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Exhibition Review
Medieval Women: In Their Own Words
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 270–73
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Reviewer:
Antille, Diane (Antille, Diane)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
British Library, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Medieval / Social history / Visual culture / Women / Literature / Illuminated manuscripts / Documents
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subjects:
Medieval Women: In Their Own Words British Library, London 25th October 2024–2nd March 2025 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Building the City of Ladies, from Livre de la Cité des Dames, by Christine de Pizan. 1410–c.1414. Ink and pigment on parchment, 36.5 by 28.5 cm. (British Library, London, Harley MS 4431/2, f.290r).
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8. Birthing girdle. England, early 15th century. Ink and pigment on two pieces of parchment stitched together, 122 by 8.5 cm. (British Library, London, Harley Roll T.11).
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9. Bas-de-page illustration of women bringing in the harvest, from the Luttrell Psalter. Lincolnshire, 1325–40. Ink and pigment on parchment, 35 by 24.5 cm. (British Library, London, Add MS 42130, f.172v).
Exhibition Review
Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970–90
03/2024 | 1452 | 166
Pages: 303–305
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Reviewer:
Grant, Catherine (Grant, Catherine)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Tate Britain, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Women artists / Women / Politics / Feminism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970–90 Tate Britain, London 8th November 2023–7th April 2024 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Installation view of Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970–90 at Tate Britain, 2023–24, showing postal art exhibited in Feministo: Portrait of the Artist as a Housewife. (Courtesy Tate; photograph Madeline Buddo).
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11. Banana woman, by Margaret Harrison. 1971. Watercolour, coloured graphite and graphite on paper, 51.8 by 63.7 cm. (© Margaret Harrison; Tate; exh. Tate Britain, London).
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12. The affair, by Bhajan Hunjan. 1987–88. Acrylic on canvas, 122 by 91.5 cm. (© Bhajan Hunjan; Tate; exh. Tate Britain, London).
Book Review
Hersilia’s Sisters: Jacques-Louis David, Women, and the Emergence of Civil Society in Post-Revolution France
01/2024 | 1450 | 166
Pages: 100–101
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Reviewer:
Bordes, Philippe (Bordes, Philippe; Bordes, Phillipe)
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artists:
David, Jacques-Louis
dates:
1790-1829
subjects:
French art / Social history / Women / Women artists / Portraits / Feminism
subjects:
Revolution (France: 1789-1799)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Hersilia’s Sisters: Jacques-Louis David, Women, and the Emergence of Civil Society in Post-Revolution France By Norman Bryson. 352 pp. incl. 168 col. ills. (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2023), £65. ISBN 978–1–60606–771–0. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Henriette de Verninac, by Jacques-Louis David. 1798–99. Oil on canvas, 145.5 by 112 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Exhibition Review
Rubens & Women
01/2024 | 1450 | 166
Pages: 75–79
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Reviewer:
Stighelen, Katlijne van der (Stighelen, Katlijne van der)
Subjects
artists:
Rubens, Peter Paul
dates:
2020-2030
media:
Paintings / Sketches / Drawings
museums and institutions:
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Flemish art / Women
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Rubens & Women. By Ben van Beneden and Amy Orrock, with contributions by Jennifer Scott. 191 pp. incl. numerous col. ills. (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 2023), £19.95. ISBN 978–1–898519–49–2. | :
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Rubens & Women Dulwich Picture Gallery, London 27th September 2023– 28th January 2024 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
17. Study of a female nude (Psyche), by Peter Paul Rubens. c.1609–12. Black and white chalk on paper, 58.1 by 41.2 cm. (© HM King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust; exh. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London).
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18. Three of Diana’s nymphs undressing, by Peter Paul Rubens after Jacob Cornelisz Cobaert. c.1598–1600. Pen and brown ink over black chalk on paper, 17.2 by 14.7 cm. (British Museum, London; exh. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London).
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19. Birth of the Milky Way, by Peter Paul Rubens. 1636–38. Oil on canvas, 181 by 244 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; exh. Dulwich Picture Gallery).
Short Notice
Soft, feminine and forgotten: Kate Smith’s autochromes
05/2023 | 1442 | 165
Pages: 530-533
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Author:
Langford, Catlin (Langford, Catlin)
Subjects
artists:
Smith, Kate (1861-1953)
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
museums and institutions:
Royal Photographic Society, Bristol, Great Britain
subjects:
Autochrome / British photography / Women / Nudes
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Still life with grapefruit and wine, by Norah E. Parish. c.1910. Autochrome, 8.2 by 10.7 cm. (Royal Photographic Society Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, inv. no.RPS.1626-2020).
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2. Blue and pink, by Kate Smith. c.1910–20. Autochrome, 10.5 by 8 cm. (Royal Photographic Society Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, inv. no.RPS.1058-2021).
