The London Art History Society Review
The London Art History Society Review (formerly ULEMHAS Review) is an academic journal providing articles by leading scholars, art historians, gallery curators, lecturers and writers on art history, including painting and the graphic arts, sculpture, architecture, photography, and the decorative arts.
The Review is published annually in the late summer, and print copies are distributed free to members. Editions from 2003 to the current issue can be read online (as Adobe PDF files, listed below). The Review is also held by the British Library, through whom access to back copies may be obtained.
Current issue
2023 Review
- Sir Joshua Reynolds: elevating art
Kate Retford - The Normans in southern Italy
John McNeill - Matteo Civitali and the south transept of Lucca Cathedral: a closer look
Geoffrey Nuttall - Media revolution: printmaking in the fifteenth century
Ursula Weekes - Gwen John: artist as saint
Lisa Thefaut
2022 Review
- Carel Fabritius 1622-1654. The painter of The Goldfinch
Clare Ford-Wille - Leon Battista Alberti 1404-1472
Andrew Spira - Still keeping us in the dark? The art of Walter Sickert
Nicola Moorby - From the House of Illustration to the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration
Lindsey Glen - Francis Frith: a Victorian photographer in Egypt and Palestine
Simon Constantine - Treasured trimmings: ephemeral ribbons and the curation of sartorial likeness in feminine portraiture, 1750-1790
Julia Eberhardt
2021 Review
- Paula Rego
Anna Moszynska - Neo-Brutalism
Mark Crinson - Antoine Watteau: reconsidering his art after three hundred years
Yuriko Jackall - The master carver’s masterpiece: revisiting Grinling Gibbons’ ‘most superb monument’
Andrew Loukes - Implausible beings and the sleep of reason: the grotesqueness of the grotesque
Andrew Taylor - Paul Strand’s portrait of an Italian village
Tim Satterthwaite - The female gaze on empire: missionary photography and political agency
Sasha Morse
2020 Review
- Raphael’s Saint Catherine
Mattias Wivel - Possessing the past: who should own antiquities
Dominic Selwood - A masculine and daring spirit: Angelica Kauffman
Kate Retford - The formation of a sculptor: the early work of Henry Moore
Hannah Higham - John Tenniel (1820-1914)
Barrie MacDonald - The woodblocks of Tenniel’s illustrations for Alice
Michael Wace - Ernst Barlach, sculpture and the ‘terrible year’ 1937
Deborah Lewer - Andover: an expanded town
Adam Coleman - Polaroids and participation: Carlo Leppe’s Cita a Ciegas
Christie Johnson
2019 Review
- Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings for the Battle of Anghiari
Francis Ames-Lewis - The Bauhaus legacy
Andrew Spira - Natalia Goncharova and women artists of the Russian avant-garde before the First World War
Natalia Murray - Enshrining the miraculous image in Renaissance Umbria
Dorigen Caldwell - Harry Clarke: stained-glass artist and illustrator
Jessica O’Donnell - Looking for Giotto
John Renner - A feast for the eyes: Richard Newton’s A Paper Meal with Spanish Sauce
Nicholas Babbington - London Art History Society: Programme 2019-2020
Earlier issues
2018 Review
- The Reconquest of Spain and the dawn of the Golden Age
Jacqueline Cockburn - Lorenzo Lotto and his portraits
Clare Ford-Wille - Sir James Thornhill’s Painted Hall in Greenwich revealed
Anna Mason - Boris Anrep’s London mosaics
Jane Williams - Piano nobile: the architecture of Renzo Piano
Chris Rogers - ‘Opening up Art History’: fifty years of the Department of History of Art at Birkeck
1. Origins and early development, 1967-2005
Francis Ames-Lewis
2. Continuity, upheaval, and new directions since 2005
Leslie Topp - Broadening the art historical narrative: Okwui Enwezor at the Haus der Kunst in Munich
Sunil Shah - London Art History Society: Programme 2018-19
2017 Review
- Celebrating the art of Murillo for 400 years
Xanthe Brooke - Back out there? Contemporary public sculpture in London
Chris Rogers - Martin Luther, the Reformation and art for Protestants
Joachim Strupp - Cassiano dal Pozzo and the ‘Paper Museum’
Christopher Moock - Art and the Russian Revolution
Andrew Spira - The London Art History Society Prize for Best Modern Period Masters Dissertation at Birkbeck
Kate Retford - Dark tourists at Bedlam: madness and spectacle in eighteenth-century London
Anna Jamieson - ‘Life itself’: Victoria and Albert as living statues
Wil Roberts - London Art History Society: Programme 2017-2018
2016 Review
- ‘Very old, but still the best in painting’: celebrating the Art of Giovanni Bellini
Caroline Campbell - Shakespeare in Art
Robin Simon - Buried treasure exposed: the riches of S. Maria Antiqua in the Roman Forum
Eileen Rubery - Paul Nash: was he a surrealist?
