A good clean copy of Apollo ~ Vol. CXLIII ~ No. 408, published in February 1996 and celebrating the centenary of the death of Frederick, Lord Leighton P.R.A. { 1830 - 1896 }. Contents include scholarly articles on "100 Years of Leighton House", by Julia Findlater ~ "The Design of Leighton House : The Artist's "Palace of Art"", by Louise Campbell ~ "Painting Indoors : Leighton and his Studio", by Elizabeth Prettejohn ~ "Leighton - Public and Private Lives : Celebrity and the Gentleman Artist", by Kate Bailey ~ "Leighton's Lost Model", by Martin Postle ~ "Leighton's Early Years", by Nicholas Tromans ~ "Leighton's Debt to Michelangelo : The Evidence of the Drawings", by Stephen Jones ~ "Leighton and Millais", by Leonee Ormond ~ "Leighton and British Impressionism : The Academician and the Avant-Garde", by Anna Gruetzner-Robins ~ "Treasures of Leighton House" ~ "Leighton and Mural Paintings", by Richard Ormond ~ "The Leighton Gallery at the V & A : The Context, Conservation and Redisplay of the South Kensington Frescoes", by Tim Barringer ~ "Leighton as a Sculptor : Releasing Sculpture from Convention", by Benedict Read ~ "The Genesis of the Leighton House Drawings Collection", by Peyton Skipwith, and, "Leighton : The Centennial Exhibition", by Christopher Newall, plus regular monthly features. Soft covers.
