Galerie Canesso

Tableaux anciens

Andrea De Lione

Naples, 1610 - 1685

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The Crossing of the Red Sea Oil on octagonal canvas. 74 × 74 cm (29 × 29 in)

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26, rue Laffitte • 75009 Paris • Tel. + 33 1 40 22 61 71 • Fax + 33 1 40 22 61 81 • e-mail : contact @ canesso.com www.canesso.com Cover King Louis IX facing a storm at sea (detail), c. 1330–40, Life and Miracles of Saint Louis Tempera colour and gold on parchment 2215.5cm Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris See Elizabeth Morrison’s article on pp.54–59

december 2010 £5.95

The InTernaTIernaTIernaonal magazIne for collecTors french Illuminated manuscripts The museum of old and new art | artists’ books sam Keller talks to sue hubbard | museum acquIsITIons from around the world

Museum Acquisitions: pp. 38–47

CONTENTS DECEMBER 2010 VOLUME CLXXII NO. 582

17 Editor’s Letter The highlights of 2010 18 Agenda What’s on around the world in December

Features 26 The Apollo Awards 2010 Personality of the Year Sam Keller talks to Sue Hubbard about his custodianship of the Fondation Beyeler, Basel 34 Museum Opening, Exhibition and Book of the Year The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; ‘The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600–1700’; and French Porcelain in the Collection of HM the Queen 38 Acquisition of the Year The Staffordshire Hoard, and our survey of the year’s key museum acquisitions around the world 48 Making a Museum Oscar Humphries reports on the Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, opening in January 2011 54 The Word Made Image In the wake of the current exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Elizabeth Morrison discusses the way we view illuminated manuscripts 60 The Next Chapter Martin Gayford analyses the evolution of artists’ books

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