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@@ -25,13 +25,13 @@ } ], "citation": "c. 1630-1650 <br>\nOil on canvas <br>\n145 x 195.2 cm <br>\nNational Gallery of Canada (nº6092) <br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nDuring World War II, Cambridge University art historian Sir Anthony Blunt (1907-83) worked as a spy for the British counterintelligence Security Service, popularly known as MI5. After the war he was knighted and held several prestigious positions including Surveyor of the King’s Pictures, Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art and paid consultant for many international museums including the National Gallery of Canada. For the latter he acquired, in 1953, the painting <i>Augustus and Cleopatra</i> (c.1630), which Blunt had himself attributed to Nicolas Poussin, in 1938. Before Blunt, Poussin held considerably less stature in the canon of art history, but starting with his earliest writings, Blunt brought Poussin into the foreground of contemporary scholarship with a completed catalogue raisonné and a major survey at the Louvre in 1960. Pieced together from factual fragments and furtive fictions, not unlike Blunt’s own secret personality, the function of a ‘Poussin’ was authored during the twentieth century in a cloud of controversy and entwined with the persona of Blunt. At the nexus of this controversy one could investigate a double Anthony: one in the narrative of the painting and one in the narrative surrounding the painting. \n</p>\n\n<p>\nSerendipitously, the classical iconography in the painting foreshadowed the modern double agent, or inversely as Carlos Ginzburg said: \"When causes cannot be repeated, there is no alternative but to infer them from their effects.\" Two key clues. First, if we believe Blunt and take this image to represent a meeting between the conquered Cleopatra and Emperor Augustus, then we notice immediately that the third person in the triangle of power is absent: Marc Antony, the queer lover of Cleopatra and adversary of Augustus. It is the absence and yet ghost of Antony that complicates love and creates a political body. Perhaps one can draw a parallel to another queer Anthony: Sir Anthony Blunt, who was publicly outed as a homosexual by the magazine Private Eye in 1979 as part of a case for his treachery and proof of duplicity. Second, the key to the painting is yet another element in between Augustus and Cleopatra, this time, however, it is not a lack but rather the present object of exchange. What is it that Cleopatra delivers to her conqueror Augustus—what is the motivation for the event and also the secret to the tableau? \n</p>\n\n<p>\n In 1938, Blunt posited the theory, based on the narrative told by Cassius Dio, that the object is a pouch of love letters between Cleopatra and Julius Caesar that bear witness to Augustus’s uncle formerly holding Cleopatra in good graces. Of course, the contents of the pouch remain a mystery. (Even forensic X-rays of the painting cannot tell us more about its contents.) A year after discovering the painting and starting his career at the Warburg Institute, the war interrupted Blunt’s academic life. Among Blunt’s portfolio of tasks as a spy at the Ministry was the development and management of operation <i>XXX</i>, or TripleX. It would seem Blunt shifted his analysis of pouches in paintings to an analysis of pouches in reality. Blunt’s <i>XXX</i> programme devised a way to secretly intercept diplomatic pouches in transit which were supposed to have immunity from police and custom officers’ search and seizure rights. Furthermore, one of the first tasks conducted by Anthony Blunt as Surveyor to the King’s Pictures (the title for curator of the royal family’s art collection) was a discrete mission in 1945 to recover the private letters of the British monarch in fractured post-War Germany. The clandestine recovery of information was not a new practice for Blunt and, while it might seem odd for an art curator, it is illustrative of his double identity. \n</p>\n\n<p>\nBy the 1970s, cracks started surfacing publicly in the dual identities of Poussin’s painting and Blunt himself. In 1971, the National Gallery of Canada revoked Blunt’s attribution of the painting to Poussin, demoting it to an unknown Italian painter. (Blunt would hold firm to his 1938 conjecture to the end.) This crisis of identity paled in comparison to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s parliamentary pronouncement, in 1979, that revealed Sir Anthony Blunt was a double agent for the Soviets since the very start of his career as an art historian at Cambridge—casting a blow to the legitimacy of both his ‘intelligences’. The British intelligence community already knew for decades that Blunt was part of the Cambridge Spy Ring, but Blunt had strategically negotiated immunity and secrecy in exchange for revealing information (a gambit that ultimately proved politically useless for the Ministry). In a 1979 BBC press conference a few days after Thatcher’s announcement, he tried to contextualise his actions as motivated by 1930s anti-Fascist impulses and a deep loyalty to his friends. Without remorse he read from a prepared statement: \"This was a case of political conscience against loyalty to country, I chose conscience.\" In the end, Blunt has remained an enigma, posing more questions than answers. Specifically, the question remains of whether he was such an ambitious curator because of his passion for art, or because his superlative professionalism was the perfect cover for his intelligence career. More generally, his narrative questions straightforward notions of agency, authorship and attribution that resonate beyond his particular circumstances.\n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nDuring World War II, Cambridge University art historian Sir Anthony Blunt (1907-83) worked as a spy for the British counterintelligence Security Service, popularly known as MI5. After the war he was knighted and held several prestigious positions including Surveyor of the King’s Pictures, Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art and paid consultant for many international museums including the National Gallery of Canada. For the latter he acquired, in 1953, the painting <i>Augustus and Cleopatra</i> (c.1630), which Blunt had himself attributed to Nicolas Poussin, in 1938. Before Blunt, Poussin held considerably less stature in the canon of art history, but starting with his earliest writings, Blunt brought Poussin into the foreground of contemporary scholarship with a completed catalogue raisonné and a major survey at the Louvre in 1960. Pieced together from factual fragments and furtive fictions, not unlike Blunt’s own secret personality, the function of a ‘Poussin’ was authored during the twentieth century in a cloud of controversy and entwined with the persona of Blunt. At the nexus of this controversy one could investigate a double Anthony: one in the narrative of the painting and one in the narrative surrounding the painting. \n</p>\n\n<p class='indent'>\nSerendipitously, the classical iconography in the painting foreshadowed the modern double agent, or inversely as Carlos Ginzburg said: \"When causes cannot be repeated, there is no alternative but to infer them from their effects.\" Two key clues. First, if we believe Blunt and take this image to represent a meeting between the conquered Cleopatra and Emperor Augustus, then we notice immediately that the third person in the triangle of power is absent: Marc Antony, the queer lover of Cleopatra and adversary of Augustus. It is the absence and yet ghost of Antony that complicates love and creates a political body. Perhaps one can draw a parallel to another queer Anthony: Sir Anthony Blunt, who was publicly outed as a homosexual by the magazine Private Eye in 1979 as part of a case for his treachery and proof of duplicity. Second, the key to the painting is yet another element in between Augustus and Cleopatra, this time, however, it is not a lack but rather the present object of exchange. What is it that Cleopatra delivers to her conqueror Augustus—what is the motivation for the event and also the secret to the tableau? \n</p>\n\n<p class='indent'>\n In 1938, Blunt posited the theory, based on the narrative told by Cassius Dio, that the object is a pouch of love letters between Cleopatra and Julius Caesar that bear witness to Augustus’s uncle formerly holding Cleopatra in good graces. Of course, the contents of the pouch remain a mystery. (Even forensic X-rays of the painting cannot tell us more about its contents.) A year after discovering the painting and starting his career at the Warburg Institute, the war interrupted Blunt’s academic life. Among Blunt’s portfolio of tasks as a spy at the Ministry was the development and management of operation <i>XXX</i>, or TripleX. It would seem Blunt shifted his analysis of pouches in paintings to an analysis of pouches in reality. Blunt’s <i>XXX</i> programme devised a way to secretly intercept diplomatic pouches in transit which were supposed to have immunity from police and custom officers’ search and seizure rights. Furthermore, one of the first tasks conducted by Anthony Blunt as Surveyor to the King’s Pictures (the title for curator of the royal family’s art collection) was a discrete mission in 1945 to recover the private letters of the British monarch in fractured post-War Germany. The clandestine recovery of information was not a new practice for Blunt and, while it might seem odd for an art curator, it is illustrative of his double identity. \n</p>\n\n<p>\nBy the 1970s, cracks started surfacing publicly in the dual identities of Poussin’s painting and Blunt himself. In 1971, the National Gallery of Canada revoked Blunt’s attribution of the painting to Poussin, demoting it to an unknown Italian painter. (Blunt would hold firm to his 1938 conjecture to the end.) This crisis of identity paled in comparison to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s parliamentary pronouncement, in 1979, that revealed Sir Anthony Blunt was a double agent for the Soviets since the very start of his career as an art historian at Cambridge—casting a blow to the legitimacy of both his ‘intelligences’. The British intelligence community already knew for decades that Blunt was part of the Cambridge Spy Ring, but Blunt had strategically negotiated immunity and secrecy in exchange for revealing information (a gambit that ultimately proved politically useless for the Ministry). In a 1979 BBC press conference a few days after Thatcher’s announcement, he tried to contextualise his actions as motivated by 1930s anti-Fascist impulses and a deep loyalty to his friends. Without remorse he read from a prepared statement: \"This was a case of political conscience against loyalty to country, I chose conscience.\" In the end, Blunt has remained an enigma, posing more questions than answers. Specifically, the question remains of whether he was such an ambitious curator because of his passion for art, or because his superlative professionalism was the perfect cover for his intelligence career. More generally, his narrative questions straightforward notions of agency, authorship and attribution that resonate beyond his particular circumstances.\n</p>\n\n", "author": "UNKNOWN ", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/01-No6092/01-No6092-thumb.jpg", "caption": "", - "height": 222, - "width": 312, + "height": 305, + "width": 400, "type": "jpg" } }, @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ } ], "citation": "<i>Apollo</i><br>\nVol. XXVII, No.160.