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Exhibition Review
Figures du fou: Du Moyen Âge aux Romantiques
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 178–180
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Reviewer:
Takanishi Knowles, Marika (Takanishi Knowles, Marika)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
subjects:
Fools / Medieval art / Renaissance art / Romanticism / Paintings / Prints / Stained glass / Woodwork / Manuscripts / Ivories / Medals
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Figures du fou: Du Moyen Âge aux Romantiques Musée du Louvre, Paris 16th October 2024–3rd February 2025 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
16. Towel rail showing a fool embracing a woman, by Arnt van Tricht. c.1535. Polychromed oak, 44.3 by 46.8 by 30 cm. (Museum Kurhaus Kleve; exh. Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
17. Illustration of Psalm 52, from the Psalter of Jean de France, duc de Berry, illuminated by Jacquemart de Hesdin. c.1386. Illumination on parchment, 25 by 19 cm. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, MS 13091, fol.106; exh. Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
18. Ship of fools, by Hieronymus Bosch. c.1505–15. Oil on panel, 58 by 33 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Exhibition Review
Corvey und das Erbe der Antike: Kaiser, Klöster und Kulturtransfer im Mittelalter
12/2024 | 1461 | 166
Pages: 1241–3
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Schwarzer, Isabella (Schwarzer, Isabella)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Corvey Abbey, Corvey, Germany / Diözesanmuseum, Paderborn, Germany
subjects:
Monasteries / Scriptoria / Medieval art / Antiquity / Carolingian School / Scriptoria / Manuscripts / Relics / Coins / Metalwork / Wall paintings / Benedictines
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Corvey und das Erbe der Antike: Kaiser, Klöster und Kulturtransfer im Mittelalter Diözesanmuseum, Paderborn 21st September 2024–26th January 2025 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. She-bear. Roman with 19th-century additions. Bronze, 85 by 75 by 95 cm. (Domschatzkammer, Aachen; exh. Diözesanmuseum, Paderborn).
Western art unattributed:
4. Bursa. Second half of the 8th century. Gold and silver, fire gilt, cloisonné, glass and garnet inlay, gems, pearls, wooden core, 16 by 14 by 5.3 cm. (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; exh. Diözesanmuseum, Paderborn).
Western art unattributed:
5. Stone plate with inscription from westwork of Corvey Abbey, 815–85. Sandstone, approx. 173 by 87 cm. (Corvey Abbey; exh. Diözesanmuseum, Paderborn).
Book Review
Collective Creativity and Artistic Agency in Colonial Latin America
11/2024 | 1460 | 166
Pages: 1193–1194
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Reviewer:
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
Subjects
subjects:
Latin American art / Colonialism / Artisans / Artists / Textiles / Manuscripts / Maps / Aztec School
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Collective Creativity and Artistic Agency in Colonial Latin America Edited by Maya Stanfield-Mazzi and Margarita Vargas-Betancourt. 320 pp. incl. 49 col. + 1 b. & w. ills. (University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 2023), $80. ISBN 978–1–68340–352–4. | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
5. Mass of St Gregory. Mexico City, 1539. Feather, gold and pigment on wood, 56 by 68 cm. (Musée des Amériques, Auch).
Short Notice
Even more about the Andrea Vendramin collection
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 941-45
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Shorter Notice by:
Murphy, Lauren (Murphy, Lauren)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Vendramin, Andrea, Venetian art collector, 1565-1629
museums and institutions:
British Library, Dept. of Manuscripts, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Collections, Private / Manuscripts / Inventories
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Mula salvatica, fol.19r of De Rebus Indicis & ex aliis mundi regionibus, tam Orientalibus quam Occidentalibus, valde curiosis & visu dignis, by Andrea Vendramin. 1627. Ink on paper, approx. 23 by 16.5 cm. (© British Library Board; British Library, London).
Attributed works:
2. Capra di Cipro, fol.21r of De Rebus Indicis & ex aliis mundi regionibus, tam Orientalibus quam Occidentalibus, valde curiosis & visu dignis, by Andrea Vendramin. 1627. Ink on paper, approx. 23 by 16.5 cm. (© British Library Board; British Library, London).
