{"title":"“A Man in His Duty”: An Ushabti of Neferibresaneith and a Case Study in the Dispersal of Egyptian Antiquities","authors":"Sara E. Cole, J. Barr, Roselyn A. Campbell","doi":"10.1086/697390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/697390","url":null,"abstract":"The Antiquities Department of the J. Paul Getty Museum recently acquired a faience Egyptian ushabti belonging to the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty official Neferibresaneith. A study of the artifact sheds light on the individual object itself, which until now has been unpublished, and on the significance of the complete corpus of Neferibresaneith’s ushabtis for patterns of twentieth-century antiquities collecting. The ushabti exemplifies the high-quality funerary art produced during Egypt’s Twenty-Sixth, or Saite, Dynasty, and can be traced to an early twentieth-century excavation of a tomb in Saqqara. This essay provides a description of the ushabti and its archaeological context, documents the known whereabouts and sales of other ushabtis from the same tomb, and presents a transcription, transliteration, and translation of the hieroglyphic inscription on the figure’s body. The ushabti is a remarkable work of ancient art whose modern history provides fertile ground for provenance research and scientific study.","PeriodicalId":41510,"journal":{"name":"Getty Research Journal","volume":"10 1","pages":"191 - 206"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/697390","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42169880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Inside View of the Print Market in Paris (1881): A Contract between Félix Bracquemond and the Arnold & Tripp Gallery to Realize a Plate after Théodore Rousseau","authors":"P. Serafini","doi":"10.1086/697391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/697391","url":null,"abstract":"A recent discovery in the archives of the GRI exposes another facet of dealers’ strategies. A group of seven letters, including a very detailed contract between the Parisian gallery Arnold & Tripp and the painter and etcher Félix Bracquemond (1833–1914) in order to realize a plate after a painting by Théodore Rousseau (1812–67), sheds light on the economic aspects of the market for prints, and illustrates all the aspects of the deal, from the formal agreement, to the various phases of the proofs, and ultimately to the final plate to be presented at the Paris Salon of 1882.","PeriodicalId":41510,"journal":{"name":"Getty Research Journal","volume":"10 1","pages":"207 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/697391","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45544757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between Flanders and Paris: Originality and Quotation in the Montebourg Psalter","authors":"Judith H. Oliver","doi":"10.1086/697382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/697382","url":null,"abstract":"A mid-thirteenth-century psalter once owned by the Norman abbey of Montebourg (Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, MS. 14 [85.MK.239]) possesses many features that might identify it as the product of a Flemish atelier, but at the same time many that point as strongly to an origin in French Flanders or even Paris. Comparable uncertainty characterizes the origins of the Old Testament Picture Bible (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS. 638), which is either Parisian or north French. What seems certain is that the Montebourg Psalter was created by an artist working in the Picture Bible’s immediate circle. The Psalter artist absorbed a fascination with the activities of everyday life and the expression of emotion; and he provides insight into contemporary social concerns: enthusiasm for King Louis IX’s crusading enterprise, growing animosity toward Jews, and anxiety over profit making in the new mercantile economy.","PeriodicalId":41510,"journal":{"name":"Getty Research Journal","volume":"26 1","pages":"17 - 36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/697382","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60677285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Arrival and Afterlife: Jackson Pollock’s Mural and the University of Iowa","authors":"Erika Doss","doi":"10.1086/695871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/695871","url":null,"abstract":"This essay focuses on the arrival and afterlife of Jackson Pollock’s Mural (1943) at the University of Iowa. Assumptions that Iowa was devoid of modern art prior to Mural’s arrival in 1951 are countered with a discussion of the university’s innovative approach to art education during the 1930s, which was widely copied throughout the nation, and its impressive collection of contemporary art, which it began building in the mid-1940s. Mural’s precarious afterlife is discussed as both a proudly displayed trophy of American modernism and a pawn in various academic and economic takeover bids. Mural, Doss suggests, arrived at Iowa as the spoil of victory in a war between two styles of modern American art: regionalism and abstract expressionism. Over the past six decades, Mural’s afterlife at the University of Iowa has wavered between anxieties about appropriate directions in cultural pedagogy, worries about aesthetic legacy, and wild-eyed schemes of monetization.","PeriodicalId":41510,"journal":{"name":"Getty Research Journal","volume":"9 1","pages":"117 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/695871","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47556322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gemelli Careri’s Description of Persepolis","authors":"Henry P. Colburn","doi":"10.1086/691294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/691294","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the description of Persepolis, one of the capital cities of the Achaemenid Persian Empire (ca. 550–330 BCE), by Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri (1651–1725) in his illustrated travelogue Giro del mondo (1699–1700). Gemelli Careri’s extensive description of the site—some twenty pages of text accompanied by two plates engraved by Andrea Magliar (fl. 1690s)—is compared with the accounts of contemporary travelers and with present-day archaeological knowledge. Gemelli Careri’s visit to and description of Persepolis are now largely forgotten in the modern study of Achaemenid Persia, but they shed light on a transitional moment in the development of a more scientific approach to travel writing about archaeological sites: his work straddles the more imaginative approaches of earlier travel writers and the more scientific approaches of subsequent ones.","PeriodicalId":41510,"journal":{"name":"Getty Research Journal","volume":"9 1","pages":"181 - 190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/691294","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42933576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chronology: Jackson Pollock’s Mural, Peggy Guggenheim’s Commission for the East Sixty-First Street Site and Subsequent History to October 1951","authors":"A. Rudenstine","doi":"10.1086/695865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/695865","url":null,"abstract":"Going beyond previous chronologies of Jackson Pollock’s life