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Eighteenth-century English silver for King João V of Portugal
08/2024 | 1457 | 166
Pages: 826–833
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Author:
Vale, Teresa Leonor M. (Vale, Teresa Leonor M.)
Subjects
artists:
Crespin, Paul / Lamerie, Paul de
dates:
1720-1729
patrons:
João V, King of Portugal (reg.1706–50)
places:
London / Lisbon
subjects:
Decorative arts / Silverwork / English / Silversmiths / Huguenot / Silver-gilt / Diplomacy / Patronage
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. Portrait of Secretary of State Diogo Mendonça Corte Real, by Guillaume François Laurent Debrie. 1730. Engraving. (From Retratos de Cardeaes, Bispos, e Varoens Portuguezes Illustres em Nobreza, Armas, Letras, e Santidade Coordenados nos Mezes de Abril e Maio do Anno do Senhor, Lisbon 1791, fol.40A; Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Secção de Iconografia, Lisbon).
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3. Portrait of King D. João V, by Pompeo Batoni. 18th century. Oil on canvas, 90 by 70 cm. (Palácio Nacional da Ajuda, Lisbon).
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4. Model of the sculptural group for the funerary monument of Manuel Pereira de Sampaio, by Filippo della Valle. c.1753. Terracotta and paint, height 56.5 cm. (Museu de Lisboa, Lisbon.)
Attributed works:
5. Centrepiece with Neptune, by Paul Crespin and Nicholas Sprimont. 1741–42. Embossed and chiselled gilded silver, 49 by 66 by 47 cm. (© 2024 HM King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
Attributed works:
6. Wine cooler made for Louis Henri de Bourbon, by Gabriel Huquier after Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier. 1748. Engraving, 17.9 by 25.9 cm. (Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, New York).
Attributed works:
7. Basin, by Paul Crespin. 1722–23. Silver, height 14.7 cm., diameter 49.5 cm. (British Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
1. Paul Crespin. British. c.1726. Oil on canvas, 114 by 90 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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A Portuguese bishop’s pontifical mass service by Luigi Valadier
03/2020 | 1404 | 162
Pages: 196-203
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Author:
Vale, Teresa Leonor M. (Vale, Teresa Leonor M.)
Subjects
artists:
Valadier, Luigi / and workshop
dates:
1760-1769 / 1770-1779
media:
Silver-gilt
patrons:
Orsini, Domenico (Cardinal) / de Melo da Silveira e Alvim (1730–77), Pedro / Tavares Coutinho da Silva (1724–98)., Manuel
places:
Portalegre / Portugal / Rome
subjects:
Silversmiths / pontifical mass / Pontifical mass service / Cathedrals
subjects:
Bishops
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Pyx, by Luigi Valadier. 1769–71. Gilt silver, 21.7 by 11 cm. (Church of S. Miguel, Castelo Branco; © Diocese Portalegre-Castelo Branco).
Attributed works:
10. Round dish (one of four), by Luigi Valadier. 1769–71. Gilt silver, diameter 25 cm. (Cathedral of Portalegre; © Diocese Portalegre- Castelo Branco).
Attributed works:
11. Detail of Fig.5, showing Luigi Valadier’s mark. (© Diocese Portalegre- Castelo Branco).
Attributed works:
12. Detail of Fig.3, showing the Reverenda Camera Apostolica’s mark (‘bollo camerale’).
Attributed works:
13. Pontifical mass service, by Luigi Valadier. 1768–69. Gilt silver. (Cathedral of S. Nicola, Muro Lucano; photograph The Frick Collection, New York).
Attributed works:
14. Detail of D. Frei Manuel Tavares Coutinho e Silva, seventeenth bishop of Portalegre. Eighteenth century. Oil on canvas, whole painting 107.5 by 84 cm. (Episcopal Palace, Portalegre; © Diocese Portalegre- Castelo Branco).
