Browse O'Byrne, Robert
1-151 out of 151 article(s)
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| Budding artists: Robert O'Byrne draws some unexpected conclusions about botanical art in Ireland. |
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Nov 1, 2023 |
994 |
| Listed buildings: Robert O'Byrne reads between the lines of the itemised contents of Irish country houses. |
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Feb 1, 2023 |
1050 |
| Why was the Royal Academy so willing to let one of its most treasured pieces go? |
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Jul 1, 2022 |
778 |
| Can an exhibition represent a nation? Herbert Furst thought so in June 1942. |
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Jun 1, 2022 |
774 |
| There was relatively little mourning for the passing of the great London houses. |
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May 1, 2022 |
738 |
| From the Archives: Walter Sickert's music hall scenes bring us closer to an artist who is the victim of some very dodgy theories. |
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Apr 1, 2022 |
770 |
| As editor of Apollo in 1952, Horace Shipp was prepared to sail into choppy waters --and he didn't think much of Calder. |
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Mar 1, 2022 |
795 |
| In 1972 Apollo's editor Denys Sutton likened state interference in the arts under Lord Eccles to Soviet Russia. |
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Feb 1, 2022 |
796 |
| Sixty years ago, a ceramics specialist named Dr Boney wrote about a Georgian organisation called the Society of Bucks. |
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Jan 1, 2022 |
915 |
| Attitudes to restitution have changed dramatically since 2001, when the British Museum opened its African galleries. |
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Dec 1, 2021 |
946 |
| In 1991 the most expensive project in the history of art-book publishing was about to collide with the internet. |
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Nov 1, 2021 |
927 |
| In 1961, Apollo looked back at the Glasgow International Exhibition of 1901--and marvelled at the artists it excluded. |
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Oct 1, 2021 |
781 |
| The Pisa-born Ignazio Hugford decorated many an Italian church in his time. A pity his art was so bad ... |
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Sep 1, 2021 |
813 |
| In 1991 Apollo visited the Annenbergs at their Californian estate, Sunnylands--and rained on their (art) parade. |
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Jul 1, 2021 |
821 |
| FROM THE ARCHIVES: Medical silver might be among the more unusual subjects featured in Apollo, whose June 1961 issue showed its metal. |
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Jun 1, 2021 |
809 |
| Finding content amid wartime restrictions was a challenge for Apollo in 1941--as an article on 'interesting mortars' attests. |
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May 1, 2021 |
774 |
| In 1931, a letter from Madrid was no sooner printed in Apollo than the Spanish art world was undone by events. Sound familiar? |
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Apr 1, 2021 |
740 |
| In 1961, an Apollo writer rediscovered an artist whose reputation had been no more durable than his material--wax. |
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Mar 1, 2021 |
808 |
| FROM THE ARCHIVES. |
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Feb 1, 2021 |
800 |
| That fads might play a part in restoration was anathema to one Apollo critic in 1970. |
Column |
Jan 1, 2021 |
780 |
| In 1929 Apollo boosted the profile of the brilliantly named artist Hercules Brabazon Brabazon. |
Column |
Dec 1, 2020 |
831 |
| FROM THE ARCHIVES: A look back at the advertising that Apollo carried 40 years ago reveals a good deal about subsequent shifts in artistic taste. |
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Nov 1, 2020 |
893 |
| Founder of the Fondation Custodia and 'one of the last great collector-scholars', Frits Lugt was feted in Apollo in 1970. |
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Oct 1, 2020 |
862 |
| Fifty years ago, Venice was already in peril--and things would only get worse. But is there at last a glimmer of hope? |
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Sep 1, 2020 |
792 |
| Celtic revival: These essential records of Ireland's historic buildings reveal a wealth of curiosities, writes Robert O'Byrne. |
Book review |
Jul 1, 2020 |
1139 |
| Despite the threat of German invasion from across the English Channel, the July 1940 issue of Apollo was business as usual. |
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Jul 1, 2020 |
763 |
| When Apollo raved about Ivan Mestrovic in 1930, he was the world's greatest living sculptor. So what happened? |
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Jun 1, 2020 |
802 |
| A collection of Chinese art previewed in the May 1940 issue of Apollo went under the hammer as Dunkirk was being evacuated. |
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May 1, 2020 |
766 |
| A misspelled name in the April 1950 issue of Apollo obscured the fascinating identity of museum director Louis Wijsenbeek. |
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Apr 1, 2020 |
747 |
| Television could give 'the ordinary layman' an artistic education, wrote a contributor to Apollo in 1950. |
Book review |
Mar 1, 2020 |
824 |
| The extraordinary history of the Ghent Altarpiece--stolen many times over--featured in Apollo's very first issue in 1925. |
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Feb 1, 2020 |
838 |
| Opened just days after the Wall Street Crash, the Museum of Modern Art met with Apollo's approval in January 1930. |
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Jan 1, 2020 |
857 |
| From Russia, avec amour--in 1975 Apollo feted 18th-century St Petersburg's passion for all things French. |
