Hitler's Propaganda Pilgrimage

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Bob Carruthers

The famous image of Hitler in Paris has become one of the most iconic images of the Second World War. However, Hitler only spent a few hours in Paris before heading to Flanders to re-visit the sites of the battlefields where he had served during the Great War. He was on a propaganda mission to publicize his own war service and a full photographic record of Hitler's visits to France and Flanders was produced by Heinrich Hoffman, Hitler's personal photographer. Those photographs from 1940 have now been collected together for the first time and are reproduced here along with all of the most impor.

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Anne Dion-Tenenbaum

Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition présentée du 9 juin au 5 septembre 2011 au Louvre à Paris. 70 oeuvres sur papier d'une cinquantaine d'artistes actifs entre les XVe et XXIe siècles, ont été sélectionnées dans les fonds des départements des arts graphiques du musée du Louvre, du musée d'Orsay, du Musée national d'Art moderne (Pompidou) et dans ceux de diverses collections françaises. En confrontant les générations, il s'agit de démontrer que le papier est un acteur à part entière du dessin. L'exposition dont le présent catalogue rend compte s'organise en cinq sections, jouant par principe sur les rapprochements entre anciens et modernes et sur la diversité des partis techniques et esthétiques.

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Fabio Mariano

This essay enlights the leading military role played by the city and harbour of Ancona in the Marches, against Muslims attacks, during the XVI century. Antonio da Sangallo jr. designed the strong "Cittadella" above the Astagno hill and other famous military architects carried on the huge "Campo Trincerato" around it, such as Pier Francesco da Viterbo, Giovan Battista Pelori, Pellegrino Tibaldi, Francesco Paciotto, Giacomo Fontana, etc. Born in Ancona, Fontana wrote (1588) a report for pope Sisto V on conditions of the fortifications of his mother town, with several drawings (Codex Vaticano Latino n.13325), which is interely published and widely explicated here, for the first time, by Mariano.

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Ellen G. Miles

During the years from 1796 to 1810, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin (1770-1852) made some of the most memorable images in the history of American portraiture. Because of his unusually precise style and the multitude of sitters he portrayed, his distinctive profile portraits have come to epitomize Federal America. Among his subjects were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis, Mother Seton, John Adams, and Paul Revere. Eventually Saint-Memin returned to France, leaving behind no successful imitators of his art. Among the most individualistic images from the Federal period, his profile portraits are a unique legacy to this nation. This book documents all of the artist's portraits, as well as his landscapes, plans, and other engravings; and the portrait entries include short biographies of the subjects. The catalogue is preceded by an illustrated history of the neoclassical profile portrait in America, and a biography of the artist.