Attributed works:
15. A round dish or basin, by Luigi Valadier. Brown ink on paper, 42.5 by 45 cm. (Pinacoteca di Faenza).
Attributed works:
16. An oval tray, by Luigi Valadier. Brown ink on paper, 24 by 34.5 cm. (Pinacoteca di Faenza).
Attributed works:
17. A pair of cruets and a tray, by Luigi Valadier. Brown ink on paper, 34.8 by 28.8 cm. (Wiltshire and Swindon Archives, Chippenham, 2667/18/16).
Attributed works:
18. A holy water bucket, by Luigi Valadier. Pencil and brown ink on paper. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
19. Ewer and basin, or cruet and tray, by Luigi Valadier. Black and brown ink on paper. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
19. Ewer and basin, or cruet and tray, by Luigi Valadier. Black and brown ink on paper. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
2. Ewer, by Luigi Valadier. 1769–71. Gilt silver, 26.1 by 8 cm. (Cathedral of Portalegre; © Diocese Portalegre-Castelo Branco).
Attributed works:
20. A pair of cruets, by Luigi Valadier or his workshop. Black and grey ink on paper, 18.4 by 11 cm. (Wiltshire and Swindon Archives, Chippenham, 2667/18/15).
Attributed works:
21. Detail of Fig.8, showing the stopper of one of the cruets. (© Diocese Portalegre-Castelo Branco).
Attributed works:
3. Basin, by Luigi Valadier. 1769–71. Gilt silver, diameter 39.2 cm. (Cathedral of Portalegre; © Diocese Portalegre-Castelo Branco).
Attributed works:
4. Oval tray (one of a pair), by Luigi Valadier. 1769–71. Gilt silver, diameter 29 cm. (Cathedral of Portalegre; © Diocese Portalegre-Castelo Branco).
Attributed works:
5. Holy water bucket and aspergillum, by Luigi Valadier. 1769–71. Gilt silver, bucket 12.4 by 14.4 cm.; aspergillum length 17.3 cm. (Cathedral of Portalegre; © Diocese Portalegre-Castelo Branco).
Attributed works:
6. Wick trimmers and candle-holder, by Luigi Valadier. 1769–71. Gilt silver, silver, trimmers 17.5 by 4.6 cm.; holder 32.3 by 13.5 cm. (Cathedral of Portalegre; © Diocese Portalegre-Castelo Branco).
Attributed works:
7. Bell, by Luigi Valadier. 1769–71. Gilt silver, 12.5 by 6 cm. (Cathedral of Portalegre; © Diocese Portalegre-Castelo Branco).
Attributed works:
8. Pair of cruets and tray, by Luigi Valadier. 1769–71. Gilt silver, each cruet 17.3 by 8.50 cm., diameter of tray 24.4 cm. (Cathedral of Portalegre; © Diocese Portalegre-Castelo Branco).
Attributed works:
9. Pax, by Luigi Valadier. 1769–71. Gilt silver, 18.1 by 14.5 cm. (Cathedral of Portalegre; © Diocese Portalegre-Castelo Branco).
Attributed works:
Detail of Fig.5, showing Luigi Valadier’s mark. (© Diocese Portalegre- Castelo Branco).
Article
Art and festivities in eighteenth-century Rome: letters from a Portuguese priest, 1721–22
05/2018 | 1382 | 160
Pages: 387-393
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Author:
Vale, Teresa Leonor M. (Vale, Teresa Leonor M.)
