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Article
Andrea del Verrocchio’s first surviving panel painting and other early works
06/2011 | 1299 | 153
Pages: 368-378
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Author:
Dunkerton, Jill (Dunkerton, Jill)
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Syson, Luke (Syson, Luke)
Subjects
artists:
Verrocchio, Andrea del
dates:
1460-1469
museums and institutions:
National Gallery, London, Great Britain
print:
Verrocchio, Andrea del
subjects:
Italian painting / Panel paintings / Collections, Public / Conservation / Restoration (process) / Provenance / Formal analysis / Scientific analysis / Technical analysis / Attribution / Attributions, tentative
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Fig.2 before cleaning.
Attributed works:
10. Detail of David, by Andrea del Verrocchio. Mid-1460s. Bronze, with gilding, 126 cm. high. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Attributed works:
11. Detail of the left hand of David, by Andrea del Verrocchio.
Attributed works:
12. Detail of palm trees from the right of the Resurrection of Christ, by Andrea del Verrocchio. 1460s. Polychromed terracotta, 135 by 150 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Attributed works:
13. Study for Faith, by Andrea del Verrocchio. 1469. Metalpoint, black chalk, brown wash, white heightening and brown ink on pink tinted paper, 21.6 by 15 cm. (Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).
Attributed works:
14. Study for a Virgin lactans, by Andrea del Verrocchio. c.1470. Charcoal and black chalk on paper, 28.3 by 19.3 cm. (Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).
Attributed works:
16. Head of a man (Verrocchio’s self-portrait perhaps?), here attributed to Andrea del Verrocchio. c.1467–69. Metalpoint, brown ink and white heightening on paper (with added grey-brown background wash), 19.2 by 17.5 cm. (Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).
Attributed works:
17. Detail of Fig.16.
Attributed works:
17. Detail of Fig.16.
Attributed works:
18. Detail of Fig.2.
Attributed works:
19. Virgin and Child, by Andrea del Verrocchio. c.1470. Tempera on panel, 67.3 by 49.4 cm. (Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen, Berlin).
Attributed works:
2. The Virgin and Child with two angels, after cleaning and restoration, here attributed to Andrea del Verrocchio. c.1467–69. Tempera on wood, 69.2 by 49.8 cm. (National Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
20. Detail of the head of St John the Baptist, from the Baptism of Christ, by Andrea del Verrocchio and workshop, completed by Leonardo da Vinci. c.1468–76. Tempera and oil on panel, 180 by 152.5 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).
Attributed works:
21. Detail of the hand of St John the Baptist, from the Baptism of Christ, by Andrea del Verrocchio and others.
Attributed works:
3. The Virgin and Child with two angels, by Sandro Botticelli. 1469–70. Tempera on wood, 100 by 71 cm. (Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples).
Attributed works:
4. ‘Choral dancers’ relief from the cantoria for Florence Cathedral, by Luca della Robbia. 1431–38. Marble, 99 by 95 cm. (Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence).
Attributed works:
5. Virgin and Child with two angels, by Filippo Lippi. c.1460–65. Tempera on wood, 92 by 63 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).
Attributed works:
6. Detail of Fig.2.
Attributed works:
7. Detail of Fig.2.
Attributed works:
8. Digital infra-red reflectogram of Fig.2.
Attributed works:
9. X-radiograph of Fig.2.
Western art unattributed:
15. Frontispiece to the Life of Andrea del Verrocchio. Woodcut, 12.4 by 10.6 cm. From G. Vasari: Le vite de’ più eccellenti pittori scultori e architettori . . . , Florence 1568.
Article
Reflections on the Mantegna exhibition in Paris
08/2009 | 1277 | 151
Pages: 526-535
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Author:
Syson, Luke (Syson, Luke)
Subjects
art literature:
Thiébaut, Dominique / Agosti, Giovanni
art literature:
Longhi, Roberto
artists:
Mantegna, Andrea
artists:
Bellini, Giovanni
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
places:
Paris / France
print:
Mantegna, Andrea
subjects:
Exhibitions / Reviews / Biographies / Italian painting
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Mantegna, 1431–1506 | institution: Musée du Louvre
Illustrations
Attributed works:
23. The adoration of the shepherds, by Andrea Mantegna. c.1450–51. Tempera on panel transferred to canvas, 40 by 55.6 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
24. The agony in the garden, by Andrea Mantegna. 1457–59. Tempera on panel transferred to canvas and stuck down on panel, 71.1 by 93.7 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours).
