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Book Review
Eve’s Apple to the Last Supper: Picturing Food in the Bible by C.M. Kauffmann
07/2019 | 1396 | 161
Pages: 605-606
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Reviewer:
Law-Turner, Frederica C.E. (Law-Turner, Frederica C.E.)
Subjects
dates:
1200-1499 / 1500-1699 / 0200-0299 / 0300-0399 / 0400-0499 / 0500-0599 / 0600-0699 / 0700-0799 / 0800-0899 / 0900-0999 / 1000-1099 / 1100-1199
media:
Illuminated manuscripts / Murals / Stained glass / Mosaics / Oil painting (technique)
subjects:
Feasts / Bible stories / Adam and Eve / Jesus Christ: Last Supper / Typology / Belshazzar's Feast / Jesus Christ: Supper at Emmaus
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Eve’s Apple to the Last Supper: Picturing Food in the Bible by C.M. Kauffmann. 184 pp. incl. 157 col. + 2 b. & w. ills. (Boydell & Brewer, Rochester, 2017), | :
Book Review
Fifty English Steeples: The Finest Medieval Parish Church Towers and Spires in England. By Julian Flannery
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 166
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Reviewer:
Cameron, James Alexander (Cameron, James Alexander)
Subjects
art literature:
Harvey, John H. / Pevsner, Nikolaus / Gem, Richard, Haddenham, Great Britain / Goodall, John A. A. / Sekules, Veronica
dates:
0500-0599 / 0600-0699 / 0700-0799 / 0800-0899 / 0900-0999 / 1000-1099 / 1100-1199 / 1200-1299 / 1300-1399 / 1400-1499
media:
Architecture / Architectural drawings / Architectural components
places:
Great Britain
subjects:
Churches / Parish churches / Towers / Spires / Steeples / Architects / Architectural historians / Architectural history / Bibliographies / Patronage / Early medieval / Late medieval / Medieval
Book Review
Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages. By Jack Hartnell
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 976-977
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Reviewer:
Bhalla, Niamh (Bhalla, Niamh)
Subjects
dates:
0200-0299 / 0300-0399 / 0400-0499 / 0500-0599 / 0600-0699 / 0700-0799 / 0800-0899 / 0900-0999 / 1000-1099 / 1100-1199 / 1200-1299 / 1300-1399 / 1400-1499 / 1500-1599
media:
Manuscripts / Drawings / Book illustrations / Art objects
places:
Europe
subjects:
Visual culture / Medicine / Philosophy / Theology / Art theory / Disease / Science / Relics / Treatises
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
2. Surgical instruments in use in an operation for an anal fistula. English, c.1475–1500. Pen and ink and tempera on vellum, 25.4 by 17.8 cm. (Glasgow University Library, MS Hunter 251 fol.43v; Bridgeman Images.)
Book Review
The Wyvern Collection: Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture and Metalwork. By Paul Williamson
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 974-975
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Reviewer:
Dectot, Xavier (Dectot, Xavier)
Subjects
artists:
Buglioni, Benedetto / Ferrucci, Andrea di Piero / Morel, Jacques / Riemenschneider, Tilman
dates:
0200-0299 / 0300-0399 / 0400-0499 / 0500-0599 / 0600-0699 / 0700-0799 / 0800-0899 / 0900-0999 / 1000-1099 / 1100-1199 / 1200-1299 / 1300-1399 / 1400-1499 / 1500-1599
media:
Sculpture / Wood sculpture / Stone / Marbles / Alabaster carvings / Metalwork / Reliefs
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
Europe
subjects:
Collections, Private / Catalogues / Attribution / Dating / Identification / Provenance / Patronage / Commissions / Scientific analysis / Technical analysis / Radiocarbon dating / Art market / Medieval / Early medieval / Late medieval / Byzantine art / Baroque / Rococo / Boxwood / Porphyry / Busts / Sarcophagi / Polychromy / Aquamanilia / Copper
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
1. Head of an apocalyptic elder. Western French (Parthenay), c.1160, with restorations. Limestone, height 31.5 cm. (Wyvern Collection).
