A golden age of European art: celebrating fifty years of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation

Contents

Foreword / Charles W. Hall -- Sarah Campbell Blaffer and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston / Gary Tinterow -- A history of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation / James Clifton -- Young men with arrows and the Blaffer Saint Sebastian / Anne Dunlop -- Balthasar van der Ast and the artifice of still life / Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. -- Giuliano Bugiardini. A master of theme and variation / Andrea Bayer -- Pietro Longhi's elephant. Public spectacle and marvel of nature / Steven F. Ostrow -- Meditation on The White Monk. Richard Wilson and the art of "good breeding" / Martin Postle -- The Blaffer Fundation's Saint John's Head. The Johannesschüssel phenomenon / Barbara Baert -- Printing communities. Blaffer books and Jewish-Christian relationships in early modern Venice / Lisa Pon.