Attributed works:
25. The agony in the garden, by Andrea Mantegna. c.1458–60. Tempera on panel, 62.9 by 80 cm. (National Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
26. Crucifixion, by Andrea Mantegna. 1457–59. Tempera on panel, 76 by 96 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
27. Three all’antica male nudes, here attributed to Nicolò Pizzolo. c.1446–50. Pen and brown ink and wash with white heightening on blue paper, 39.5 by 27.2 cm. (Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence, inv.6347 F v).
Attributed works:
28. St Jerome in the wilderness, attributed to Nicolò Pizzolo. c.1448. Tempera on panel, 48 by 36 cm. (Museu de Arte, São Paulo).
Attributed works:
29. Portrait of Jacopo Antonio Marcello, fol.38v of J.A. Marcello: Passio Mauritii, here attributed to Jacopo Bellini. 1453. Tempera on vellum, 18.7 by 13 cm. (Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, Paris).
Attributed works:
30. Portrait of a young man, detail of fol.22 of the Paris album, by Jacopo Bellini. c.1445–55. Pen and brown ink on vellum, 29 by 42.7 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
31. Mars, Venus, Cupid and Vulcan, attributed to Gian Marco Cavalli. c.1480–1500. Cast bronze relief, partially parcel-gilt with some silvering, diameter 42 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
32. The entombment of Christ, here attributed to an anonymous sculptor (possibly Gian Marco Cavalli) working under Mantegna’s supervision. 1475–80. Cast bronze relief, partially parcel-gilt, 24.4 by 44.9 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
Attributed works:
33. The entombment of Christ, here attributed to Gian Marco Cavalli working to Mantegna’s design and under his supervision. c.1475. Engraving and drypoint, 29.9 by 44.2 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Short Notice
Antonello da Messina
08/2006 | 1241 | 148
Pages: 541-544
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Author:
Syson, Luke (Syson, Luke)
Subjects
artists:
Antonello da Messina
dates:
1400-1499 / 2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Scuderie Papali al Quirinale, Rome, Italy
print:
Antonello da Messina
subjects:
Italian painting / Exhibitions / Biographies / Attributions / Attribution / Provenance
Illustrations
Attributed works:
27. Virgin and Child with a Franciscan donor, by Antonello da Messina. Here dated c.1460. Tempera grassa(?) on panel, 16 by 11.9 cm. (Museo Regionale di Messina; exh. Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome).
Attributed works:
28. Virgin reading, by Antonello da Messina. Here dated c.1457–59. Tempera grassa(?) on panel, 43 by 34.5 cm. (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; exh. Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome).
Attributed works:
29. Crucifixion, by Antonello da Messina. Here dated c.1457–59. Tempera grassa(?) on panel, 39 by 23.5 cm. (Muzeul National Brukenthal, Sibiu; exh. Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome).
Attributed works:
30. The Virgin annunciate, by Antonello da Messina. c.1474. Oil on panel, 45 by 34.5 cm. (Galleria Nazionale, Palermo; exh. Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome).
Article
Leonardo da Vinci's use of underdrawing in the 'Virgin of the Rocks' in the National Gallery and 'St Jerome' in the Vatican
07/2005 | 1228 | 147
Pages: 450-463
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Author:
Billinge, Rachel (Billinge, Rachel)
Author:
Syson, Luke (Syson, Luke)
Subjects
artists:
Leonardo da Vinci
dates:
1480-1519
museums and institutions:
National Gallery, London, Great Britain / Musei Vaticani, Rome, Italy
print:
Leonardo da Vinci
subjects:
Collections, Public / Underdrawings / Italian painting
subjects:
Infrared photography / Technical analysis / Scientific analysis / Infrared reflectography / Ultraviolet photographs
works:
Virgin of the Rocks (London, National Gallery)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. The Virgin of the rocks, by Leonardo da Vinci. c.1483-91. Canvas transferred from panel, 198 by 123 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
10. Head of St Philip in the Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci in Milan with a diagram of the underdrawing for the Virgin's head in Composition A reversed and overlaid.