<br>\nApril, 1938<br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nBlunt’s first declared attribution was the <i>Cleopatra</i> <i>and Augustus</i> painting in an early article he published in <i>Apollo</i> in 1938. This journal article is also the first image reproduction of the painting. \n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nBlunt’s first declared attribution was the <i>Cleopatra</i> <i>and Augustus</i> painting in an early article he published in <i>Apollo</i> in 1938. This journal article is also the first image reproduction of the painting. \n</p>\n\n", "author": "ANTHONY BLUNT ", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/03-Apollo/Apollo-Thumb.jpg", @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ } ], "citation": "16.7.1952<br>\nDocument<br>\n21.5 x 27.9 cm<br>\nCuratorial File no6092 <br>\nNational Gallery of Canada <br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", "author": "ANTHONY BLUNT", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/04-McCurry/04-McCurry-thumb.png", @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ } ], "citation": "27.9.1952<br>\nDocument <br>\n27x12cm<br>\nCuratorial File no6092 <br>\nNational Gallery of Canada <br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", "author": "HARRY O. McCURRY", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/05-Telegram/05-Telegram-thumb.png", @@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ } ], "citation": "1952<br>\nDocument<br>\n21.5 x 35.5 cm<br>\nRestoration and Conservation Files, no6092 <br>\nNational Gallery of Canada <br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", "author": "HARRY O. MCCURRY", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/06-Record/06-Record-thumb.png", @@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ } ], "citation": "1961 (with later glossing)<br>\nDocument<br>\n21.5 x 35.5 cm<br>\nRestoration and Conservation File no6092 <br>\nNational Gallery of Canada<br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", "author": "UNKNOWN", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/07-Receiving/07-Receiving-thumb.png", @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ } ], "citation": "3.2.1965<br>\nDocument<br>\n21.5 x 27.9 cm<br>\nCuratorial File no6092 National Gallery of Canada<br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", "author": "DENIS MAHON", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/08-Mahon/08-Mahon-thumb.png", @@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ } ], "citation": "17.2.1965<br>\nDocument<br>\n21.5 x 27.9 cm<br>\nCuratorial File no6092 <br>\nNational Gallery of Canada<br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", "author": "ROBERT H. HUBBARD", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/09-Hubbard/09-Hubbard-thumb.png", @@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ } ], "citation": "No date<br>\nBlack and White Photograph <br>\n21.5 x 25.4 cm<br>\nCuratorial File no6092<br>\nNational Gallery of Canada <br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", "author": "UNKNOWN ", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/10-Label/10-Label-thumb.jpg", @@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ } ], "citation": "27.3.1965<br>\nDocument, 2 pages<br>\n21.5 x 27.9 cm each <br>\nCuratorial File no6092 <br>\nNational Gallery of Canada<br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", "author": "DENIS MAHON", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/11-Mahon/11-Mahon-thumb.jpg", @@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ } ], "citation": "4.4.1968<br>\nDocument<br>\n21.5x13cm<br>\nCuratorial File no6092 <br>\nNational Gallery of Canada<br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", "author": "MYRON LASKIN, JR.", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/12-Laskin/12-Laskin-thumb.png", @@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ } ], "citation": "25.3.1975<br>\nDocument<br>\n21.5 x 27.9 cm<br>\nCuratorial File no6092 <br>\nNational Gallery of Canada<br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", "author": "MYRON LASKIN, JR.", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/13-Oberhuber/13-Laskin-thumb.jpg", @@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ } ], "citation": "9.4.1975<br>\nDocument<br>\n21.5 x 27.9 cm<br>\nCuratorial File no6092 <br>\nNational Gallery of Canada<br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", "author": "MYRON LASKIN, JR.", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/14-Laskin/14-Laskin-thumb.jpg", @@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ } ], "citation": "16.3.77<br>\nDocument, 2 pages<br>\n21.5 x 27.9 cm each <br>\nCuratorial File no6092 <br>\nNational Gallery of Canada<br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", "author": "H.A.D. MILES", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/15-Miles/15-Miles-thumb.jpg", @@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ } ], "citation": "2.12.74<br>\nDocument<br>\n21.5 x 27.9 cm<br>\nCuratorial File no6092 <br>\nNational Gallery of Canada<br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", "author": "MARILYN LAVIN", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/16-Lavin/16-Lavin-thumb.jpg", @@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ } ], "citation": "10.4.75<br>\nDocument<br>\n21.5 x 27.9 cm<br>\nCuratorial File no6092 <br>\nNational Gallery of Canada<br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", "author": "MYRON LASKIN, JR.", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/17-Laskin/17-Laskin-thumb.jpg", @@ -683,7 +683,7 @@ } ], "citation": "18.2.85<br>\nDocument <br>\n21.5 x 27.9 cm<br>\nCuratorial File no6092 <br>\nNational Gallery of Canada <br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", "author": "UNKNOWN ", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/18-Unknown/18-Unkown-thumb.jpg", @@ -732,7 +732,7 @@ } ], "citation": "1975-1976<br>\nDocuments<br>\n21.5 x 27.9 cm each<br>\nCuratorial File no6092 <br>\nNational Gallery of Canada<br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nThe archival documents #03-19 trace the history of the painting <i>no6092</i> from its discovery by Blunt in 1938 to Blunt’s fall from grace in 1979. Five stages are represented in the life of the painting: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. <b>Attribution </b>to Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt (his first professional attribution) in an early article he published in <i>Apollo </i>in 1938. This journal article is also the first mechanical reproduction of the painting (#03);\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. <b>Acquisition </b>by National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Director H.O. McCurry in 1952-53, brokered by Blunt with rotating exhibition placement between the public galleries and the office of subsequent NGC Director Charles Comfort (#04-07); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. <b>Attack </b>on the attribution of the painting in the 1950/60s best exemplified by Blunt’s rival Denis Mahon and de-attributed by NGC Curator Myron Laskin Jr. in 1971 (#08-12); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. <b>Apologia </b>in the 1970s for the painting to be re-attributed to Poussin by most experts, including NGC Curator Laskin, who started thinking he originally made a mistake (#13-19); \n</p>\n\n<p>\n5. <b>Abandoned</b> after Blunt’s public disgrace in 1979. Discussions about the painting evaporated with the personal attacks on Blunt effectively ending any momentum by the majority of the critics to reattribute <i>no6092</i> to Poussin (#18).\n</p>\n\n", "author": "MYRON LASKIN, JR", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/19-Oberhuber/19-Oberhuber-thumb.jpg", @@ -788,7 +788,7 @@ } ], "citation": "<i>The Burlington Magazine</i>, Vol. 102, no 688, July Book<br>\n1960<br>\n24x31cm<br>\nLibrary and Archives<br>\nNational Gallery of Canada <br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nThe establishment of the Chemical Laboratory of the Royal Museums in Berlin in 1888 was a milestone moment in the analysis of cultural artefacts for authenticity and attribution. Wilhelm Röntgen invented radiography in 1895 and within a year his former student, Walter König, used the technology to x-ray an oil painting. Documentation of the forensic analysis of artworks began in 1914 when Alexander Faber registered a German patent for the application of radiographic analysis to the examination of paintings. Eventually the method spread to Amsterdam and Paris. By the 1930s, it was being integrated into museum infrastructure and then academic institutions, including at the newly minted Courtauld Institute of Art under the technical eye of Stephen Rees Jones, the long-time director of the institute’s laboratory under Sir Anthony Blunt. X-rays were first employed to look under the skin of the paint to see traces of earlier versions of a painting (also known as <i>pentimenti</i>, Italian for repent) or of a different painting altogether. Originally called ‘shadowgraphs,’ radiographs however are not the only invisible wavelengths that can peek behind Parrhasius’s curtain. Researchers also analyze works of art using infrared rays, which penetrate the surface layer of paint and reflect off the underdrawing—paint being more translucent than graphite to the long waveforms of infrared. Under such analysis, a work’s authenticity can often be determined, since corrections and underdrawings usually signify the working processes of an original. Such a theory, however, does not easily apply to Poussin as his rational approach dictated carefully planned compositions that were not resolved at the layer of the paint. \n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nThe establishment of the Chemical Laboratory of the Royal Museums in Berlin in 1888 was a milestone moment in the analysis of cultural artefacts for authenticity and attribution. Wilhelm Röntgen invented radiography in 1895 and within a year his former student, Walter König, used the technology to x-ray an oil painting. Documentation of the forensic analysis of artworks began in 1914 when Alexander Faber registered a German patent for the application of radiographic analysis to the examination of paintings. Eventually the method spread to Amsterdam and Paris. By the 1930s, it was being integrated into museum infrastructure and then academic institutions, including at the newly minted Courtauld Institute of Art under the technical eye of Stephen Rees Jones, the long-time director of the institute’s laboratory under Sir Anthony Blunt. X-rays were first employed to look under the skin of the paint to see traces of earlier versions of a painting (also known as <i>pentimenti</i>, Italian for repent) or of a different painting altogether. Originally called ‘shadowgraphs,’ radiographs however are not the only invisible wavelengths that can peek behind Parrhasius’s curtain. Researchers also analyze works of art using infrared rays, which penetrate the surface layer of paint and reflect off the underdrawing—paint being more translucent than graphite to the long waveforms of infrared. Under such analysis, a work’s authenticity can often be determined, since corrections and underdrawings usually signify the working processes of an original. Such a theory, however, does not easily apply to Poussin as his rational approach dictated carefully planned compositions that were not resolved at the layer of the paint. \n</p>\n\n", "author": "S. REES JONES ", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/20-Jones/20-Jones-thumb.jpg", @@ -823,7 +823,7 @@ } ], "citation": "2016 <br>\nPhotograph 42.6 x 27.9 cm <br>\nRestoration and Conservation Lab Files National Gallery of Canada<br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nThe establishment of the Chemical Laboratory of the Royal Museums in Berlin in 1888 was a milestone moment in the analysis of cultural artefacts for authenticity and attribution. Wilhelm Röntgen invented radiography in 1895 and within a year his former student, Walter König, used the technology to x-ray an oil painting. Documentation of the forensic analysis of artworks began in 1914 when Alexander Faber registered a German patent for the application of radiographic analysis to the examination of paintings. Eventually the method spread to Amsterdam and Paris. By the 1930s, it was being integrated into museum infrastructure and then academic institutions, including at the newly minted Courtauld Institute of Art under the technical eye of Stephen Rees Jones, the long-time director of the institute’s laboratory under Sir Anthony Blunt. X-rays were first employed to look under the skin of the paint to see traces of earlier versions of a painting (also known as <i>pentimenti</i>, Italian for repent) or of a different painting altogether. Originally called ‘shadowgraphs,’ radiographs however are not the only invisible wavelengths that can peek behind Parrhasius’s curtain. Researchers also analyze works of art using infrared rays, which penetrate the surface layer of paint and reflect off the underdrawing—paint being more translucent than graphite to the long waveforms of infrared. Under such analysis, a work’s authenticity can often be determined, since corrections and underdrawings usually signify the working processes of an original. Such a theory, however, does not easily apply to Poussin as his rational approach dictated carefully planned compositions that were not resolved at the layer of the paint. \n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nThe establishment of the Chemical Laboratory of the Royal Museums in Berlin in 1888 was a milestone moment in the analysis of cultural artefacts for authenticity and attribution. Wilhelm Röntgen invented radiography in 1895 and within a year his former student, Walter König, used the technology to x-ray an oil painting. Documentation of the forensic analysis of artworks began in 1914 when Alexander Faber registered a German patent for the application of radiographic analysis to the examination of paintings. Eventually the method spread to Amsterdam and Paris. By the 1930s, it was being integrated into museum infrastructure and then academic institutions, including at the newly minted Courtauld Institute of Art under the technical eye of Stephen Rees Jones, the long-time director of the institute’s laboratory under Sir Anthony Blunt. X-rays were first employed to look under the skin of the paint to see traces of earlier versions of a painting (also known as <i>pentimenti</i>, Italian for repent) or of a different painting altogether. Originally called ‘shadowgraphs,’ radiographs however are not the only invisible wavelengths that can peek behind Parrhasius’s curtain. Researchers also analyze works of art using infrared rays, which penetrate the surface layer of paint and reflect off the underdrawing—paint being more translucent than graphite to the long waveforms of infrared. Under such analysis, a work’s authenticity can often be determined, since corrections and underdrawings usually signify the working processes of an original. Such a theory, however, does not easily apply to Poussin