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An anamorphic perspective box painting rediscovered: a work by Pieter Saenredam?
02/2024 | 1451 | 166
Pages: 159–163
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Shorter Notice by:
Dupertuis Bangs, Jeremy (Dupertuis Bangs, Jeremy)
Subjects
artists:
Saenredam, Pieter / Nickelen, Isaak / Berckheyde, Job Adriaensz.
dates:
Dutch art / Perspective boxes / Anamorphoses
dates:
1630-1669
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Interior of St Bavo, Haarlem, looking west. Oil on panel, 37.5 by 29.3 cm. (Private collection).
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2. Fig.1, photographed at an angle.
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3. Interior of St Bavo, Haarlem, looking west, by Job Berckheyde. 1668. Oil on canvas, 109.5 by 154.5 cm. (Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem).
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4. Interior of St Bavo, Haarlem, looking west, by Isaak van Nickelen. Oil on canvas, 30.3 by 36 cm. (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam).
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5. Interior of St Bavo, Haarlem; view of the west end and nave, with the tomb of a bishop in the south transept, by Pieter Jansz. Saenredam. 1630. Pen and brown ink, with grey wash, over black chalk, 11.9 by 16.3 cm. (British Museum, London).
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6. A construction combining Fig.1 with a speculative drawing of the panel that formed the left half of the two-part triangular image, open flat.
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7. The construction in Fig.6 shown at an angle, suggesting what could have been seen when presented as a perspective box.
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8. Interior of St Bavo, Haarlem (‘the Grote Kerk’), by Pieter Jansz. Saenredam. 1648. Oil on panel, 200 by 150 cm. (Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh).
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9. Interior of St Bavo, Haarlem, by Pieter Jansz. Saenredam. 1635. Pen and brown ink with grey wash and touches of red chalk over graphite on laid paper, squared in red chalk, 49.1 by 38.5 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
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Surrealist Ghostliness. By Katherine Conley.
09/2014 | 1338 | 156
Pages: 612-613
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Subjects
artists:
Hiller, Susan / Tanning, Dorothea
artists:
Cahun, Claude / Woodman, Francesca
subjects:
Art theory / Surrealism / Women artists / Anamorphoses
Letter
Holbein's 'Ambassadors'
03/1964 | 732 | 106
Pages: 135-136
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Author:
Samuel, Edgar R. (Samuel, Edgar R.)
Author:
Watson, F. J. B. (Watson, F. J. B.; Watson, Francis John Bagott; W., F. J. B.; Watson, Mr.; Watson, F.J.B.; Watson, Francis)
Subjects
artists:
Holbein, Hans the Younger, ca. 1497-1543
dates:
1500-1549
places:
England / Germany
subjects:
German painting / Anamorphoses
works:
Ambassadors (National Gallery, London)
Article
Death in the Glass - A New View of Holbein's 'Ambassadors'
10/1963 | 727 | 105
Pages: 436-441
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Author:
Samuel, Edgar R. (Samuel, Edgar R.)
Subjects
artists:
Holbein, Hans the Younger, ca. 1497-1543
dates:
1500-1549
museums and institutions:
National Gallery, London, Great Britain
places:
England / Germany
subjects:
German painting / Portraits / Anamorphoses
subjects:
Dinteville, Jean de
subjects:
Optics
works:
Ambassadors (National Gallery, London)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
15. The Ambassadors, by Hans Holbein the Younger. Signed and Dated 1533. Panel. As Seen with a Glass Tube Mounted in Front of the Picture. (National Gallery, London.)
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16. Detail from Portrait of George Gisze, by Hans Holbein the Younger. Dated 1532. Panel. (Deutsches Muscum, Berlin.)
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17. Distorted Portrait of King Ferdinand of Aragon (d.1516), by Erhard Schön. Engraving.
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18. Vanité scientifique, by Vincenzo dalle Vacche. c.1520. Marquetry Panel. (Musée du Louvre.)
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19. Vanité des Puissances Terrestres Ecclésiastique et Laique, by Vincenzo dalle Vacche. c.1520. Marquetry Panel. (Musée du Louvre.)
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20. Coat of Arms with a Skull, by Albrecht Dürer. 1503. Engraving. By Permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.
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21. The Arms of Death, by Hans Holbein the Younger. 1538. Engraving. By Permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.
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A. The Technique of Anamorphic Draughtsmanship. Plate from Les Perspectives Curieuses, by J. B. Niceron, Paris, 1646.