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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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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 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).
Publication Received
The Art of Anglo-Saxon England
12/2012 | 1317 | 154
Pages: 859
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Reviewer:
Cramp, Rosemary (Cramp, Rosemary)
Subjects
media:
0600-0699 / 0790-0799 / 0800-0899 / 0900-0999 / 1000-1099
places:
England
subjects:
Medieval / Anglo-Saxon / Anglo-Saxon School / Manuscripts / Art objects / Archaeology / English / Early English
subjects:
Art
Exhibition Review
Lucca in the Middle Ages. Lucca
02/2011 | 1295 | 153
Pages: 132-134
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Reviewer:
Boggi, Flavio (Boggi, Flavio)
Subjects
art literature:
Ragghianti, Carlo Ludovico
dates:
2010-2019 / 0400-0499 / 0500-0599 / 0600-0699 / 0700-0799 / 0800-0899 / 0900-0999
museums and institutions:
Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca, Italy
places:
Lucca / Italy
print:
Lucca
print:
Italian art
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Visual culture / Culture / Cultural history / Art historians / Cities
subjects:
Italian architecture / Italian painting / Italian sculpture / Italian
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Lucca e l'Europa: un' idea di medioevo; V–XI secolo | institution: Fondazione Ragghianti
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
68. Consular diptych of Areobindus. Constantinople, early sixth century. Elephant ivory, 34 by 12.5 cm. (each valve). (Museo della Cattedrale, Lucca; exh. Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca)
Non-western art unattributed:
69. Detail of a textile fragment. Syria, late eighth, early ninth century. Worked silk, whole fragment, 150 by 122 cm. (Museo Diocesano, Ascoli Piceno; exh. Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca)
Western art unattributed:
70. Lion, Tuscany (?), before 1263. Bronze, 30 by 50 cm. (Private collection, Lugano; exh. Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca)
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