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Book Review
The Lombard Haggadah. Edited by Milvia Bollati, Flora Cassen and Marc Michael Epstein
12/2019 | 1401 | 161
Pages: 1061-1062
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Reviewer:
Harris, Julie (Harris, Julie )
Subjects
artists:
Grassi, Giovannino de / and workshop
dates:
1350-1399
styles:
International Gothic
subjects:
Haggadah / Lombardy / Jews / Illuminated manuscripts / Jewish iconography / Visconti family
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Lombard Haggadah Edited by Milvia Bollati, Flora Cassen and Marc Michael Epstein. 240 pp. incl. 200 col. ills. (Paul Holberton Publishing, London, 2019), £45. ISBN 978–1–911300–66–3. | :
Exhibition Review
The Colmar Treasure: A Medieval Jewish Legacy. Met Cloisters, New York
11/2019 | 1400 | 161
Pages: 944-946
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Reviewer:
Ackley, Joseph (Ackley, Joseph)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
The Cloisters, New York, United States
places:
Colmar
subjects:
Jewish / Jews / Jewellery / Coins / Rings (objects) / Brooches
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
4. Jewish ceremonial wedding ring. Italy(?), c.1300– before 1348. Gold, opaque and translucent enamel, 3.5 by 2.3 cm. (Musée de Cluny, Paris; exh. Met Cloisters, New York).
Western art unattributed:
5. Silk purse depicting lovers. France or Rhineland, first half of the fourteenth century. Silk, linen and gold leaf, 14 by 15.2 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; exh. Met Cloisters, New York).
Western art unattributed:
6. Page from a Mahzor. Rhineland (Colmar?). First half of the fourteenth century. (Bibliothèque municipale, Colmar, CG11629; exh. Met Cloisters, New York).
Exhibition Review
Berlin/London: The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon. Wiener Library, London
10/2019 | 1399 | 161
Pages: 863-866
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Reviewer:
Vaizey, Marina (Vaizey, Marina)
Subjects
artists:
Simon, Gerty
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Photographs
places:
Berlin / London
subjects:
Portraits / Jews / Holocaust (1939-1945)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
15. Self-portrait montage, by Gerty Simon. c.1925–32. Gelatin silver print, 40 by 30 cm. (Wiener Library, London).
Attributed works:
16. Käthe Kollwitz, by Gerty Simon. c.1929. Gelatin silver print, 40 by 30 cm. (Wiener Library, London).
Attributed works:
17. Lotte Lenya, by Gerty Simon. c.1935. Gelatin silver print, 40 by 30 cm. (Wiener Library, London).
Book Review
Insiders/Outsiders: Refugees from Nazi Europe and their Contribution to British Visual Culture. Edited by Monica Bohm-Duchen
06/2019 | 1395 | 161
Pages: 518-519
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Reviewer:
Vaizey, Marina (Vaizey, Marina)
Subjects
dates:
1930-1939 / 1940-1959
subjects:
British art / Jews / War / Visual culture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Insiders/Outsiders: Refugees from Nazi Europe and their Contribution to British Visual Culture Edited by Monica Bohm-Duchen. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Self-portrait of a degenerate artist, by Oskar Kokoschka. 1937. Canvas, 110 by 85 cm. (National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; © Fondation Oskar Kokoschka / DACS 2018).
Book Review
Live Form: Women, Ceramics and Community. By Jenni Sorkin
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 174-175
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Reviewer:
Harrod, Tanya (Harrod, Tanya)
Subjects
artists:
Wildenhain, Marguerite / Richards, M.C. / Peterson, Susan / Karnes, Karen / Mason, John / Price, Kenneth / Voulkos, Peter
dates:
1900-1999 / 1950-1999
media:
Ceramics
places:
United States
subjects:
American sculpture (United States of America) / Women / Women artists / Clay / Decorative arts / Feminism / Politics / Holocaust (1939-1945) / Jews / Study and teaching / Techniques / Conceptual art / Minimalism / Television
Exhibition Review
Roman Vishniac Rediscovered. Jewish Museum, London, and The Photographers’ Gallery, London
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 156-158
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Reviewer:
Vaizey, Marina (Vaizey, Marina)
Subjects
artists:
Vishniac, Roman
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Photographs
museums and institutions:
Jewish Museum, London, Great Britain / Photographers' Gallery, London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
Jews / Jewish iconography / Cultural history / Religion / World War (1939-1945) / Holocaust (1939-1945) / Ruins / Portraits / Travel / Commissions / Photography
Illustrations
Attributed works:
22. Jewish school children, Mukacevo, by Roman Vishniac. c.1935–38. Gelatin silver print, 24 by 16.5 cm. (© Mara Vishniac Kohn; International Center of Photography, New York; exh. Jewish Museum London).
