Taste and the Antique. The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900
Reviewed by Holly (Marjorie) Trusted, Co-chair PSSA
January 2, 2025
Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique. The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900. Revised and amplified by Adriano Aymonino and Eloisa Dodero. 3 vols. Harvey Miller/Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2024.
Hardback. Vol. 1: xxi plus pp. 703 with 66 colour illustrations, 95 b&w illustrations; Vol. 2: pp. 547 with about 550 colour illustrations; Vol. 3: pp.420 with about 800 colour illustrations.
ISBN 978-1-909400-25-2 (SET).
395 euros.
Tony Cragg at Castle Howard
Reviewed by Lucinda Bredin, Editor of Bonhams Magazine
October 29, 2024
Nicholas Howard, Jon Wood and Christopher Ridgway, Tony Cragg at Castle Howard, Castle Howard Estate Ltd to accompany the Tony Cragg exhibition, 2024
Hardback, pp. 95, approx. 100 colour illustrations
ISBN 978-1-3999-8354-9
£15.00
The Man Who Broke Michelangelo’s Nose
Reviewed by Susan Jenkins
September 6, 2024
Felipe Pereda, The Man Who Broke Michelangelo’s Nose, The Pennsylvania University Press, 2024.
ISBN 978-0-271-09694-0, US$84.95, hardcover, 288 pages, 41 colour/67 b+w illustrations, available as an ebook.
Être sculpteur à Florence au temps des derniers Médicis
Reviewed by Jeremy Warren
August 28, 2024
Kira d’Alburquerque, Être sculpteur à Florence au temps des derniers Médicis
CTHS-INHA [Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques / Institut national d’histoire de l’art], Paris, 2023.
Paperback. 368 pp. with 17 colour and 65 black & white illustrations.
ISBN 978-2-7355-0964-5. €35.
Casting a New Light: Plaster Casts & Cast Collections in Europe and Beyond
Reviewed by Ann Compton
August 20, 2024
Miriam Szőcs and Márton Tóth, Eds., Casting a New Light: Plaster Casts & Cast Collections in Europe and Beyond, Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, 2024.
Paperback, 178 pages, 230 x 268mm, about 100 illustrations, many in colour, includes a bibliography and index. Published 31 July 2024. ISBN 978 615 6595 23 2.
John Soane’s Cabinet of Curiosities. Reflections on an Architect and his Collection
Reviewed by Holly (Marjorie) Trusted, Co-chair PSSA
August 19, 2024
Bruce Boucher, John Soane’s Cabinet of Curiosities. Reflections on an Architect and his Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2024.
Hardback. 224 pp. with 155 colour illustrations. ISBN 978-0-300-27569-8HB. £35.
Birmingham’s Public Art
Reviewed by Joanna Barnes, Co-chair PSSA
June 19, 2024
Jonathan Berg, Birmingham’s Public Art, Birmingham Picture Library, 1 November 2023.
Hardback, pp. 180, over 300 colour illustrations
ISBN-13: 978-1739645717
£20.00
Michael Sandle Works on Paper
Reviewed by Nigel Walsh, Curator Modern and Contemporary Art, Leeds Art Gallery
June 19, 2024
Jon Wood (ed.), Michael Sandle Works on Paper, Sansom and Company, Bristol, 2023. Hardback 180 pp. with about 250 colour illustrations
ISBN 978-1-911408-90-1
Elisabeth Frink : A View from Within
Reviewed by Judith Collins
April 15, 2024
Elisabeth Selby, Annette Ratuszniak, Lucy Johnston, Wilfrid Wright, Emma Talbot, Dorset Museum & Art Galllery, Elisabeth Frink: A View from Within, Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society, 1 December 2023. Paperback, pp. 66, illustrations mainly in colour.
ISBN 978-0900341717.
£16.
Baroque Sculpture in Germany and Central Europe 1600-1770
Reviewed by Alastair Laing
April 5, 2024
Marjorie (Holly) Trusted, Baroque Sculpture in Germany and Central Europe 1600-1770, Harvey Miller Publishers, London/Turnhout, 2022. Hardcover, 288 pp., with 3 black and white & 215 colour illustrations ISBN 978-1-909400-95-5. £50.