Attributed works:
11. Study for the head of St Philip, by Leonardo da Vinci. 1493. Black chalk, 19 by 15 cm. (Royal Library, Windsor, no.12551).
Attributed works:
12. St Jerome praying in the wilderness, by Leonardo da Vinci. Here dated c.1491-93. Panel, 102.8 by 73.5 cm. (Monumenti, Musei e Gallerie Pontificie, Vatican City).
Attributed works:
13. Detail infra-red reflectography scan of Fig.12 showing St Jerome's head and part of landscape.
Attributed works:
14. Detail infra-red reflectography scan of Fig.12, showing St Jerome's feet and part of lion.
Attributed works:
15. Detail infra-red reflectography scan of Fig.2, showing the angel (Composition B).
Attributed works:
16. Head of a child in three-quarter view, cartoon for the head of St John in Fig.1, by Leonardo da Vinci. c.1483. Metalpoint largely reworked with pen, brush and brown ink and highlighted with white gouache on prepared grey-beige paper, pricked for transfer, irregularly cut, max. 13.4 by 11.9 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
17. Detail infra-red reflectography scan of Fig.2, showing the head of the Christ Child (Composition B).
Attributed works:
2. The Virgin of the rocks, by Leonardo da Vinci and collaborators. Here dated c.1491-1508. Panel, 189.5 by 120 cm. (National Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
3. Infra-red reflectography scan of Fig.2.
Attributed works:
4. Outline diagram of the first underdrawing of Fig.2 (Composition A).
Attributed works:
5. Outline diagram of the second underdrawing of Fig.2 (Composition B), laid over the painting.
Attributed works:
6. Detail of infra-red reflectography scan (Fig.3), showing right arm and hand in Composition A.
Attributed works:
7. Detail infra-red reflectogram mosaic of Fig.2, showing the head in Composition A above the painted Virgin.
Attributed works:
8. Detail from an ultraviolet photograph of Studies of architecture and machinery, male head in profile and of a Virgin adoring the Christ Child, by Leonardo da Vinci. Here dated c.1491-93. Silverpoint partly reworked with pen and brown ink on light blue prepared surface, 18.3 by 13.7 cm. (Royal Library, Windsor, no.12560).
Attributed works:
9. Design for a Nativity or an Adoration of the Christ Child; perspectival projection, by Leonardo da Vinci. Here dated c. 1485-90. Metalpoint partly reworked with pen and brown ink on pink prepared paper, and lines ruled with metalpoint, 19.4 by 16.3 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1917 17.142.1).
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Medals and Other Portraits Attributed to Cosmè Tura
04/1999 | 1153 | 141
Pages: 211+215+226-229
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Author:
Syson, Luke (Syson, Luke)
Subjects
artists:
Tura, Cosmè
dates:
1450-1499
patrons:
Ercole I d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, Modena, and Reggio, 1431-1505
places:
Ferrara / Italy
subjects:
Medals / Italian painting / Portraits / Italian
Illustrations
Attributed works:
15. Madonna and Child with Angels, by Cosmè Tura. c.1474. Oil and Egg Tempera on Panel, 239 by 102 cm. (National Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
36a and b. Alfonso d'Este and Hercules Strangling Serpents, Here Attributed to Cosmè Tura. 1477. Cast Bronze Medal (Obverse and Reverse), Diameter 6.8 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
37. Dead Christ Supported by Angels, by Cosmè Tura. c.1475-85. Panel, 44.5 by 86.7 cm. (Cut down) (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
Attributed works:
38. Portrait of a Ferrarese Nobleman, by Cosmè Tura. 1474-80. Panel, 30.2 by 21.6 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
39. Eleonora of Aragon, Illuminated Frontispiece to Antonio da Cornazzano: De modo di regere et di regnare, Designed by Cosmè Tura. 1478-79. Manuscript on Parchment, 24 by 16 cm. (Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, MS. M.731, fol.2v).