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3. A beautiful weed, by Kate Smith. c.1910–20. Autochrome, 10.5 by 8 cm. (Royal Photographic Society Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, inv. no.RPS.1057-2021).
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4. Profile, by Kate Smith. c.1929. (From The Photographic Journal 69 (August 1929), p.182).
Book Review
Jean-Baptiste Greuze et ses têtes d’expression: La fortune d’une genre
05/2023 | 1442 | 165
Pages: 569-571
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Reviewer:
Laing, Alastair (Laing, Alastair)
Subjects
artists:
Greuze, Jean-Baptiste
subjects:
French art / Faces / Expression / Busts / Emotion / Studies (visual works) / Women
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Jean-Baptiste Greuze et ses têtes d’expression: La fortune d’une genre By Yuriko Jackall. 320 pp. incl. 29 col. + 45 b. & w. ills. (CTHS and INHA, Paris, 2022), €38. ISBN 978–2–7355–0939–3. | :
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3. A woman (Madame Greuze) with a furtrimmed hood drawn over her head, detail from La Dame de Charité, by Jean Baptiste Greuze, above a sketch of the painting, by Jean Massard. 1772. Etching and engraving, 23.7 by 15.8 cm. (British Museum, London).
Book Review
Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe
01/2023 | 1438 | 165
Pages: 92-93
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Reviewer:
Bohn, Babette (Bohn, Babette)
Subjects
artists:
Gentileschi, Artemisia
subjects:
Italian art / Women / Women artists / Feminism / Self-portraits / Literature
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe By Mary D. Garrard. 320 pp. incl. 65 col. + 4 b. & w. ills. (Reaktion Books, London, 2020), £15.95. ISBN 978–1–78914–202–0. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. Self-portrait as a lute player, by Artemisia Gentileschi. c.1615–18. Oil on canvas, 77.5 by 71.8 cm. (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford; Bridgeman Images).
Exhibition Review
Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism
01/2023 | 1438 | 165
Pages: 79-81
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Reviewer:
Salatino, Kevin (Salatino, Kevin)
Subjects
artists:
Fuseli, Henry
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Women / Fashion / Eroticism / Violence / Models (people) / Prostitution / Paintings / Drawings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism Courtauld Gallery, London 14th October 2022–8th January 2023 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
16. Sophia Fuseli, her hair in large rolls, with pink gloves, in front of a brown curtain, by Henry Fuseli. 1790. Graphite, brush and watercolour, heightened with white opaque watercolour on paper, 31.6 by 19.7 cm. (Kunsthaus Zürich; exh. Courtauld Gallery, London).
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17. Woman in a sculpture gallery, by Henry Fuseli. 1798. Pen and black ink, brush and watercolour on paper, over graphite, heightened with white opaque watercolour, 41 by 24.7 cm. (Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; exh. Courtauld
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18. Kallipyga, by Henry Fuseli. c.1790–92? Pen and brown ink, 16.3 by 9.4 cm. (Private collection; exh. Courtauld Gallery, London).
Exhibition Review
Reframed: The Woman in the Window
08/2022 | 1433 | 164
Pages: 809-811
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Reviewer:
Baker, Christopher (Baker, Christopher)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Women / Windows / Art history
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Reframed: The Woman in the Window Dulwich Picture Gallery, London 4th May–4th September | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
23. Girl at a window, by Rembrandt van Rijn. 1645. Oil on canvas, 81.8 by 66.2 cm. (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London).
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24. My blue sky, by Louise Bourgeois. 1989– 2003. Gouache, watercolour, ink, pencil, coloured pencil and paper, mounted in a wood and glass window frame, 70.5 by 58.4 by 15.9 cm. (Private collection; exh. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London).
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25. Girl in a window, by Peter Blake. 1962. Mixed media, 112.4 by 124 by 34 cm. (Leeds Museums and Galleries; exh. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London). 26. Seated figure, by Alexander Archipenko. 1917. Painted wood, 26.7 by 16.3 by 10.6 cm. (Private collection; exh. Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London).
Exhibition Review
Boldini: Pleasures and Days
07/2022 | 1432 | 164
Pages: 696-699
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Reviewer:
McKever, Rosalind (McKever, Rosalind)
Subjects
artists:
Boldini, Giovanni
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, France
places:
Paris
subjects:
Italian art / Portraits / Women
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Boldini: Pleasures and Days Petit Palais, Paris 29th March–24th July | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Emiliana Concha de Ossa, by Giovanni Boldini. 1888. Pastel on paper mounted on canvas, 219.7 by 120 cm. (Private collection; exh. Petit Palais, Paris).
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11. Conversation in the café, by Giovanni Boldini. 1879. Oil on panel, 28 by 41 cm. (Private collection; exh. Petit Palais, Paris).
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12. A corner of the painter’s table, by Giovanni Boldini. c.1897. Oil on panel, 120 by 38.5 cm. (Musée Giovanni Boldini; exh. Petit Palais, Paris).
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