Galerie Canesso

Tableaux anciens

Agostino Tassi Ponzano Romano near Rome , 1578 - Rome, 1644

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Lot and his Daughters Fleeing from Sodom

Oil on canvas, 78 × 117 cm (30 ¹¹⁄₁₆ × 46 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 Howard Hodgkin, photographed in his studio earlier this year. Behind him is Blood (2005–10). See Martin Gayford’s interview on pp. 22–27 Photo: David Montgomery Courtesy the Gagosian Gallery july/august 2010 £5.95

the InternatIonal MagazIne for ColleCtors howard hodgkin | Bronzino Drawings

300th anniversary of Meissen Porcelain | lost art Deco gardens | titian’s judith

85th annIversary

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ConteMPorary arChIteCtureCtureC by alain de Botton | outDoor sCulPture by emma Crichton-Miller

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Meissen porcelain birds: pp. 32–37

CONTENTS JULY/AUGUST 2010 VOLUME CLXXI NO.578

15 Editor’s letter Anniversaries in the art world 16 Agenda What’s on around the world in July and August

Features 22 Beyond the Surface

Martin Gayford talks to Howard Hodgkin on the eve of his new show at Modern Art Oxford 28 Buildings that Speak

Alain de Botton on the challenges of contemporary architecture 32 A Private Passion

Louise Nicholson talks to Professor and Mrs Salfeld, who have loaned their collection of Meissen birds to the Staatliche Kunstammlungen, Germany 38 Bronzino: Master

Draughtsman Carmen C. Bambach and George R. Goldner present their conclusions on Bronzino’s drawings and practice following the recent exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 44 Judith, not Salome

Simon P. Oakes analyses the subtle political message in an early masterpiece by Titian 50 Gatsby’s Garden

Paige Johnson reveals the overlooked history of Art Deco gardens 58 85 years of Apollo

To mark Apollo’s 85th anniversary, former editors recall key events in the art world during their tenure

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