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July/August 2021
• The photographers who put West Africa in the frame
• The genius of Grinling Gibbons, 300 years on
• An interview with Mamma Andersson
• Flights of fancy: the Spanish Steps in Rome
Plus: the treasures of Lambeth Palace Library, a new model for restitution, a preview of Parcours des Mondes, five thousand years of Iranian art, and a century of baroque Italian set design
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Past issues
March 2025
How to give back looted objects | An interview with Alex Da Corte | Versailles enters the 21st century
February 2025
Can American art escape the culture wars? | Poking fun at 18th-century Paris | Donald Duck’s fowl play
January 2025
The art of divination | an interview with Jake Grewal | will the market recover in 2025?
December 2024
Rachel Ruysch | What museums think about climate protests | Apollo Awards 2024
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The Sienese painters who sparked a revolution in European art
The Sienese painters who sparked a revolution in European artThe innovations of artists in the first half of the 14th century created new pathways for painting for centuries to come
The painter who poked fun at 18th-century Paris
Working in the new medium of pastels, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour portrayed the elites of his day in a style to suit the hedonism of the age
The Mughal emperors who forged a new artistic tradition
At its peak, the Mughal empire brought together scholars and artists of different languages and faiths to create art fit for kings
What would Jane Austen say?
Nothing gets a certain type of viewer more hot under the cravat than anachronisms in period drama – but the best inaccuracies are artistically liberating