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Papers by Susanna Avery-Quash
Edinburgh University Press eBooks, Dec 13, 2022
19, Mar 30, 2023
My chosen work of art for the Gallery section of Professor Hilary Fraser's Festschrift is the Nat... more My chosen work of art for the Gallery section of Professor Hilary Fraser's Festschrift is the National Gallery's second oldest painting, Margarito d'Arezzo's Virgin and Child Enthroned of the 1260s and the debates it aroused when the inaugural director Sir Charles Eastlake bought it in 1857 as part of his revolutionary introduction of early Italian art into the national painting collection, much of which was seen as not at the time at all beautiful-'unsightly' to use his own phrase. This warranted him explaining in the first annual report that such art was acquired not for its aesthetic merit but on the grounds of its historic importance. The article will examine the expanding public role of the National Gallery in terms of educating the widest possible public about the history of Western European painting in addition to offering what were deemed to be suitable teaching aids to encourage the native school of painters. It will also shine a light on various women who have played significant roles in promoting interest in and knowledge about early Italian art, including Margarito's panel, in the National Gallery's collection.
Oxford University Press eBooks, Sep 23, 2004
Edinburgh University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2022
, pp. 436-38 (p. 436). See the article on Jameson by Susanna Avery-Quash in this issue. 3 See the... more , pp. 436-38 (p. 436). See the article on Jameson by Susanna Avery-Quash in this issue. 3 See the articles by Ilaria Della Monica and Jonathan Nelson in this issue.
Victorian Beauty
My chosen work of art for the Gallery section of Professor Hilary Fraser’s Festschrift is the Nat... more My chosen work of art for the Gallery section of Professor Hilary Fraser’s Festschrift is the National Gallery’s second oldest painting, Margarito d’Arezzo’s Virgin and Child Enthroned of the 1260s and the debates it aroused when the inaugural director Sir Charles Eastlake bought it in 1857 as part of his revolutionary introduction of early Italian art into the national painting collection, much of which was seen as not at the time at all beautiful — ‘unsightly’ to use his own phrase. This warranted him explaining in the first annual report that such art was acquired not for its aesthetic merit but on the grounds of its historic importance. The article will examine the expanding public role of the National Gallery in terms of educating the widest possible public about the history of Western European painting in addition to offering what were deemed to be suitable teaching aids to encourage the native school of painters. It will also shine a light on various women who have played sig...
She is in charge of activities associated with the Gallery's research strands, 'Buying, Collectin... more She is in charge of activities associated with the Gallery's research strands, 'Buying, Collecting and Display' and 'Art and Religion', including postgraduate teaching, organising public events and editing associated publications.
The Burlington Magazine, 2015
History, 2020
The Apple of his Eye: Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX. By William Chester Jordan. xi... more The Apple of his Eye: Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX. By William Chester Jordan. xiii + 177pp. Princeton University Press. 2019. £30.00. It has long been acknowledged that Louis IX of France promoted a programme of 'redemptive government'. Aiming at the moral improvement of society, the king and his agents wished heretics, usurers, whores and Jews to reform their ways, where possible by persuasion, otherwise under compulsion. Specialists here, most notably Benjamin Kedar, have noted the extension of this programme to Muslim and pagans, first through the training of missionaries for the east, sponsored by the friars and the Paris schools, and thereafter, in the aftermath of Louis IX's defeat and capture on crusade, through attempts to convert the Muslims of crusader Acre, employing cash and other incentives to persuade various of those on the margins of society to accept Christian baptism. William Chester Jordan, to some extent the first discoverer and for more than forty years the leading authority on Louis IX's 'redemptive' style, now takes up this story. Where Kedar and others left off in the mid-1250s, Jordan resumes with the deliberate transportation of Muslim converts to France and their resettlement, after 1254, as pensioners of the French crown. Evidence previously supposed to concern Jewish converts to Christianity, surviving among the fragmentary remains of the Chambre des Comptes burned in 1737, is here reattributed to the convert Muslim community whose fate can thus be traced into the 1260s and beyond. Whereas in the past, estimates of the size of this community have varied between 40 and 500, Jordan allows for a figure potentially in excess of 1,000. Avoiding the policy adopted towards Jewish converts in England and elsewhere-gathered together within a single 'House of Converts' in which former habits, language and faith tended to be obstinately reinforced rather than charitably eradicated-Louis and his administrators scattered their Muslim converts far and wide, often north of the Seine, where issues of language, diet, climate and general acculturation would have been especially acute. There is a noticeable absence here of another technique widely used in England: the settlement of Jewish converts as corrodians within monastic precincts, especially within those of the greater cathedral priories. Not surprisingly some of Louis IX's converts ran (or more often simply faded) away: six of the twenty-five heads of household in Orléans, for example, before 1260. Fear or resignation sustained the programme, not least given the example set by Jewish converts who apostacised after Christian baptism, publicly burned at Rouen in 1266 and at Paris two years later. Yet in other cases, as with the ten livres (a substantial sum) spent by the
