The Art Institute of Chicago
Museum Studies
Volume 15, no. 1 (Spring 1989)
Edited by Terry Ann R. Neff
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, published twice annually, presents articles on the collections and history of the Art Institute. This issue is dedicated to Neoclassical works in the Art Institute’s collection, studying French, Italian, English, and Austrian objects from the years 1765-1817. Articles include a new reading of Joshua Reynolds’ Lady Sarah Bunsbury Sacrificing to the Graces; an analysis of Hubert Robert’s cycle of paintings depicting classical ruins; an examination of the intellectual relationship of Antonio Canova and Quatramère de Quincy through Canova’s Bust of Paris; a survey of fabrics printed by the new technique of the engraved metal roller; a reattribution of the site of manufacture of a secretary from France to Austria; and a discussion of the Londonderry Vase for its artistic and political importance.
Articles in this publication:
Malcolm Warner, “The Sources and Meaning of Reynold’s Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces”
John D. Bandiera, “Form and Meaning in Hubert Robert’s Ruin Caprices: Four Paintings of Fictive Ruin for the Château de Méréville”
Ian Wardropper & Thomas F. Rowlands, “Antonio Canova and Quatremère de Quincy: The Gift of Friendship”
Christa C. Mayer Thurman, “Neoclassicism on Cloth”
Christian Witt-Doerring, “A Viennese Secretary in the Empire Style”
Lynn Springer Roberts, “The Londonderry Vase: A Royal Gift to Curry Favor”
88 Pages, 8 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.
ISBN-13: 9780226028156
ISBN-10: 0226028151