Book Review
Chinese Ivory Carvings: The Sir Victor Sassoon Collection. By Rose Kerr, Phillip Allen and Shi Ching-fei
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 869-870
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Reviewer:
Pearce, Nick (Pearce, Nick)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Sassoon, Victor / Lucas, S. E.
dates:
2000–1500 BC / 1500-1000 BC / 1000–500 BC / 0499-0400 BC / 0399-0300 BC / 0299-0200 BC / 0199-0100 BC / 0099-0001 BC / 0001-0099 / 0100-0199 / 0200-0299 / 0300-0399 / 0400-0499 / 0500-0599 / 0600-0699 / 0700-0799 / 0800-0899 / 0900-0999 / 1000-1099 / 1100-1199 / 1200-1299 / 1300-1399 / 1400-1499 / 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 / 1800-1899
media:
Ivories
places:
China / Guangdong / Guangzhou / Shanghai / Great Britain
subjects:
Collecting / Collections / Sassoon Collection / Gifts / Collectors / Merchants / Vessels / Chinese export / Chinese sculpture / Carvings
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
2. Brush pot carved with a continuous landscape design. Qing dynasty, 18th century. Ivory, height 19.5 cm. (Sir Victor Sassoon Collection).
Book Review
An Insular Odyssey: Manuscript Culture in Early Christian Ireland and Beyond. Edited by Rachel Moss, Felicity O’Mahony and Jane Maxwell
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 798
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Reviewer:
Hamburger, Jeffrey (Hamburger, Jeffrey)
Subjects
dates:
0400-0499 / 0500-0599 / 0600-0699 / 0700-0799 / 0800-0899 / 0900-0999
media:
Books / Manuscripts / Illuminated manuscripts
places:
Ireland
subjects:
Lindisfarne Gospels (British Library, London) / Book of Kells (Trinity College Library, Dublin) / Festschriften / Essays / Liturgy / Manuscript illumination / Provenance / Scientific analysis / Technical analysis / Pigments / Colour / Nationalism / Goldsmiths / Illuminators
Book Review
The Dawn of Christian Art in Panel Paintings and Icons. By Thomas F. Mathews with Norman E. Muller
05/2018 | 1382 | 160
Pages: 430-431
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Reviewer:
James, Liz (James, Liz)
Subjects
artists:
Cimabue / Leighton, Frederic, First Baron Leighton of Stretton
dates:
0600-0699 / 0700-0799 / 0880-0889 / 0900-0999 / 1000-1099 / 1100-1199 / 1200-1299 / 1300-1399 / 1400-1499 / 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 / 1800-1899
media:
Paintings / Icons
places:
Egypt / Europe
subjects:
Panel paintings / Iconography / Christian iconography / Iconoclasm / Tempera / Technical analysis
Book Review
The Tombs of the Doges of Venice from the Beginning of the Serenissima to 1907. Edited by Benjamin Paul
04/2018 | 1381 | 160
Pages: 347-348
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Reviewer:
Howard, Deborah (Howard, Deborah)
Subjects
art literature:
Bakhtin, Mikhail
artists:
Rizzo, Antonio
dates:
0700-0799 / 0800-0899 / 0900-0999 / 1000-1099 / 1100-1199 / 1200-1299 / 1300-1399 / 1400-1499 / 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 / 1800-1899 / 1900-1909
media:
Sculpture / Funerary structures
places:
Italy / Venice
subjects:
Italian sculpture / Italian architecture / Venetian / Funerary art / Epitaphs / Doges / Battle of Lepanto (1571) / Venier, Sebastiano, Doge of Venice, ca. 1496-1578 / Conferences
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. Monument to Doge Nicolò Tron, by Antonio Rizzo. 1476–80. Istrian stone, polychromatic marbles and gold, 15 by 7.35 m. (S. Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice; photograph Apollonio Tottoli).
Exhibition Review
Masterpieces of Chinese painting
03/2014 | 1332 | 156
Pages: 180-181
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Reviewer:
Vainker, S. J. (Vainker, S. J.)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019 / 0700-0799 / 0800-1499 / 1500-1899
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
London / England
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Chinese painting
Illustrations
Attributed works:
27. Ink orchid, by Zheng Sixiao (Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
Attributed works:
28. Detail of Flowers on the river, by Bada Shanren (Tianjin Museum; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
Attributed works:
29. Detail of Court ladies preparing newly woven silk, possibly by Emperor Huizong (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
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