In the latest issue of Print Quarterly, I review Glenn Fleishman’s instructive, detail-oriented How Comics Are Made — A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page. The book is a very helpful examination of the complicated, sometimes arcane, production and printing processes behind newspaper strips in particular, from the late nineteenth century…
TITIAN! new publication from yours truly. I contributed an extensive section on prints after Titian to this catalogue of the collection of pictures by, after, and around Titian in the collection of Alec Cobbe at Hatchlands Park. Often neglected, prints designed or sanctioned by the artist, or made after his work either during his lifetime…
Som del af SMK-Akademiets række af forelæsninger, holdt jeg sidste uge et foredrag om tankerne og valgene bag, samt nogle af de opdagelser og forskningsspørgsmål, udstilling har rejst for mig. Se hele forelæsningsrækken her, den omfatter foredrag af forskellig karakter fra en gruppe gode kolleger. Mit kan I også se lige her:
Det er gået lidt langsomt med vores overgang til video på Radio Rackham, men jeg håber de ting vi laver er ventetiden værd. Jeg har længe holdt meget af Käthe Kollwitz, og ikke mindre nu hvor jeg arbejder så intenst med Michelangelo, så det virkede ekstra meningsfuldt at min udstiling på SMK ligger lige efter…
I know, it’s been open for a while, but I wanted at least to put a few words to my last show at the National Gallery in here. Organized in collaboration with my excellent colleague Maria Alambritis, who took the lead on it it when we started planning sometime in 2023, it focuses on the…
Workshop of Hugo van der Goes, The Adoration of the Kings, 1470s? SMK, Copenhagen.
Det her var virkelig en-to-vi-laver-en bro, den slags afsnit, hvor vi sidder med tekniske problemer og ikke kan indspille det, vi havde planlgt, klokken er halv elleve om aftenen og vi skal have noget i kassen. Thomas, der havde har været på den VILDE tegneserieudstilling i Centre Pompidou i Paris over sommeren, tænkte efter megen…
Today is the bicentennary of the National Gallery in London. As my former workplace, and a constant in my professional life for more than a decade, this resonates for me. The Gallery’s collection of old master and early modern Western painting in the world, perhaps the finest if measured by overall quality — it is…
I have a new article out, on Titian’s use of drawing for his narrative works. It attempts to reassess what we know in light especially of a series of new and eye-opening technical discoveries regarding the underdrawing and revisions to his paintings made over recent decades. The volume it’s in, Venetian Disegno. out from Paul…
I’ve had the plesure of contributing an expansive, critical essay on Michelangelo’s life and art to a monumentally conceived, high-end compilation volume of the Michelangelo drawings at the British Museum, published by Spanish book afficionados Artika Press. It consists of two volumes, the central one of which includes high-quality, full-size reproductions of all the drawings,…
I am continuing my writings about sixteenth-century caricature, grotesque (see also here) and what I’d call proto-cartooning with an article in the anthology Grotesque and Caricature: Leonardo to Bernini, ably edited by Rebecca Norris and Lucia Tantardini and just published by Brill. The article, “Sebastiano’s Caricatural Gesture and the Path to Idealism”, focuses on Sebastiano…
Merry Christmas everyone! This one I’ve chosen to mark with a picture that’s very special to me: Baldassare Peruzzi’s Nativity, which has recently gone on view at the Ulster Musueum in Belfast. They acquired it last year after it was export stopped by DCMS and I was involved in securing it for the Nation, acting…
Denne gang dykker vi ned i den ophedede politiske debat omkring den danske regerings lovforslag om at forbyde såkaldt ‘utilbørlig’ omgang med genstande af særlig religiøs betydning (læs: Koranen). Satirehistoriker Dennis Meyhoff Brink argumenterer for, at det er en ny blasfemilovgvining mens tegner Stine Spedsbjerg opsummerer bladtegnernes oplevelse af usikkerhed omkring lovens konsekvenser for satiren…
Over the past months, I’ve been working with colleagues across the National Gallery, particularly my two curatorial colleagues Maria Alambritis and Charlotte Wytema, on a new temporary presentation of a selection of the Gallery’s Venetian paintings from Giovanni Bellini to Titian, roughly. The display was conceived to inaugurate the newly – and beautifully – refurbished…
A bit late to announce this here, but I contributed an article, entitled “The Chigi Graffiti”, on the graffiti on the walls of the loggia di Galatea at the Villa Farnesina in Rome, under the famous fresco by Raphael, the Triumph of Galatea (c. 1512-13), as well as the somewhat less famous one of Polyphemus…