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Exhibition Review
Fra Angelico
05/2018 | 1382 | 160
Pages: 408-410
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Reviewer:
Kanter, Laurence B. (Kanter, Laurence B.)
Subjects
art literature:
Berenson, Bernard / Boskovits, Miklós / Longhi, Roberto
artists:
Angelico, Fra / Strozzi, Zanobi / Gozzoli, Benozzo
buildings:
Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Reliquaries / Drawings
museums and institutions:
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, United States / Museo di San Marco, Florence, Italy
places:
United States / Boston / Italy / Florence
subjects:
Italian painting / Dating / Attribution / Style / Connoisseurship / Christian iconography / Conservation
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Annunciation and Adoration of the Magi, with predella depicting the Virgin and Child flanked by female saints, by Fra Angelico. c.1430. Panel, 87 by 50.7 cm, including frame. (Museo di San Marco, Florence; exh. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston).
Attributed works:
2. Panel from the Armadio degli Argenti, by Fra Angelico. Dated here to 1448–49. Panel, 123 by 160 cm. (Museo di San Marco, Florence; exh. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston).
Attributed works:
3. Ascension, Last Judgment and Pentecost (‘The Corsini triptych’), by Fra Angelico. c.1445–48. Panels, 55 by 18.5 cm., 55 by 38.5 cm. and 55 by 18 cm. (Palazzo Corsini, Rome; exh. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston).
Exhibition Review
Casanova. Fort Worth, San Francisco, Boston
03/2018 | 1380 | 160
Pages: 241-243
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Reviewer:
Robinson, Duncan (Robinson, Duncan)
Subjects
artists:
Canaletto / Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista / Guardi, Francesco / Longhi, Pietro / Hogarth, William / Hone, Nathaniel I, 1718-1784 / Boucher, François / Fragonard, Jean-Honoré / Nattier, Jean-Marc / Lagrenée, Louis-Jean-François, the elder, 1725-1805 / Lancret, Nicolas / Zoffany, Johann / Subleyras, Pierre
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Costume / Ceramics
museums and institutions:
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, United States / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States
places:
United States / Boston / San Francisco
subjects:
Europeans / Italian painting / French painting / British painting / Eroticism / Travel / Grand tours
subjects:
Cultural history
Illustrations
Attributed works:
12. Juno asking Aeolus to release the winds, by François Boucher. 1769. Canvas, 278.2 by 203.2 cm. (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth).
Attributed works:
13. Seesaw, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. c.1750–52. Canvas, 120 by 94.5 cm. (Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid).
Attributed works:
14. St Mark’s basin, by Canaletto. c.1738. Canvas, 124.5 by 204.5 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
Exhibition Review
Illuminated manuscripts in Boston collections. Boston
01/2017 | 1366 | 159
Pages: 74-76
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Reviewer:
Alexander, Jonathan J. G. (Alexander, Jonathan J. G.; Alexander, J. J. G.; A., J. J. G.; Alexander, Jonathan)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Houghton Library, Cambridge, MA , United States / McMullen Museum of Art, Boston, United States / Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, United States
places:
United States / Boston
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Illuminated manuscripts
Illustrations
Attributed works:
80. St Anthony Abbot in the wilderness, by a 'Close Follower of the Master of Mary of Burgundy'. From the Emerson-White Hours, Netherlands. c.1480 (Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 443.1, fol.100v)
Attributed works:
81. Ulysses' wife, Penelope, writing, by Cristoforo Maiorana. From Ovid: Heroides. Naples, c.1490 to 1500 (Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 209, fol. 209v)
Attributed works:
82. The Crucifixion, by Jean Bourdichon. From a Book of Hour. Tours, c.1515 to 1520 (Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, MS 6T.1, p.115)
Western art unattributed:
79. Initials 'P' and 'W'. Canon of the mass, with Ecclesia and Synagoga flanking the Lamb of God. From the Noyon Missal. Anonymous. c.1225-50 (Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 120H, fol.4r)
Exhibition Review
Della Robbia
11/2016 | 1364 | 158
Pages: 929-930
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Reviewer:
Silver, Nathaniel (Silver, Nathaniel)
Subjects
artists:
Della Robbia family / Robbia, Luca della / Robbia, Andrea della / Robbia, Girolamo della / Robbia, Giovanni della
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States / National Gallery of Art, Washington, United States
places:
Washington DC / United States / Boston
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
76. Resurrection of Christ, by Giovanni della Robbia. c.1520-24 (Brooklyn Museum, New York; exh. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Attributed works:
77. Tabernacle, by Andrea della Robbia. 1470s (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; exh. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Attributed works:
78. The Visitation, by Luca della Robbia. c.1445 (S. Giovanni Fuorcivitas, Pistoia; exh. Museum of Fine Arts Boston)
Exhibition Review
Black Mountain College. Boston, Los Angeles and Columbus
09/2016 | 1362 | 158
Pages: 764-766
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Reviewer:
Shales, Ezra (Shales, Ezra)
Subjects
artists:
Archer, Hazel Larsen, 1921-2001 / Albers, Anni / Albers, Josef / Cunningham, Merce / Cage, John / Rauschenberg, Robert / Johnson, Ray / Parreno, Philippe
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, United States / Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, United States / Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, N.C., United States
places:
United States / Los Angeles / Columbus (Ohio) / Boston
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, N.C., United States
Illustrations
