Andrew Graham-Dixon Art critic, journalist, TV presenter, author, lecturer and educationalist.
Andrew Graham-Dixon Art critic, journalist, TV presenter, author, lecturer and educationalist.
16th Century

Divine in the detail
Date: 03-03-2013
Owning Institution: National Gallery
Publication:       Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013  
Subject:     16th Century    
“Bronze”, at The Royal Academy
Date: 23-09-2012
Owning Institution: Royal Academy
Publication: Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013            
Subject:   16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Middle Ages & Earlier  Renaissance    
Shakespeare: Staging the World
Date: 22-08-2012
Owning Institution: British Museum
Publication: Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013        
Subject:   16th Century  17th Century    
Liquid asset
Date: 29-04-2012
Owning Institution: National Maritime Museum
Publication: Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013              
Subject:   16th Century  17th Century  18th Century  19th Century  20th Century    
The genius of Leonardo
Date: 13-11-2011
Owning Institution: National Gallery
Publication:         Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013  
Subject:     Renaissance  16th Century    
The mystery of the two Madonnas.
Date: 23-10-2011
Owning Institution: National Gallery
Publication:         Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013  
Subject:     Renaissance  16th Century    
Watercolour
Date: 20-02-2011
Owning Institution: Tate Britain
Publication: Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013          
Subject:   16th Century  20th Century      
Look ahead to 2011
Date: 02-01-2011
Owning Institution:
Publication:                 Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013  
Subject:         Now  Middle Ages & Earlier  20th Century  16th Century    
Looking back on 2010
Date: 19-12-2010
Owning Institution:
Publication:               Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013  
Subject:         Now  20th Century  16th Century    
Florence’s forgotten treasure
Date: 24-10-2010
Owning Institution: Palazzo Strozzi
Publication: Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013      
Subject:   16th Century    
All the hits and more
Date: 26-09-2010
Owning Institution: Royal Academy
Publication:               Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013  
Subject:         Renaissance  19th Century  16th Century    
Mystery Portraits at Montacute House
Date: 10-05-2010
Owning Institution: National Portrait Gallery
Publication:       Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013  
Subject:   17th Century  16th Century    
Caravaggio, 400 years on
Date: 26-04-2010
Owning Institution:
Publication:       Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013  
Subject:   17th Century  16th Century    
The Ashmolean revived
Date: 01-11-2009
Owning Institution: Ashmolean
Publication: Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013              
Subject:   16th Century  17th Century  18th Century  19th Century  20th Century  Now  
“The Discovery of Spain” at The Royal Scottish Academy
Date: 09-09-2009
Owning Institution: Royal Scottish Academy
Publication: Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013                  
Subject:   16th Century  17th Century  18th Century  19th Century  20th Century        
“Medals of Dishonour” at the British Museum and “Felicity Powell” at Domobaal
Date: 23-08-2009
Owning Institution: The British Museum
Publication:             Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013  
Subject:   20th Century  19th Century  18th Century  17th Century  16th Century    
“The Polish Connection” and “The Best of British” at The Dulwich Picture Gallery
Date: 16-08-2009
Owning Institution: Dulwich Picture Gallery
Publication: Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013            
Subject:   16th Century  17th Century  18th Century  19th Century    
“Henry VIII: Man and Monarch” at the British Library
Date: 03-05-2009
Owning Institution: The British Library
Publication:     Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013  
Subject:   16th Century    
Andrea Palladio at the Royal Academy
Date: 01-02-2009
Owning Institution: The Royal Academy
Publication:     Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013  
Subject:   16th Century    
Autumn preview of exhibitions in London and Paris 2008
Date: 07-09-2008
Owning Institution:
Publication:                 Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013  
Subject: Renaissance  Now  Middle Ages & Earlier  20th Century  19th Century  18th Century  17th Century  16th Century    
“Turmoil and Tranquillity” at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Date: 03-08-2008
Owning Institution:
Publication:           Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013  
Subject:   19th Century  18th Century  17th Century  16th Century    
The Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille
Date: 11-11-2007
Owning Institution: Palais des Beaux-Arts Lille
Publication:             Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013  
Subject:   20th Century  19th Century  18th Century  17th Century  16th Century    
“A New World” at The British Museum
Date: 01-04-2007
Owning Institution: The British Museum
Publication:         Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013  
Subject:   Renaissance  18th Century  16th Century    
Vile bodies
Date: 07-02-1998
Owning Institution:
Publication:     The Independent 1987 - 1999  
Subject:   16th Century    
Holbein's inner game
Date: 01-11-1997
Owning Institution: National Gallery
Publication:     The Independent 1987 - 1999  
Subject:   16th Century    
Love's labours lost
Date: 12-08-1997
Owning Institution: Foundation Cartier
Publication:               The Independent 1987 - 1999  
Subject:     20th Century  19th Century  18th Century  17th Century  16th Century    
The virgin rebirth
Date: 05-07-1997
Owning Institution: National Gallery
Publication:       The Independent 1987 - 1999  
Subject:     16th Century    
Traces of greatness
Date: 22-10-1996
Owning Institution: Victoria and Albert Museum
Publication: The Independent 1987 - 1999          
Subject:   16th Century  Renaissance      
