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Book Review
Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art
03/2022 | 1428 | 164
Pages: 322
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Reviewer:
McWilliam, Neil (McWilliam, Neil)
Subjects
dates:
1800-1899
subjects:
Databases / Social history / Art history
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art By Diana Seave Greenwald. 256 pp. incl. 55 col. + 9 b. & w. ills + 14 tables. (Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 2021), £28. ISBN 978–0– 691–19245–1. | :
Book Review
Design Dialogue: Jews, Culture and Viennese Modernism / Design Dialog: Juden, Kultur und Wiener Moderne. Edited by Elana Shapira
12/2019 | 1401 | 161
Pages: 1069-1070
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Reviewer:
Wieber, Sabine (Wieber, Sabine)
Subjects
dates:
1800-1899 / 1900-1949
places:
Vienna
subjects:
Austrian architecture / Austrian painting / Austrian sculpture / Design / Modernism / Jewish / Patrons
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Design Dialogue: Jews, Culture and Viennese Modernism / Design Dialog: Juden, Kultur und Wiener Moderne Edited by Elana Shapira. 475 pp. incl. 112 col. + b. & w. ills. (Böhlau Verlag, Vienna and Cologne, 2018), £35.72. ISBN 978–3–205–20634–7. | :
Book Review
For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design. Edited by Jeremiah William McCarthy and Diana Thompson
08/2019 | 1397 | 161
Pages: 696-698
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Reviewer:
Murphy, John P. (Murphy, John P.)
Subjects
dates:
1800-1899 / 1900-1999 / 2000-2009 / 2010-2019
museums and institutions:
National Academy of Design, New York, United States
subjects:
American art / Figurative art / Self-portraits
Reviewed Items
subjects:
For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design Edited by Jeremiah William McCarthy and Diana Thompson. 304 pp. incl. 200 col. ills. (National Academy of Design and American Federation of Arts, New York, and Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2019), | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Self-portrait, by Andrew Wyeth. 1945. Egg tempera on gessoed panel, 63.5 by 76.2 cm. (National Academy of Design, New York).
Book Review
Wallpapers at Temple Newsam 1635 to the Present, A. Wells-Cole and B. Walker
05/2019 | 1394 | 161
Pages: 442-443
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Reviewer:
Hoskins, Lesley (Hoskins, Lesley)
Subjects
dates:
1630-1669 / 1660-1719 / 1700-1799 / 1800-1899 / 1900-1999 / 2000-2009 / 2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Temple Newsam House, Leeds, Great Britain
subjects:
Wallpaper / Taste (aesthetics)
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
5. Wallpaper fragment. c.1720. Coarse handmade paper grounded in yellow, stencilled in pale pink and block-printed in deep pink, 18.4 by 59.7 cm. (Temple Newsam, Leeds).
Book Review
Dutch Drawings in Swedish Public Collections. By Börje Magnusson
03/2019 | 1392 | 161
Pages: 256-258
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Reviewer:
Seifert, Tico (Seifert, Tico )
Subjects
art literature:
Royalton-Kisch, Martin
artists:
Rembrandt van Rijn / school of / followers of
dates:
1600-1799 / 1800-1899
media:
Drawings
museums and institutions:
Skokloster Castle, Sko, Sweden / Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
patrons:
Tessin, Carl Gustaf
styles:
Dutch art
subjects:
Attributions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Dutch Drawings in Swedish Public Collections. By Börje Magnusson | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Portrait of Titia van Uylenburch, by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn. 1639. Pen and brown ink, brown wash, 17.4 by 14.6 cm. (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, NMH 2078/1863).