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](19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, 2019
The National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin recently mounted an exhibition entitled '[In]Visible: I... more The National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin recently mounted an exhibition entitled '[In]Visible: Irish Women Artists from the Archives' (19 July 2018-3 March 2019). 1 It showed material from two little-known but highly important repositories: the ESB Centre for the Study of Irish Art, and the Yeats Archive, both of which relate to Irish women artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From these archives, letters, scrapbooks, and photographs, as well as some works of art, including embroideries, were put on show, all made by women artists including Mary Swanzy, Sarah Purser, Mainie Jellett, Susan Yeats, and Evie Hone. The aim was to shed light on their education and artistic practice and to think further about the contribution they made both to major exhibitions and longer lasting artistic initiatives and movements. This interest in their lives and legacy is new; despite being some of the most progressive people in Ireland before and after independence-the suffragette movement and Revolutionary period were contemporaneous-they were overlooked by the Irish arts institutions of the day which were male dominated.
Journal Of The History Of Collections, 2017
Journal of the History of Collections, 2015
Architectural, Spiritual and Literary Convergences in England and Wales, 2011
... The Image of Christ Christ is readily recognizable to us in all sorts of images, in painting,... more ... The Image of Christ Christ is readily recognizable to us in all sorts of images, in painting, sculpture, film and illustration; his likeness is familiar, and yet the Gospels and the early Christian texts do not provide any information about his appearance. ...
Apollo: The international magazine of arts, 1999
... 'Valuable assistance': Stanley Spencer's friendship with Gwen and ... more ... 'Valuable assistance': Stanley Spencer's friendship with Gwen and Jacques Raverat. Autores: Susanna Avery-Quash; Localización: Apollo: The international magazine of arts, ISSN 0003-6536, Nº. 452, 1999 , págs. 3-11. Fundación Dialnet. Acceso de usuarios registrados. ...
Oud Holland – Journal for Art of the Low Countries
The articles in this Oud Holland special issue ‘New perspectives on Rubens’ landscapes’ reassess ... more The articles in this Oud Holland special issue ‘New perspectives on Rubens’ landscapes’ reassess Peter Paul Rubens’ late landscapes from a number of new perspectives. The occasion for this was the landmark exhibition Rubens: Reuniting the great landscapes held at the Wallace Collection, London from 3 June to 15 August 2021, preceded by a conference ‘Rubens’ great landscapes’ held at the Wallace Collection on 17-18 May 2021. The exhibition was in fact a reunion of A view of Het Steen in the early morning (c. 1636) from the National Gallery, London and The rainbow landscape (c. 1636) from the Wallace Collection – two great panoramic landscapes that were created as a pendant pair, but which had been separated for more than two hundred years. This introductory essay explores the journeys and changing ownership of the two paintings from after their separation in 1803 to the time of their reunion in 2021. It investigates the growing fame of the companion pieces in Britain in the nineteent...
Leo S. Olschki eBooks, 2019
Journal of the History of Collections, 2020
Over one hundred letters between the Bolognese art agent, archivist and local historian Michelang... more Over one hundred letters between the Bolognese art agent, archivist and local historian Michelangelo Gualandi (1793–1887) and Sir Charles Eastlake (1793–1865), first director of the National Gallery, London, have recently been discovered in the University Library at Frankfurt. The correspondence charts the pair’s relationship during Eastlake’s decade in office from 1855 and demonstrates the diverse ways in which Gualandi assisted Eastlake, from sourcing books and undertaking archival research to helping to purchase pictures for the National Gallery and Eastlake’s own private collection. It also presents new data concerning the paintings that eluded them and the state of the international art market in the middle of the nineteenth century. We contend that their collaboration-cum-friendship deserves greater recognition and, given the extent of his assistance, that Gualandi might justifiably be repositioned within the gallery’s institutional history as, in many ways, a figure comparabl...
