Country-by-country guide

Here is a list of articles in the Journal that significantly affect particular countries.

Argentina

Art and Survival in Patagonia


Australia

Feathers, fashion and animal rights

Colonial artist, thief, forger and mutineer:  Thomas Barrett's amazing career

The origins of an Australian art icon 

On the trail of the Last Supper

The surprising discovery of an early graphic novel

Should artists get royalties?

Early influences of photography on art:

Prussian blue and its partner in crime


Belgium: see entry for Netherlands, Flanders. Belgium


Chile

Art and Survival in Patagonia


China

Comets in Art


Egypt

The rescue of the fabulous lost library of Deir al-Surian

Elsheimer’s Flight into Egypt 

Lost masterpieces of ancient Egyptian art from the Nebamun tomb-chapel

The life and death of Mummy Brown

Egyptian Blue: the colour of technology

The art of giraffe diplomacy


Fiji

On the trail of the Last Supper


France - see also Tahiti

Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Marat: heroes and villains in the French Revolution 

Emerging from Obscurity: Georges de La Tour’s Musicians’ Quarrel

Reflections on a Masterpiece: Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère 

Exploring Gustave Caillebotte’s Paris Street, Rainy Day

A very rich book for the very rich

Millet and the Angelus

Rose-Marie Ormond: John Singer Sargent’s muse and “the most charming girl that ever lived”

Forgotten Women Artists #3: Marie-Gabrielle Capet: Stepping out from the Shadows

The adventures of Nadar: photography, ballooning, invention and the Impressionists:

The Controversies of Constantin Brancusi 

Comets in Art

Floating pleasure worlds of Paris and Edo

The emergence of the winter landscape: Bruegel and his predecessors

Toulouse-Lautrec, the bicycle and the women's movement

The Isenheim Altarpiece Part 1

Julie Manet, Renoir and the Dreyfus Affair

Strange encounters: the collector, the artist and the philosopher

Why wasn’t photography invented earlier?

Early influences of photography on art

Art in a speeded-up world

The art of giraffe diplomacy

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Germany

Elsheimer’s Flight into Egypt

Comets in Art

Prussian blue and its partner in crime

On the trail of the Last Supper

The emergence of the winter landscape: Bruegel and his predecessors

The Isenheim Altarpiece: Part 1

The Isenheim Altarpiece Part 2


Italy

The dramatic life of a controversial masterpiece: Leonardo’s portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci

Murder, Caravaggio and The Taking of Christ 

How one man saved the “greatest picture in the world”: Piero della Francesca’s 15th century masterpiece The Resurrection

Carpaccio's Miracle on the Rialto 

Carpaccio's double enigma: Hunting on the Lagoon and the Two Venetian Ladies

Science becomes Art

The Futurists declare war on pasta 

Comets in Art

On the trail of the Last Supper

The emergence of the winter landscape: Bruegel and his predecessors

Surviving the Black Death

Art in a speeded-up world

The origins of an Australian art icon 

Michelangelo's disputed Entombment

Titian, Prudence and the three-headed beast

Forgotten Women Artists: #1 Arcangela Paladini


Japan

Comets in Art

Prussian blue and its partner in crime

Floating pleasure worlds of Paris and Edo


Netherlands, Flanders, Belgium

Seeing the Light: Bruegel’s Conversion of Saul

Gabriel Metsu and the gentle art of letter writing

Deception and Misdirection: Hieronymus Bosch’s The Conjuror

​Bruegel and the Two Faces of Summer:  Haymaking and the Harvesters

An Exploration of Vision Reality and Illusion -- Jan van Eyck's Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele

Vermeer’s concert, the Gardner collection, and the art heist of the century

Forgotten Women Artists #5 Thérèse Schwartze

Bruegel's Peasant Wedding Feast: the case of the missing bridegroom and other mysteries

A very rich book for the very rich

Understanding Petrus Christus’ A Goldsmith in his Shop

Bruegel’s White Christmas: The Census at Bethlehem

The Sphinx of Delft: the demise and rediscovery of Jan Vermeer

Lost in Translation: Bruegel’s Tower of Babel 

Perception and Blindness in the 16th Century: Bruegel’s The Blind Leading the Blind:

The emergence of the winter landscape: Bruegel and his predecessors

Bruegel's Icarus and the perils of flight 

“All life is here”: Bruegel’s Way to Calvary 

​Forgotten Women Artists #4: Michaelina Wautier

Toulouse-Lautrec, the bicycle and the women's movement


​Norway

Early influences of photography on art


Outer space (not really a country, but anyway...)

Comets in Art


Patagonia

Art and Survival in Patagonia


Peru

On the trail of the Last Supper


Poland

Bernardo Bellotto and the reconstruction of Warsaw 


Russia

Christina Robertson: A Scottish Artist in Russia


Spain

The shocking birth and amazing career of Guernica

Art in a speeded-up world

Art and Survival in Patagonia

From the Rokeby Venus to Fascism Part 1


Tahiti

Early influences of photography on art

Sarka of the South Seas


United Kingdom, Ireland

Millais, Charles Dickens and the Holy Family

Murder, Caravaggio and The Taking of Christ 

Christina Robertson: A Scottish artist in Russia

​Masters of All they Survey -- Gainsborough’s Mr and Mrs Andrews

The Two Women in White

Forgotten Women Artists #2: Jane Loudon 

Dr Jekyll, Frankenstein and Shelley's Heart

Feathers, fashion and animal rights

Lost masterpieces of ancient Egyptian art from the Nebamun tomb-chapel

Colonial artist, thief, forger and mutineer:  Thomas Barrett's amazing career

Science becomes Art

Comets in Art

Prussian blue and its partner in crime

Toulouse-Lautrec, the bicycle and the women's movement

Art in a speeded-up world

Early influences of photography on art

Watchmen, goldfinders and the plague bearers of the night

Should artists get royalties?

The life and death of Mummy Brown

Strange encounters: the collector, the artist and the philosopher

From the Rokeby Venus to Fascism Part 1

From the Rokeby Venus to Fascism Part 2


United States

Vermeer’s concert, the Gardner collection, and the art heist of the century

The extraordinary career of Granville Redmond, deaf artist and silent movie actor 

The Controversies of Constantin Brancusi 

On the trail of the Last Supper

Strange encounters: the collector, the artist and the philosopher

Early influences of photography on art

Sarka of the South Seas

Should artists get royalties?

The surprising discovery of an early graphic novel

Prussian blue and its partner in crime