NCAW Autumn 2026, Vol. 25, Issue 3

Table of Contents

Editors’ Welcome

Articles

God Is in the Detail: Reception and Revelation in Joseph Noel Paton’s Dawn: Luther at Erfurt
by Christine Bates

Transgressive Masculinity: Virility, Violence, and Eroticism in William Bouguereau’s Dante and Virgil in Hell
by Viktoriia Bazyk

Vignettes as Iconotextual Crossings in Nineteenth-Century Arctic Narratives
by Mark A. Cheetham

Divergent Approaches to the Portrait of Joseph Smith by David Rogers: Historical Context and Reception
by Lauren Kellogg DiSalvo and Nancy Ross

A “Kind of Miniature Monument”: The Montefiore Testimonial (1842–43) and Anglo-Jewish Imperial Identities
by Maddie Hewitson

Practicing Art History

“Painting Conservation and Art Historical Practice”
Organized by Kim Orcutt and Isabel L. Taube

Book Reviews

Rodin’s Dancers: Art and Performance in Belle Époque Paris
by Juliet Bellow
Reviewed by Jessie Alperin

Animal Modernities: Images, Objects, Histories
edited by Daniel Harkett and Katie Hornstein
Reviewed by M. Elizabeth Boone

A Flood of Pictures: The Formation of a Picture Culture in the United States
by Michael Leja
Reviewed by Joshua Brown

Potrzeba trwania. Zbiory ikonograficzne na ziemiach polskich w XIX wieku (The Need for Continuity. Iconographic Collections in the Polish Lands in the 19th Century)
by Kamila Kłudkiewicz
Reviewed by Tomasz F. de Rosset

Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction: Europe and Its Colonial Networks, 1780–1850
by Stephanie O’Rourke
Reviewed by Yajie Hui

Johann Heinrich Ramberg als Illustrator: Shakespeare, Amerika, Erotika, Berühmtheiten und Royals der Goethezeit (Johann Heinrich Ramberg as Illustrator: Shakespeare, America, Erotica, Celebrities and Royals of Goethe’s Time)
edited by Waltraud Maierhofer and Peter-Henning Haischer
Reviewed by Philippe Kaenel

Dealing in Splendor: A History of the European Art Market
edited by Christian Huemer and Stephan Koja
Reviewed by Camille Mestdagh

Illustrated Sheet Music in the U.S., 1830–1930
edited by Theresa Leininger-Miller and Kenneth Hartvigsen
Reviewed by Erika Piola

Zveřejnění umění: Vystavování v českých zemích a v habsburské říši v 19. Století (Making Art Public: Exhibiting in the Czech Lands and in the Habsburg Empire in the 19th Century)
edited by Pavla Machalíková
Reviewed by Matthew Rampley

Turner & Constable: Rivals and Originals (exhibition); Turner & Constable: Rivals and Originals (exhibition catalogue) edited by Amy Concannon; Constable’s Year: An Artist in Changing Seasons by Susan Owens; Turner & Constable: Art, Life, Landscape by Nicola Moorby; Constable by Tim Barringer
Reviewed by Michael Rosenthal

Dealing in Splendour: A History of the European Art Market
edited by Christian Huemer and Stephan Koja
Reviewed by Darius A. Spieth

The Chosen Race: Troubling Whiteness in Victorian Painting
by Keren Rosa Hammerschlag
Reviewed by Marte Stinis

Exhibition Reviews

De werelden van Jan Toorop (The Worlds of Jan Toorop)
Reviewed by Helena Burdzinska

Viollet-le-Duc: Drawing Worlds
Reviewed by Peter Clericuzio

Richard Dadd: Beyond Bedlam
Reviewed by Barbara Dayer Gallati

James McNeill Whistler
Reviewed by Barbara Dayer Gallati

Orientalism: Between Fact and Fantasy
Reviewed by Patricia Mainardi

L’Empire du sommeil (The Empire of Sleep)
Reviewed by Gal Ventura