Edinburgh University Press eBooks, Dec 13, 2022
19, Mar 30, 2023
My chosen work of art for the Gallery section of Professor Hilary Fraser's Festschrift is the Nat... more My chosen work of art for the Gallery section of Professor Hilary Fraser's Festschrift is the National Gallery's second oldest painting, Margarito d'Arezzo's Virgin and Child Enthroned of the 1260s and the debates it aroused when the inaugural director Sir Charles Eastlake bought it in 1857 as part of his revolutionary introduction of early Italian art into the national painting collection, much of which was seen as not at the time at all beautiful-'unsightly' to use his own phrase. This warranted him explaining in the first annual report that such art was acquired not for its aesthetic merit but on the grounds of its historic importance. The article will examine the expanding public role of the National Gallery in terms of educating the widest possible public about the history of Western European painting in addition to offering what were deemed to be suitable teaching aids to encourage the native school of painters. It will also shine a light on various women who have played significant roles in promoting interest in and knowledge about early Italian art, including Margarito's panel, in the National Gallery's collection.
Oxford University Press eBooks, Sep 23, 2004
Edinburgh University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2022
, pp. 436-38 (p. 436). See the article on Jameson by Susanna Avery-Quash in this issue. 3 See the... more , pp. 436-38 (p. 436). See the article on Jameson by Susanna Avery-Quash in this issue. 3 See the articles by Ilaria Della Monica and Jonathan Nelson in this issue.
Victorian Beauty
My chosen work of art for the Gallery section of Professor Hilary Fraser’s Festschrift is the Nat... more My chosen work of art for the Gallery section of Professor Hilary Fraser’s Festschrift is the National Gallery’s second oldest painting, Margarito d’Arezzo’s Virgin and Child Enthroned of the 1260s and the debates it aroused when the inaugural director Sir Charles Eastlake bought it in 1857 as part of his revolutionary introduction of early Italian art into the national painting collection, much of which was seen as not at the time at all beautiful — ‘unsightly’ to use his own phrase. This warranted him explaining in the first annual report that such art was acquired not for its aesthetic merit but on the grounds of its historic importance. The article will examine the expanding public role of the National Gallery in terms of educating the widest possible public about the history of Western European painting in addition to offering what were deemed to be suitable teaching aids to encourage the native school of painters. It will also shine a light on various women who have played sig...
She is in charge of activities associated with the Gallery's research strands, 'Buying, Collectin... more She is in charge of activities associated with the Gallery's research strands, 'Buying, Collecting and Display' and 'Art and Religion', including postgraduate teaching, organising public events and editing associated publications.
The Burlington Magazine, 2015
History, 2020
The Apple of his Eye: Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX. By William Chester Jordan. xi... more The Apple of his Eye: Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX. By William Chester Jordan. xiii + 177pp. Princeton University Press. 2019. £30.00. It has long been acknowledged that Louis IX of France promoted a programme of 'redemptive government'. Aiming at the moral improvement of society, the king and his agents wished heretics, usurers, whores and Jews to reform their ways, where possible by persuasion, otherwise under compulsion. Specialists here, most notably Benjamin Kedar, have noted the extension of this programme to Muslim and pagans, first through the training of missionaries for the east, sponsored by the friars and the Paris schools, and thereafter, in the aftermath of Louis IX's defeat and capture on crusade, through attempts to convert the Muslims of crusader Acre, employing cash and other incentives to persuade various of those on the margins of society to accept Christian baptism. William Chester Jordan, to some extent the first discoverer and for more than forty years the leading authority on Louis IX's 'redemptive' style, now takes up this story. Where Kedar and others left off in the mid-1250s, Jordan resumes with the deliberate transportation of Muslim converts to France and their resettlement, after 1254, as pensioners of the French crown. Evidence previously supposed to concern Jewish converts to Christianity, surviving among the fragmentary remains of the Chambre des Comptes burned in 1737, is here reattributed to the convert Muslim community whose fate can thus be traced into the 1260s and beyond. Whereas in the past, estimates of the size of this community have varied between 40 and 500, Jordan allows for a figure potentially in excess of 1,000. Avoiding the policy adopted towards Jewish converts in England and elsewhere-gathered together within a single 'House of Converts' in which former habits, language and faith tended to be obstinately reinforced rather than charitably eradicated-Louis and his administrators scattered their Muslim converts far and wide, often north of the Seine, where issues of language, diet, climate and general acculturation would have been especially acute. There is a noticeable absence here of another technique widely used in England: the settlement of Jewish converts as corrodians within monastic precincts, especially within those of the greater cathedral priories. Not surprisingly some of Louis IX's converts ran (or more often simply faded) away: six of the twenty-five heads of household in Orléans, for example, before 1260. Fear or resignation sustained the programme, not least given the example set by Jewish converts who apostacised after Christian baptism, publicly burned at Rouen in 1266 and at Paris two years later. Yet in other cases, as with the ten livres (a substantial sum) spent by the