as his rational approach dictated carefully planned compositions that were not resolved at the layer of the paint. \n</p>\n\n", "author": "UNKNOWN ", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/21-Xray/21-Xray-thumb.jpg", @@ -858,7 +858,7 @@ } ], "citation": "1956 <br>\noil on canvas <br>\n59.1 x 48.3 cm <br>\nArt Gallery of Ontario, Toronto <br>\nGift of Reuben Wells Leonard Estate (56/13)<br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nGustav Courbet is most famous as the 19th-century painter who rebelled against the Academy and proselytized the Realist moment that painted everyday people and everyday scenes contra the mythological and heroic tableaus of History painting and Romanticism. As a militant Marxist his actions extended beyond the canvas; in 1870 Courbet recommended the Vendome Column in Paris be taken down as a symbol of Bonapartist Imperialism. As part of the Paris Commune, he followed through on the declaration but was imprisoned as a result and later lived out his life in exile. Whether he was a mischievous Marxist who flooded the art world with counterfeits during his life time, or he was duped by his studio assistants remains part of the puzzle in attempting to determine which paintings are authentically his. The painting <i>Woman Painted at Palavas</i>,<i> </i>acquired by Sir Anthony Blunt in 1956 for the AGO’s collection, is a special case: research has revealed three layers of signatures in the work. Courbet scholar Petra Chu has suggested the figure in the painting is not by Courbet, but that the signature might be authentic. This distinction, of course, follows 19th-century artist theories of authorship, later demonstrated by French artist Marcel Duchamp’s conceptualization of the Readymade, which challenged exactly the necessity of matching the signature and the production of the work—the former determining authorship exclusively as best exemplified in the <i>Urinal</i> signed by R. Mutt. Later French theorists Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida further explore the semiotic slippage of the signature and subjectivity. In 1955 Lacan purchased Courbet’s most famous painting <i>Origin of the World</i> (1866) and displayed it hidden in his private home until his death when it was transferred to the State as payment for inheritance tax. \n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nGustav Courbet is most famous as the 19th-century painter who rebelled against the Academy and proselytized the Realist moment that painted everyday people and everyday scenes contra the mythological and heroic tableaus of History painting and Romanticism. As a militant Marxist his actions extended beyond the canvas; in 1870 Courbet recommended the Vendome Column in Paris be taken down as a symbol of Bonapartist Imperialism. As part of the Paris Commune, he followed through on the declaration but was imprisoned as a result and later lived out his life in exile. Whether he was a mischievous Marxist who flooded the art world with counterfeits during his life time, or he was duped by his studio assistants remains part of the puzzle in attempting to determine which paintings are authentically his. The painting <i>Woman Painted at Palavas</i>,<i> </i>acquired by Sir Anthony Blunt in 1956 for the AGO’s collection, is a special case: research has revealed three layers of signatures in the work. Courbet scholar Petra Chu has suggested the figure in the painting is not by Courbet, but that the signature might be authentic. This distinction, of course, follows 19th-century artist theories of authorship, later demonstrated by French artist Marcel Duchamp’s conceptualization of the Readymade, which challenged exactly the necessity of matching the signature and the production of the work—the former determining authorship exclusively as best exemplified in the <i>Urinal</i> signed by R. Mutt. Later French theorists Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida further explore the semiotic slippage of the signature and subjectivity. In 1955 Lacan purchased Courbet’s most famous painting <i>Origin of the World</i> (1866) and displayed it hidden in his private home until his death when it was transferred to the State as payment for inheritance tax. \n</p>\n\n", "author": "GUSTAV COURBET ", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/22-Courbet/22-Courbet-thumb.jpg", @@ -885,7 +885,7 @@ "tag_8": 0, "images": [], "citation": "1941 38.2 × 55.4 cm <br>\ngraphite, pen and ink, brush and ink, wax crayon, chalks and scraping out on paper <br>\nCollection of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. <br>\nGift of the Contemporary Art Society, 1951 (50/64)<br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nThere are conflicting stories how Anthony Blunt was introduced into the Canadian Museum system. A year before he was on retainer for the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) in 1948, he was secured by the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). One theory is that Charles Vincent Massey–then-Governor General and driving force behind the founding of the Canada Council for the Arts and the National Library of Canada—introduced Blunt to the AGO’s first Director Martin Baldwin. Another source says it was University of Toronto professor Peter Brieger, who was originally at the Courtauld in the 1930s, who instigated the relationship. Blunt acquired several works of art for the gallery including the Courbet painting <i>Woman Painted at Palavas</i>, but is most famous for fostering the AGO’s significant relationship with Henry Moore. After curating the 50th anniversary exhibition for the AGO in 1950, Blunt brokered the acquisition of Moore’s sketch <i>Group of Shelterers During an Air Raid</i>, made while he was an official war artist in 1941 and Blunt was at MI5. This relationship blossomed into an entire wing of Henry Moore sculptures and Blunt even found the first Moore curator, Alan Wilkinson, a former student of his at the Courtauld. The first director of Conservation at the NGC also studied under Blunt at the Courtauld during this period and more directly under technical director Stephen Rees-Jones. The current Director of Conservation and Technical Research at the NGC, Stephen Gritt, was also educated at the Courtauld Institute for Art. \n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nThere are conflicting stories how Anthony Blunt was introduced into the Canadian Museum system. A year before he was on retainer for the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) in 1948, he was secured by the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). One theory is that Charles Vincent Massey–then-Governor General and driving force behind the founding of the Canada Council for the Arts and the National Library of Canada—introduced Blunt to the AGO’s first Director Martin Baldwin. Another source says it was University of Toronto professor Peter Brieger, who was originally at the Courtauld in the 1930s, who instigated the relationship. Blunt acquired several works of art for the gallery including the Courbet painting <i>Woman Painted at Palavas</i>, but is most famous for fostering the AGO’s significant relationship with Henry Moore. After curating the 50th anniversary exhibition for the AGO in 1950, Blunt brokered the acquisition of Moore’s sketch <i>Group of Shelterers During an Air Raid</i>, made while he was an official war artist in 1941 and Blunt was at MI5. This relationship blossomed into an entire wing of Henry Moore sculptures and Blunt even found the first Moore curator, Alan Wilkinson, a former student of his at the Courtauld. The first director of Conservation at the NGC also studied under Blunt at the Courtauld during this period and more directly under technical director Stephen Rees-Jones. The current Director of Conservation and Technical Research at the NGC, Stephen Gritt, was also educated at the Courtauld Institute for Art. \n</p>\n\n", "author": "HENRY MOORE ", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/23-Moore1941/23-Moore1941-thumb.jpg", @@ -912,7 +912,7 @@ "tag_8": 0, "images": [], "citation": "1940 <br>\n34.4 x 42.7 cm <br>\ngraphite, pen and ink, brush and ink, wax crayon, and scraping out on paper <br>\nArt Gallery of Ontario<br>\nToronto Purchase 1974 (74/337)<br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nThere are conflicting stories how Anthony Blunt was introduced into the Canadian Museum system. A year before he was on retainer for the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) in 1948, he was secured by the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). One theory is that Charles Vincent Massey–then-Governor General and driving force behind the founding of the Canada Council for the Arts and the National Library of Canada—introduced Blunt to the AGO’s first Director Martin Baldwin. Another source says it was University of Toronto professor Peter Brieger, who was originally at the Courtauld in the 1930s, who instigated the relationship. Blunt acquired several works of art for the gallery including the Courbet painting <i>Woman Painted at Palavas</i>, but is most famous for fostering the AGO’s significant relationship with Henry Moore. After curating the 50th anniversary exhibition for the AGO in 1950, Blunt brokered the acquisition of Moore’s sketch <i>Group of Shelterers During an Air Raid</i>, made while he was an official war artist in 1941 and Blunt was at MI5. This relationship blossomed into an entire wing of Henry Moore sculptures and Blunt even found the first Moore curator, Alan Wilkinson, a former student of his at the Courtauld. The first director of Conservation at the NGC also studied under Blunt at the Courtauld during this period and more directly under technical director Stephen Rees-Jones. The current Director of Conservation and Technical Research at the NGC, Stephen Gritt, was also educated at the Courtauld Institute for Art. \n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nThere are conflicting stories how Anthony Blunt was introduced into the Canadian Museum system. A year before he was on retainer for the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) in 1948, he was secured by the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). One theory is that Charles Vincent Massey–then-Governor General and driving force behind the founding of the Canada Council for the Arts and the National Library of Canada—introduced Blunt to the AGO’s first Director Martin Baldwin. Another source says it was University of Toronto professor Peter Brieger, who was originally at the Courtauld in the 1930s, who instigated the relationship. Blunt acquired several works of art for the gallery including the Courbet painting <i>Woman Painted at Palavas</i>, but is most famous for fostering the AGO’s significant relationship with Henry Moore. After curating the 50th anniversary exhibition for the AGO in 1950, Blunt brokered the acquisition of Moore’s sketch <i>Group of Shelterers During an Air Raid</i>, made while he was an official war artist in 1941 and Blunt was at MI5. This relationship blossomed into an entire wing of Henry Moore sculptures and Blunt even found the first Moore curator, Alan Wilkinson, a former student of his at the Courtauld. The first director of Conservation at the NGC also studied under Blunt at the Courtauld during this period and more directly under technical director Stephen Rees-Jones. The current Director of Conservation and Technical Research at the NGC, Stephen Gritt, was also educated at the Courtauld Institute for Art. \n</p>\n\n", "author": "HENRY MOORE ", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/24-Moore1940/24-Moore1940-thumb.jpg", @@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ } ], "citation": "2015 <br>\nDocument <br>\n21.5 x 27.9 cm <br>\nE.P. Taylor Research Library & Archives Collection of Art Gallery of Ontario <br>\nCourtesy the Author<br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nGustav Courbet is most famous as the 19th-century painter who rebelled against the Academy and proselytized the Realist moment that painted everyday people and everyday scenes contra the mythological and heroic tableaus of History painting and Romanticism. As a militant Marxist his actions extended beyond the canvas; in 1870 Courbet recommended the Vendome Column in Paris be taken down as a symbol of Bonapartist Imperialism. As part of the Paris Commune, he followed through on the declaration but was imprisoned as a result and later lived out his life in exile. Whether he was a mischievous Marxist who flooded the art world with counterfeits during his life time, or he was duped by his studio assistants remains part of the puzzle in attempting to determine which paintings are authentically his. The painting <i>Woman Painted at Palavas</i>,<i> </i>acquired by Sir Anthony Blunt in 1956 for the AGO’s collection, is a special case: research has revealed three layers of signatures in the work. Courbet scholar Petra Chu has suggested the figure in the painting is not by Courbet, but that the signature might be authentic. This distinction, of course, follows 19th-century artist theories of authorship, later demonstrated by French artist Marcel Duchamp’s conceptualization of the Readymade, which challenged exactly the necessity of matching the signature and the production of the work—the former determining authorship exclusively as best exemplified