the remarkable Abduction of the Sabine Women by the seventeenth-century Italian artist Luca Giordano; a fine example of nineteenth-century French needlework; and a fascinating group of drawings by the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Articles in this publication:
Andrea Swanson Honore, “A Pastel Study for The Death of Sardanapalus by Eugène Delacroix”
Annie V. F. Storr, “Raphaelle Peale’s Strawberries, Nuts, &c.: A Riddle of Enlightened Science”
Larry J. Feinberg, “Luca Giordano’s Abduction of the Sabine Women”
Christa C. Mayer Thurman, “A First or Second Empire Terpsichore”
Pauline Saliga & Robert V. Sharp, “From the Hand of Mies: Architectural Sketches from the Collection of A. James Speyer”
80 pages, 8 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.
ISBN-13: 9780865591400
ISBN-10: 0865591407