Visions of the apocalypse
Date: 06-08-1996
Owning Institution: National Gallery
Publication: The Independent 1987 - 1999        
Subject:   16th Century  Renaissance    
British art - our best kept secret
Date: 04-04-1996
Owning Institution:
Publication: The Independent 1987 - 1999              
Subject:   16th Century  17th Century  18th Century  19th Century  20th Century    
Every silver lining needs a cloud
Date: 23-05-1995
Owning Institution: National Gallery
Publication: The Independent 1987 - 1999        
Subject:   16th Century  17th Century    
A dance to the music of time
Date: 24-01-1995
Owning Institution: Royal Academy
Publication: The Independent 1987 - 1999        
Subject:   16th Century  17th Century    
The naked face
Date: 22-02-1994
Owning Institution: National Portrait Gallery
Publication: The Independent 1987 - 1999          
Subject:   16th Century  Renaissance      
Try this for sheer size
Date: 30-11-1993
Owning Institution: The Louvre
Publication:               The Independent 1987 - 1999  
Subject:   Renaissance  Middle Ages & Earlier  19th Century  18th Century  17th Century  16th Century    
The page of reason
Date: 25-05-1993
Owning Institution: British Museum
Publication:       The Independent 1987 - 1999  
Subject:   17th Century  16th Century    
The Queen keeps her pictures, but not her credibility
Date: 23-11-1992
Owning Institution: The Royal Collection
Publication: The Independent 1987 - 1999            
Subject:   16th Century  18th Century  Now      
Painting over the past
Date: 03-11-1992
Publication: The Independent 1987 - 1999            
Subject:   16th Century  17th Century  Renaissance      
Sudden shafts of reality
Date: 27-10-1992
Owning Institution: Ashmolean Museum
Publication:         The Independent 1987 - 1999  
Subject:   18th Century  17th Century  16th Century    
Facial disfigurement
Date: 21-07-1992
Owning Institution: Cartier Foundation
Publication:   The Independent 1987 - 1999                  
Subject: 16th Century    17th Century  18th Century  19th Century  20th Century          
No Bones About It
Date: 28-01-1992
Owning Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Publication:     The Independent 1987 - 1999  
Subject:   16th Century    
On a wing and a prayer
Date: 28-12-1991
Owning Institution:
Publication:                 The Independent 1987 - 1999  
Subject:     Renaissance  Middle Ages & Earlier  19th Century  18th Century  17th Century  16th Century    
Regal Bearings
Date: 22-10-1991
Owning Institution: National Gallery
Publication: The Independent 1987 - 1999            
Subject:   16th Century  17th Century        
Darkness in a Frame
Date: 15-01-1991
Owning Institution: Accademia Italiana
Publication: The Independent 1987 - 1999                      
Subject:   16th Century  17th Century  18th Century  19th Century  Renaissance            
Shows Must Go On.
Date: 31-12-1990
Owning Institution:
Publication: The Independent 1987 - 1999              
Subject:   16th Century  18th Century  20th Century  Renaissance      
A Land of Opportunity
Date: 21-08-1990
Owning Institution: National Gallery of Scotland
Publication: The Independent 1987 - 1999          
Subject:   16th Century  17th Century  19th Century    
Hanging in the balance
Date: 10-07-1990
Owning Institution: The National Gallery
Publication:           
Subject: 16th Century  Renaissance        
Restorers wipe the smile off the Mona Lisa's face
Date: 01-04-1990
Owning Institution: Louvre
Publication:     The Independent 1987 - 1999  
Subject:   16th Century    
The fabric of everyday life
Date: 16-01-1990
Owning Institution: Royal Academy
Publication:         The Independent 1987 - 1999  
Subject:     17th Century  16th Century    
Monkey business
Date: 22-08-1989
Owning Institution: National Gallery of Scotland
Publication: The Independent 1987 - 1999            
Subject:   16th Century  Renaissance        
A deal about pictures, or glory?
Date: 30-06-1988
Owning Institution: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Publication:                             The Independent 1987 - 1999  
Subject:                 Renaissance  20th Century  19th Century  18th Century  17th Century  16th Century    
The all-star cast
Date: 29-03-1988
Owning Institution: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Publication:     The Independent 1987 - 1999  
Subject:   16th Century    
This is not a repeat
Date: 04-01-1988
Owning Institution: V&A
Publication: The Independent 1987 - 1999          
Subject:   16th Century  17th Century  18th Century  19th Century  
The shock of the old
Date: 09-10-1987
Owning Institution: Manchester City Art Gallery
Publication: The Independent 1987 - 1999                  
Subject:   16th Century  17th Century  18th Century  19th Century  20th Century  Now      

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"Andrew Graham-Dixon is the dean of art critics."
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Matthew Collings, in the Independent on Sunday

"Andrew Graham-Dixon's range is unusually wide, his prose style so supple and his analysis of artists and their work so absorbing that the reader begins by being enthralled and ends by being enriched. How is this achieved? Generally, each piece begins with a description of a particular work of art in which the chief characteristics of the artist are revealed and then held up for re-examination in a wider context, invariably leading to fresh insights or reinterpretations... As a critic he is remarkably self-effacing,reserving the space for opinions on art and artists as opposed to displays of irascibility or bouts of petulance...  Then there is his irreverent sense of humour. For example, Boucher and Fragonard are described as 'painters of airborne brothels' and Giacometti's fuigures are introduced as 'graduates of one of the most punishing physical regimes of modern times: the Alberto Giacometti Total Fitness Programme'. Yet such asides are soon abandoned for passages of sustained prose that often have the plangency of a meditation, only to be brought to a sudden halt by a startling epigram. Many of these last are brilliant apercus that are both memorable and instructive..."
Christopher Lloyd, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, in The Daily Express

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