in the <i>Urinal</i> signed by R. Mutt. Later French theorists Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida further explore the semiotic slippage of the signature and subjectivity. In 1955 Lacan purchased Courbet’s most famous painting <i>Origin of the World</i> (1866) and displayed it hidden in his private home until his death when it was transferred to the State as payment for inheritance tax. \n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nGustav Courbet is most famous as the 19th-century painter who rebelled against the Academy and proselytized the Realist moment that painted everyday people and everyday scenes contra the mythological and heroic tableaus of History painting and Romanticism. As a militant Marxist his actions extended beyond the canvas; in 1870 Courbet recommended the Vendome Column in Paris be taken down as a symbol of Bonapartist Imperialism. As part of the Paris Commune, he followed through on the declaration but was imprisoned as a result and later lived out his life in exile. Whether he was a mischievous Marxist who flooded the art world with counterfeits during his life time, or he was duped by his studio assistants remains part of the puzzle in attempting to determine which paintings are authentically his. The painting <i>Woman Painted at Palavas</i>,<i> </i>acquired by Sir Anthony Blunt in 1956 for the AGO’s collection, is a special case: research has revealed three layers of signatures in the work. Courbet scholar Petra Chu has suggested the figure in the painting is not by Courbet, but that the signature might be authentic. This distinction, of course, follows 19th-century artist theories of authorship, later demonstrated by French artist Marcel Duchamp’s conceptualization of the Readymade, which challenged exactly the necessity of matching the signature and the production of the work—the former determining authorship exclusively as best exemplified in the <i>Urinal</i> signed by R. Mutt. Later French theorists Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida further explore the semiotic slippage of the signature and subjectivity. In 1955 Lacan purchased Courbet’s most famous painting <i>Origin of the World</i> (1866) and displayed it hidden in his private home until his death when it was transferred to the State as payment for inheritance tax. \n</p>\n\n", "author": "PETRA CHU ", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/25-Chu/25-Chu-thumb.jpg", @@ -1120,7 +1120,7 @@ } ], "citation": "2016<br>\n35mm slide projector, 40 slides continuously looping, each slide 5 secs, 4:00 min loop, with wall text<br>\nCourtesy the Artist<br>\n", - "description": "<p>\n<i>An Apology</i> is a 35mm slide projection that constructs the imaginary final lecture by Sir Anthony Blunt at the Courtauld Institute of Art upon his retirement in 1974. Blunt’s first public attribution occurred at the very start of his Art History career in 1938 with an essay published in the magazine Apollo claiming to have discovered Poussin’s Augustus and Cleopatra. After the war he brokered an acquisition between his MI5 comrade Tomas Harris, who was now an art dealer, and the National Gallery of Canada (NGC). From the start, his attribution was challenged by other formative Poussin scholars such as Denis Mahon and Jacques Thuillier, but he remained until his death unshaken in his original diagnosis. It seemed fitting to close his life’s work at the Institute by returning to the same painting that had only recently been stripped of attribution to Poussin by the National Gallery’s research curator Myron Laskin in the gallery’s 1971 report. Conscious that it was his final lecture, and thus bookending his career on the analysis of a single painting, Blunt starts with a slide of Poussin’s Dance to the Music of Time—a painting in which the iconography illustrates the infinite cycle of life as personified in\n</p>\n\n<p>\nfour figures: poverty, labour, wealth, and pleasure.\n</p>\n\n<p>\nAfter the prologue, the body of the lecture is broken down into four parts:\n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. Blunt lays out the original argument he drafted in Apollo;\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. He updates his 1930’s gaze with a forensic analysis of radiographs that his Courtauld colleague Stephen Rees Jones developed as well as a radiograph taken of Augustus and Cleopatra at the NGC;\n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. He presents a survey of images by painters proposed by international scholars as alternative authors to the painting as logged in the “curatorial file” at the NGC;\n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. He offers a self-reflective conclusion that meditates on the role of the shadow in Poussin’s compositions and aesthetic theories. Blunt bolsters his connoisseur’s eye (relying on the conjectural Mancini/Morelli methods) with a conceptual analysis of Poussin’s thematic obsession with the shadow. Strategically differing from the chiaroscuro of Caravaggio and the Baroque spotlight which used light to focus attention on the key element of the tableau, Blunt argues instead Poussin often relies on an absent foci at the centre of his paintings—an absence Blunt argues that is not an emptiness but rather a very meaningful shade. It is with this argument that Blunt ties the controversial painting <i>Augustus and Cleopatra</i> to Poussin’s most famous painting, <i>The Arcadian Shepherds</i>, because, quoting an earlier essay by himself, ‘the exact nuance of the ideas expressed in the painting can best be seen by considering it in connexion with other pictures belonging to the same group.’ Structured using the same composition—a prostrated agent with the western setting sun casting their face in darkness—the geometric centre of both paintings locates the essential clue to the immaterial meaning of the tableaux. In the former, the black pouch with its secret contents and in the latter the inscription “Et in Arcadia ego” under the searching shepherd’s shadow. The lecture ends by recounting the Classical inspiration of the painting—Pliny the Elder’s account of painting’s origin as accidentally discovered when tracing the outline of a human shadow to preserve the memory of a lover going off to war—and contrasting Plato’s Cave of Shadows with the Greek term for painting, <i>skiagraphia</i> (which literally means ‘shadow painting’). With dramatic flair, Blunt ends the lecture not with an empty slide illuminating the classroom, but rather plunges the classroom into darkness with a full black frame. Here the slideshow automatically continues by looping to the first image: <i>Dance to the Music of Time</i>.\n</p>\n\n<p>\nSlidelist: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n01 Nicolas Poussin / Dance to the Music of Time / 1633-34 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n02 Nicolas Poussin / Augustus and Cleopatra c.1624 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n03 Nicolas Poussin / Augustus and Cleopatra (Label on back of stretcher) undated \n</p>\n\n<p>\n04 Nicolas Poussin / Death of Germanicus 1627 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n05 Nicolas Poussin / Comparison of Augustus + Germanicus \n</p>\n\n<p>\n06 Nicolas Poussin / Nymph and satyr drinking (2 Versions) / 1626-28 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n07 Nicolas Poussin / Martydom of St. Erasemus (Study vs. Altarpiece) / 1628-29 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n08 Nicolas Poussin / Augustus and Cleopatra / c.1624 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n09 Noel Coypel / Emperor Trajan during a public audience / 1699 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n10 Marc Antonio / The Queen of Sheeba (after Giulio Romano) / c.1505\n</p>\n\n<p>\n11 Nicolas Poussin / Venus Bringing Arms to Aeneas / c.1620 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n12 Annibale Carraci / Remus Before Amulius / c.1590 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n13 Alessandro Allori / Annunciation / 1584 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n14 Nicolas Poussin / The Triumph of David (X-Radiograph) / 1631-33 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n15 Nicolas Poussin / The Triumph of David / 1631-33 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n16 Rembrandt van Rijn / The Anatomy of Dr. Tulp / 1632 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n17 Rembrandt van Rijn / The Anatomy of Dr. Tulp (X-Radiographic Detail) / 1632\n</p>\n\n<p>\n18 Nicolas Poussin / Augustus and Cleopatra / c.1624 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n19 Nicolas Poussin / Augustus and Cleopatra (X-Radiograph) / c.1624 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n20 Nicolas Poussin / Rape of the Sabine Women / 1633-34 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n21 Jacques Stella / Rape of the Sabine Women / c.1650 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n22 Nicolas Poussin / The Adoration of the Golden Calf / 1633-34 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n23 Nicolas Poussin / Rescue of Young Pyrrhus / 1634 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n24 Domenico Gargiulo / Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well / 1627 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n25 Nicolas Poussin / Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well / 1648 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n26 Nicolas Poussin / Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well / c.1665 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n27 Michelango Cerquozzi / The Rehearsal, or A Scene from the Commedia dell’Arte / 1630-40 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n28 Niccolò De Simone / Banquet of Absalom / c.1650 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n29 G.B. Quagliata Triumph of David / c.1650 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n30 Remy Vuibert / The Decree of Constantine / c.1630 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n31 Charles Le Brun / The Queens of Persia at the feet of Alexander / c. 1660 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n32 Charles Le Brun / The Death of Meleager / c.1658 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n33 Peter Paul Rubens / War and Peace / 1629 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n34 Anthony van Dyke / Portrait Charles 1 (Triptych) / 1635 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n35 Benjamin West / The Departure of Regulus / 1769 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n36 Benjamin West / Death of General Wolfe / 1770 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n37 Nicolas Poussin / Augustus and Cleopatra / c.1624 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n38 Nicolas Poussin / The Arcadian Shepherds / 1637-1638 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n39 Nicolas Poussin / Comparison of Cleopatra vs. Shepherds \n</p>\n\n<p>\n40 Darkness\n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\n<i>An Apology</i> is a 35mm slide projection that constructs the imaginary final lecture by Sir Anthony Blunt at the Courtauld Institute of Art upon his retirement in 1974. Blunt’s first public attribution occurred at the very start of his Art History career in 1938 with an essay published in the magazine Apollo claiming to have discovered Poussin’s Augustus and Cleopatra. After the war he brokered an acquisition between his MI5 comrade Tomas Harris, who was now an art dealer, and the National Gallery of Canada (NGC). From the start, his attribution was challenged by other formative Poussin scholars such as Denis Mahon and Jacques Thuillier, but he remained until his death unshaken in his original diagnosis. It seemed fitting to close his life’s work at the Institute by returning to the same painting that had only recently been stripped of attribution to Poussin by the National Gallery’s research curator Myron Laskin in the gallery’s 1971 report. Conscious that it was his final lecture, and thus bookending his career on the analysis of a single painting, Blunt starts with a slide of Poussin’s Dance to the Music of Time—a painting in which the iconography illustrates the infinite cycle of life as personified in four figures: poverty, labour, wealth, and pleasure.\n</p>\n\n<p class='indent'>\nAfter the prologue, the body of the lecture is broken down into four parts:\n</p>\n\n<p>\n1. Blunt lays out the original argument he drafted in Apollo;\n</p>\n\n<p>\n2. He updates his 1930’s gaze with a forensic analysis of radiographs that his Courtauld colleague Stephen Rees Jones developed as well as a radiograph taken of Augustus and Cleopatra at the NGC;\n</p>\n\n<p>\n3. He presents a survey of images by painters proposed by international scholars as alternative authors to the painting as logged in the “curatorial file” at the NGC;\n</p>\n\n<p>\n4. He offers a self-reflective conclusion that meditates on the role of the shadow in Poussin’s compositions and aesthetic theories.