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Dec 1, 2019 |
806 |
| Dora Maar could never escape her association with Picasso--even when her work was praised in Apollo in 1958. |
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Nov 1, 2019 |
789 |
| In 1977, Linda Nochlin's exhibition 'Women Artists: 1550-1950' was a revelation for its reviewer in Apollo. |
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Oct 1, 2019 |
792 |
| In 1929, a future Tate director writing in Apollo deemed admirers of modern art 'lacking all discrimination'. |
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Sep 1, 2019 |
799 |
| The furore over the Notre-Dame spire competition has echoes of the Louvre overhaul, covered by Apollo in 1989. |
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Jun 1, 2019 |
784 |
| Back in 1934, an art critic used column inches in Apollo to push a Leonardo attribution--for a bronze he owned. |
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May 1, 2019 |
823 |
| Invest in thoroughbred brown furniture--so Apollo advised 'men of moderate means and good taste' in 1945. |
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Apr 1, 2019 |
806 |
| The 17th-century papal feasts written about in Apollo in 1966 would have had today's Instagrammers salivating. |
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Mar 1, 2019 |
804 |
| Reflecting the excitement over a landmark show of Persian art in London in 1931, Apollo feted it in five consecutive issues. |
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Feb 1, 2019 |
797 |
| Controversy over how art should be displayed was stoking Apollo's editorial fire 30 years ago this month. |
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Jan 1, 2019 |
786 |
| Covering the Royal Academy's 200th anniversary in 1969, Apollo issued a gloomy--and thankfully mistaken--forecast. |
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Dec 1, 2018 |
789 |
| Niche market: Hugh Lane's philanthropy set him apart from the art dealers of his time. |
Book review |
Nov 1, 2018 |
1001 |
| Hypnotic and erotic--Alphonse Mucha's work, reassessed in Apollo in 1963, took on the swinging decade's spirit. |
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Nov 1, 2018 |
803 |
| Oskar Bie's column celebrated the vibrant and cosmopolitan Berlin of 1928--with no foreshadowing of what was to come. |
Column |
Oct 1, 2018 |
776 |
| Herbert Furst's tongue-in-cheek defence of philistinism in January 1945 reveals the prejudices of his age. |
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Sep 1, 2018 |
805 |
| Writing in 1964, Denys Sutton strove to rehabilitate Sargent's reputation after decades of negative critical reviews. |
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Jul 1, 2018 |
787 |
| A lot of hot Eire? |
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Jun 1, 2018 |
1838 |
| Paul J. Sachs was a banker and educator who shaped the museum landscape in the US, wrote Agnes Mongan in 1978. |
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Jun 1, 2018 |
789 |
| 'This is a region that grew rich on slave labour': Robert O'Byrne in Savannah, Georgia. |
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May 1, 2018 |
785 |
| In 1936, Robin Baily was as duped by the early cricketing paintings assembled at Gatton Park as the collector himself. |
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May 1, 2018 |
797 |
| Although he was known as a painter, David Wilkie Wynfield excelled at photography, wrote Margaret Garner in 1973. |
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Apr 1, 2018 |
765 |
| Tintoretto's fanciful extravagance infuriated his peers, wrote Wolfgang Born in 1937--but therein lies his greatness. |
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Mar 1, 2018 |
807 |
| Posterity is not always kind to the artists deemed fashionable in their day, lamented John Grioni in 1968. |
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Feb 1, 2018 |
772 |
| Romantic Ireland: The little-known Frederic William Burton was a fine draughtsman. |
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Jan 1, 2018 |
895 |
| Records of the dispersal of Charles I's collection reveal how the great sale was organised, wrote W.L.F. Nuttall in 1965. |
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Jan 1, 2018 |
813 |
| CLOTHING ART AILEEN RIBEIRO. |
Book review |
Dec 1, 2017 |
386 |
| As the forger Han van Meegeren went on trial for his fake Vermeers in 1947, Apollo admonished a complicit art world. |
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Dec 1, 2017 |
770 |
| Fragonard's reputation is diminished by the decadent paintings for which he is renowned, wrote Denys Sutton in 1987 Robert O'Byrne. |
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Nov 1, 2017 |
798 |
| Opera is an intrinsically despotic art form and, as Percy Colson wrote in 1925, the English have no appetite for it. |
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Oct 1, 2017 |
775 |
| The changing status of women--as artists, wives and mothers--was noted in a prescient article published in 1943. |
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Sep 1, 2017 |
781 |
| Dod Procter was celebrated in these pages in 1927--and rightly so, as an upcoming show in Edinburgh demonstrates. |
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Jul 1, 2017 |
794 |
| Pride of place. |
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Jun 1, 2017 |
2781 |
| The dressmaker Rose Bertin held sway over Marie Antoinette--and was the first celebrity fashion designer. |
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Jun 1, 2017 |
783 |
| Time has revealed the discerning eye of the disparaged collector Joseph Smith, wrote Francis Haskell in 1965. |
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May 1, 2017 |
789 |
| Writing in December 1954, shortly after Matisse's death, Clive Bell called time on the artist's rivalry with Picasso. |
