Scholarly contributions to art history

The RKD editorial highlights several scholarly contributions to art history, including Catriona Seth's article on Liotard's 1762 portrait of Marie-Antoinette, Mary Vaccaro's study of watermarks on Carracci drawings at Windsor Castle and elsewhere, Silvia Papini's research on François Rivière's once-lost Ottoman drawing found in Bucharest, Claire Roberts' analysis of the Thompson collection of modern Chinese woodblock prints from 1937-45, Vanessa Boni's exploration of Leonora Carrington's creative process through the rediscovery of a 1940s sketchbook, and Emily A. Beeny and Francesco Baccanelli's report on a new drawing by Édouard Manet.

Exhibitions reviewed

Exhibitions covered include Anne Leonard's Odilon Redon: Otherworldly Visions, Kirstin Kennedy's Primada: VIII centenario de la Catedral de Toledo, Zoë Opacic's The Přemyslids: A Ruling Dynasty and its Age, Georgios E. Markou's Titian and Landscape, Christoph Martin Vogtherr's Rococo under Construction: The Making of Schloss Augustusburg, Andrew Hopkins' Peggy Guggenheim in London: The Making of a Collector, Clelia Rebecchi's Lorna Simpson: Third Person, and Luca Palozzi's Museo Diocesano Giacomo Boccanera.

Books reviewed

Books reviewed include Benedikt Hanschmann's Revisiting the Cloisters Cross, Frederica C.E. Law-Turner's Drawings in Books in Medieval Britain from the Ninth Century to the Reformation, Bram De Klerck's Altobello Melone: Opera completa, Chiara Betti's The Burgeoning European Print Trade: The Distribution of Prints via the Plantin-Moretus Press of Antwerp, Hugh Belsey's Pen and Pencil: Visual and Literary Culture in Georgian England, Karthika Audinet's Chintz: The Karun Thakar Collection, Timothy Brittain-Catlin's Gothic: Building Castles in Post-Union Ireland, Elizabeth Savage's Walter Crane: Books in Colour, and Christopher Baker's John Singer Sargent: The Charcoal Portraits.

Obituary section

The obituary section includes Simon Richard Houfe (1942-2026).