\n</p>\n\n<p class='indent'>\nBlunt bolsters his connoisseur’s eye (relying on the conjectural Mancini/Morelli methods) with a conceptual analysis of Poussin’s thematic obsession with the shadow. Strategically differing from the chiaroscuro of Caravaggio and the Baroque spotlight which used light to focus attention on the key element of the tableau, Blunt argues instead Poussin often relies on an absent foci at the centre of his paintings—an absence Blunt argues that is not an emptiness but rather a very meaningful shade. It is with this argument that Blunt ties the controversial painting <i>Augustus and Cleopatra</i> to Poussin’s most famous painting, <i>The Arcadian Shepherds</i>, because, quoting an earlier essay by himself, ‘the exact nuance of the ideas expressed in the painting can best be seen by considering it in connexion with other pictures belonging to the same group.’ Structured using the same composition—a prostrated agent with the western setting sun casting their face in darkness—the geometric centre of both paintings locates the essential clue to the immaterial meaning of the tableaux. In the former, the black pouch with its secret contents and in the latter the inscription “Et in Arcadia ego” under the searching shepherd’s shadow. The lecture ends by recounting the Classical inspiration of the painting—Pliny the Elder’s account of painting’s origin as accidentally discovered when tracing the outline of a human shadow to preserve the memory of a lover going off to war—and contrasting Plato’s Cave of Shadows with the Greek term for painting, <i>skiagraphia</i> (which literally means ‘shadow painting’). With dramatic flair, Blunt ends the lecture not with an empty slide illuminating the classroom, but rather plunges the classroom into darkness with a full black frame. Here the slideshow automatically continues by looping to the first image: <i>Dance to the Music of Time</i>.\n</p>\n\n<p>\nSlidelist: \n</p>\n\n<p>\n01 Nicolas Poussin / Dance to the Music of Time / 1633-34 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n02 Nicolas Poussin / Augustus and Cleopatra c.1624 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n03 Nicolas Poussin / Augustus and Cleopatra (Label on back of stretcher) undated \n</p>\n\n<p>\n04 Nicolas Poussin / Death of Germanicus 1627 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n05 Nicolas Poussin / Comparison of Augustus + Germanicus \n</p>\n\n<p>\n06 Nicolas Poussin / Nymph and satyr drinking (2 Versions) / 1626-28 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n07 Nicolas Poussin / Martydom of St. Erasemus (Study vs. Altarpiece) / 1628-29 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n08 Nicolas Poussin / Augustus and Cleopatra / c.1624 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n09 Noel Coypel / Emperor Trajan during a public audience / 1699 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n10 Marc Antonio / The Queen of Sheeba (after Giulio Romano) / c.1505\n</p>\n\n<p>\n11 Nicolas Poussin / Venus Bringing Arms to Aeneas / c.1620 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n12 Annibale Carraci / Remus Before Amulius / c.1590 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n13 Alessandro Allori / Annunciation / 1584 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n14 Nicolas Poussin / The Triumph of David (X-Radiograph) / 1631-33 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n15 Nicolas Poussin / The Triumph of David / 1631-33 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n16 Rembrandt van Rijn / The Anatomy of Dr. Tulp / 1632 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n17 Rembrandt van Rijn / The Anatomy of Dr. Tulp (X-Radiographic Detail) / 1632\n</p>\n\n<p>\n18 Nicolas Poussin / Augustus and Cleopatra / c.1624 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n19 Nicolas Poussin / Augustus and Cleopatra (X-Radiograph) / c.1624 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n20 Nicolas Poussin / Rape of the Sabine Women / 1633-34 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n21 Jacques Stella / Rape of the Sabine Women / c.1650 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n22 Nicolas Poussin / The Adoration of the Golden Calf / 1633-34 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n23 Nicolas Poussin / Rescue of Young Pyrrhus / 1634 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n24 Domenico Gargiulo / Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well / 1627 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n25 Nicolas Poussin / Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well / 1648 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n26 Nicolas Poussin / Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well / c.1665 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n27 Michelango Cerquozzi / The Rehearsal, or A Scene from the Commedia dell’Arte / 1630-40 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n28 Niccolò De Simone / Banquet of Absalom / c.1650 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n29 G.B. Quagliata Triumph of David / c.1650 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n30 Remy Vuibert / The Decree of Constantine / c.1630 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n31 Charles Le Brun / The Queens of Persia at the feet of Alexander / c. 1660 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n32 Charles Le Brun / The Death of Meleager / c.1658 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n33 Peter Paul Rubens / War and Peace / 1629 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n34 Anthony van Dyke / Portrait Charles 1 (Triptych) / 1635 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n35 Benjamin West / The Departure of Regulus / 1769 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n36 Benjamin West / Death of General Wolfe / 1770 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n37 Nicolas Poussin / Augustus and Cleopatra / c.1624 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n38 Nicolas Poussin / The Arcadian Shepherds / 1637-1638 \n</p>\n\n<p>\n39 Nicolas Poussin / Comparison of Cleopatra vs. Shepherds \n</p>\n\n<p>\n40 Darkness\n</p>\n\n", "author": "CHARLES STANKIEVECH", "threeObject": { "path": "data_store/30-Apology/", @@ -1262,7 +1262,7 @@ "type": "jpg" }, "citation": "1938<br>\n<i>Journal of the Warburg Institute</i>, vol. 1, no 3.<br>\nBook <br>\n19 x 27 cm <br>\nLibrary and Archives National Gallery of Canada <br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nWhile Anthony Blunt is most famously associated with the Courtauld Institute, as its longest standing Director, his first academic job in London was for the Warburg Institute. With the rise of the Nazi party in Germany, the Warburg Institute sought refuge in London and the Courtauld Institute provided the Jewish émigrés with a home. It was here that Fritz Saxl fabricated a job for Anthony Blunt: head of publications. One of Blunt’s first texts for the Warburg journal was a marginal note, far outside his typical research interests which were in the French and Italian Baroque. To understand the strangeness of the text, we could read the peculiarity of “The Criminal-King in a 19th Century Novel” as a personal examination of his political dilemmas. In his analysis, he marvels at Balzac’s audacity and genius to create a hero that is beyond good and evil, and in a topsy-turvy world where society is corrupt, the “evil” hero ascends to become the “highest agent of the secret police.” It is at this time, with the war imminent in Europe, that Blunt begins to think strategically about his political allegiances beyond intellectual Marxism and starts the navigation towards a significant position as an agent for the Security Service MI5—all the while working as a double agent for the Soviets. \n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nWhile Anthony Blunt is most famously associated with the Courtauld Institute, as its longest standing Director, his first academic job in London was for the Warburg Institute. With the rise of the Nazi party in Germany, the Warburg Institute sought refuge in London and the Courtauld Institute provided the Jewish émigrés with a home. It was here that Fritz Saxl fabricated a job for Anthony Blunt: head of publications. One of Blunt’s first texts for the Warburg journal was a marginal note, far outside his typical research interests which were in the French and Italian Baroque. To understand the strangeness of the text, we could read the peculiarity of “The Criminal-King in a 19th Century Novel” as a personal examination of his political dilemmas. In his analysis, he marvels at Balzac’s audacity and genius to create a hero that is beyond good and evil, and in a topsy-turvy world where society is corrupt, the “evil” hero ascends to become the “highest agent of the secret police.” It is at this time, with the war imminent in Europe, that Blunt begins to think strategically about his political allegiances beyond intellectual Marxism and starts the navigation towards a significant position as an agent for the Security Service MI5—all the while working as a double agent for the Soviets. \n</p>\n\n", "author": "ANTHONY BLUNT " }, { @@ -1337,7 +1337,7 @@ } ], "citation": "1962<br>\nTelevision broadcast transferred to video <br>\n5:21 minutes <br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nIn this rare footage we see Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, Sir Anthony Blunt, giving a tour of the Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace in 1962. At this time Blunt was at the peak of his intellectual career and not yet unmasked for his double intelligence activities for both MI5 and the Soviets. What emerges here, in the heart of the British Empire, as casual banter about a portrait of King Charles
I and a clock that “keeps perfect time,” takes on a certain duplicity when seen in the rear view mirror of archival footage. The curatorial tour ends with a particularly ironic twist as Blunt discusses the Royal Family’s Fabergé eggs, which were gifts from the Russian royal family and were famous not only for their exquisite craftsmanship, but also because each egg opens to reveal a secret surprise. \n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nIn this rare footage we see Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, Sir Anthony Blunt, giving a tour of the Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace in 1962. At this time Blunt was at the peak of his intellectual career and not yet unmasked for his double intelligence activities for both MI5 and the Soviets. What emerges here, in the heart of the British Empire, as casual banter about a portrait of King Charles
I and a clock that “keeps perfect time,” takes on a certain duplicity when seen in the rear view mirror of archival footage. The curatorial tour ends with a particularly ironic twist as Blunt discusses the Royal Family’s Fabergé eggs, which were gifts from the Russian royal family and were famous not only for their exquisite craftsmanship, but also because each egg opens to reveal a secret surprise. \n</p>\n\n", "author": "ANTHONY BLUNT", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/36-BBC/36-BBC-thumb.mp4", @@ -1500,7 +1500,7 @@ } ], "citation": "Roma, Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, 1956 1620-1630<br>\nBook with manuscript facsimile<br>\nCollection University of Toronto Libraries <br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nFrom 1550-1590, a considerable amount of literature was written about the lives of artists—Vasari being a classic example. But by the 17th century the genre had almost completely ceased, with the masters Carracci and Caravaggio concern- ing themselves with observational strategies rather than speculation and theory. A radically new type of art criticism emerged in the ebb
and flow of history, one which incorporated the empirical demands not only of a new art but also of a burgeoning field in the sciences, as developed through Galileo’s experiments that required repeatable results for verification. It took an amateur, meaning the first writer on art who was not an artist, by the name of Giulio Mancini to forge such a new field. It is no coincidence Mancini was, by vocation, a doctor for Pope Urban VIII and friend to Galileo in Rome. He also made a living as an antiquities dealer and thus was more concerned with the authenticity of the original than with artistic expression. Bringing together medical diagnosis with his concern for the art market, Mancini spawned the first theory of connoisseurship and art forensics. At the end of the 19th century, his theories again surfaced as the “Morelli Method,” which became the standard in the modern area for museum directors and art historians investigating questionable attributions. Mancini combined his observational skills as a doctor with the newly developed practice of analyzing the flow of handwriting to date a manuscript’s origin. In this new field of paleography, authorial uniqueness is revealed in the curve of each character, in the folds of each letter. For philosopher Gilles Delueze, writing in his book <i>The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque</i>, “The Baroque refers not to an essence but rather to an operative function, to a trait.” Mancini understood how to look for traits that signalled individuality based on the distinctiveness of “curls and waves” in hair and the “folds and glint of drapes.” A close look at the historical survey of Nicolas Poussin’s critical literature finds the first text cited in the bibliography of Anthony Blunt’s <i>Critical Catalogue </i>is this writing by Mancini. If we believe Blunt’s attribution of painting <i>no6092 </i>to the early stage of Poussin’s career, it means the painting was com- posed at the exact same time as Mancini’s text, in the 1620s in Rome. The polyphonic voices of the Baroque fugue fold in on each other. \n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nFrom 1550-1590, a considerable amount of literature was written about the lives of artists—Vasari being a classic example. But by the 17th century the genre had almost completely ceased, with the masters Carracci and Caravaggio concern- ing themselves with observational strategies rather than speculation and theory. A radically new type of art criticism emerged in the ebb
