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Book Review
Une théorie universelle au milieu du XIXe siècle: La ‘Grammar of Ornament’ d’Owen Jones. By Ariane Varela Braga
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 172-174
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Reviewer:
Van Zanten, David (Van Zanten, David; Zanten, David van)
Subjects
art literature:
Jones, Owen / Semper, Gottfried / Riegl, Alois / Ruskin, John
dates:
1800-1899 / 1850-1899
media:
Architecture
places:
Great Britain
subjects:
British architecture / Design / Decorative arts / Ornament / Pattern / Style / Geometric patterns / Geometry / Colour / Nature / Study and teaching / Art Nouveau / Deutscher Werkbund (art group) / Bauhaus
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Osler’s Gallery, Oxford Street, London, by Owen Jones. c.1858–60. Ink and watercolour, 147.3 by 102 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Exhibition Review
Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art. Dallas Museum of Art
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 963-965
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Reviewer:
Silberman, Robert (Silberman, Robert; Silberman, Robert B.)
Subjects
art literature:
Friedman, Martin
artists:
Sheeler, Charles / O'Keeffe, Georgia / Demuth, Charles / Murphy, Gerald / Duchamp, Marcel / Schamberg, Morton Livingston / Picabia, Francis / Ault, George / Frankl, Paul / Carter, Clarence Holbrook / Gursky, Andreas / Struth, Thomas / Bourke-White, Margaret
artists:
Driggs, Elsie / Storrs, John Bradley
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Drawings / Prints / Photographs / Videos / Industrial design / Furniture / Art objects
museums and institutions:
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, United States / Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, United States
places:
United States / Dallas / Minneapolis
subjects:
American painting (United States of America) / Precisionism / Machine aesthetic / Digital technology / Cities / Popular culture / Abstract art / Modernism / Surrealism / Landscapes (visual works) / Geometry / Automobiles / Design / Workers
Illustrations
Attributed works:
16. Watch, by Gerald Murphy. 1925. Canvas, 199.4 by 200.4 cm. (Dallas Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
17. American landscape, by Charles Sheeler. 1930. Canvas, 61 by 78.8 cm. (Museum of Modern Art, New York; exh. Dallas Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
18. ‘Skyscraper’ bookcase, by Paul T. Frankl. c.1926. Lacquered wood and brass, 242.6 by 109.2 by 33 cm. (Minneapolis Institute of Art; exh. Dallas Museum of Art).
Exhibition Review
Antony Gormley: SUBJECT. Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
08/2018 | 1385 | 160
Pages: 686-688
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Reviewer:
Lewison, Jeremy (Lewison, Jeremy)
Subjects
art literature:
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice / Jung, Carl
artists:
Gormley, Antony / Fobert, Jamie / Richards, Ivor / Martin, J. L.
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Sculpture / Drawings / Architecture
museums and institutions:
Kettle's Yard Gallery, Cambridge, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / Cambridge
subjects:
British sculpture / British architecture / Sublime / Influence / Visual sources / Geometry / Form / Monographs / Interviews
Illustrations
Attributed works:
28. Time horizon, by Antony Gormley. 2006. Cast iron (100 elements), 189 by 53 by 29 cm. Installation view at Parco Archeologico di Scolacium, Roccelletta di Borgia, Catanzaro (Photograph by Peppe Avallone; © the artist)
Attributed works:
29. Infinite cube II, by Antony Gormley. 2018. Mirrored glass with internal copper wire matrix of 1,000 LED lights, 176 by 88 by 88 cm. (© the artist; installation photograph by Benjamin Westoby at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge).
Attributed works:
30. Installation view of Antony Gormley: SUBJECT at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (Photograph Benjamin Westoby; © the artist).
Book Review
The Geometry of Creation: Architectural Drawing and the Dynamics of Gothic Design
03/2013 | 1320 | 155
Pages: 179-180
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Reviewer:
Fernie, E. C. (Fernie, E. C.; Fernie, Eric)
Subjects
subjects:
Architectural drawings / Gothic (Medieval) / Geometry / Technical analysis / Architectural history / Architectural theory
Short Notice
Raphael’s ‘Annunciation’ predella panel and a perspective drawing
08/2006 | 1241 | 148
Pages: 545-548
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Author:
Kang, Eun-Sung (Kang, Eun-Sung)
Subjects
artists:
Raphael
dates:
1500-1509
museums and institutions:
Musei Vaticani, Rome, Italy / Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
print:
Raphael
subjects:
Italian painting / Cartoons (working drawings) / Drawings / Predellas / Perspective / Collections, Public / Geometry
Illustrations
Attributed works:
31. The Annunciation, by Raphael. c.1503. Panel, 27 by 42 cm. (Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome).
