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Gyöngyvér Horváth is an art historian, curator and independent researcher. She obtained her doctorate degree from the School of World Art Studies and Museology, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 2011. She is now an independent researcher and her main research focuses on the phenomenon of visual narration and pictorial storytelling. She has published on various topics related to Renaissance and Early Modern painting and book illustration, Hungarian modernism, and contemporary art.Isabelle Onians was a founding member of the Clay Sanskrit Library team, preparing bilingual editions and translations of Sanskrit literature. In addition to managing and co-editing the whole series, her own volume is a 7th-century coming-of-age novel (NYUP 2005). Since 2009 she has directed a World Learning SIT Study Abroad experiential learning centre in Kathmandu, Nepal, for graduate and undergraduate students from US universities studying Tibetan and Himalayan civilisations.

• Editors’ introductionPart I1. A visual homage to the clay stoves in drokpa black tents in Tibet – Diane Barker2. An evening with John Onians and Elisabeth de Bièvre at the Tchorek-Bentall Studio, Smolna 36, Warszawa, May 2011 – Katy Bentall3. Elisabeth de Bièvre and John Onians – Eric Fernie and Lorraine Fernie4. The road to the south – Barbara Hyde5. Holland v England / Things you learn at UEA – Will Kemp6. The ballad of John and Diccon – Diccon Masterman7. I’d love… / Only a few steps – Robert ShortTutto intorno – Stephanie Morin8. Wheels – Juliet Wimhurst9. Towards the art of writing about art – Nazneen ZafarThe Bees and Buds – Hubert DecleerPart II10. Tea in Bowthorpe or Mariusz’ architecture – Elisabeth de Bièvre11. Our first encounter with the Onians – Shareen Blair Brysac12. D’une génération à l’autre, une amitié de plus de 60 ans! – Blandine Bril13. Embracing diversity: Elisabeth de Bièvre and John Onians in China – Yiqiang Cao14. On John Onians’s 80th birthday. Remembering his contribution to the Clark Art Institute as founding director of its research and academic program 1997–99 – Michael Conforti15. Jumping the frame: eco-stylistics from Norwich – Wilfried van Damme16. Loyalty – David Freedberg17. Calmes blocs – Daniela Gallo and Philippe Sénéchal18. The enlightened house – Derek Gillman and Yael Hirsch19. Outstanding analyses of architecture: Bearers of Meaning, 1988 – Maria Fabricius Hansen20. The indefinite object – Edward S. Harwood and Joanne Pillsbury21. ‘Neither trendy nor traditional’: John Onians at the Clark – Charles ‘Mark’ W. Haxthausen22. Hakuju or White Age Celebration – Harume Hayashi23. John and Elisabeth – Mary Hollingsworth24. The story of my PhD with John and Elisabeth – Gyöngyvér Horváth25. Elisabeth de Bièvre – Maura Kehoe Collins26. Woman Descending the Staircase: synchronicity, chance and mystery – Jetty Keuning and Jan Eric Visser27. On John Onians, with thanks – Matthew MacKisack28. Publishing de Bièvre, E., and Onians, J. – Gillian Malpass29. Elisabeth and John – Marie-Anne van der Marck30. The Groves of Norwich – 43 Grove Terrace – Stefan Muthesius 31. An inquisitive irreverence – Keith Roberts32. ‘The Ubiquity of Aesthetics,’ ALCS Postgraduate Colloquium – Adam Sammut33. De wijk en de wereld: a marriage for the universe – Gary Schwartz and Loekie Schwartz34. Visiting with John and Elisabeth – John Thoburn and June Thoburn35. Arboreal concatenations. A Quercus cerris for John and Elisabeth in Little Mesopotamia – Thomas Tuohy36. Art history with an art historian couple: John Onians and Elisabeth de Bièvre – Mohsen VeysiDrawings – Elena Nesi37. John the encourager – Adam ZemanPart III38. Variations on a theme of phantasia: a tribute to John Onians – Michael A. Arbib39. Margins in foreign guise: thoughts on some ornamentation in British Library Add. 27261. – Barbara Brend40. The ‘Solomonic windows’ of Stirling Chapel Royal: connections between Scotland and the Netherlands – Ian Campbell41. The groundline: a brief phenomenology – Whitney Davis42. Neolithic New York: a brief speculation – Simon DellGraffiti in Lower Manhattan – Allan Ludwig43. Homo Imaginativus – Lauren Golden44. The custom of the country: Latin culture in a provincial landscape – Martin Henig45. Six men in two boats: Raphael’s tapestry cartoons for the Sistine Chapel and their precedents – Sandy Heslop46. Armenian lessons with George Borrow – George Hyde47. Picasso: Les Desmoiselles d’Avignon – Martin Kemp48. In search of the museum / in search of a desert: a frieze and a ‘zoophorus’ – Sokratis Kioussis49. Zerstreute Zitate und Gedanken über ‘Vulgarität’ – Siegfried Kohlhammer50. The prefix and the semantic drift of Russian verbs – Michael A. Korovkin51. Microcosms, museums and the miniature: what might a ‘World Art’ perspective be? – John Mack52. Rembrandt and the emperor – John Mitchell53. Sandro Chia: casual victory. An interview. – Stephanie Morin54. ‘Ridentem pingere verum, quid vetat?’ or, the choice of Ghezzi – Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius55. Natural and artistic Capricci and Bizzarríe – Rodney Palmer56. Not the protestant ethic and not the spirit of capitalism: ex Ghana, randomly – Cesare Poppi57. The penumbra and the shadow – Martin Powers58. Episodes towards a history of art and environment – Veronica Sekules59. The agency of a green filing cabinet: from art history to art and back again – Kitty Zijlmans and Rudi StruikAppendicesContributors’ BiographiesList of Publications, Elisabeth de BièvreList of Publications, John Onians