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Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli Viadana, near Mantua, c. 1500 - Parma, 1569 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Portrait of a Man Oil on canvas, 82 × 65.5 cm (32 ¹⁄₄ × 25 ³⁄₄ 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 A page from Natural History Pliny the Elder (AD 23–79) Written out in around 1460 by Jacopo della Pergola © V&A Images See Susan Moore’s interview with Sir Paul Ruddock on pp. 24–30

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The InTernATIonAl ArT MAgAzIne

Sir Paul ruddock and Medieval Art | The Iconography of hell in the Middle Ages Juno revealed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | gavin hamilton’s olympic Victor

Unveiled: Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art | The Musée du Quai Branly

CONTENTS MAY 2012 VOLUME CLXXV NO. 598

15 Editor’s Letter Art on the move 16 Agenda What’s on around the world in May

Features 24 A Devoted Medievalist

Sir Paul Ruddock, chairman of the Victoria and Albert Museum, talks to Susan Moore about his passion for collecting medieval art 34 Visions of the Afterlife

Martin Schwarz analyses the depiction of hell and the afterlife in the art of the Middle Ages 40 An Olympiad’s Portrait

Elizabeth Angelicoussis reveals the transformation of a classical statue of Hermes to an 18th-century image of an Olympic victor 50 Power and Taboo

Stéphane Martin, director of the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, talks to Ben Luke about the museum’s display of ethnographic material 56 The Progress of Juno

Christine Kondoleon and Susanne Gänsicke discuss the history and conservation of a Roman statue of Juno, acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, last year 62 A New Horizon

Oscar Humphries reports on the newly renovated Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney

Lansdowne’s Olympic Victor: pp. 40–45

MAY 2012 APOLLO 11