David Boyd Haycock - Conservation at the National Gallery and the Second World War
Morwenna Blewett - Georgia O’Keeffe (not in the online version)
Tanya Barson
London Art History Society Programme 2016-2017
2015 Review
- Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World
Sarah Turner - England and Gardens of the East
Paula Henderson - Emerging from the Shadows: Goya’s Self-Portraits
Jacqueline Cockburn - The New Courtauld Drawings Gallery
Deborah Swallow, Stephen Witherford, Ernst Vegelin van Claebergen & Stephanie Buck - Julia Margaret Cameron, 1815-1879
Patrizia Di Bello - Hail and Farewell
Jacqueline Leigh
London Art History Society Programme 2015-2016
2014 Review
- Rembrandt: The Late Works
Clare Ford-Wille - The Art Fund
William Vaughan - Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation
Jonathan Conlin - Is the Future Cast?
Polly Bielecka - Testimony of War: Artists in the Great War
David Boyd Haycock - New Architecture for the Arts in London
Susan Richards
ULEMHAS Programme 2014-2015
2013 Review
- Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900
Michelle Gonsalves - Landscapes of London: The City, the Country and the Suburbs 1660-1840
Elizabeth McKellar - Imperial Relics and the Architecture of Display in Late Medieval Europe
Zoë Opačić - The White Cube from Inside Out
Graham Steele - The Wedgwood Museum – going to Pot?
Bruce Tattersall
Book List
- In Search of Rex Whistler: His Life and his Work by Hugh and Mirabel Cecil
Liz Newlands - The Book of Kells by Bernard Meehan
Veronica Cutler - The Books that Shaped Art History edited by Richard Shone and John-Paul Stonard
Patricia Braun - Portrayal and the Search for Identity by Marcia Pointon
Patricia Braun - A is a Critic: Writings from The Spectator by Andrew Lambirth
Liz Newlands - John Nash: Architect of the Picturesque by Geoffrey Tyack
Rosemary Clarke - Egypt in England by Chris Elliott
Rosemary Clarke - Carscapes: The Motor Car, Architecture and Landscape in England by Kathryn A. Morrison and John Minnis
Rosemary Clarke
ULEMHAS Programme 2013-2014
2012 Review
- Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present
Hope Kingsley and Christopher Riopelle - The Works of Mercy in Italian Medieval Art c.1050-c.1400
Federico Botana - The Ingenious John Carter
Terry Friedman - Modern Art and Christian Faith
Richard Harries - The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
Roberta Cremoncini
Book List
- In Search of a Masterpiece by Christopher Lloyd
Patricia Braun - Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield
Liz Newlands - Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life by Susie Harries
Jacqueline Leigh - Rossetti: Painter and Poet by J.B. Bullen
Jacqueline Leigh - Series: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Rosemary Clarke - City of Gold and Mud: Painting Victorian London by Nancy Rose Marshall
- Inigo Jones: The Architect of Kings by Vaughan Hart
- The London Square: Gardens in the Midst of Town by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
- Vauxhall Gardens: A History by Alan Borg and David Coke
- The Eighteenth-century Church in Britain by Terry Friedman
ULEMHAS Programme 2012-2013
2011 Review
- Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan
Luke Syson and Per Rumberg - Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Anatomy of Desire
J.B. Bullen - Slaves to Fashion: Jan Gossaert and Renaissance Art
Richard Williams - Changes at the Courtauld Gallery
Caroline Campbell - The Chapel of the Holy Cross at Vézelay
Alexandra Gajewski
Book List
- The Primacy of Drawing by Deanna Petherbridge
Elizabeth Lowry-Corry - Art: The Whole Story, edited by Stephen Farthing
Elizabeth Lowry-Corry - Romantic Moderns by Alexandra Harris
Rosemary Clarke - Lost Victorian Britain by Gavin Stamp
Rosemary Clarke - The Temple Church in London, edited by Robin Griffith-Jones and David Park
Anne Scott - Mirror of the World by Julian Bell
Elizabeth Lowry-Corry - Destination Art by Amy Dempsey
Rosemary Clarke - The Art of Anglo-Saxon England by Catherine E. Karkov
Rosemary Clarke - Marking the Hours by Eamon Duffy
Jacqueline Leigh - Caravaggio by Andrew Graham-Dixon
Robin Rhind - The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
Jacqueline Leigh
ULEMHAS Programme 2011-2012
2010 Review
- Gauguin: Maker of Myth
Belinda Thomson and Christine Riding - ‘A Hand Obedient to the Mind’: Michelangelo’s Writings on Sculpture
Ann Halliday - The Flemish Invention of Landscape
Clare Ford-Wille - Picasso in 1932: Uncanny Eroticism?
