Andrew Graham-Dixon Art critic, journalist, TV presenter, author, lecturer and educationalist.
Andrew Graham-Dixon Art critic, journalist, TV presenter, author, lecturer and educationalist.
Middle Ages & Earlier

“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    
Divine to difficult
Date: 18-12-2011
Owning Institution:
Publication:                     Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013  
Subject:             Renaissance  Now  Middle Ages & Earlier  19th Century    
Afghanistan
Date: 13-03-2011
Owning Institution: British Museum
Publication: Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013    
Subject:   Middle Ages & Earlier  
Modern British sculpture
Date: 23-01-2011
Owning Institution: Royal Academy
Publication:           Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013    
Subject:     Now  Middle Ages & Earlier  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    
The Cosmati Pavement at Westminster Abbey
Date: 28-06-2009
Owning Institution: Westminster Abbey
Publication:       Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013  
Subject:     Middle Ages & Earlier    
"Babylon" at the British Museum
Date: 09-11-2008
Owning Institution: The British Museum
Publication: Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013      
Subject:   Middle Ages & Earlier    
"Byzantium" at the Royal Academy
Date: 26-10-2008
Owning Institution: Royal Academy
Publication:     Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013  
Subject:   Middle Ages & Earlier    
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    
Renaissance Siena: Art for a Renaissance City a the National Gallery
Date: 14-10-2007
Owning Institution: National Gallery
Publication:   Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013        
Subject: Middle Ages & Earlier    Renaissance      
The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army, at the British Museum
Date: 16-09-2007
Owning Institution: The British Museum
Publication:     Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013  
Subject:   Middle Ages & Earlier    
The Art of Eternity: The Genius of Early Christian Art
Date: 24-12-2006
Owning Institution:
Publication:       Sunday Telegraph Features  
Subject:     Middle Ages & Earlier    
The New(ish) Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art at the V&A
Date: 23-07-2006
Publication:   Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013    
Subject: Middle Ages & Earlier      
I, Samurai
Date: 08-01-2006
Owning Institution:
Publication:     Sunday Telegraph Features  
Subject:   Middle Ages & Earlier    
ITP 279: The Death of Actaeon by Titian
Date: 04-09-2005
Owning Institution: The National Gallery
Publication:   Sunday Telegraph “In The Picture”      
Subject: Middle Ages & Earlier        
The Cambridge Illuminations at The Fitzwilliam Museum and Cambridge University Library 2005
Date: 04-09-2005
Owning Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Publication: Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013          
Subject:   17th Century  Middle Ages & Earlier  Renaissance    
The Westminster Retable
Date: 22-05-2005
Owning Institution: The National Gallery, London
Publication: Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013      
Subject:   Middle Ages & Earlier    
ITP 255: The Crucifixion by Giotto di Bondone
Date: 20-03-2005
Owning Institution: The Arena Chapel
Publication:   Sunday Telegraph “In The Picture”  
Subject: Middle Ages & Earlier    
New Portrait Miniatures Gallery, at The Victoria and Albert Museum
Date: 20-03-2005
Owning Institution: Victoria and Albert Museum
Publication:         Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013  
Subject:   Renaissance  Middle Ages & Earlier  17th Century    
Compton Verney in Warwickshire, A New(ish) Museum in England 2005
Date: 16-01-2005
Owning Institution: Compton Verney
Publication: Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013                  
Subject:   18th Century  19th Century  20th Century  Middle Ages & Earlier  Renaissance        
“Medieval and Renaissance Stained Glass” at Sam Fogg
Date: 12-12-2004
Owning Institution: Sam Fogg
Publication:     Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013    
Subject: Renaissance  Middle Ages & Earlier      
Raphael : From Urbino to Rome at the National Gallery 2004
Date: 24-10-2004
Owning Institution: The National Gallery
Publication:   Sunday Telegraph Features      
Subject: Middle Ages & Earlier        
ITP 222: St Christopher by an anonymous artist
Date: 25-07-2004
Owning Institution: Norton Priory
Publication:         Sunday Telegraph “In The Picture”  
Subject:     Renaissance  Middle Ages & Earlier    
ITP 206: The Descent from the Cross by Rogier van der Weyden
Date: 04-04-2004
Owning Institution:
Publication:   Sunday Telegraph “In The Picture”      
Subject: Middle Ages & Earlier        
Art from Islamic Lands, at the Hermitage Rooms; Durer and the Virgin, at the National Gallery
Date: 04-04-2004
Owning Institution: State Hermitage Museum.
Publication:       Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013  
Subject:   Renaissance  Middle Ages & Earlier    
