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Exhibition Review
Fracta Doces: Thirteenth-Century Insular Visitors to Rome
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 291–2
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Reviewer:
de Blaauw, Sible L. (de Blaauw, Sible L.)
Subjects
dates:
1190-1199 / 1200-1249
subjects:
Rome / Travel accounts / Travel / British
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Fracta Doces: Thirteenth-Century Insular Visitors to Rome By Julian Gardner. 140 pp. incl. 35 col. + b. & w. ills. (Viella, Rome, 2022), €29. ISBN 979–1–25469–018–5. | :
Book Review
Knick-knackery: The Deards Family and their Luxury Shops 1685–1785
05/2024 | 1454 | 166
Pages: 535–537
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Reviewer:
Clifford, Helen (Clifford, Helen)
Subjects
subjects:
Shopping / Luxury / British / Eighteenth-century
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Knick-knackery: The Deards Family and their Luxury Shops 1685–1785 By Vanessa Brett. 536 pp. incl. 285 col + 176 b. & w. ills. (Privately published, Bath, 2023), £35. ISBN 978–1–3999–6598–9. | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
5. Loupe, or magnifying glass. c.1740. Gold and agate with diamond knop, length 14.8 cm. (open), width 5.2 cm. (Private collection).
Book Review
Studio Ceramics: British Studio Pottery 1900 to now
01/2024 | 1450 | 166
Pages: 102–103
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Reviewer:
Walsh, Helen (Walsh, Helen)
Subjects
art literature:
Catalogues
dates:
1900-1999 / 2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Ceramics / British / Collections, Public / Collecting
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Studio Ceramics: British Studio Pottery 1900 to now By Alun Graves, with a foreword by Tanya Harrod. 416 pp. incl. 919 col. + b. & w. ills. (Thames and Hudson, London and New York, 2023), £65. ISBN 978–0–500–48089–2. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Optical pot, by Elizabeth Fritsch. 1980. Stoneware, height 31.1 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Editorial
Terence Conran, marchand-mercier
10/2020 | 1411 | 162
Pages: 831
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Subjects
artists:
Conran, Terence
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain / Design Museum, London, Great Britain
subjects:
British / Designers / Interiors / Modernism
Book Review
The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale Junior. By Judith Goodison
03/2019 | 1392 | 161
Pages: 252-253
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Reviewer:
Saunt, Jenny (Saunt, Jenny)
Subjects
art literature:
Lomax, James / Bowett, Adam
artists:
Chippendale, Thomas II, 1749-1822 / Chippendale, Thomas I, 1718-1779 / Adam, Robert, 1728-1792
dates:
1750-1849
styles:
British / British architecture
subjects:
Furniture makers / Designers
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale Junior | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Armchair, one of a set of six, attributed to Thomas Chippendale Jr. c.1773. Mahogany and beech, 95.2 by 59.5 by 52 cm. (The Chippendale Society).
Attributed works:
2. Armchair, one of a set of six, by Thomas Chippendale Sr. 1768. Mahogany, 95 by 62 by 62 cm. (The National Trust, Nostell Priory, Yorkshire).
Exhibition Review
Two architectural exhibitions
05/2014 | 1334 | 156
Pages: 333-334
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Reviewer:
Kidd, Alex (Kidd, Alex)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great Britain / Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
places:
London / England
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Architecture / Installations (visual works) / Architects / British
Illustrations
Attributed works:
44. Installation view of Sensing Spaces at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2014, showing Blue pavilion, by Pezo von Ellrichshausen. (Exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London)
Attributed works:
45. Installation view of The Brits Who Built the Modern World at the RIBA, London, 2014, showing in the foreground a model for the Beijing South Railway Station by Terry Farrell, with various architectural models, photographs and drawings
Publication Received
The British as art collectors: From the Tudors to the Present
07/2013 | 1324 | 155
Pages: 497
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Reviewer:
Crookham, Alan (Crookham, Alan)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
British
subjects:
Collecting / Surveys / Collectors / British / Art history
Publication Received
Portraiture and social identity in eighteenth-century Rome
05/2011 | 1298 | 153
Pages: 340
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Reviewer:
Postle, Martin (Postle, Martin)
Subjects
dates:
1700-1799
places:
Rome / Italy
print:
Portraiture
subjects:
Portraits / Grand tours / Italians / British
subjects:
Cultural history
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Portraiture and social identity in eighteenth-century Rome | author: Eliasson, Sabrina Norlander
Book Review
I giardini delle regine: il mito di Firenze nell’ambiente preraffaellita e nella cultura americana fra Ottocento e Novecento
08/2006 | 1241 | 148
Pages: 555-556
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Reviewer:
Martineau, Jane (Martineau, Jane; Martineau, Jane; M., J.T.)
Subjects
dates:
1800-1899 / 2000-2009 / 1900-1929
museums and institutions:
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
places:
Italy / Florence
print:
Florence
subjects:
Exhibitions / Women artists / English / American (United States of America) / Americans / British / Influence
subjects:
Pre-Raphaelite / Artists
subjects:
Topography / Cultural history / Florentine
Reviewed Items
subjects:
I giardini delle regine: il mito di Firenze nell’ambiente preraffaellita e nella cultura americana fra Ottocento e Novecento | editor: Ciacci, Margherita , editor: Gobbi Sica, Grazia
Exhibition Review
Painted ladies: London and New Haven
01/2002 | 1186 | 144
Pages: 42–44
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Reviewer:
Millar, Oliver (Millar, Oliver; Millar, Mr.; Miller, Oliver)
Subjects
dates:
1650-1749
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
National Portrait Gallery, London, Great Britain
museums and institutions:
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States
patrons:
Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685
places:
England
print:
British / Art
subjects:
British painting / Exhibitions
subjects:
Exhibitions / Reviews
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Painted Ladies: Women at the Court of Charles II | institution: National Portrait Gallery , institution: Yale Center for British Art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
47. Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine and Her Son, Charles Fitzroy, as the Madonna and Child, by Peter Lely. c.1663. 125 by 101.5 cm. (Private Collection; Exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
48. The Hon. Jane Widdrington, by Jacob Huysmans. c.1680-85. 125.8 by 93.7 cm. (The Society of Jesus, Stonyhurst College; Exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
49. Lady Joanna Thornhill, by John Michael Wright. c.1666? 63 by 75 cm. (Collection of Richard Granville; Exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
50. Catharine Sedley, later Countess of Dorchester, by Godfrey Kneller. 1685. 123 by 99 cm. (National Trust, Kedleston Hall; Exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
51. Charlotte Fitzroy, Countess of Lichfield, ?By Richard Gibson. c.1677. Water-Colour and Body-Colour on Vellum, 7.6 by 8.8 cm. (Private Collection; Exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
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