The Burlington Magazine, May 2010

Editorial
The baroqueness of the www

Articles
'Decorum and celebration of the family line: Robert Adam's monuments to the
1st Duchess of Northumberland' by Adriano Aymonino
'Thomas Lawrence and the Royal Academy's cartoon of "Leda and the swan"
after Michelangelo' by Annette Wickham
'Charles Shannon in the house of Delia: a theme from Tibullus' by William C.
McKeown
'Francis Bacon and the Lefevre Gallery' by Martin Hammer
'Autobiographical notes by Roger Hilton' by Adrian Lewis

Art History Reviewed IX
Kenneth Clark's 'The Nude. A Study of Ideal Art', 1956 by John-Paul Stonard

Exhibition Review
Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill by Simon Swynfen Jervis

Letter
Reynolds by Stephen Conrad

Obituary
Claude Blair (1922-2010) by Ronald Lightbown

Books
The Westminster Retable: History, technique, conversation, P. Binski and A.
Massing, eds. by Simon Watney
English Church Monuments in the Middle Ages: History and Representation, N.
Saul by Phillip Lindley
A Biographical Dictionary Of Sculptors In Britain 1660-1851, I. Roscoe, E.
Hardy and M.G. Sullivan by Simon Watney
The Society of the Dilettanti. Archaeology and Identity in the British
Enlightenment, J. M. Kelly by Ann V. Gunn
Johan Zoffany. Artist and adventurer, P. Treadwell by Martin Postle
Empires of the Imagination. Politics, War, and the Arts in the British
World, 1750-1850, H. Hoock by Brian Allen
Joseph Severn: A Life; The Rewards of Friendship, S. Brown by Leonée Ormond
Edward Lear the Landscape Artist: Tours of Ireland and the English Lakes,
1835 & 1836, C. Nugent by Richard Green
The Collected Letters of A. W. N. Pugin. Volume 3, 1846 to 1848, M. Belcher,
ed. by Alexandra Westwood
Matthew Smith. Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, with a Critical
Introduction to his Work, J. Gledhill by Richard Shone
Bob Law, a retrospective, R. Saltoun and K. Schubert, eds. by Andrew Wilson

Exhibitions
Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey by Stephen Duffy
Michelangelo by Charles Robertson
Henry Moore by John-Paul Stonard
Theo van Doesburg by Carel Blotkamp
Paul Nash by Marina Vaizey
Recent contemporary shows by George Major
Painting and the stage by Philip Rylands
Piermatteo d'Amelia by Francis Russell
Bronzino's drawings by David Franklin
Whitney Biennial by David Carrier
William Kentridge by Morgan Falconer
Picasso and the Paris avant-garde by Silvia Loretti

Calendar

Notes on Contributors