ITP 204: A Young Hare by Albrecht Durer
Date: 21-03-2004
Owning Institution: The Drawings Collection of the Albertina
Publication:   Sunday Telegraph “In The Picture”      
Subject: Middle Ages & Earlier        
ITP 168: The Religious Teacher Sherab Senge by anon., second half of the fifteenth century
Date: 06-07-2003
Owning Institution: Victoria and Albert Museum
Publication:       Sunday Telegraph “In The Picture”  
Subject:     Middle Ages & Earlier    
ITP 159: The Nativity of the Virgin by Domenico Ghirlandaio
Date: 04-05-2003
Owning Institution: Santa Maria Novella
Publication:       Sunday Telegraph “In The Picture”  
Subject:     Middle Ages & Earlier    
ITP 116: The Unton Memorial Picture by an unknown artist
Date: 07-07-2002
Owning Institution: The National Portrait Gallery
Publication:   Sunday Telegraph “In The Picture”    
Subject: Middle Ages & Earlier      
ITP 106: Seated Buddha by an anonymous artist
Date: 28-04-2002
Owning Institution: Royal Academy of Art
Publication:     Sunday Telegraph “In The Picture”  
Subject:   Middle Ages & Earlier    
ITP 84: Two Figures Wrestling, with Referee, Anonymous Japanese craftsman
Date: 25-11-2001
Owning Institution: Mikami Shrine, Shiga Prefecture, Japan.
Publication:       Sunday Telegraph “In The Picture”  
Subject:   Renaissance  Middle Ages & Earlier    
ITP 60: The Emperor Rebuffs ‘The Beautiful Wife Who Knew Herself to Be Beautiful’ attributed to Gu Kaizhi, from Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies
Date: 10-06-2001
Owning Institution: British Museum.
Publication:   Sunday Telegraph “In The Picture”    
Subject: Middle Ages & Earlier      
ITP 41: Krishna with the Cowgirls, Anonymous
Date: 28-01-2001
Owning Institution: The British Museum, London,
Publication:   Sunday Telegraph “In The Picture”      
Subject: Middle Ages & Earlier    Renaissance    
ITP 25: St Francis Receiving the Stigmata, by Giotto di Bondone
Date: 08-10-2000
Owning Institution: Louvre, France
Publication:         Sunday Telegraph “In The Picture”  
Subject:     Renaissance  Middle Ages & Earlier    
ITP 18: Portrait of a Man and His Wife, by an anonymous artist in Pompeii (before 79 AD).
Date: 20-08-2000
Publication:   Sunday Telegraph “In The Picture”      
Subject: Classical Antiquity    Middle Ages & Earlier    
The End of the World
Date: 30-11-1999
Owning Institution: The National Gallery
Publication: Sunday Telegraph Features    
Subject:   Middle Ages & Earlier  
Pisanello
Date: 30-11-1999
Owning Institution:
Publication: Sunday Telegraph Features    
Subject:   Middle Ages & Earlier  
Luca Signorelli
Date: 30-11-1999
Owning Institution:
Publication:   Sunday Telegraph Features  
Subject: Middle Ages & Earlier    
Artists’ Assistants
Date: 30-11-1999
Owning Institution:
Publication:     Sunday Telegraph Features  
Subject: Middle Ages & Earlier  19th Century    
Titian
Date: 30-11-1999
Owning Institution:
Publication: Sunday Telegraph Features    
Subject:   Middle Ages & Earlier  
The Coventry Doom
Date: 30-11-1999
Owning Institution:
Publication:     Vogue Features 1989 – 2006  
Subject: Middle Ages & Earlier  19th Century    
Art of Africa: the show of a lifetime
Date: 17-10-1995
Owning Institution: Royal Academy
Publication: The Independent 1987 - 1999          
Subject:   20th Century  Classical Antiquity  Middle Ages & Earlier    
For sale, a piece of medieval magic
Date: 07-07-1994
Owning Institution: Christie's
Publication:   The Independent 1987 - 1999  
Subject: Middle Ages & Earlier    
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    
From icon to Bacon
Date: 26-10-1993
Owning Institution: Victoria and Albert Museum
Publication:         The Independent 1987 - 1999  
Subject:     Middle Ages & Earlier  20th Century    
A precious stone set in a silver sea
Date: 05-10-1993
Owning Institution: National Gallery
Publication:     The Independent 1987 - 1999  
Subject:   Middle Ages & Earlier    
The sacrament of holy oils
Date: 23-02-1993
Owning Institution: National Gallery
Publication: The Independent 1987 - 1999          
Subject:   Middle Ages & Earlier  Renaissance      
The not so dumb animals
Date: 22-12-1992
Owning Institution: National Gallery
Publication: The Independent 1987 - 1999          
Subject:   Middle Ages & Earlier  Renaissance      
Conference of strange deities
Date: 09-09-1992
Owning Institution: Hayward Gallery
Publication:     The Independent 1987 - 1999      
Subject: Middle Ages & Earlier  19th 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    

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"Andrew Graham-Dixon is the leading British art critic..."
Robert Hughes

"Andrew Graham-Dixon is the dean of art critics."
A.A. Gill, the Sunday Times

"There is always something that cheers and invigorates - something that makes the reader feel more intelligent and alive."
Anthony Quinn, in the Observer.

"The pleasure is in the ideas. They fairly steam long... Graham-Dixon gets them over skilfully and succinctly without ever getting bogged down or self-conscious."
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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