and work, this chronology focuses on the history of Mural, starting with Peggy Guggenheim’s commission for the entrance hall of her New York residence at 155 East Sixty-First Street and including relevant history of her Art of This Century gallery. While serving as a program officer at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (which purchased the property and adjoining brownstones in 2002 for conversion to office space), Rudenstine initiated an extensive study of the history of the work and the site (in collaboration with Charles A. Platt, architect, and Erin Rulli, consultant in preservation of historic properties), establishing an authoritative ground plan of the entrance hall with location and precise dimensions of the wall on which Mural was installed. In tracing the handling of Mural (including material from archival records), and critical access to it from 1943 until its arrival at the University of Iowa in 1951, Rudenstine establishes significant new information.","PeriodicalId":41510,"journal":{"name":"Getty Research Journal","volume":"9 1","pages":"1 - 25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/695865","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44999616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modes of Address: The Fashion Print as Passe-Partout","authors":"Edward L. Sterrett","doi":"10.1086/691285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/691285","url":null,"abstract":"This essay proposes an approach to the genre of the seventeenth-century French fashion print that follows the rubric of the printmakers, which takes the basic physical and graphic format of the genre rather than the thematic content of the images as its essential characteristic. This allows for an examination of the many interrelated modes of address that an image or theme might traverse in the course of minor graphic adjustments, and of how these formed a language for more complex interventions into the genre of the fashion print, which brings to light the ways in which the pictorial and rhetorical ingenuity of the printmakers participated in a broader cultural discourse on fashion, fashionability, and social identity in the late seventeenth century.","PeriodicalId":41510,"journal":{"name":"Getty Research Journal","volume":"9 1","pages":"23 - 38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/691285","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41551554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monuments in Print and Photography: Inscribing the Ancient in Nineteenth-Century Mexico","authors":"Robert J. Kett","doi":"10.1086/691296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/691296","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers printmaking and photography as media of inscription in late nineteenth-century Mexican archaeology. Specifically, it analyzes a debate about the relative virtues of drawn and photographic archaeological images between the Mexican polymath Antonio Peñafiel (1830–1922) and the British and French-American explorers Alice Dixon Le Plongeon (1851–1910) and Augustus Le Plongeon (1826–1908). Peñafiel, tasked with assembling comprehensive documentation of Mexico’s patrimony, found the constructed image of the print an ideal venue for demonstrating national scientific accomplishment, while the Le Plongeons celebrated the apparent presence and documentary holism afforded by photography. However, despite contentious epistemic debates about how scientists should navigate an unsettled ecology of nineteenth-century reproductive media, archival materials in the GRI collections reveal these scholars’ practices to be thoroughly intermedial. This article argues for further attention to local cultures of archaeological knowledge- and image-making as well as a complication of the frequently coupled historiographies of nineteenth-century archaeology and photography.","PeriodicalId":41510,"journal":{"name":"Getty Research Journal","volume":"9 1","pages":"201 - 210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/691296","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48136390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Princely Education through Print: Stefano della Bella’s 1644 Jeux de Cartes Etched for Louis XIV","authors":"P. A. Spies-Gans","doi":"10.1086/691284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/691284","url":null,"abstract":"This article studies a set of 199 educational playing cards published in 1644, commissioned by Cardinal Jules Mazarin as an educational device for the five-year-old Louis XIV upon his coming into power. Etched by the famed Florentine printmaker Stefano della Bella, and written by the French poet-playwright Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, the Jeux de Cartes were divided into four sets, presenting morals from Ovid, teaching geography, depicting famous queens and the characteristics for which they were remembered, and portraying every king from French history, thus proffering positive and negative examples of rule. Upon completion, they were immediately, repeatedly printed and widely sold. This article newly discusses the Jeux in the context of the speculum principum, alongside trajectories of early modern playing cards and pictorial education, to analyze how they imbued morals in the mind of the young king while broadcasting his educational agenda to the French public during an unpopular Regency.","PeriodicalId":41510,"journal":{"name":"Getty Research Journal","volume":"9 1","pages":"1 - 22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/691284","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48258483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Matter Matters: An Unsolved Problem in Boccioni’s Art and Poetics","authors":"Margherita d’Ayala Valva","doi":"10.1086/691289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/691289","url":null,"abstract":"This essay focuses on relevant documentary evidence related to painting technique in Umberto Boccioni’s writings, showing his update to coeval treatises on technique in the context of the market of products for fine arts in Milan. The author shares the results of her research on Futurist written sources related to technique and materials, offering her perspective on Boccioni and his cultural background, gleaned from her work on the Umberto Boccioni papers (GRI, Special Collections). Furthermore, these documents are placed within the context of the painter’s early works in Padova and Milan, showing evidence of his struggles with compositional planning, his trials in the arrangement of colors, and his experimental attitude toward industrially produced painting materials, closely connected to his self-directed apprenticeship on Gaetano Previati’s treatises and other contemporary works. Boccioni’s reading practice is examined, attempting to suggest a possible relationship between theoretical equipment and skill development, between the copybook practice and the assembling/repetitive nature of the practical apprenticeship.","PeriodicalId":41510,"journal":{"name":"Getty Research Journal","volume":"9 1","pages":"93 - 110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/691289","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60656322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}