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, 2019
The National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin recently mounted an exhibition entitled '[In]Visible: I... more The National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin recently mounted an exhibition entitled '[In]Visible: Irish Women Artists from the Archives' (19 July 2018-3 March 2019). 1 It showed material from two little-known but highly important repositories: the ESB Centre for the Study of Irish Art, and the Yeats Archive, both of which relate to Irish women artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From these archives, letters, scrapbooks, and photographs, as well as some works of art, including embroideries, were put on show, all made by women artists including Mary Swanzy, Sarah Purser, Mainie Jellett, Susan Yeats, and Evie Hone. The aim was to shed light on their education and artistic practice and to think further about the contribution they made both to major exhibitions and longer lasting artistic initiatives and movements. This interest in their lives and legacy is new; despite being some of the most progressive people in Ireland before and after independence-the suffragette movement and Revolutionary period were contemporaneous-they were overlooked by the Irish arts institutions of the day which were male dominated.
Journal Of The History Of Collections, 2017
Journal of the History of Collections, 2015
Architectural, Spiritual and Literary Convergences in England and Wales, 2011
... The Image of Christ Christ is readily recognizable to us in all sorts of images, in painting,... more ... The Image of Christ Christ is readily recognizable to us in all sorts of images, in painting, sculpture, film and illustration; his likeness is familiar, and yet the Gospels and the early Christian texts do not provide any information about his appearance. ...
Apollo: The international magazine of arts, 1999
... 'Valuable assistance': Stanley Spencer's friendship with Gwen and ... more ... 'Valuable assistance': Stanley Spencer's friendship with Gwen and Jacques Raverat. Autores: Susanna Avery-Quash; Localización: Apollo: The international magazine of arts, ISSN 0003-6536, Nº. 452, 1999 , págs. 3-11. Fundación Dialnet. Acceso de usuarios registrados. ...
Oud Holland – Journal for Art of the Low Countries
The articles in this Oud Holland special issue ‘New perspectives on Rubens’ landscapes’ reassess ... more The articles in this Oud Holland special issue ‘New perspectives on Rubens’ landscapes’ reassess Peter Paul Rubens’ late landscapes from a number of new perspectives. The occasion for this was the landmark exhibition Rubens: Reuniting the great landscapes held at the Wallace Collection, London from 3 June to 15 August 2021, preceded by a conference ‘Rubens’ great landscapes’ held at the Wallace Collection on 17-18 May 2021. The exhibition was in fact a reunion of A view of Het Steen in the early morning (c. 1636) from the National Gallery, London and The rainbow landscape (c. 1636) from the Wallace Collection – two great panoramic landscapes that were created as a pendant pair, but which had been separated for more than two hundred years. This introductory essay explores the journeys and changing ownership of the two paintings from after their separation in 1803 to the time of their reunion in 2021. It investigates the growing fame of the companion pieces in Britain in the nineteent...
Leo S. Olschki eBooks, 2019
Journal of the History of Collections, 2020
Over one hundred letters between the Bolognese art agent, archivist and local historian Michelang... more Over one hundred letters between the Bolognese art agent, archivist and local historian Michelangelo Gualandi (1793–1887) and Sir Charles Eastlake (1793–1865), first director of the National Gallery, London, have recently been discovered in the University Library at Frankfurt. The correspondence charts the pair’s relationship during Eastlake’s decade in office from 1855 and demonstrates the diverse ways in which Gualandi assisted Eastlake, from sourcing books and undertaking archival research to helping to purchase pictures for the National Gallery and Eastlake’s own private collection. It also presents new data concerning the paintings that eluded them and the state of the international art market in the middle of the nineteenth century. We contend that their collaboration-cum-friendship deserves greater recognition and, given the extent of his assistance, that Gualandi might justifiably be repositioned within the gallery’s institutional history as, in many ways, a figure comparabl...