Nicholas Penny

Nicholas Penny is the director of the National Gallery.

In the LRB Archive:

• Hot Air: Robert Hughes · 7 June 2007

  • Things I Didn’t Know: A Memoir by Robert Hughes

• On the Hilltop: How the Getty spends its money · 4 January 2007

  • Guide to the Getty Villa by Kenneth Lapatin et al
  • History of the Art of Antiquity by Johann Joachim Winckelmann, translated by Harry Francis Mallgrave
  • The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing by T.J. Clark

• Cradles in the Portego: Renaissance Venice · 5 January 2006

  • The New Palaces of Medieval Venice by Juergen Schulz
  • Private Lives in Renaissance Venice by Patricia Fortini Brown

• At the Royal Scottish Academy: The Age of Titian · 21 October 2004

• The People’s Goya: A Fascination with Atrocity · 23 September 2004

  • Goya by Robert Hughes

• At the National Gallery: El Greco · 4 March 2004

• At the Musée du Luxembourg: Botticelli · 20 November 2003

• In Toledo, Ohio: Goltzius · 23 October 2003

• The Rack, the Rapier, the Ruff and the Fainting Nun: Manet/Velázquez · 10 July 2003

  • Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting by Gary Tinterow and Geneviève Lacambre et al

• Journey to Arezzo: The Apotheosis of Piero · 17 April 2003

  • Piero della Francesca by Roberto Longhi, translated by David Tabbat

• Diary: at the races · 6 February 2003

• At the Palazzo Venier: Peggy Guggenheim’s Eye · 9 May 2002

  • Peggy Guggenheim: The Life of an Art Addict by Anton Gill

• Joining the Gang: Anthony Blunt · 29 November 2001

  • Anthony Blunt: His Lives by Miranda Carter

• Surrealism à la Courbet on Balthus · 24 May 2001

  • Balthus: Catalogue raisonné of the Complete Works by Jean Clair and Virginie Monnier
  • Balthus by Nicholas Fox Weber

• Models and Props: Caravaggio in the Studio · 10 August 2000

  • Caravaggio by Catherine Puglisi
  • Caravaggio' Secrets by Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit
  • M by Peter Robb
  • Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History by Mieke Bal
  • Doubting Thomas: A Novel About Caravaggio by Atle Naess, translated by Anne Born
  • Caravaggio: A Life by Helen Langdon

• Nymph of the Grot · 13 April 2000

  • The Culture of the High Renaissance by Ingrid Rowland
  • Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by Francesco Colonna, translated by Joscelyn Godwin
  • After Raphael: Painting in Central Italy in the 16th Century by Marcia Hall

• Lurching up to bed with the champion of Cubism: Douglas Cooper · 20 January 2000

  • The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Picasso, Provence and Douglas Cooper by John Richardson

• Put it in your suitcase on Sotheby’s · 18 March 1999

  • Sotheby’s : Bidding for Class by Robert Lacey
  • Sotheby’s : Inside Story by Peter Watson

• Feigning a Relish: One Tate or Two · 15 October 1998

  • The Tate: A History by Frances Spalding

• Why Christ is playing with the Magdalene’s Hair: Correggio · 2 July 1998

  • Correggio by David Ekserdjian
  • The 'Divine' Guido by Richard Spear

• Lost in the Woods writes about Victorian fairy painting · 1 January 1998

  • Victorian Fairy Painting edited by Jane Martineau

• Vertiginous · 12 December 1996

  • Grands Décors français 1650-1800 by Bruno Pons
  • The Rococo Interior by Katie Scott
  • Chardin by Marianne Roland Michel, translated by Eithne McCarthy

• Hollow-Headed Angels · 4 January 1996

  • Art and Power: Europe under the Dictators 1930-1945 edited by David Britt

• Giorgio Mio · 16 November 1995

  • Giorgio Vasari: Art and History by Patricia Lee Rubin

• Back to the Wall · 21 September 1995

  • In Perfect Harmony: Picture and Frame 1850-1920 edited by Eva Mendgen

• Fit for a Saint · 6 April 1995

  • The Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice by Peter Humfrey
  • Italian Altarpieces 1250-1550: Function and Design edited by Eve Borsook and Fiorella Superbi Gioffredi

