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Letter
Translating a Hilliard miniature motto
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 892
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Author:
McGrath, Elizabeth (McGrath, Elizabeth; McG., E.)
Subjects
artists:
Hilliard, Nicholas
subjects:
Miniatures (paintings) / Inscriptions / Translations
Letter
A new translation of a Hilliard miniature motto
07/2024 | 1456 | 166
Pages: 668–9
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Author:
Darsie, Heather R. (Darsie, Heather R.)
Subjects
artists:
Hilliard, Nicholas
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Translations / Miniatures (paintings)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Unknown man clasping a hand from a cloud, by Nicholas Hilliard. 1588. Watercolour on vellum mounted on brown card, height 6 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Bridgeman Images).
Article
Tanguy's titles
09/2023 | 1446 | 165
Pages: 932–45
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Author:
Mack, Stephen (Mack, Stephen)
Subjects
artists:
Tanguy, Yves / Sage (Tanguy), Kay / Dalí, Salvador
dates:
1920-1929 / 1930-1939 / 1940-1949
sources:
Nostradamus
subjects:
French art / Dada / Surrealism / Titles of works of art / Poetry / Literature / Breton, André / Translations
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Maman, Papa est blessé, by Yves Tanguy. 1927. Oil on canvas, 92.1 by 73 cm. (© Artists Rights Society, NY and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Attributed works:
2. Dame à l’absence, by Yves Tanguy. 1942. Oil on canvas, 115 by 89.5 cm. (© Artists Rights Society, NY and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; photograph by Walter Klein; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein- Westfalen, Dusseldorf).
Attributed works:
3. Inventions of the monsters, by Salvador Dalí. 1937. Oil on canvas, 51.4 by 78.4 cm. (© Salvador Dali, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí; DACS, London; Art Institute of Chicago).
Attributed works:
4. Poem-object, by André Breton. 1941. Carved wood bust of man, oil lantern, framed photograph, toy boxing gloves and paper mounted on drawing board, 45.8 by 53.2 by 10.9 cm. (© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Attributed works:
5. Le Diaposin de satin, by Yves Tanguy. 1940. Oil on canvas, 99.1 by 81.3 cm. (© Artists Rights Society, NY and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
6. La Grue des sables, by Yves Tanguy. 1945. Gouache on paper, 46.1 by 31 cm. (© Artists Rights Society, NY and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; Art Institute of Chicago).
Attributed works:
7. Terre d’ombre, by Yves Tanguy. 1927. Oil on canvas, 99.1 by 80.3 cm. (© Artists Rights Society, NY and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; |Detroit Institute of Art).
Book Review
Fairweather and China
03/2023 | 1440 | 165
Pages: 348-349
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Reviewer:
Riddler, Eric (Riddler, Eric)
Subjects
artists:
Fairweather, Ian
places:
China / Australia / Brisbane
subjects:
Australian painting / Australian art / Translations
Reviewed Items
subjects:
7. Chi-tien stands on head, by Ian Fairweather. 1964. Synthetic polymer paint and gouache on cardboard on composition board, 64.8 by 99.1 cm. (TarraWarra Museum of Art, Melbourne). | :
Book Review
Au prisme du manuscrit: Regards sur la littérature française du Moyen Âge (1300–1550). Edited by Sandra Hindman and Elliot Adam
12/2022 | 1437 | 164
Pages: 1294-1295
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Reviewer:
Yvard, Catherine (Yvard, Catherine)
Subjects
art literature:
Conferences / Papers / Proceedings
dates:
1300-1499 / 1500-1549
museums and institutions:
Institut national de l'Histoire d'Art, Paris, France
subjects:
Illuminated manuscripts / Manuscripts / Literature / French decorative art / Libraries / Translations
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Au prisme du manuscrit: Regards sur la littérature française du Moyen Âge (1300–1550) Edited by Sandra Hindman and Elliot Adam. 301 pp. incl. 112 col. + 3 b. & w. ills. (Brepols, Turnhout, 2019), £210. ISBN 978–2–503–56635–1. | :
Book Review
Michelangelo’s Design Principles, Particularly in Relation to Those of Raphael
01/2021 | 1414 | 163
Pages: 85-87
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Reviewer:
Wivel, Matthias (Wivel, Matthias)
Subjects
art literature:
Panofsky, Erwin
art literature:
Translations
artists:
Michelangelo / Raphael
subjects:
Italian art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Michelangelo’s Design Principles, Particularly in Relation to Those of Raphael By Erwin Panofsky, edited and with an introduction by Gerda Panofsky-Soergel, translated by Joseph Spooner. 408 pp. incl. 29 b. & w. ills. (Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ and Oxford, 2020), £34. ISBN 978–0–691–16526–4. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Moses, detail from the tomb of Pope Julius II, by Michelangelo Buonarotti. c.1513–15. Marble, height 254 cm. (S. Pietro in Vincoli, Rome; Bridgeman Images).