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Apr 1, 2017 |
774 |
| The artistic achievements of the Mamluks rival those of the Renaissance, argued Mahonri Sharp Young in 1981. |
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Feb 1, 2017 |
791 |
| We have always lived in uncertain times, noted Frank Anderson Trapp in 1969, writing on the 1867 Paris Exposition. |
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Jan 1, 2017 |
766 |
| Apollo's response to Monet's death, published in 1927, demonstrates that critical acceptance can be a slow process. |
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Dec 1, 2016 |
778 |
| Well connected: Irishness is not the most interesting thing about Irish art. |
Book review |
Nov 1, 2016 |
933 |
| From the archives: an editorial published in August 1963 celebrated Velazquez's mastery, noting the mystery at the heart of his paintings. |
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Nov 1, 2016 |
792 |
| Henri Fantin-Latour was irked by his flower paintings--but they make up his finest work, wrote Denys Sutton in 1984. |
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Oct 1, 2016 |
763 |
| Abstract painting came under scrutiny in Apollo in the 1950s, and with it came both resistance and shifts in perspective. |
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Sep 1, 2016 |
775 |
| Save our museums! Robert O'Byrne on an essay collection that makes a firm defence of public collection. |
Book review |
Jul 1, 2016 |
1041 |
| The Sainsbury Wing's postmodern riffs on classical architecture, noted in Apollo in 1991, have an appeal that has endured. |
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Jul 1, 2016 |
735 |
| Recent Caravaggio attributions have caused a stir among specialists--but there is nothing new about that. |
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Jun 1, 2016 |
758 |
| The Mellon family's gifts to the American nation are priceless, wrote a prescient Mahonri Sharp Young in 1966. |
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May 1, 2016 |
777 |
| Arnold Hauser's grappling with the parameters of mannerism was ahead of its time, wrote Denys Sutton in 1965. |
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Apr 1, 2016 |
750 |
| Giorgione has long been an art-historical enigma, as Alfred Scharf made clear in an article published in Apollo in 1939. |
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Mar 1, 2016 |
755 |
| Henry James's final novel was inspired by attempts to keep a work by Hans Holbein the Younger in Britain, wrote Adeline R. Tintner in Apollo in 1981. |
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Feb 1, 2016 |
812 |
| Art historians can fall prey to changes in taste, as revealed in two articles published in Apollo in 1949 and 1984. |
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Jan 1, 2016 |
746 |
| Art criticism is an indulgent folly, declared Apollo in 1951--but the best practitioners possessed an eloquence rarely seen today. |
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Dec 1, 2015 |
778 |
| Romanticism was an essentially English movement, wrote Horace Shipp in 1959, taken to fierce extremes on the Continent. |
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Nov 1, 2015 |
731 |
| An article from 1946 drew attention to the Chinese taste for Western objects, which remains a neglected subject to this day. |
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Oct 1, 2015 |
752 |
| From the archives: the duc d'Orleans ruled France as Regent for just eight years, wrote John Richardson in 1949, but the influence of his taste was pervasive. |
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Sep 1, 2015 |
756 |
| Contemporary art scandalises newspapers but, as Ronald Pickvance noted in 1963, even Degas was misunderstood by the British press. |
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Jul 1, 2015 |
761 |
| Art theft is nothing new--the 17th century saw churches across Italy robbed of their Raphaels, wrote R.W. Lightbown in 1963. |
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Jun 1, 2015 |
763 |
| From the archives. |
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May 1, 2015 |
916 |
| From the archives. |
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Apr 1, 2015 |
779 |
| A vanishing world. |
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Mar 1, 2015 |
3307 |
| From the archives: the wars, transgressions and political intrigues of Tudor England drive our fascination with this turbulent period in history-more so than the art that has survived, wrote David Piper in the December 1956 issue of Apollo. |
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Mar 1, 2015 |
784 |
| From the archives. |
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Feb 1, 2015 |
832 |
| Emerald style: Robert O'Byrne assesses a major scholarly endeavour to chronicle Ireland's creative history. |
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Jan 1, 2015 |
1029 |
| From the archives. |
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Jan 1, 2015 |
787 |
| From the archives: Hokusai's colour woodcuts have long been admired in the West for their elegance and poetic representation, but his little-known ink paintings are the true masterpieces of imagination, argued Victor Rienaecker in October 1950. |
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Dec 1, 2014 |
773 |
| Turning Turk: Robert O'Byrne assesses two publications dealing with the impact of the Orient on Western taste. |
Book review |
Nov 1, 2014 |
1088 |
| From the archives. |
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Nov 1, 2014 |
796 |
| From the archives. |
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Oct 1, 2014 |
840 |
| From the archives. |
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Sep 1, 2014 |
808 |
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