Attributed works:
32. Cartoon for The Annunciation, by Raphael. c.1503. Brush and brown wash, pen and ink, black chalk, stylus and compass, pricked for transfer, 28.3 by 42,2 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
33. Reconstruction of the stylus lines and compass marks in Fig.32.
Attributed works:
34. Diagram on the verso of Fig.35, by Raphael. c.1503. Stylus with compass marks, 19.1 by 27.1 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
35. Studies for the head and hand of an angel in the ‘Coronation of the Virgin’, by Raphael. c.1503. Silverpoint on white ground, 19.1 by 27.1 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
37. Fig.34 with measurements.
Attributed works:
38. Author’s reconstruction of Raphael’s method.
Attributed works:
39. The construction of a vaulted space from Piero della Francesca: De prospectiva pingendi, 1474. MS D 200 inf., 35 by 35 cm. (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan).
Attributed works:
41. Perspective drawing, by Baldassare Peruzzi. Pen and ink, 62.2 by 83.8 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, 269 A (v)).
Western art unattributed:
36. Diagram of perspective construction according to Alberti’s method (from M. Kemp: The science of art, New Haven and London 1990).
Western art unattributed:
40. Method for the ‘tiers points’. Woodcut from Jean Pélerin: De artificiali perspective, 1505.
Article
A manuscript of the works of Archimedes in the hand of Piero della Francesca
03/2005 | 1224 | 147
Pages: 165-169
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Author:
Banker, James R. (Banker, James R.)
Subjects
artists:
Piero della Francesca
dates:
1450-1469
museums and institutions:
Biblioteca Riccardiana, Florence, Italy
print:
Piero della Francesca
subjects:
Manuscripts / Illuminated manuscripts / Copies / Mathematics / Geometry / Greek (ancient) / Italian / Science
subjects:
Collections, Public
Illustrations
Attributed works:
22. Piero della Francesca: Trattato d'abaco. Autograph manuscript. ?1450s. 21.5 by 14 cm (Biblioteca Laurenziana, Florence; MS Ashburnham 359*, fol.3r)
Attributed works:
23. Archimedes: Opera, written by Piero della Francesca. ?1459-70. 28.5 by 21.5 cm. (Biblioteca Riccardiana, Florence; MS Ricc.Lat.106, fol.1r).
Article
Gothic Canons of Architecture
03/1945 | 504 | 86
Pages: 73-76
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Author:
Ghyka, Matila (Ghyka, Matila)
Subjects
dates:
1100-1199 / 1200-1299 / 1300-1349
sources:
Vitruvius
subjects:
Architecture / Gothic (Medieval) / Sources / Manuscripts / Composition (artistic arrangement) / Harmony
subjects:
Geometry / Golden section
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Fig. 1. Icosahedron Designed by Leonardo da Vinci.
Attributed works:
Fig. 2. Dodecahedron Designed by Leonardo da Vinci.
Western art unattributed:
Fig. 3. Diagram showing the dominance of the golden section theme in the pentagon and pentagram.
Western art unattributed:
Fig. 4. Diagram showing the dominance of the Golden Section theme in the pentagon and pentagram.
Western art unattributed:
Fig. 5. Diagram showing the dominance of the Golden Section in the decagon and star-decagon.
Western art unattributed:
Fig. 6. Gothic Master Diagram
Western art unattributed:
Fig. 7. Typical Gothic cathedral plan issued from the Master Diagram.
Western art unattributed:
Fig. 8. Typical Gothic cathedral plan issued from the Master Diagram.
Book Review
Ad Quadratum: A Study of the Geometrical Bases of Classic and Mediaeval Religious Architecture. With Special Reference to Their Application in the Restoration of the Cathedral of Nidaros (Throndhjem), Norway
02/1923 | 239 | 42
Pages: 100-101
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Reviewer:
Butler, Arthur Stanley George (A. S. G. B.) (Butler, Arthur Stanley George (A. S. G. B.); B., A. S. G.; Butler, A. S. G.)
Subjects
places:
Norway
subjects:
Architecture / Cathedrals / Geometry
subjects:
Proportion
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Ad Quadratum: A Study of the Geometrical Bases of Classic and Mediaeval Religious Architecture. With Special Reference to Their Application in the Restoration of the Cathedral of Nidaros (Throndhjem), Norway | author: Lund, Fredrik Macody