Online Magazine No.333

Cranach portraits, Best exhibitions 2023, Year of the Rabbit, A piece of railroad history, A modern Medici, Astronomical books, and more | [View in browser]( [Christie's]( [BUY]( [SELL]( [STORIES]( [Christie's] [Hammer time: the ceremonial railroad spike that signalled the arrival of modern America]( [What these Cranach portraits tell us about the lives of little royals in 16th-century Saxony]( ‘ [Exhibitions 2023: where to go in Europe for your fill of Vermeer, Doig, Nara, Mondrian and more]( [Stars in their eyes: how Kepler, Copernicus and Galileo flipped our world’s place in the cosmos]( [Modern Medici: the collector who gave these European art treasures a home in New York]( [Show us the bunnies: we’re celebrating Chinese New Year with 10 rabbit-themed artworks]( [More stories]( Editor’s picks [Gian Lorenzo Bernini is best known for his Baroque sculptures — Apollo and Daphne, The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa — but he was also an architect, a painter, and clearly no shrinking violet. In this work, thought to be a self-portrait from 1621-23, the young artist takes on the persona of Alexander the Great]( [Estimate: $70,000-100,000 23-31 January, Online]( [This crepe wrap dress is from Yves Saint Laurent’s 1985 spring/summer haute couture collection. A bold statement in red and purple silk, with a blue silk belt, it was one of the season’s standout pieces, and it is among the designs preserved in the costume collection of New York’s Metropolitan Museum]( [Estimate: €800-1,200 until 25 January, Online]( [Despite its icebound setting and bare trees, this 17th-century Flemish winter landscape is far from lifeless. As well as the skaters in the foreground and hazy distance, there are figures strolling about, playing music, chopping wood, warming themselves by a fire and riding on a horse-drawn sleigh]( [Estimate: $3,000-5,000 26 January, New York]( [Bringing a touch of the animal world to the domestic sphere, this giltwood armchair is covered in striped tiger-skin print fabric and has hoof-shaped feet. Made around 1715, during the French Régence period, it is cleverly designed with an adjustable reclining back and metal extensions hidden in the arms]( [Estimate: £20,000-30,000 9 February, London](   © [Christie’s 2023]( [Web version]( | [Privacy policy]( | [Unsubscribe from Online Magazine]( Liu Ye, Painter and Model, 2010 (detail). Acrylic on canvas. 31½ x 39⅜ in (80 x 100 cm). Artwork: © Liu Ye // Edouard Manet, La Lecture, 1848-83. Oil on canvas. 61 x 73.2 cm. Photo: © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski / Yoshitomo Nara, Untitled (Kitty in Pink), 2007. Acrylic and coloured pencil on corrugated board. 45.7 x 38 cm. © Yoshitomo Nara / Tacita Dean, Foreign Policy, 2016. Chalk on blackboard. 244 x 244 cm. © Tacita Dean. Courtesy Tacita Dean; Marian Goodman Gallery New York/Paris; Frith Street Gallery, London. Photo Fredrik Nilsen Studio / Hugo van der Goes, Death of the Virgin, circa 1480. Groeninge Museum, Bruges. Photo: © Musea Brugge, artinflanders.be / Dominique Provost / Hilma af Klint, The Evolution, The WUS/Seven-Pointed Star Series, Group IV, No.15, 1908. Courtesy of The Hilma af Klint Foundation / Dana Schutz, Fanatics, 2005. Oil on canvas. 228.6 x 243.8 cm. Olbricht Collection. © Dana Schutz