and flow of history, one which incorporated the empirical demands not only of a new art but also of a burgeoning field in the sciences, as developed through Galileo’s experiments that required repeatable results for verification. It took an amateur, meaning the first writer on art who was not an artist, by the name of Giulio Mancini to forge such a new field. It is no coincidence Mancini was, by vocation, a doctor for Pope Urban VIII and friend to Galileo in Rome. He also made a living as an antiquities dealer and thus was more concerned with the authenticity of the original than with artistic expression. Bringing together medical diagnosis with his concern for the art market, Mancini spawned the first theory of connoisseurship and art forensics. At the end of the 19th century, his theories again surfaced as the “Morelli Method,” which became the standard in the modern area for museum directors and art historians investigating questionable attributions. Mancini combined his observational skills as a doctor with the newly developed practice of analyzing the flow of handwriting to date a manuscript’s origin. In this new field of paleography, authorial uniqueness is revealed in the curve of each character, in the folds of each letter. For philosopher Gilles Delueze, writing in his book <i>The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque</i>, “The Baroque refers not to an essence but rather to an operative function, to a trait.” Mancini understood how to look for traits that signalled individuality based on the distinctiveness of “curls and waves” in hair and the “folds and glint of drapes.” A close look at the historical survey of Nicolas Poussin’s critical literature finds the first text cited in the bibliography of Anthony Blunt’s <i>Critical Catalogue </i>is this writing by Mancini. If we believe Blunt’s attribution of painting <i>no6092 </i>to the early stage of Poussin’s career, it means the painting was com- posed at the exact same time as Mancini’s text, in the 1620s in Rome. The polyphonic voices of the Baroque fugue fold in on each other. \n</p>\n\n", "author": "GIULIO MANCINI", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/41-Mancini/41-Mancini-Thumb.png", @@ -1535,7 +1535,7 @@ } ], "citation": "2016<br>\nHessian cloth, wood, pins and photographs <br>\n120x160cm<br>\nCourtesy the Artist<br>\n", - "description": "<p>\n<i>‘</i><i>Characters</i><i>’</i><i> </i>(caratteri). <i>The word more or less as we use it goes back to about 1620. It occurs in the writings of the founder of modern physics, on the one hand, and on the other, of the originators respectively of palaeography, graphology and connoisseurship. </i>~ Carlos Ginzburg \n</p>\n\n<p>\nCarlos Ginzburg tracks a historiographic epistemology from nomadic hunters and ritualistic diviners, through the connoisseurship of Giulio Mancini during the Baroque, into the genesis of the detective genre (apropos Voltaire, Poe, and Conan Doyle) applied by the pseudonymous writings of Giovanni Morelli, who in turn inspires Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory. In short, he sketches a history of the human sciences as a conjectural method, where causes cannot be repeated and we must make “retrospective predictions.” While supposedly Morelli was never directly connected to Mancini, Ginzburg connects the 1620s with the late 19th century as two moments of state expanded control. Overlapping the methodologies of connoisseurship with those of detective work, he associates the conjectural problem-solving technique of the connoisseur with newly established colonial and capitalist means of controlling subjects through the pseudo-science of physiognomy, and the practical applications of fingerprinting and mugshots by state agents such as Alphonse Bertillon. \n</p>\n\n<p>\nThe Warburgian screen hanging here diagrams all the characters—or suspects—in the exhibition <i>no6092</i>, subverting the traditional portrait with the criminal mugshot. It becomes blindingly obvious, in visualizing the names of canonized history, how white males have exclusively staffed institutional power. \n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\n<i>‘</i><i>Characters</i><i>’</i><i> </i>(caratteri). <i>The word more or less as we use it goes back to about 1620. It occurs in the writings of the founder of modern physics, on the one hand, and on the other, of the originators respectively of palaeography, graphology and connoisseurship. </i>~ Carlos Ginzburg \n</p>\n\n<p class='indent'>\nCarlos Ginzburg tracks a historiographic epistemology from nomadic hunters and ritualistic diviners, through the connoisseurship of Giulio Mancini during the Baroque, into the genesis of the detective genre (apropos Voltaire, Poe, and Conan Doyle) applied by the pseudonymous writings of Giovanni Morelli, who in turn inspires Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory. In short, he sketches a history of the human sciences as a conjectural method, where causes cannot be repeated and we must make “retrospective predictions.” While supposedly Morelli was never directly connected to Mancini, Ginzburg connects the 1620s with the late 19th century as two moments of state expanded control. Overlapping the methodologies of connoisseurship with those of detective work, he associates the conjectural problem-solving technique of the connoisseur with newly established colonial and capitalist means of controlling subjects through the pseudo-science of physiognomy, and the practical applications of fingerprinting and mugshots by state agents such as Alphonse Bertillon. \n</p>\n\n<p class='indent'>\nThe Warburgian screen hanging here diagrams all the characters—or suspects—in the exhibition <i>no6092</i>, subverting the traditional portrait with the criminal mugshot. It becomes blindingly obvious, in visualizing the names of canonized history, how white males have exclusively staffed institutional power. \n</p>\n\n", "author": "CHARLES STANKIEVECH", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/42-S-Tafel/42-S-Tafel-thumb.png", @@ -1577,7 +1577,7 @@ } ], "citation": "1630<br>\nDocument, 2 pages <br>\n20.3 x 31.8 cm, 20.5 x 31.8 cm<br>\nThe Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. MA 2908. Gift of Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1971 <br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nWe know, from at least a 1702 report, that before the <i>en plein air</i> fashion of painting, spies under- took their gaze not only from under the cover of a tree’s shadow but furthermore under the cover of the personalities of landscape artists. The famous Mata Hari demonstrated that artists were a class that travelled internationally and often had access to an elite military and political class—without necessarily being part of such a class. Peter Paul Rubens could be considered an early example of the double persona of spy/artist. During the seventeenth century, his discretion as a famous artist proved essential to his undercover missions to England, to negotiate in secret instead of sending the official Spanish ambassador. Sitting alone for a portrait with a painter was not a strange scenario, and yet strategically it provided a discrete cover, where sensitive information could be discussed \n</p>\n\n<p>\nin private without suspicion. There is little documentation (compared to his paintings) of this aspect of Rubens’ life—his correspondence being one of the only traces that remains. Note in this letter from 1630, his marginal sketches for the design of a tripod—seen here as a metaphor for his important conceptualization and execution of the tripartite peace negotiations between Spain, England, and Holland in 1629-30. \n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nWe know, from at least a 1702 report, that before the <i>en plein air</i> fashion of painting, spies under- took their gaze not only from under the cover of a tree’s shadow but furthermore under the cover of the personalities of landscape artists. The famous Mata Hari demonstrated that artists were a class that travelled internationally and often had access to an elite military and political class—without necessarily being part of such a class. Peter Paul Rubens could be considered an early example of the double persona of spy/artist. During the seventeenth century, his discretion as a famous artist proved essential to his undercover missions to England, to negotiate in secret instead of sending the official Spanish ambassador. Sitting alone for a portrait with a painter was not a strange scenario, and yet strategically it provided a discrete cover, where sensitive information could be discussed \n</p>\n\n<p class='indent'>\nin private without suspicion. There is little documentation (compared to his paintings) of this aspect of Rubens’ life—his correspondence being one of the only traces that remains. Note in this letter from 1630, his marginal sketches for the design of a tripod—seen here as a metaphor for his important conceptualization and execution of the tripartite peace negotiations between Spain, England, and Holland in 1629-30. \n</p>\n\n", "author": "PETER PAUL RUBENS", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/43-Rubens/Rubens-Thumb.png", @@ -1780,7 +1780,7 @@ "type": "jpg" }, "citation": "Berlin: Internationale Bibliothek, <br>\n1922/1844<br>\nBook<br>\n10 x 16.5 cm<br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nEdgar Allan Poe’s short story <i>The Purloined Letter </i>is one of the earliest examples of detective fiction. While the story is narrated by an unknown observer, similar to the later Dr. Watson of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes series, the story in fact revolves around the pontification and sleight of hand of C. Auguste Dupin. Like Sherlock, Dupin is a freelance genius who uses his keen observation and philosophical acumen to solve the cases that confound state police. The story sets up three overlapping triads: the Narrator, the Detective and the Police Prefect; the King, the Queen and a Minister; and finally, the Minister, the Detective and a Decoy. In short, the Queen has received a scandalous letter and upon opening it, is surprised by the sudden entrance of the King and the Minister. As a result, she is unable to hide the letter. The opportunistic Minister steals the letter and holds it ransom. The police search the Minister’s body and apartment but cannot find the letter, and thus seek the abilities of Dupin. Dupin determines the Minister has hidden the letter in plain sight, in his apartment, by simply turning the envelope inside out and re-addressing the letter to himself. In order to subvert the Minister’s power, Dupin arranges a decoy outside the Minister’s apartment: a drunkard fires a gun in the street, allowing for a window of distraction during which time Dupin swaps the original letter for a facsimile. Poe’s story was a success, commercially but also critically, principally because he sets up a contrast between the methodology of Dupin and the Police as the difference between the poetic and the positivistic. For Poe, the Police operate according to a method where they can only “extend or exaggerate their old modes of practice” based on what they already know and observe, so that methods such as look- ing closer—even using a microscope—do not solve the problem. On the other hand, Dupin likes to think in the dark, wears darkened glass to hide his gaze and is thus able to navigate the intersubjective triad using a conjectural method versus the analytic procedure. He receives a significant cash award as a result. \n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nEdgar Allan Poe’s short story <i>The Purloined Letter </i>is one of the earliest examples of detective fiction. While the story is narrated by an unknown observer, similar to the later Dr. Watson of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes series, the story in fact revolves around the pontification and sleight of hand of C. Auguste Dupin. Like Sherlock, Dupin is a freelance genius who uses his keen observation and philosophical acumen to solve the cases that confound state police. The story sets up three overlapping triads: the Narrator, the Detective and the Police Prefect; the King, the Queen and a Minister; and finally, the Minister, the Detective and a Decoy. In short, the Queen has received a scandalous letter and upon opening it, is surprised by the sudden entrance of the King and the Minister. As a result, she is unable to hide the letter. The opportunistic Minister steals the letter and holds it ransom. The police search the Minister’s body and apartment but cannot find the letter, and thus seek the abilities of Dupin. Dupin determines the Minister has hidden the letter in plain sight, in his apartment, by simply turning the envelope inside out and re-addressing the letter to himself. In order to subvert