Attributed works:
3. Frontispiece, fol.1r of De Rebus Indicis & ex aliis mundi regionibus, tam Orientalibus quam Occidentalibus, valde curiosis & visu dignis, by Andrea Vendramin. 1627. Ink on paper, approx. 23 by 16.5 cm. (© British Library Board; British Library, London).
Attributed works:
4. Granciporro dell’ Oceano, fol.49r of De Rebus Indicis & ex aliis mundi regionibus, tam Orientalibus quam Occidentalibus, valde curiosis & visu dignis, by Andrea Vendramin. 1627. Ink and watercolour on paper, approx. 23 by 16.5 cm. (© British Library Board; British Library, London).
Attributed works:
5. Verga dell’ arbore, fol.38r of De Rebus Indicis & ex aliis mundi regionibus, tam Orientalibus quam Occidentalibus, valde curiosis & visu dignis, by Andrea Vendramin. 1627. Ink on paper, approx. 23 by 16.5 cm. (© British Library Board; British Library, London).
Attributed works:
6. Mano di mumia di Alessandria, fol.46r of De Rebus Indicis & ex aliis mundi regionibus, tam Orientalibus quam Occidentalibus, valde curiosis & visu dignis, by Andrea Vendramin. 1627. Ink and watercolour on paper, approx. 23 by 16.5 cm. (© British Library Board; British Library, London).
Article
Renaissance exhibitions in Paris
06/2024 | 1455 | 166
Pages: 612–619
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Author:
Herman, Nicholas (Herman, Nicholas)
Subjects
artists:
Pisanello / Fouquet, Jean, ca. 1415-1481 / Quarton, Enguerrand / Eyck, Barthélemy d' / Perugino, Pietro / Zoppo, Marco
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France / Musée de Cluny (Musée National du Moyen Âge), Paris, France
subjects:
Renaissance art / Humanism / Illuminated manuscripts / Manuscripts / Bookbindings / Books / Prints / Coins / Medals / Portraits / Paintings / Bronzes / Sculpture / Collections / Charles VII, King of France, 1403-1461
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Invention of the Renaissance: the Humanist, the Prince and the Artist, Bibliothèque national de France, 20 February16 June 2024. Les arts en France sous Charles VII, Musée de Cluny – Musée national du Moyen Âge, 12 March–16 June 2024. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Jacopo Antonio Marcello, attributed to Jacopo Bellini. 1453. Tempera on parchment, 18.7 by 13 cm. (Bibliothèque national de France, Paris, MS 940, fol.38v).
Attributed works:
2. Frontispiece. (From Giovanni Michele Nagonio: De laudibus Galliae, Rome c.1500.) Ink and tempera on parchment, 27 by 16 cm. (Bibliothèque national de France, Paris, MS latin 8132, fols.8v–9r).
Attributed works:
3. St John on Patmos from the Hours of Frederick III, by Jean Bourdichon, Giovanni Todeschino and the Master of Claude de France. 1501–02. Tempera on parchment, 24.5 by 15.5 cm. (Bibliothèque national de France, Paris, MS latin 10532, p.62).
Attributed works:
4. Manuscript binding, by Étienne Roffet. c.1542–43. Gilt-tooled leather, 33.5 by 23 cm. (Bibliothèque national de France, Paris, MS latin 6866, upper cover).
Attributed works:
5. So-called dais of Charles VII, perhaps after a design by Jacob de Littemont. c.1430–40. Wool and silk, 292 by 285 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
6. Supplicant in prayer, excised leaf of the Collins Hours, by the Master of the Collins Hours. c.1445–50. Tempera and ink on parchment, 18.5 by 12.5 cm. (Musée de Cluny–Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris, MS Cl.23945).
Attributed works:
7. Detail of the central panel of the Aix Triptych showing the books on the Virgin’s lectern, by Barthélemy d’Eyck. 1443–44. Oil on panel. (Sainte-Madeleine, Aix-en-Provence; photograph the author).