Subjects
artists:
Fuga, Ferdinando / Rainaldi, Carlo / Michelangelo / Maratti, Carlo / Rosa, Salvator / Cornacchini, Agostino / Legros, Pierre, II, 1666-1719 / Rusconi, Camillo / Domenichino / Raphael / Reni, Guido
buildings:
Palazzo del Vaticano, Rome, Italy / Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, Italy
dates:
1700-1749
media:
Architecture / Bronzes / Drawings / Interiors / Paintings / Sculpture / Reliefs / Reliquaries / Textiles / Silks / Silverwork
patrons:
John V, King of Portugal, 1689-1750 / Clement XI, Pope, 1649-1721 / Gregory XV, Pope, 1554-1623
places:
Italy / Rome / Portugal / Lisbon
subjects:
Italian painting / Italian sculpture / Italian architecture / Churches / Chapels / Apparati (Italian pageants) / Pageants / Religious ceremonies / Collections, Private / Patronage / Papacy / Diplomacy / Travel / Catholicism / Jesuits / Correspondence
works:
Apollo Belvedere / Belvedere Torso / Laocoön (Vatican Museums, Rome)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. and 2. A mechanism to raise and lower lamps in churches, after Manuel de Campos. 1721–22. Black ink on paper. (Fols.395r and 396v of Jesuitas, Armário Jesuítico, Livro 27; Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon, hereafter ANTT).
Attributed works:
11. The instruments for the making of the Agnus Dei, after Manuel de Campos. 1721–22. Black ink on paper. (Fol.385r of Jesuitas, Livro 27; ANTT).
Attributed works:
12, 13 and 14. Decorations for the Corpus Domini procession, Rome, after Manuel de Campos. 1721–22. Black ink on paper. (Fols.403r, 403v and 404r of Jesuitas, Livro 27, ANTT).
Attributed works:
3. Piazza del Esquilino and S. Maria Maggiore, Rome, by Alessandro Specchi. 1702. Engraving, 44.5 by 68.1 cm. (Photograph Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
4. The altar of St Francis Xavier, Church of the Gesù, Rome, by Pietro da Cortona. 1669. (Fondo Edifici di Culto, Ministero dell’Interno, Florence; photograph Scala, Florence).
Attributed works:
5. The gallery in Palazzo Colonna, after Manuel de Campos. 1721–22. Black ink on paper. (Fol.378v of Jesuitas, Livro 27; ANTT).
Attributed works:
6. Blessed Aloysius Gonzaga in glory, by Pierre Legros. 1697–99. Marble. (S. Ignazio, Rome).
Attributed works:
7. Charlemagne, by Agostino Cornacchini. 1725. Marble. (St Peter’s Basilica, Rome).
Attributed works:
8 and 9. The decoration of the interior of the church of S. Maria in Aracoeli on the occasion of the feast of St Elizabeth of Portugal, after Manuel de Campos. 1721–22. Black ink on paper. (Fols.421v and 422r of Jesuitas, Livro 27 ANTT).
Western art unattributed:
10. The decoration of the interior of the church of S. Maria in Aracoeli for the feast of St Elizabeth of Portugal, July 1722. Black ink on paper, 45 by 60 cm. (Gabinetto Comunale delle Stampe, Rome, GS 3673).
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Roman Baroque silver for the Patriarchate of Lisbon
06/2013 | 1323 | 155
Pages: 384-389
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Author:
Vale, Teresa Leonor M. (Vale, Teresa Leonor M.)
Subjects
artists:
Arrighi, Antonio / Giardoni, Francesco / Piroli, Matteo, 1701-1777 / Valadier, Andrea / Valadier, Luigi / Gagliardi, Giuseppe / Gagliardi, Leandro / Maini, Giovanni Battista, sculptor, 1690-1752
artists:
Tofani, Filippo / Zappati, Giovanni Paolo
dates:
1700-1749
museums and institutions:
Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, Portugal / Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
patrons:
John V, King of Portugal, 1689-1750
places:
Portugal / Lisbon
subjects:
Commissions / Silverwork / Baroque / Italian / Roman (post-Classical) / Architectural components / Churches / Lost works / Visual sources / Collections, Public / Albums / Religious architecture / Religious art / Drawings
subjects:
Metalworkers / Roman (post-Classical)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
32. Immaculate Conception, by Giovanni Battista Maini (Private collection)
Attributed works:
33. The Virgin and Child, by Giovanni Battista Maini (Private collection, Malta)
Attributed works:
34. Monstrance made by Antonio Arrighi after designs by Giovanni Battista Maini (Treasury, Lisbon Cathedral)
Western art unattributed:
28. Drawing of the grilles for the chapel of the Holy Sacrament, Patriarchate, Lisbon, to be made by Matteo Piroli (Weale Album, MS 497, fol.295, no.94, Bibliothèque de l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris)
Western art unattributed:
29. Drawing of the grilles for the chapel of the Baptistery of the Patriarchate, Lisbon, to be made by Andrea Valadier and Luigi Valadier (Weale Album, MS 497, fol.269, no.87, Bibliothèque de l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris)
Western art unattributed:
30. Drawing of the grilles for one of the chapels of the Patriarchate, Lisbon, to be made by Antonio Montauti (Weale Album, MS 497, fol.303, no.96, Bibliothèque de l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris)
Western art unattributed:
31. Design for a baptismal font for the Baptistery of the Patriarchate, Lisbon, to be made by Francesco Giardoni (Weale Album, MS 497, fol.273, no.88, Bibliothèque de l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris)
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Eighteenth-century Roman silver for the chapel of St John the Baptist in the church of S. Roque, Lisbon
08/2010 | 1289 | 152
Pages: 528-535
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Author:
Vale, Teresa Leonor M. (Vale, Teresa Leonor M.)
