The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem : A Gothic Ivory

"The final decades of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth saw a rediscovery by European and American collectors of an aesthetically pleasing and historically informative class of objets d'art, the Gothic ivory relief. Of the numerous ivories of medieval origin which have since found their way into public galleries and museums relatively few have been published. Here is presented an example recently acquired by the Museum of Art and Archaeology of the University of Missouri."--First paragraph.Includes bibliographical reference

Glenn Adams

McNairn provides a brief introduction to Adams' realist paintings. Statement by the artist. Biographical notes

Decolonising imperial heroes:Britain and France

The heroes of the British and French empires stood at the vanguard of the vibrant cultures of imperialism that emerged in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century. Yet imperial heroes did not disappear after 1945 as British and French flags were lowered around the world. On the contrary, their reputations underwent a variety of metamorphoses in both the former metropoles and the former colonies. The introduction to this special issue of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History presents an overview of the changing history and historiography of imperial heroes half a century after the end of empire