the Minister’s power, Dupin arranges a decoy outside the Minister’s apartment: a drunkard fires a gun in the street, allowing for a window of distraction during which time Dupin swaps the original letter for a facsimile. Poe’s story was a success, commercially but also critically, principally because he sets up a contrast between the methodology of Dupin and the Police as the difference between the poetic and the positivistic. For Poe, the Police operate according to a method where they can only “extend or exaggerate their old modes of practice” based on what they already know and observe, so that methods such as look- ing closer—even using a microscope—do not solve the problem. On the other hand, Dupin likes to think in the dark, wears darkened glass to hide his gaze and is thus able to navigate the intersubjective triad using a conjectural method versus the analytic procedure. He receives a significant cash award as a result. \n</p>\n\n", "author": "EDGAR ALLAN POE" }, { @@ -1843,7 +1843,7 @@ } ], "citation": "<i>É</i><i>crits I</i>, Paris: Éditions de Seuil, 1966 1956<br>\nBook<br>\n10.5 x 18 cm <br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nJacques Lacan chose, as the opening text to represent the canon of his writing, the seminar of Edgar Allan Poe’s <i>The Purloined Letter</i>. The text was written in 1956, the same year that Blunt brokered, for the Art Gallery of Toronto, the accession of a painting by Courbet with questionable attribution—its authenticity resting on a signature that, through forensic analysis, was revealed to be three signatures layered on top of each other. Lacan uses Poe’s short story to illustrate his thesis that the signifier—represented here by the titular letter—functions regardless of its message within an intersubjective triad. The thief remained hidden in plain view by turning the letter inside out and re-addressing the letter to himself. Breaking away from the infamous Oedipal triad that Freud and Lacan, in their heteronormative entrenchment, were obsessed with, it is curious to redirect our gaze to another Classical triad—the scenario of the Augustus, Cleopatra and a doubled Ant(h)ony. According to Anthony Blunt, the scene in the National Gallery’s painting occurs immediately after Augustus’s conquering of Egypt. Cleopatra’s lover Marc Antony has committed suicide with his sword, and Cleopatra submissively offers a black pouch to Augustus. Blunt theorizes the pouch is a collection of love letters written to Queen Cleopatra from Julius Cesar, Augustus’s uncle, produced to gain favour with Augustus. Of course we can never know what is actually in the pouch—like the Prefect’s positivist looking closer with a microscope, radiographs of the painting do not reveal an interior—but in a peculiar tripling of narrative, Anthony Blunt is himself positioned within the narrative of the painting, as a substitute Antony (both Antony and Anthony were queer). In 1945 Blunt, as the newly appointed Surveyor of the King’s Pictures (the regal title for Curator of the Royal Family’s private art collection), found himself dispatched on a secret mission to a conquered Germany in order to recover letters between Queen Victoria and her daughter, the Empress Frederick of Germany. He conducted three such missions in total, and used the immunity of the diplomatic pouch to smuggle the contents through Customs. \n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nJacques Lacan chose, as the opening text to represent the canon of his writing, the seminar of Edgar Allan Poe’s <i>The Purloined Letter</i>. The text was written in 1956, the same year that Blunt brokered, for the Art Gallery of Toronto, the accession of a painting by Courbet with questionable attribution—its authenticity resting on a signature that, through forensic analysis, was revealed to be three signatures layered on top of each other. Lacan uses Poe’s short story to illustrate his thesis that the signifier—represented here by the titular letter—functions regardless of its message within an intersubjective triad. The thief remained hidden in plain view by turning the letter inside out and re-addressing the letter to himself. Breaking away from the infamous Oedipal triad that Freud and Lacan, in their heteronormative entrenchment, were obsessed with, it is curious to redirect our gaze to another Classical triad—the scenario of the Augustus, Cleopatra and a doubled Ant(h)ony. According to Anthony Blunt, the scene in the National Gallery’s painting occurs immediately after Augustus’s conquering of Egypt. Cleopatra’s lover Marc Antony has committed suicide with his sword, and Cleopatra submissively offers a black pouch to Augustus. Blunt theorizes the pouch is a collection of love letters written to Queen Cleopatra from Julius Cesar, Augustus’s uncle, produced to gain favour with Augustus. Of course we can never know what is actually in the pouch—like the Prefect’s positivist looking closer with a microscope, radiographs of the painting do not reveal an interior—but in a peculiar tripling of narrative, Anthony Blunt is himself positioned within the narrative of the painting, as a substitute Antony (both Antony and Anthony were queer). In 1945 Blunt, as the newly appointed Surveyor of the King’s Pictures (the regal title for Curator of the Royal Family’s private art collection), found himself dispatched on a secret mission to a conquered Germany in order to recover letters between Queen Victoria and her daughter, the Empress Frederick of Germany. He conducted three such missions in total, and used the immunity of the diplomatic pouch to smuggle the contents through Customs. \n</p>\n\n", "author": "JACQUES LACAN", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/45-Lacan/45-Lacan-thumb.jpg", @@ -1892,7 +1892,7 @@ } ], "citation": "1924<br>\nDocument, 3 pages<br>\n21 x 29.7 cm each<br>\nCourtesy Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK <br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nThe Zinoviev Letter of 1924, “at once fascinating to connoisseurs and of real concern to the public,” is one of the most famous cases of British Intelligence and has continually resurfaced in pub-
lic discussion every decade since its existence. The publication of Nigel West’s book <i>The Crown Jewels</i>—a book about documents passed on by the double agents known as the Cambridge Spies, of which Anthony Blunt was the most famous— inspired Parliamentary debate and an official report by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). The scandal of the Zinoviev Letter, in short, is as follows: on the cusp of a national election in the United Kingdom, a letter was leaked to the press detailing commands from the central propaganda machine of the Soviet Union (Comintern) that the British proletariat should be agitated. The resulting fallout is difficult to assess, but the Labour government lost the election and theories proliferated, suggesting perhaps this was the first incident, in the 20th century, of a foreign state meddling in the election process of another sovereign state. The Soviets denied drafting the letter and the most recent official theory by the FCO proposes the letter was in fact a forgery by MI6 to scuttle the Labour government. To this day, the Secret Intelligence Service has not unsealed the documents around their research. \n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nThe Zinoviev Letter of 1924, “at once fascinating to connoisseurs and of real concern to the public,” is one of the most famous cases of British Intelligence and has continually resurfaced in pub-
lic discussion every decade since its existence. The publication of Nigel West’s book <i>The Crown Jewels</i>—a book about documents passed on by the double agents known as the Cambridge Spies, of which Anthony Blunt was the most famous— inspired Parliamentary debate and an official report by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). The scandal of the Zinoviev Letter, in short, is as follows: on the cusp of a national election in the United Kingdom, a letter was leaked to the press detailing commands from the central propaganda machine of the Soviet Union (Comintern) that the British proletariat should be agitated. The resulting fallout is difficult to assess, but the Labour government lost the election and theories proliferated, suggesting perhaps this was the first incident, in the 20th century, of a foreign state meddling in the election process of another sovereign state. The Soviets denied drafting the letter and the most recent official theory by the FCO proposes the letter was in fact a forgery by MI6 to scuttle the Labour government. To this day, the Secret Intelligence Service has not unsealed the documents around their research. \n</p>\n\n", "author": "ANONYMOUS / MI6 ", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/46-MI6/46-MI6-thumb.jpg", @@ -1942,7 +1942,7 @@ } ], "citation": "<b>
</b>1961<br>\nDocument <br>\n21.5 x 27.9<br>\nCourtesy the United Nations <br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nIn 1625, Hugo Grotius collected the thoughts of his predecessors together with his own to publish <i>On the Law of War and Peace</i>, which earned him the colloquial title of the father of International Law. Grotius essentially proposed that international society should be governed by mutual agreements and laws rather than by the force of warfare. A key concept in the manuscript is the idea of exterritoriality—or diplomatic immunity—for ambassadors while travelling in foreign states. It follows that, if the role of the ambassador is to maintain clear communication—especially during trying situations—the means of communication must also be clear, and confidential, between the ambassador abroad and the sovereign home state. Various acts and statutes have attempted to legalize reciprocal understanding between nations, but current law is based upon the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, ratified in 1961 by the member states of the United Nations. Article 27 of the treaty outlines, in purposefully vague terms, the inviolability of the diplomatic bag, which must not be opened nor delayed, as an essential component of healthy international relations. While not explicitly stated in the treaty, it is almost universally acknowledged that x-raying such a bag would violate the intention of the law, and so as a general rule is not conducted. A year after discovering painting <i>no6092</i>, the second world war interrupted Anthony Blunt’s academic life. Among Blunt’s portfolio of tasks as a spy during the war was the development and management of espionage unit Operation XXX, or TripleX. It would seem Blunt shifted his analysis of pouches-in-paintings to the analysis of pouches-in-politics. Blunt’s XXX program devised a method for the secret interception of diplomatic pouches, which are supposed to have immunity from police and Custom officers’ search and seizure rights while in transit. \n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nIn 1625, Hugo Grotius collected the thoughts of his predecessors together with his own to publish <i>On the Law of War and Peace</i>, which earned him the colloquial title of the father of International Law. Grotius essentially proposed that international society should be governed by mutual agreements and laws rather than by the force of warfare. A key concept in the manuscript is the idea of exterritoriality—or diplomatic immunity—for ambassadors while travelling in foreign states. It follows that, if the role of the ambassador is to maintain clear communication—especially during trying situations—the means of communication must also be clear, and confidential, between the ambassador abroad and the sovereign home state. Various acts and statutes have attempted to legalize reciprocal understanding between nations, but current law is based upon the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, ratified in 1961 by the member states of the United Nations. Article 27 of the treaty outlines, in purposefully vague terms, the inviolability of the diplomatic bag, which must not be opened nor delayed, as an essential component of healthy international relations. While not explicitly stated in the treaty, it is almost universally acknowledged that x-raying such a bag would violate the intention of the law, and so as a general rule is not conducted. A year after discovering painting <i>no6092</i>, the second world war interrupted Anthony Blunt’s academic life. Among Blunt’s portfolio of tasks as a spy during the war was the development and management of espionage unit Operation XXX, or TripleX. It would seem Blunt shifted his analysis of pouches-in-paintings to the analysis of pouches-in-politics. Blunt’s XXX program devised a method for the secret interception of diplomatic pouches, which are supposed to have immunity from police and Custom officers’ search and seizure rights while in transit. \n</p>\n\n", "author": "UNITED NATIONS ", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/47-UN/47-UN-thumb.jpg", @@ -2005,7 +2005,7 @@ } ], "citation": "2016<br>\nDigital Artwork Courtesy the Artist <br>\n", - "description": "<p>\n<i>no6092: The Purloined Letter </i>consists of an encrypted digital image using the technique of steganography that is automatically emailed to the sender when they request the work by writing <b>no6092@stankievech.net</b>. Steganography is the tactic of hiding a secret message in unsuspected data.