Subjects
artists:
Corsini, Agostino / Ludovisi, Bernardino / Maini, Giovanni Battista, sculptor, 1690-1752 / Arrighi, Antonio
artists:
Verschaffelt, Pieter Antonie von
buildings:
Chapel of Saint John the Baptist, Saint Roque Church, Lisbon, Portugal
dates:
1700-1799
places:
Lisbon
places:
Portugal
places:
Rome
print:
Silverwork
subjects:
Silverwork / Italian / Candlesticks / Crucifixes / Altars / Chalices / Reliquaries
subjects:
Baroque
Illustrations
Attributed works:
20. Baldachin, by Felice Sciffone, Agostino Ancidoni and Lucino Celladini; altar frontal, by Antonio Arrighi; and altar set (six candlesticks and cross), by Angelo Spinazzi, Giovanni Felice Sanini, Tommaso Politi and Francesco Antonio Salci. (Museu de S. Roque, Lisbon).
Attributed works:
21. Detail of altar frontal in Fig.20. c.1744–50. Silver and lapis lazuli, 112 by 230 cm. (Museu de S. Roque, Lisbon).
Attributed works:
22. Candlestick, by Giuseppe and Leandro Gagliardi. c.1744–49. Gilt silver, 285 by 105 by 105 cm. (Museu de S. Roque, Lisbon).
Attributed works:
23. Chalice, by Antonio Gigli. c.1744–50. Gilt silver, 29 cm. high. (Museu de S. Roque, Lisbon).
Attributed works:
24. Set of three altar canons, by Antonio Vendetti. c.1744–50. White and gilt silver, 49 by 53 by 9.5 cm.; 42 by 33 by 6 cm.; 42 by 33 by 6 cm. (Museu de S. Roque, Lisbon).
Attributed works:
25. Pair of cruets and salver, by Antonio Gigli. c.1744–50. Gilt silver, 17.8 by 12 by 6.3 cm. (cruets); 21.2 by 27.5 cm. (salver). (Museu de S. Roque, Lisbon).
Attributed works:
26. Basin and ewer, by Vincenzo Belli. c.1744–50. Gilt silver, 28.5 by 14 by 13.5 cm. (ewer); 42.5 by 54 by 4 cm. (basin). (Museu de S. Roque, Lisbon).
Attributed works:
27. Host box, by Francesco Smitti. c.1744–50. Gilt silver, 8 by 9 cm. (Museu de S. Roque, Lisbon).
Attributed works:
28. St Prosper reliquary, by Carlo Guarnieri. c.1744–50. Gilt silver, 89 by 43 by 35 cm. (Museu de S. Roque, Lisbon).
Attributed works:
29. St Felix reliquary, by Carlo Guarnieri. c.1744–50. Gilt silver, 81 by 30 by 34 cm. (Museu de S. Roque, Lisbon).