Attributed works:
40a and b. Ercole I d'Este and Eleonora of Aragon, Here Attributed to Cosmè Tura. c. 1477-78. Cast Bronze Medal (Obverse and Reverse), Diameter 7.4 cm. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
Attributed works:
8. Pietà, by Cosmè Tura. c.1460. Panel, 45 by 31 cm. (Museo Correr, Venice).
Supplement
Ercole de'Roberti: the Making of a Court Artist [Ercole de' Roberti The Renaissance in Ferrara, exhibition catalogue]
04/1999 | 1153 | 141
Pages: v-xiv
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Author:
Syson, Luke (Syson, Luke)
Subjects
artists:
Ercole de' Roberti
artists:
Cossa, Francesco del
dates:
1400-1499
dates:
1990-1999
museums and institutions:
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United States
patrons:
Ercole I d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, Modena, and Reggio, 1431-1505
places:
Italy / Ferrara
places:
United States / Los Angeles
subjects:
Italian painting / Attributions
subjects:
Courts (social groups)
subjects:
Exhibition catalogues
subjects:
Patronage / Sources
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Pietà, by Ercole de' Roberti. Panel, 31.4 by 31.3 cm. (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.). Not Exhibited
Attributed works:
10. The Agony in the Garden (From the San Zeno Altar-Piece), by Andrea Mantegna. Panel, 71.5 by 94 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours).
Attributed works:
11. Pietà, by Niccolò dell'Arca. Terracotta, Lifesize (S. Maria della Vita, Bologna).
Attributed works:
12. The Ascent to Calvary, by Ercole de' Roberti. Panel, 35 by 118 cm. (Gemäldegalerie, Dresden).
Attributed works:
13. Pietà, by Ercole de' Roberti. Panel, 31.4 by 31.3 cm. (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool).
Attributed works:
14. Virgin Annunciate, by Cosmè Tura. Panel, 45.1 by 34 cm. (National Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
15. Reverse of the Medal of Alfonso d'Este, by Niccolò Fiorentino. 1492. Cast Bronze, 7 cm. Diameter (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
16. Adoration of the Shepherds, by Andrea Mantegna. Tempera on Panel, Transferred to Canvas, 40 by 55 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
17. Pietà, after Ercole de' Roberti. Oil on Panel, 176 by 140 cm. (Bluhmenstihl Collection, Palazzo Venezia, Rome).
Attributed works:
18. Mary of Cleophas (Eleonora of Aragon) from the Pietà, by Guido Mazzoni. Polychrome Terracotta, 163 cm. High (Gesù, Ferrara).
Attributed works:
2. Miracle of the Ill Woman, Detail from the Griffoni Predella
Attributed works:
3. Madonna del Baraccano, Anonymous Bolognese Painter, Reworked by Francesco del Cossa (And Ercole de' Roberti?). Fresco and Tempera (Detached and Re-Installed), c.400 by 250 cm. (S. Maria del Baraccano, Bologna).
Attributed works:
4. Virgin and Child with Saints (S. Lazzaro Altar-Piece), by Ercole de' Roberti (And Francesco del Cossa?). Canvas, 309 by 234 cm. (Destroyed; Formerly Berlin).
Attributed works:
5. Virgin and Child with Saints (Pala Portuense), by Ercole de' Roberti. Panel, Transferred to Canvas, 323 by 240 cm. (Brera, Milan).
Attributed works:
6. Head of St Mary Magdalen, Fragment from the Garganelli Chapel Crucifixion, by Ercole de' Roberti. Fresco and Tempera, Transferred to Canvas, 23 by 28 cm. (Pinacoteca, Bologna).
Attributed works:
7. Copy of Part of the Crucifixion from the Garganelli Chapel, after Ercole de' Roberti. Canvas, 215 by 320 cm. (S. Pietro, Bologna).
Attributed works:
8. Copy of Part of the Death of the Virgin from the Garganelli Chapel, after Ercole de' Roberti. Canvas, 256 by 203 cm. (Ringling Museum, Sarasota).