Neil Cox - John McNeill: An Appreciation
Jacqueline Leigh - Far Afield and Not So Far at the Royal Academy
Elizabeth Lowry-Corry
Book Reviews
- John Piper, Myfanwy Piper by Frances Spalding
Susan Richards - Merchants, Princes and Painters by Lisa Monnas
Elizabeth Lowry-Corry
2009 Review
- The Sacred Made Real
Susan Wilson - The Lord of the Manor’s Psalter and the Poor Man’s Bible
Michelle P. Brown - Thomas Hudson and the Foundling Hospital
Jim Gledhill - Herculaneum: The Last 300 Years and the Future
Christina Grande - The Rembrandt Research Project: An Assessment
Adrian Esdaile
Book Reviews
- If the Paintings Could Talk by Michael Wilson
Ann Halliday - Cave Art by Jean Clottes
Jacqueline Leigh
2008 Review
- Renaissance Faces
Elena Greer - The Embellishment of the Crystal Palace
Mike Davies - A Little-known Drawing from the Workshop of Vittore Carpaccio
Caroline Brooke - Henry Tonks: Artist and Surgeon
Mike Smith - Paint and its use in the Restoration of Buildings
Catherine Hassall
Book Reviews
- Mirror of the World by Julian Bell
Elizabeth Lowry-Corry - Edvard Munch by Sue Prideaux
Susan Richards
2007 Review
- Renaissance Siena: Art for a City
Simona Di Nepi - Sir John Soane’s Museum: ‘The Union of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting’
Helen Dorey - Angst and Plaster: Aspects of Post World War II British Sculpture
Mike Smith - Lord Capel’s Garden
Celia Fisher - Strawberry Hill: its Past and its Future
Michael Snodin
Book Reviews
- Architecture and Society in Normandy 1120-1270 by Lindy Grant
Anne Scott - Sir Ninian Comper by Anthony Symondson and Stephen Bucknell
Claire Andrews
2006 Review
- Holbein in England
Tim Batchelor - Why Medieval Old Sarum?
John McNeill - The Goldsmith’s Art in Renaissance Italy
Donal Cooper - The Illuminator: Master in Miniature?
Valerie Nunn - Velázquez
Simona Di Nepi
Book Reviews
- The Mirror of the Gods by Malcolm Bull
Ann Halliday - The Vexations of Art Velázquez and Others, by Svetlana Alpers
Elizabeth Lowry-Corry
2005 Review
- Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) Vision and Landscape Exhibition
William Vaughan - Turner as Pupil and Teacher
Andrew Wilton - Leonardo da Vinci’s Portrait of Isabella d’Este
Francis Ames-Lewis - Some Collectors and their Collections at Glynde Place
Cara Bird & Elizabeth Lowry-Corry - How Reading History of Art can Change Your Life
Claire Gapper
Book Reviews
- The Medieval Stained Glass of Wells Cathedral, by Tim Ayers
Anna Eavis - Hawkwood by Frances Stonor Saunders
Liz Newlands
2004 Review
- Raphael: From Urbino to Rome
Carol Plazzotta - Limoges Painted Enamels
Erika Speel - Friends of Turner’s House
- Rewriting His Story: Feminist Art Practices Since the 1970s
Catherine Mason - Hogarth and Garrick: The Artist, The Actor and The ‘Imitation of Nature’
Catherine Parry-Wingfleld - The Future of History of Art and Architecture at FCE
Elizabeth McKellar
Book Reviews
- Westminster Abbey The Lady Chapel of Henry VII edited by Tim Tatton-Brown & Richard Mortimer
Anne Scott - Cellini: Artist, Genius, Fugitive by Derek Parker
Ann Halliday
2003 Review
- Preview of the Late Gothic Exhibition
Eleanor Townsend - The Battle for Culture: Tradition & Modernism in Fascist Italy and Germany
Anna Leung - The Travels of Correggio’s School of Love
Norman Coady - Commissioned Visions
Roger Tolson - Platonic Geometry and the Cathedral of Bourges
Anne Scott - Recollected in Tranquillity: the founding of ULEMHAS
Claire Andrews
Book Reviews
- Hand, Head and Heart by Hazel Morris
Claire Andrews - Medieval Architecture by Nicola Coldstream
Elizabeth Lowry-Corry - The East Cloister Walk of Saint-Aubin at Angers by John McNeill
Anne Scott
In this issue Claire Andrews describes the founding of the University of London Extra-Mural History of Art Society — ULEMHAS (you can also read her words here). A decade later, when another funding crisis caused the abolition of the Extra-Mural Department, Birkbeck College took over its Diploma programme, which now flourishes as part of the Faculty of Continuing Education.