Exhibition Review
Revoir Van Eyck: La Vierge du chancelier Rolin
06/2024 | 1455 | 166
Pages: 626–629
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Reviewer:
Nuttall, Paula (Nuttall, Paula)
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artists:
Eyck, Jan van
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
subjects:
Netherlandish painting / Restoration (process) / Panel paintings / Sculpture / Manuscripts / Drawings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Revoir Van Eyck: La Vierge du chancelier Rolin Musée du Louvre, Paris 20th March–17th June | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Virgin of Chancellor Rolin, by Jan Van Eyck, c.1430-35. Oil on panel, 71 by 65 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
8. Reverse of the Virgin of Chancellor Rolin, by Jan Van Eyck, c.1430–35. Oil on panel, 71 by 65 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
9. Epitaph of Jacques Isaac and Isabeau d’Anvaing. After 1401, c.1420–30?. Tournai stone, 59 by 86 by 12 cm. (Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Tournai; exh. Musée du Louvre, Paris)
Book Review
Diagramming Devotion: Berthold of Nuremberg’s Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus’s Poems in Praise of the Cross Color in Cusanus
05/2024 | 1454 | 166
Pages: 526–528
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Reviewer:
McNamee, Megan (McNamee, Megan)
Subjects
subjects:
Berthold of Nuremburg / Nicholas of Cusa, Cardinal, 1401-1464
subjects:
Medieval art / Manuscripts / Diagrams / Devotional images
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Diagramming Devotion: Berthold of Nuremberg’s Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus’s Poems in Praise of the Cross By Jeffrey F. Hamburger. 384 pp. incl. 220 col. ills. (University of Chicago Press, 2020), $65.00. ISBN 978–0–226–64281–9. Color in Cusanus By Jeffrey F. Hamburger. 199 pp. incl. 42 col. ills. (Anton Hiersemann Verlag, Stuttgart, 2021), €49.00. ISBN 978–3–7772–2121–2. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Diagram U, from De coniecturis, by Nicholas of Cusa. Trier, 1449. Watercolour and brown ink on paper. (Stadtbibliothek, Trier, MS 1927/1426 4, fol.96v).
Exhibition Review
Africa & Byzantium
02/2024 | 1451 | 166
Pages: 182–184
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Reviewer:
Barber, Charles (Barber, Charles)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
styles:
Ethiopian School / Coptic art / Syrian / Armenian / Arabian
subjects:
Africa / Byzantine Empire / Visual culture / Manuscripts / Icons / Ceramics / Textiles
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Africa & Byzantium Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 19th November 2023–3rd March 2024 | :
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
5. Pentaglot Psalter. 12th– 14th century, restored and rebound 1636. Ink on parchment, 36.8 by 28 cm. (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City, MS Barberini or.2, fol.3r; Bridgeman Images; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Non-western art unattributed:
6. Textile fragment with Artemis and Actaeon(?). 5th–7th century. Linen and wool, 147.3 by 183 cm. (British Museum, London; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Non-western art unattributed:
7. Diptych with St George and the Virgin Eleousa. c.1500 (left) and c.1480– 90 (right). Tempera and gold on wood, open: 12.2 by 20 cm. (Private collection; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Article
Two music theory manuscripts reunited: book illumination in the circle of Matteo Giovannetti
01/2024 | 1450 | 166
Pages: 16–29
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Author:
Manzari, Francesca (Manzari, Francesca)
Author:
Stoessel, Jason (Stoessel, Jason)
Subjects
artists:
Giovannetti, Matteo / circle of
dates:
1300-1349
places:
Avignon
sources:
Marchetto of Padua (fl. 1305 – 1319)
subjects:
Music / Illuminated manuscripts / Manuscripts / Patrons / Dating / Attribution / Workshops (Organisations) / Franciscans / Cardinals
Illustrations
Attributed works:
13. Leaf from the Milan manuscript. (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, MS D 5 inf., fol.52r; Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Mondadori Portfolio Fotoriproduzione).
Attributed works:
18. Detail of Miracle of St Martial, by Matteo Giovannetti. 1344–45. Fresco. (Chapel of St Martial, Papal Palace, Avignon).
Attributed works:
20. Detail of Sacrifice of Zacharias, by Matteo Giovannetti. 1344–45. Fresco. (Chapel of St John, Papal Palace, Avignon).
