Raichel Le Goff

        After graduating from the prestigious Courtauld Institute, London University, Raichel has had an inter-disciplinary career in the Humanities. With a postgraduate degree in History from Oxford, having studied under the Renaissance scholar Martin Kemp, Raichel went on to complete a PhD in Classics.
Her thesis was on the extraordinary book on art written in the 3rd century AD by Philostratus the Elder. The thesis traced the way artists from 1500 onward interpreted the ekphrasis and converted Philostratus’ text into paintings. After living in Europe since her teen years, Raichel returned to Australia and has lectured on the History and Theory of Art and Architecture for a number of years. Raichel is currently Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer at the School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle, NSW Australia.

HISTORY OF ART  A selection of Dr. Raichel Le Goff published articles. since 1992

Pre-20th Century Art

The Art Market

Art News

Museum News

Art Research

Art Research :
A QUESTION OF ICONOGRAPHY	Cecco del Caravaggio painting difficult  to decipher
A NEWLY DISCOVERED PAINTING BY GIULIO ROMANO	Joseph Reveals His Dreams to his Brothers, afrter Raphael
PAOLO de MATTEIS : PROVENANCE FOUND	Pan and Syrinx, a painting with an interesting past
ART AND THE VIEW IN 17TH CENTURY ITALY	Agostino Carracci as Teacher
VENETIAN PORTRAITURE 1475-1575	The so-called Belle Donne portraits
RE-CREATING ANTIQUITY IN THE RENAISSANCE	Alfonso d'Este's camerino d'alabastro in Ferrara
DOLCE'S "L'ARETINO' AND VENETIAN ART THEORY	'L'Aretino' was published in 1557 by Ludovico Dolce
A LOOK AT EUGENE FROMENTIN'S  Les Maîtres d'autrefois	(1876) travelogue by French artist
GIOTTO AND FILIPPINO LIPPI PAINT THE SAME SUBJECT	The Raising of Drusiana : in the Perruzi and Strozzi Chapels, Florence
A LOOK AT HUIZINGA'S 'The Waning of the Middle Ages'	1924 Text examines sterility of the imagination in Middle Ages
FUNCTIONS OF POMPEII'S MYTHOLOGICAL PAINTINGS	Fresco cycles and the Pompeiian viewer
THE HERITAGE OF APELLES	Seeking an answer to Pollaiuolo's Battle of the Nudes
THE EMERGENCE OF THE VENETIAN PORTRAIT	Did it all begin with Antonella da Messina?
THE SALA DEL'UDIENZE OF COSIMO I, DUKE OF TUSCANY	Frescoes by Salviati in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio
THE VILLA OF THE MYSTERIES AT POMPEII	The rituals of Dionysus and the legacy of Greece
HAVE YOU SEEN THESE FRESCOES?	The hunt for Salviati's missing lunettes, Florence
READING THE PARTHENON	What we can do is look at the unwritten evidence....

20th Century and Contemporary Art :
A VOYAGE AROUND KOUNELLIS	JIANNIS KOUNELLIS Centro per l'Art Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy 9th June - 9th September 2001
SOL  LE  WITT : RETROSPECTIVE	SF MOMA, exhibition, San Francisco 2000
BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE -  SARAH LUCAS at the FREUD MUSEUM	BritArt personality adorns Sigmund Freud's house with sexy sculpture
BERNARD BUFFET	Obituary of French artist, suicide 1999
PIERRE BONNARD	Introduction to exhibition at Martigny, Switzerland, 1999
TRIBUTE TO LUIS BUNUEL IN SCULPTURE	Angel Orensanz creates sculpture to the famous film director, Madrid 2001
FRANCESCO CLEMENTE	Introduction to the exhibition of this Italian-born New York artist at the Guggenheim, Bilbao. 2000
LOVIS CORINTH'S ART : SURVIVING BERLIN	Introduction to the 1999  exhbition in Madrid of this artist termed 'degenerate' by the Nazis
CRACKING ART : ITALY'S PLASTIC FANTASTICS	Review of  'Musicarte' exhibition in Florence, Dec. 2000
JOHN CURRIN	A giant step for civilization ! Cranach/John Currin