Attributed works:
66. Buckminster Fuller inside his Geodesic Dome, by Hazel Larsen Archer. 1949 (Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center, Asheville; exh. Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus)
Attributed works:
67. Knot 2, by Anni Albers. 1947 (Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany; exh. Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus)
Attributed works:
68. Minutiae, by Robert Rauschenberg. 1954/1976 (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; exh. Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Columbus © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY)
Exhibition Review
Walid Raad. New York, Boston and Mexico City
05/2016 | 1358 | 158
Pages: 398–99
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Reviewer:
Buskirk, Martha (Buskirk, Martha)
Subjects
artists:
Raad, Walid
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States / Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, United States / Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
places:
United States / New York / Mexico / Mexico City / Boston
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
72. Translator's introduction: Pension arts in Dubai, by Walid Raad. 2012 (Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; exh. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston)
Attributed works:
73. Notebook volume 38: already been in a lake of fire, plates 57-58, by the Atlas Group/Walid Raad. 1991/2003 (Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; exh. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston)
Attributed works:
74. Let's be honest, the weather helped, Saudi Arabia, by the Atlas Group/Walid Raad. 1998/2006 (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; exh. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston)
Exhibition Review
Class distinctions in Dutch painting
02/2016 | 1355 | 158
Pages: 159-161
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Reviewer:
Weller, Dennis P. (Weller, Dennis P.)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States / Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (MO), United States
places:
United States / Kansas City / Boston
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Dutch painting / Aristocracy / Noblemen / Portraits / Middle Class / Working Class / Genre paintings / Dutch / Landscapes (visual works)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
100. Maurits, Prince of Orange, by Michiel van Mierevelt. 1607 (Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft; exh. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Attributed works:
101. Jan Rijcksen and his wife, Griet Jans ('The shipbuilder and his wife'), by Rembrandt van Rijn. 1633 (Royal Collection; exh. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Attributed works:
102. Portraits of the men from the St Job Inn in Utrecht collecting alms, by Jan van Bijlert. c.1630-35 (Centraal Museum, Utrecht; exh. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Exhibition Review
Carlo Crivelli
02/2016 | 1355 | 158
Pages: 161-162
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Reviewer:
Campbell, Caroline (Campbell, Caroline)
Subjects
artists:
Crivelli, Carlo
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, United States
places:
United States / Boston
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
103. St George slaying the dragon, by Carlo Crivelli. 1470 (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston)
Attributed works:
104. The Nativity (Adoration of the Shepherds), by the Master of the Strasbourg Adoration. 1491 (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg; exh. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston)
Attributed works:
105. The Angel of the Annunciation, by Carlo Crivelli. 1482 (Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main; exh. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston)
Exhibition Review
Made in the Americas
12/2015 | 1353 | 157
Pages: 885-886
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Reviewer:
Zafran, Eric (Zafran, Eric)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States / Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware, United States
places:
United States / Boston
places:
Winterthur (DE)
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Art objects / Furniture / Textiles / Paintings / Mexican / Latin American / Spanish Colonial
Illustrations
Attributed works:
87. Nicholas Boylston, by John Singleton Copley. c.1769 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Non-western art unattributed:
86. Desk and bookcase, Puebla de Los Angeles, Mexico, mid-eighteenth century (Ann and Gordon Getty Collection; exh. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Non-western art unattributed:
89. Bedcover, probably Peruvian, colonial. 1661 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Western art unattributed:
88. Altar frontal with the Dove of the Holy Spirit, made by the Ursuline nuns of Quebec City. c.1700 (Collection de monastère des Ursulines de Québec; exh. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Exhibition Review
Leonardo da Vinci
09/2015 | 1350 | 157
Pages: 649-651
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Reviewer:
Robertson, Charles (Robertson, Charles)
Subjects
artists:
Leonardo da Vinci
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States
museums and institutions:
Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, United States
places:
Boston / Italy / Milan / United States / Williamsburg (VA)
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
60. Portrait of a musician, by Leonardo da Vinci. c.1485 (Veneranda Biblioteca e Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan; exh. Palazzo Reale, Milan)
Attributed works:
61. Heraclitus and Democritus, by Donato Bramante. 1486-87 (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan; exh. Palazzo Reale, Milan)
Attributed works:
62. Project for a new community in Milan, by Leonard da Vinci. c.1493 (Veneranda Biblioteca e Pinacoteca Ambrosiana; exh. Palazzo Reale, Milan)
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