• It Didn’t Dry in Winter · 10 November 1994

  • Wealth and the Demand for Art in Italy 1300-1600 by Richard Goldthwaite

• As if standing before Julius · 7 April 1994

  • Only Connect: Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance by John Shearman

• Best of British · 2 December 1993

  • Glenkiln by John McEwen and John Haddington
  • Henry Moore: An Interpretation by Peter Fuller, edited by Anthony O’Hear

• The Big Show · 25 March 1993

  • Henri Matisse: A Retrospective by John Elderfield
  • Henri Matisse 1904-1917 by Yves-Alain Bois

• White Coats v. Bow Ties · 11 February 1993

  • Jacopo della Quercia by James Beck
  • Michelangelo and the Creation of the Sistine Chapel by Robin Richmond
  • Rembrandt. The Master and his Workshop: Paintings by Christopher Brown, Jan Kelch and Pieter van Thiel
  • Michelangelo’s Drawings: The Science of Attribution by Alexander Perrig
  • Michelangelo and his Drawings by Michael Hirst
  • The Poetry of Michelangelo: An Annotated Translation by James Saslow

• Making it · 5 November 1992

  • The Sculpture of Jacopo Sansovino by Bruce Boucher
  • Giambattista and Lorenzo Bregno: Venetian Sculpture in the High Renaissance by Anne Markham Schulz

• Who framed Madame Moitessier? · 9 April 1992

  • Metropolitan Jewellery by Sophie McConnell
  • Italian Renaissance Frames by Timothy Newbery, George Bisacca and Laurence Kanter
  • The Italian Renaissance Interior 1400-1600 by Peter Thornton
  • Palaces of Art edited by Giles Waterfield

• Bidding for favours · 19 December 1991

  • The Altarpiece in Renaissance Italy by Jacob Burckhardt, edited and translated by Peter Humfrey
  • The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt, translated by S.G. Middlemore
  • The Altarpiece in the Renaissance edited by Peter Humfrey and Martin Kemp
  • Painting in Renaissance Siena by Keith Christiansen, Laurence Kanter and Carl Stehlke

• Myths of the Artist’s Youth · 7 November 1991

• Measuring up · 4 April 1991

  • Renaissance Portraits: European Portrait Painting in the 14th, 15th and 16th Centuries by Lorne Campbell

• Diary · 8 November 1990

• Preaching to a lion · 22 March 1990

  • Giovanni Bellini by Rona Goffen

• Fraternity · 8 March 1990

  • The Image of the Black in Western Art. Vol. IV, Parts I-II: From the American Revolution to World War One by Hugh Honour
  • Primitive Art in Civilised Places by Sally Price
  • The Return of Cultural Treasures by Jeanette Greenfield

• On holiday with Leonardo · 21 December 1989

  • The New Museology edited by Peter Vergo
  • The Romantic Interior: The British Collector at Home 1750-1850 by Clive Wainwright
  • Journal of the History of Collections, No 1 edited by Oliver Impey and Arthur MacGregor

• Diary · 4 May 1989

• Seeing through Fuller · 30 March 1989

  • Theoria: Art and the Absence of Grace by Peter Fuller
  • Seeing through Berger by Peter Fuller
  • Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain. Vol. IX: Since the Second World War edited by Boris Ford
  • Ruskin’s Myths by Dinah Birch
  • The Sun is God: Painting, Literature and Mythology in the 19th Century edited by J.B. Bullen
  • Artisans and Architects: The Ruskinian Tradition in Architectural Thought by Mark Swenarton

• Gestures of Embrace · 27 October 1988

  • Rembrandt’s Enterprise: The Studio and the Market by Svetlana Alpers
  • The Light of Early Italian Painting by Paul Hills
  • Italian Paintings in the Robert Lehman Collection by John Pope-Hennessy

• The Hooks of her Gipsy Dresses · 1 September 1988

  • Picasso: Creator and Destroyer by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington

• Lucian Freud · 31 March 1988

• Meltings · 18 February 1988

  • Painting as an Art by Richard Wollheim

• Bonking with Berenson · 17 September 1987

  • Bernard Berenson. Vol. II: The Making of a Legend by Ernest Samuels
  • The Partnership: The Secret Association of Bernard Berenson and Joseph Duveen by Colin Simpson

• Mantegna’s Revenge · 3 September 1987

  • Mantegna by Ronald Lightbown
  • The Sistine Chapel: Michelangelo Rediscovered edited by Massimo Giacometti, translated by Paul Holberton

• Warhol’s Respectability · 19 March 1987

  • The Revenge of the Philistines by Hilton Kramer
  • Gilbert and George by Carter Ratcliff
  • British Art in the 20th Century edited by Susan Compton

• Late Picasso · 20 November 1986

  • Je suis le Cahier: The Sketchbooks of Picasso edited by Arnold Glimcher and Marc Glimcher
  • The Musèe Picasso, Paris: Catalogue of the Collections. Paintings, Papiers Collés, Picture Reliefs, Sculptures, Ceramics by Marie-Laure Besnard-Bernadac, Michéle Richet and Hélène Seckel
  • Degas: The Complete Etchings, Lithographs and Monotypes by Jean Adhémar and Françoise Cachin

• Bats · 9 October 1986

  • Pictures and Punishment: Art and Criminal Prosecution during the Florentine Renaissance by Samuel Edgerton
  • Images of Man and Death by Philippe Ariès, translated by Janet Lloyd
  • Fingerprints of the Artists: European Terra-Cotta Sculpture from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections by Charles Avery and Alastair Laing

• Ecolalia · 4 September 1986

  • Faith in Fakes by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver
  • Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages by Umberto Eco, translated by Hugh Bredin

• Geraniums and the River · 20 March 1986

  • The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers by T.J. Clark
  • Cellini by John Pope-Hennessy
  • Alessandro Algardi by Jennifer Montagu

• Momentary Substances · 21 November 1985

  • Patterns of Intention by Michael Baxandall
  • The Enigma of Piero by Carlo Ginzburg, translated by Martin Ryle and Kate Soper

• To the Cleaners · 4 July 1985

  • The Ravished Image: Or, How to Ruin Masterpieces by Restoration by Sarah Walden

• The Great Business · 21 March 1985

  • Art of the 19th Century: Painting and Sculpture by Robert Rosenblum and H.W. Janson
  • Romanticism and Realism: The Mythology of 19th-Century Art by Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner
  • Géricault: His Life and Work by Lorenz Eitner
  • Tradition and Desire: From David to Delacroix by Norman Bryson

• Hink Tank · 19 July 1984

  • The Gymnasium of the Mind: The Journals of Roger Hinks 1933-1963 edited by John Goldsmith

• Boys wearing wings · 15 March 1984

  • Caravaggio by Howard Hibbard
  • Circa 1600: A Revolution of Style in Italian Painting by S.J. Freedberg
  • Domenichino by Richard Spear

• Muck · 3 November 1983

  • Constable: The Painter and his Landscape by Michael Rosenthal
  • Constable’s England by Graham Reynolds

• Paintings about Painting · 4 August 1983

  • The Art of Describing by Svetlana Alpers

• Everybody wants a Rembrandt · 17 March 1983

  • The Rare Art Traditions by Joseph Alsop

• Goddesses and Girls · 2 December 1982

• Stroking · 15 July 1982

  • Victorian Sculpture by Benedict Read

• Chips · 18 March 1982

  • Michelangelo and the Language of Art by David Summers
  • Bernini in France: An Episode in 17th-Century History by Cecil Gould

• Affability · 19 November 1981

  • Moments of Vision by Kenneth Clark

• The Ashtray · 4 June 1981

  • The Study and Criticism of Italian Sculpture by John Pope-Hennessy

• Swooning · 2 April 1981

  • Bernini and the Unity of the Visual Arts by Irving Lavin

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