Exhibition Review
The Art of the Building Site: Construction and Demolition from the 16th to the 21st Century. Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, Paris
03/2019 | 1392 | 161
Pages: 238-241
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Reviewer:
Cellauro, Louis (Cellauro, Louis)
Reviewer:
Richaud, Gilbert (Richaud, Gilbert)
Subjects
dates:
1450-1599 / 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 / 1800-1899 / 1900-1999 / 2000-2049
media:
Watercolours / Paintings / Photographs / Architectural models
museums and institutions:
Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, Paris, France
subjects:
construction sites / Architectural drawings / Buildings / Social history
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Napoleon III visiting the Louvre, by Nicolas Gosse. 1854. Canvas, 23 by 34 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; exh. Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, Paris).
Attributed works:
11. El Escorial under construction. 1576. Pencil and wash on paper, 50.5 by 77.3 cm. (Hatfield House, Marquess of Salisbury, Hertfordshire; exh. Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, Paris).
Attributed works:
12. Plug-in city (2000) – monumental experience, by Alain Bublex. 2003. Chromogenic print, 180 by 180 cm. (Centre Pompidou, Paris; exh. Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, Paris).
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).
Book Review
South-East Marylebone (Survey of London, 51 and 52). Edited by Philip Temple, Colin Thom and Andrew Saint
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 171-172
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Reviewer:
Bradley, Simon (Bradley, Simon)
Subjects
artists:
Ashbee, Charles Robert / Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 / Adam, James, 1732-1794 / Adam, William, 1738-1822 / Chambers, William / Butterfield, William / Harris, Thomas
dates:
1800-1899 / 1900-1999 / 2000-2099 / 2000-2009 / 2010-2019
media:
Architecture / Drawings / Maps / Interiors
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
Urban history / Urban planning / Cities / Architects / Architectural historians / Houses / Surveys / Illustrations / British architecture / Georgian
Book Review
Le miniature della Fondazione Giorgio Cini: Pagine, Ritagli, Manoscritti. Edited by Massimo Medica and Federica Toniolo
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 167-168
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Reviewer:
Panayotova, Stella (Panayotova, Stella)
Subjects
artists:
Birago, Giovan Pietro
collectors and dealers:
Cini, Vittorio / Hoepli, Ulrico / Murray, Charles Fairfax
dates:
1000-1099 / 1100-1199 / 1200-1299 / 1300-1399 / 1400-1499 / 1800-1899 / 1900-1999
media:
Miniatures (paintings) / Manuscripts / Illuminated manuscripts
museums and institutions:
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy
places:
Italy / Venice
subjects:
Italian painting / Collecting / Collections / Patronage / Catalogues / Archives / Bibliographies / Provenance / Revolution (France: 1789-1799) / Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. Communion of the Apostles in initial C, by Maestro Olivetano or Frate Girolamo da Milano. 1439. Tempera and gold leaf on parchment, 36 by 31.3 cm. (Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice).
Book Review
Die Stadt von der Neuzeit bis zum 19. Jahrhundert: Urbane Entwürfe in Europa und Nordamerika. By Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani
01/2019 | 1390 | 161
Pages: 92-93
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Reviewer:
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
Subjects
artists:
Alberti, Leon Battista / Francesco di Giorgio Martini / Wren, Christopher / Le Nôtre, André / Montgomery, Robert / Owen, Robert / Fourier, Charles / Haussmann, Georges Eugène, Baron / Monet, Claude / Pissarro, Camille
dates:
1200-1299 / 1300-1399 / 1400-1499 / 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 / 1800-1899
media:
Architecture / Architectural drawings / Gardens
patrons:
Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464 / Sixtus V, Pope, 1520-1590 / Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598 / Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873
places:
Italy / Florence / Siena / Pienza / Rome / France / Paris / Germany / Berlin / Austria / Vienna / Portugal / Lisbon / United States
subjects:
Urban planning / Urban history / Urban management / Cities / Ideal cities / Architectural history / Architectural theory / Design / Facades / Social history / Historical context / Cultural history / Surveys
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Covent Garden Piazza and Market, London, by John Collet. 1771–80. Canvas, 133.7 by 189.5 cm. (Museum of London).
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