\n</p>\n\n<p>\nThe artwork <i>no6092: The Purloined Letter </i>is based upon the painting catalogued under accession no6092 at the National Gallery of Canada and currently attributed to an anonymous painter under the title <i>Augustus and Cleopatra </i>c.1630- 1650. While the artwork <i>no6092: The Purloined Letter </i>and the NGC’s digital reproduction of the painting look incredibly similar, the digital artwork has changed every pixel in a calculated process to encrypt a secret message. The verisimilitude and yet the micro-differences are the very function of the work. \n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\n<i>no6092: The Purloined Letter </i>consists of an encrypted digital image using the technique of steganography that is automatically emailed to the sender when they request the work by writing <b>no6092@stankievech.net</b>. Steganography is the tactic of hiding a secret message in unsuspected data.\n</p>\n\n<p class='indent'>\nThe artwork <i>no6092: The Purloined Letter </i>is based upon the painting catalogued under accession no6092 at the National Gallery of Canada and currently attributed to an anonymous painter under the title <i>Augustus and Cleopatra </i>c.1630- 1650. While the artwork <i>no6092: The Purloined Letter </i>and the NGC’s digital reproduction of the painting look incredibly similar, the digital artwork has changed every pixel in a calculated process to encrypt a secret message. The verisimilitude and yet the micro-differences are the very function of the work. \n</p>\n\n", "author": "CHARLES STANKIEVECH", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/49-S-Purloined/49-S-Purloined-thumb.mp4", @@ -2128,7 +2128,7 @@ } ], "citation": "2013<br>\nPowerpoint File <br>\n18 slides <br>\n", - "description": "<p>\nYves Bouvier, a second-generation broker and shipper of art, was arrested by Swiss authorities on suspicion of cheating a Russian oligarch of over $1 billion in inflated art sales, scandalizing the already unregulated art world with his conflation of the logistics of shipping with the speculation of art dealing. Bouvier is the force behind a network of exterritorial zones around the world called “freeports” (Geneva, Singapore, Hong Kong, Luxembourg). At the same time he stepped down (while claiming his innocence) a NATO ambassador was brought onto the small board of directors. While freeports exist for all types of tax-free holdings of assets around the world in the form of unmarked warehouses, Bouvier’s brand of the freeport combined the infinite secret shuffling of works around the world with luxury services such as private exhibitions rooms, laboratories for testing attribution, and framing services. Images are exchanged not for their iconography but are commodities themselves, traded in unregulated exchange networks for services such as bribery and corporate espionage. In the hypermarket of art speculation worth $60 billion dollars annually, paintings are bought and sold seeing neither the light of day nor the black of the tax line. The black box of the State’s diplomatic pouch morphs into the black box of the entrepreneur’s storage locker. \n</p>\n\n", + "description": "<p class='indent'>\nYves Bouvier, a second-generation broker and shipper of art, was arrested by Swiss authorities on suspicion of cheating a Russian oligarch of over $1 billion in inflated art sales, scandalizing the already unregulated art world with his conflation of the logistics of shipping with the speculation of art dealing. Bouvier is the force behind a network of exterritorial zones around the world called “freeports” (Geneva, Singapore, Hong Kong, Luxembourg). At the same time he stepped down (while claiming his innocence) a NATO ambassador was brought onto the small board of directors. While freeports exist for all types of tax-free holdings of assets around the world in the form of unmarked warehouses, Bouvier’s brand of the freeport combined the infinite secret shuffling of works around the world with luxury services such as private exhibitions rooms, laboratories for testing attribution, and framing services. Images are exchanged not for their iconography but are commodities themselves, traded in unregulated exchange networks for services such as bribery and corporate espionage. In the hypermarket of art speculation worth $60 billion dollars annually, paintings are bought and sold seeing neither the light of day nor the black of the tax line. The black box of the State’s diplomatic pouch morphs into the black box of the entrepreneur’s storage locker. \n</p>\n\n", "author": "DAVID ARENDT ", "thumbnail": { "uri": "assets/data_store/50-Arendt/50-Arendt-thumb.mp4", diff --git a/load_spreadsheet.js b/load_spreadsheet.js index 1d4539f..e8fdd03 100644 --- a/load_spreadsheet.js +++ b/load_spreadsheet.js @@ -185,7 +185,8 @@ async function loadText(path, record) { if (groupCount < 3) { record.citation += paragraph.join("") + "<br>\n"; } else { - content += "<p>\n" + paragraph.join("") + "\n</p>\n\n"; + const text = paragraph.join(""); + content += "<p>\n" + text + "\n</p>\n\n"; } } if (!para.content.length) { diff --git a/public/assets/css/css.css b/public/assets/css/css.css index efd21df..3778cab 100644 --- a/public/assets/css/css.css +++ b/public/assets/css/css.css @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ body { background: black; font-family: "Spectral", serif; } +a { + color: white; +} .scene-tooltip { background: black; color: white !important; @@ -123,12 +126,6 @@ body { font-size: 1rem; 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+ opacity: 0; + pointer-events: none; + cursor: pointer; +} +.credits-link.visible { + opacity: 1; + pointer-events: auto; +} + +.credits { + position: absolute; + top: 0; + left: 0; + width: 100%; + height: 100%; + overflow-y: scroll; + background: rgba(64, 64, 64, 0.8); + color: #fff; + transition: opacity 0.2s; + opacity: 0; + pointer-events: none; +} +.credits.visible { + opacity: 1; + pointer-events: auto; +} +.credits .inner { + padding: 3rem; +} +.credits .row, +.credits .bibliography { + width: 100%; + display: flex; + flex-direction: row; + align-items: flex-start; + justify-content: space-evenly; +} +.credits .row .column { + width: 33%; + padding: 1rem 1.5rem; + position: relative; +} +.credits .bibliography-title { + margin-top: 3rem; +} +.credits .bibliography .column { + width: 25%; + padding: 1rem 1.5rem; +} +.credits h2 { + width: 100%; + text-align: center; + font-weight: normal; + font-size: 1rem; + margin-top: 0; + padding-top: 0; + margin-bottom: 1rem; +} +.credits-rows { + margin-bottom: 1rem; +} +.credits-rows > div { + display: flex; + flex-direction: row; +} +.credits-rows > div > div:first-child { + width: 33%; +} +.credits img { + height: 75px; +} +.credits .close { + position: absolute; + top: 1rem; + right: 1.5rem; + cursor: pointer; + height: 1.5rem; +} diff --git a/public/assets/css/fonts.css b/public/assets/css/fonts.css index a4fecb5..9a569be 100644 --- a/public/assets/css/fonts.css +++ b/public/assets/css/fonts.css @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +/* @font-face { font-family: "Spectral"; src: url("../fonts/spectral/Spectral-Regular.ttf"); @@ -9,3 +10,16 @@ src: url("../fonts/spectral/Spectral-Italic.ttf"); font-style: italic; } +*/ + +@font-face { + font-family: "Spectral"; + src: url("../fonts/spectral/Spectral-Medium.ttf"); + font-style: normal; +} + +@font-face { + font-family: "Spectral"; + src: url("../fonts/spectral/Spectral-MediumItalic.ttf"); + font-style: italic; +} diff --git a/public/assets/img/kw-white.png b/public/assets/img/kw-white.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..1755edb --- /dev/null +++ b/public/assets/img/kw-white.png diff --git a/src/views/App.js b/src/views/App.js index 6734c21..8c8722b 100644 --- a/src/views/App.js +++ b/src/views/App.js @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ import { MTLLoader, OBJLoader } from "@hbis/three-obj-mtl-loader"; import Detail from "./Detail.js"; import Legend from "./Legend.js"; +import Quote from "./Quote.js"; +import Credits from "./Credits.js"; +import Title from "./Title.js"; import buildGraph from "../graph.js"; export default function App() { @@ -16,6 +19,7 @@ export default function App() { const [graph, setGraph] = useState(null); const [selectedCategory, setSelectedCategory] = useState(null); const [detailVisible, setDetailVisible] = useState(null); + const [creditsVisible, setCreditsVisible] = useState(true); /** Load the database */ useEffect(async () => { @@ -58,10 +62,17 @@ export default function App() { <div> <Detail node={node} visible={detailVisible} onClose={handleClose} /> <Legend - visible={!detailVisible} + visible={!detailVisible && !creditsVisible} selected={selectedCategory} onSelect={handleSelect} /> + <Quote visible={!detailVisible && !creditsVisible} /> + <Credits + onToggle={setCreditsVisible} + visible={!detailVisible} + open={creditsVisible} + /> + <Title visible={!detailVisible && !creditsVisible} /> </div> ); } diff --git a/src/views/Credits.js b/src/views/Credits.js new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9d8c43e --- /dev/null +++ b/src/views/Credits.js @@ -0,0 +1,126 @@ +/** + * Credits + */ + +import React from "react"; + +export default function Credits({ visible, open, onToggle }) { + return ( + <> + <div + className={visible ? "credits-link visible" : "credits-link"} + onClick={() => onToggle(true)} + > + Credits + </div> + <div className="inner"> + <div className={open ? "credits visible" : "credits"}> + <div className="inner" onClick={(event) => event.stopPropagation()}> + <div className="row"> + <div + className="column" + dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: CREDITS_STRINGS.site }} + /> + <div + className="column" + dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: CREDITS_STRINGS.press }} + /> + <div className="column"> + <img + className="close" + src="/assets/img/close.svg" + onClick={() => onToggle(false)} + /> + <span + dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: CREDITS_STRINGS.sponsors }} + /> + </div> + </div> + <div className="row bibliography-title"> + <h2>BIBLIOGRAPHY</h2> + </div> + <div className="bibliography"> + <div + className="column" + dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ + __html: CREDITS_STRINGS.bibliography1, + }} + /> + <div + className="column" + dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ + __html: CREDITS_STRINGS.bibliography2, + }} + /> + <div + className="column" + dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ + __html: CREDITS_STRINGS.bibliography3, + }} + /> + <div + className="column" + dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ + __html: CREDITS_STRINGS.bibliography4, + }} + /> + </div> + </div> + </div> + </div> + </> + ); +} + +const CREDITS_STRINGS = { + site: ` + <h2>CREDITS</h2> + <div class="credits-rows"> + <div> + <div>Curator:</div> <a href="http://nadimsamman.com/" target="_blank">Nadim Samman</a> + </div> + <div> + <div>Developer:</div> <a href="https://asdf.us/" target="_blank">Jules LaPlace</a> + </div> + <div> + <div>Design:</div> <a href="https://www.stankievech.net/" target="_blank">Charles Stankievech</a> + </div> + </div> + <div> + Commissioned by:<br/> + <b>KW Institute for Contemporary Art</b><br/> + Auguststraße 69<br/> + 10117 Berlin<br/> + Tel. +49 30 243459-0<br/> + Fax +49 30 243459-99<br/> + <a href="mailto:info@kw-berlin.de?subject=The+Last+Museum">info@kw-berlin.de</a><br/> + <br/> + KW Institute for Contemporary Art is institutionally supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin.<br/> + </div> + `, + press: ` + <h2>No6092</h2> + Press Enquiries:<br/> + Natanja von Stosch<br/> + Tel. +49 30 243459 41<br/> + <a href="mailto:nvs@kw-berlin.de?subject=The+Last+Museum">nvs@kw-berlin.de</a><br/> + Press Releases and Image Material:<br/> + <a href="https://kw-berlin.de/en/press" target="_blank">kw-berlin.de/en/press</a> + `, + sponsors: ` + <h2>SPONSORS</h2> + <a href="https://www.kw-berlin.de/" target="_blank"><img src="assets/img/kw-white.png"></a> + `, + bibliography1: ` + Bibliography + `, + bibliography2: ` + Bibliography + `, + bibliography3: ` + Bibliography + `, + bibliography4: ` + Bibliography + `, +}; diff --git a/src/views/Quote.js b/src/views/Quote.js new file mode 100644 index 0000000..00f8ca3 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/views/Quote.js @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +/** + * Adorno quote + */ + +import React from "react"; + +export default function Quote({ visible }) { + return ( + <div className={visible ? "quote visible" : "quote"}> + <div>As a constellation,</div> + <div>theoretical thought circles the concept</div> + <div>it would like to unseal, hoping that it</div> + <div>may fly open like the lock of a</div> + <div>well-guarded safe-deposit box:</div> + <div>in response, not to a single key or</div> + <div>a single number, but to a</div> + <div>combination of numbers.</div> + <div>Theodor W. Adorno</div> + </div> + ); +} diff --git a/src/views/Title.js b/src/views/Title.js new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c86eea8 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/views/Title.js @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +/** + * Title + */ + +import React from "react"; + +export default function Title({ visible }) { + return ( + <div className={visible ? "site-title visible" : "site-title"}>NO6092</div> + ); +} |
