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Stefano Tofanelli, Apotheosis of Romulus before the Gods of Olympus, 1790, oil on canvas, 208 × 318 cm
(Rome: Palazzo Altieri)

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The long 18th century in the January issue of The Burlington:

The Burlington Magazine 167 (January 2025)

e d i t o r i a l

• “A One Billion Pound Gift,” p. 3.
“Now you can gasp,” said the Chairman of the Trustees of the British Museum to guests at a recent fundraising dinner. He had just revealed the valuation of £1billion for the magnificent collection of Chinese ceramics that has been given to the museum by the Sir Percival David Foundation. Munificence on this scale is normally only associated with the richest of American museums, so a new record seems to have been set in the European context by this extraordinary gesture.

Buddha Amida (Amitabha), Japan, 1716 (Collection Wereldmuseum). Included in the exhibition Asian Bronze: 4,000 Years of Beauty.

s h o r t e r  n o t i c e s

• Pilar Diez del Corral Corredoira, “A Project for the Church of Menino Deus, Lisbon, by Vieira Lusitano,” pp. 26–29.

• Alessio Cerchi, “Stefano Tofanelli’s Deification of Aeneas by Venus Rediscovered,” pp. 29–31.

r e v i e w s

• Lori Wong and Sujatha Arundathi Meegama, Review of the exhibition Asian Bronze: 4,000 Years of Beauty (Rijksmuseum, 2024–25), pp. 35–37.

• Delphine Bastet, Review of Grands décors restaurés de Notre-Dame de Paris, edited by Caroline Piel and Emmanuel Pénicaut (Silvana Editoriale, 2024), pp. 62–63.

• Peter Humfrey, Review of Anne Nellis Richter, The Gallery at Cleveland House: Displaying Art and Society in Late Georgian London (Bloomsbury, 2024), pp. 71–72.