Attributed works:
21. Angel of the Annunciation, by Matteo Giovannetti. c.1345. Oil on wood transferred to canvas. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Scala, Florence).
Attributed works:
Emanuele III, Naples, MS V A 14, fol.49r).
Western art unattributed:
1. Leaves from the Naples manuscript, showing Lady Music and God in Majesty. (Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, Naples, MS V A 14, fols.46v–47r).
Western art unattributed:
10. Leaf from the Milan manuscript. (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, MS D 5 inf., fol.21v; Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Mondadori Portfolio Fotoriproduzione).
Western art unattributed:
11. Leaf from the Milan manuscript. (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, MS D 5 inf., fol.31r; Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Mondadori Portfolio Fotoriproduzione).
Western art unattributed:
12. Leaf from the Naples manuscript. (Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, Naples, MS V A 14, fol.88r).
Western art unattributed:
14. Leaf from the Milan manuscript. (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, MS D 5 inf., fol.78r; Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Mondadori Portfolio Fotoriproduzione).
Western art unattributed:
15. Leaf from the Milan manuscript. (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, MS D 5 inf., fol.78v; Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Mondadori Portfolio Fotoriproduzione).
Western art unattributed:
16. Leaf from the Milan manuscript. (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, MS D 5 inf., fol.110v; Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Mondadori Portfolio Fotoriproduzione).
Western art unattributed:
17. Leaf from the Liber Regulae. (Archivio di Stato, Rome, MS 3193, fol.202v; MIC).
Western art unattributed:
19. Detail of Miracle of St Martial, by Matteo Giovannetti. 1344–45. Fresco. (Chapel of St Martial, Papal Palace, Avignon).
Western art unattributed:
2. Leaf from the Naples manuscript, showing a seated lion holding in its paws the head of an ox. (Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, Naples, MS V A 14, fol.48r).
Western art unattributed:
22. Our Lady of the Annunciation, by Matteo Giovannetti. c.1345. Oil on wood transferred to canvas. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Scala, Florence).
Western art unattributed:
3. Detail of Fig.1, showing one of the lions supporting the throne of Lady Music. (Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, Naples, MS V A 14, fol.47r).
Western art unattributed:
4. Detail of Fig.1, showing the lion as a symbol for the Evangelist Mark. (Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, Naples, MS V A 14, fol.46v).
Western art unattributed:
5. Leaf from the Naples manuscript. (Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, Naples, MS V A 14, fol.1r).
Western art unattributed:
7. Leaf from the Milan manuscript. (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, MS D 5 inf., fol.1r; Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Mondadori Portfolio Fotoriproduzione).
Western art unattributed:
8. Leaf from the Milan manuscript. (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, MS D 5 inf., fol.1v; Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Mondadori Portfolio Fotoriproduzione).
Western art unattributed:
9. Leaf from the Naples manuscript. (Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, Naples, MS V A 14, fol.18v).
Book Review
Toulouse 1300–1400: L’éclat d’un gothique méridional
01/2024 | 1450 | 166
Pages: 92–93
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Reviewer:
Williamson, Paul (Williamson, Paul)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
dates:
1300-1399
museums and institutions:
Musée de Cluny (Musée National du Moyen Âge), Paris, France
places:
Toulouse
styles:
Gothic architecture / Gothic art / Sculpture / Manuscripts / Ivories / Seals / Ceramicists / Metalwork / Paintings / Altarpieces / Reliquaries
Reviewed Items
styles:
Toulouse 1300–1400: L’éclat d’un gothique méridional Edited by Béatrice de Chancel-Bardelot and Charlotte Riou. 320 pp. incl. 240 col. ills. (Réunion des musées nationaux – Grand Palais, Paris, 2022), €39. ISBN 978–2–7118–7501–6. | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
1. Jean Tissendier with a model of the Rieux Chapel. French (Toulouse), c.1333–43. Limestone, with paint and gilding, 132.5 by 60 by 42 cm. (Musée des Augustins, Toulouse).
Western art unattributed:
2. Detail of St Paul. French (Toulouse), c.1333– 43. Limestone, with paint and gilding, 185 by 63 by 45 cm. (Musée des Augustins, Toulouse).
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