Attributed works:
9. Agony in the Garden and Betrayal of Christ, by Ercole de' Roberti. Panel, 35 by 118 cm. (Gemäldegalerie, Dresden).
Supplement
Catalogue [Ercole de' Roberti The Renaissance in Ferrara, exhibition catalogue]
04/1999 | 1153 | 141
Pages: xv-xl
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Allen, Denise (Allen, Denise)
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Helvey, Jennifer (Helvey, Jennifer)
Author:
Jaffé, David (Jaffé, David)
Author:
Syson, Luke (Syson, Luke)
Subjects
artists:
Ercole de' Roberti
dates:
1990-1999
museums and institutions:
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United States
places:
Los Angeles / United States
subjects:
Exhibition catalogues / Italian painting
subjects:
Exhibitions / Attributions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Cat. No. III.
Attributed works:
Infra-Red Reflectogram of the City in the Background of Cat. No. IV.
Attributed works:
IV. St John the Baptist, c.1478 Oil and Oil/Tempera Emulsion on Panel, 54 by 31 cm. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. Cat. No. IV.
Attributed works:
IV. St John the Baptist, c.1478 Oil and Oil/Tempera Emulsion on Panel, 54 by 31 cm. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. Cat. No. IV.
Attributed works:
VI. The Wife of Hasdrubal and Her Children, c.1486-90 ?Tempera on Panel, 47.1 by 30.6 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Cat. No. VI.
Attributed works:
VI. The Wife of Hasdrubal and Her Children, c.1486-90 ?Tempera on Panel, 47.1 by 30.6 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Cat. No. VI.
Attributed works:
VII. Lucretia, Brutus and Collatinus, c.1486-90 ?Tempera on Panel, 48.7 by 35.5 cm. Galleria Estense, Modena. Cat. No. VII.
Attributed works:
VIII. Portia and Brutus, c.1486-90 Tempera on Panel, 48.7 by 34.3 cm. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth. Cat. No. VIII.
Attributed works:
VIII. Portia and Brutus, c.1486-90 Tempera on Panel, 48.7 by 34.3 cm. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth. Cat. No. VIII.
Article
Zanetto Bugatto, Court Portraitist in Sforza Milan
05/1996 | 1118 | 138
Pages: 300-308
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Author:
Syson, Luke (Syson, Luke)
Subjects
artists:
Bugatto, Zanetto
dates:
1400-1499
patrons:
Sforza family
places:
Italy / Milan
subjects:
Italian painting / Portraits / Medals
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Obverse of the Ducat Coin of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Designed by Zanetto Bugatto. 1467. Struck Gold, 2.2 cm. diam. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
10. St Catherine of Alexandria in a Landscape, Attributed to Rogier van der Weyden. Panel, 18.5 by 12 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
Attributed works:
2. Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Attributed to Zanetto Bugatto. Panel, 48 by 43 cm. (Castello Sforzesco, Milan).
Attributed works:
3. Galeazzo Maria Sforza, by Agostino Carracci. Engraving from Antonio Campi: Cremona Fedelissima, Cremona [1583].
Attributed works:
4. Bianca Maria Visconti, by Agostino Carracci. Engraving from Antonio Campi: Cremona Fedelissima, Cremona [1583].
Attributed works:
5. Bianca Maria Visconti (Detail), by Bonifacio Bembo. Fresco. (S. Agostino, Cremona).
Attributed works:
7. Detail of Galeazzo Maria Sforza and Bona of Savoy Making an Offering to the Virgin at the Ospedale Maggiore, by or after Francesco da Vico. 295 by 236 cm. (Whole) (Quadreria dell'Ospedale Maggiore, Milan).
Attributed works:
8. Bona of Savoy, by Agostino Carracci. Engraving from Antonio Campi: Cremona Fedelissima, Cremona [1583].
Attributed works:
9. Bona of Savoy and a Female Martyr Saint (St Bonne of Rheims?), Here Attributed to Zanetto Bugatto. Canvas, Transferred from Panel, 90 by 56 cm. (Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco, Milan).
Western art unattributed:
6. Galeazzo Maria Sforza and Bona of Savoy. Lombard, Sixteenth Century. (Formerly Gatti Collection, Now Castello Sforzesco, Milan).