Article
Three eminent art historians: a Chinese encounter
10/2020 | 1411 | 162
Pages: 865-869
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Author:
Penny, Nicholas (Penny, Nicholas)
Author:
Yiqiang Cao (Yiqiang Cao)
Subjects
art literature:
Gombrich, E. H. / Haskell, Francis / Baxandall, Michael / Wölfflin, Heinrich / Panofsky, Erwin / Podro, Michael
subjects:
Art historians / Art history / Art historiography / Chinese Art / China
subjects:
Translations / Books / Art literature
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Yiqiang Cao, by Quan Shanshi. 2005. Oil on canvas, 115 by 130 cm. (Quan Shanshi Art Centre, Hangzhou).
Attributed works:
2. Ernst Gombrich, by Mary Robert. c.1988. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
3. Michael Baxandall, by Max Whitaker. 1989. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
Western art unattributed:
4. Larissa and Francis Haskell, c.1985.
Book Review
The Fabrication of Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Trattato della pittura’. By Claire Farago, Janis Bell and Carlo Vecce
08/2019 | 1397 | 161
Pages: 693-695
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Reviewer:
Colantuono, Anthony (Colantuono, Anthony)
Subjects
art literature:
Trattato della pittura (Leonardo)
artists:
Leonardo da Vinci / Alberti, Leon Battista / Melzi, Francesco
subjects:
Italian art / Treatises / Editions / Translations / Manuscripts / Art theory
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Fabrication of Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Trattato della pittura’ By Claire Farago, Janis Bell and Carlo Vecce. Two vols, 1,368 pp. incl. 256 col. ills. (Brill, Leiden, 2018), | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. R. Trichet du Fresne, ed.: Trattato della pittura di Lionardo da Vinci, Paris 1651.
Book Review
Albrecht Dürer: Documentary Biography. By Jeffrey Ashcroft
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 169-170
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Reviewer:
Kunz, Armin (Kunz, Armin)
Subjects
artists:
Dürer, Albrecht
dates:
1450-1499 / 1500-1549
media:
Documents / Inscriptions / Paintings / Woodcuts / Prints
places:
Germany / Nuremberg
subjects:
German painting / Artists' writings / Art theory / Biographies / Poetry / Correspondence / Translations / Language / Historical context
Book Review
Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form. By Allison Morehead
01/2019 | 1390 | 161
Pages: 94-95
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Reviewer:
Thomson, Belinda (Thomson, Belinda)
Subjects
art literature:
Germain, Alphonse / Zola, Emile / Poe, Edgar Allan
artists:
Denis, Maurice / Vuillard, Edouard / Strindberg, August / Munch, Edvard / Bonnard, Pierre
dates:
1850-1899 / 1900-1949 / 1890-1899 / 1890-1899 / 1900-1909 / 1910-1919
media:
Paintings / Drawings
places:
Europe
subjects:
French painting / Norwegian / Swedish painting / Symbolist movement / Art theory / Science / Psychology / Primitivism (Cultural anthropology related concept) / Children's art / Outsider art / Writings / Literature / Translations / Nudes / Landscapes (visual works) / Dreams / Disease
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Study for Décor, by Maurice Denis. c.1890–91. Charcoal and pastel on paper, 31.2 by 24.7 cm. (Private collection).
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