Attributed works:
23. Skin from Roman Vishniac’s thumb, magnified 280 times, by Roman Vishniac. 1950s–1970s. Photomicrograph. (© Mara Vishniac Kohn; International Center of Photography, New York; exh. Jewish Museum London and The Photographers’ Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
24. Boy standing on a mountain of rubble, Berlin, by Roman Vishniac. 1947. Inkjet print, 30 by 30 cm. (© Mara Vishniac Kohn; International Center of Photography, New York; exh. The Photographers’ Gallery, London).
Exhibition Review
Venice, Jews and Europe. Venice
10/2016 | 1363 | 158
Pages: 847-849
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Reviewer:
Chojnacka, Monica (Chojnacka, Monica)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy
places:
Venice / Italy
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Venetian / Jews / Jewish / Cultural history
Illustrations
Attributed works:
84. Nobleman at his table, by Giovanni Grevembroch (1731-1807). From Gli abiti de veneziani di quasi ogni età con diligenza raccolti e dipinti nel secolo XVIII. Venice, second half of the eighteenth century (Biblioteca del Museo Correr, Venice; exh. Doge's Palace, Venice)
Attributed works:
86. Rabbi no. 2, by Marc Chagall. 1914-22 (Ca'Pesaro - Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, Venice; exh. Doge's Palace, Venice)
Attributed works:
87. The drunkenness of Noah, by Giovanni Bellini. c.1515 (Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie, Besançon; exh. Doge's Palace, Venice)
Non-western art unattributed:
85. Jewish marriage contract between Diana bat Gavri'el Barak Caravaglio and Mošeh ben Ya'aqov Baruk Caravaglio. 1723 (Monday 14 Nissan 5483). (Museo Correr, Venice; exh. Doge's Palace, Venice)
Article
The final convulsions of Brussels tapestry: ‘The legend of the miraculous Host’, 1769–85
02/2013 | 1319 | 155
Pages: 82-87
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Author:
Brosens, Koenraad (Brosens, Koenraad)
Subjects
artists:
Borcht, van der, family, / Hase, Maximiliaan de / Landtsheer, Jan de, 1750-1828 / Heyden, Jan van der / Helmont, Zeger Jacob van
buildings:
Cathédrale Saints-Michel-et-Gudule, Brussels, Belgium
dates:
1760-1769 / 1770-1779 / 1780-1789
subjects:
Tapestries / Textiles / Provenance / Belgian / Flemish / Iconography / Sacraments / Jews
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. The Jews stabbing the Hosts, by the Van der Borcht workshop after Maximiliaan de Hase (Cathedral of St Michael and St Gudula, Brussels)
Attributed works:
11. The Jews taken captive, by the Van der Borcht workshop after Maximiliaan de Hase (Cathedral of St Michael and St Gudula, Brussels)
Attributed works:
12. The reliquary being taken to the church of St Gudula, by the Van der Borcht workshop after Maximiliaan de Hase (Cathedral of St Michael and St Gudula, Brussels)
Attributed works:
13. The reliquary being removed from the beam, by the Van der Borcht workshop after Maximiliaan de Hase (Cathedral of St Michael and St Gudula, Brussels)
Attributed works:
14. The adoration of the Hosts, by the Van der Borcht workshop after Maximiliaan de Hase (Cathedral of St Michael and St Gudula, Brussels)
Attributed works:
15. The Jews taken captive, by Jan van der Heyden (Cathedral of St Michael and St Gudula, Brussels)
Attributed works:
16. The stabbing of the Hosts, by Zeger Jacob van Helmont (Cathedral of St Michael and St Gudula, Brussels)
Attributed works:
9. Jonathan's widow giving the Hosts to the Jews, by the Van der Borcht workshop after Maximiliaan de Hase (Cathedral of St Michael and St Gudula, Brussels)
Book Review
Pontius Pilate, Anti-Semitism, and the Passion in Medieval Art
12/2010 | 1293 | 152
Pages: 809
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Reviewer:
Kauffmann, C. M. (Kauffmann, C. M.; K., C. M.)
Subjects
dates:
1100-1199
print:
Pontius Pilate
print:
Medieval art
subjects:
Pontius Pilate / Christian iconography / Jesus Christ: Passion / Jewish iconography / Jews
subjects:
Art / Early medieval / Medieval
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Pontius Pilate, Anti-Semitism, and the Passion in Medieval Art | author: Hourihane, Colum
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
37. Pilate washing his hands and sprinkling water on the Jews. c.1125. Miniature. (St Albans Psalter, fol.23r; Dombibliothek, Hildesheim).
Book Review
Rembrandt, the Jews and the Bible
12/1947 | 537 | 89
Pages: 358-359
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Reviewer:
Rosenau, Helen (Rosenau, Helen; Rosenau, H.)
Subjects
artists:
Rembrandt van Rijn
dates:
1600-1699
places:
Netherlands
subjects:
Dutch painting / Jewish iconography / Jews / Bible
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Rembrandt, the Jews and the Bible | author: Landsberger, Franz
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