Get 50% off the August issue of The Burlington Magazine
The August 2026 issue of The Burlington Magazine celebrates scholarship in the decorative arts, including an article by Attingham alumnus James Rothwell on the silver of Christiaen van Vianen for the 10th Earl of Northumberland and new research on a spectacular table attributed to Pietro Piffetti, previously at Newhailes in Scotland. Other features include rediscovered tomb designs by Burne-Jones, the adaptations made to the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace in the early twentieth century and a special Supplement on the restoration of the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon.
This month, they are offering 50% off the print or digital edition of the issue, with the code ATT50. Click HERE to order your copy.
An Introduction to the issue from the Editor, Christopher Baker:
We publish this month newly discovered accounts referring to the splendid Dolphin Basin made by the seventeenth-century goldsmith Christiaen van Vianen in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. They demonstrate that it was originally owned by Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland. The payments to Van Vianen represent the most complete surviving documentation of his patronage by any English courtier.
The small group of works in British collections by the celebrated eighteenth-century Torinese cabinet-maker Pietro Piffetti is enlarged in the August issue by the attribution of two unpublished examples of his work, the most significant of which is a table formerly at Newhailes House, Midlothian, Scotland. Dated to the second half of the 1720s, its design follows a formula devised by the architect Filippo Juvarra, making it a key object for understanding Piffetti’s early career.
In 1888–89 Edward Burne-Jones designed a tomb in the Jewish cemetery at Mannheim, Germany, for the Eberstadts, the family of his close friend Elizabeth Lewis. We publish this month the first scholarly account to discuss it, with the artist’s design drawings and letters relating to the commission, along with a hitherto unknown memorial also designed by Burne-Jones in 1891 for Lewis’s brother.
The current restoration programme at Buckingham Palace, London, is revealing a rich history of successive alterations, reflecting the evolving tastes of British sovereigns. The palace’s Picture Gallery underwent significant transformations from the early twentieth century; these are illustrated in an article this August by little-known watercolours in the National Archives, Kew, and by the study of the decorative schemes that have been revealed through recent investigations. Publication coincides with the opening of the new presentation of paintings from the Royal Collection in the gallery.
The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, has been restored, with aspects of its magnificent collection presented afresh. We publish a special Supplement for August that celebrates this milestone in its history.
Reviews this month include the opening of the David Geffen Galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the exhibitions Asta Nørregaard: Truth and Beauty at the National Museum, Oslo, and Louise Nevelson: Mrs N’s Place at the Centre Pompidou-Metz. New books assessed feature Celtic Art Across the Ages and a study of the sculptures of the Judgement Porch of Lincoln Cathedral, as well as eighteenth-century maiolica from Milan and the ceramics of Lucio Fontana. A new account of the extraordinary art collector Lady Charlotte Schreiber is also appraised.
Get 50% off the print or digital edition with code ATT50.
Click HERE to order your copy.