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Book Review
Être sculpteur à Florence au temps des derniers Médicis
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 292–4
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Reviewer:
Ciarlo, Nicola (Ciarlo, Nicola)
Subjects
artists:
Foggini, Giovanni Battista
subjects:
Florence
subjects:
Sculptors / Baroque sculpture / Medici family / Courts (social groups)
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Être sculpteur à Florence au temps des derniers Médicis By Kira d’Alburquerque. 320 pp. incl. 27 col. + b. & w. ills. (CTHS and INHA, Paris, 2023), €35. ISBN 978–2–7355–0964–5. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Adoration of the shepherds, by Giovanni Battista Foggini. 1674–76. Marble, 135 by 86 cm. (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg).
Exhibition Review
Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence, c.1504
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 175–177
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Reviewer:
Lewis, Grant (Lewis, Grant)
Subjects
artists:
Michelangelo / Leonardo da Vinci / Raphael
dates:
1500-1509 / 2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great Britain
places:
Florence
subjects:
Italian drawings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence, c.1504 Royal Academy of Arts, London 9th November 2024–16th February 2025 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
13. Virgin and Child with St Anne and the infant St John the Baptist (Burlington House cartoon), by Leonardo da Vinci. Here dated to c.1506–08. Charcoal with black and white chalk on 8 sheets of paper, mounted on canvas, 141.5 by 104.6 cm. (National Gallery, London; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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14. Virgin and Child with the infant St John the Baptist (Taddei tondo), by Michelangelo Buonarroti. c.1504–05. Marble, diameter 106.8 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Attributed works:
15. Studies for the Virgin and Child, by Raphael. c.1506–07. Pen and brown ink over red chalk, 25.3 by 18.3 cm. (British Museum, London; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Short Notice
Leonardo da Vinci’s Burlington House Cartoon: a new hypothesis
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 928-31
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Shorter Notice by:
Rumberg, Per (Rumberg, Per)
Subjects
artists:
Leonardo da Vinci / Lippi, Filippino / Bartolommeo, Fra
buildings:
Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy
dates:
1500-1509
museums and institutions:
National Gallery, London, Great Britain
places:
Florence / Milan
sources:
Vasari, Giorgio
subjects:
Patronage / Dating
subjects:
Italian art / Renaissance art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Virgin and Child with St Anne and the infant St John the Baptist (the Burlington House Cartoon), by Leonardo da Vinci. c.1506–08. Charcoal with white chalk on paper, mounted on canvas, 141.5 by 104.6 cm. (National Gallery, London).
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2. Virgin and Child with St Anne and the infant St John the Baptist, surrounded by ten saints (the Pala del Gran Consiglio), by Fra Bartolommeo. 1510–13. Oil on panel, 444 by 308 cm. (Museo Nazionale di San Marco, Florence).
Book Review
I Fiorentini e il vetro Veneziano (c.1450–1550): Fonti
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 977-8
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Reviewer:
Thornton, Dora (Thornton, Dora)
Subjects
places:
Venice / Florence
sources:
Inventories / Account books
subjects:
Venetian glass
Reviewed Items
subjects:
I Fiorentini e il vetro Veneziano (c.1450–1550): Fonti By Marco Spallanzani. 137 pp. incl. no ills. (Leo S. Olschki Editore, Florence, 2023), €22. ISBN 978–88–222–6864–8. | :
Book Review
Eleonora di Toledo e l’invenzione della corte dei Medici a Firenze
05/2024 | 1454 | 166
Pages: 510–512
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Reviewer:
Sterpetti, Lunarita (Sterpetti, Lunarita)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
dates:
1520-1549 / 1550-1559
museums and institutions:
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
patrons:
Eleanor of Toledo, Duchess of Florence, 1522-1562
places:
Florence
subjects:
Italian art / Patronage / Commissions / Taste (aesthetics)
subjects:
Collecting / Collections
subjects:
Medici family
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Eleonora di Toledo e l’invenzione della corte dei Medici a Firenze Edited by Bruce Edelstein and Valentina Conticelli. 432 pp. incl. 390 col. + b. & w. ills. (Sillabe, Livorno, 2023), €35. ISBN 978–88–3340–347–2. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Deposition, by Gérard David. 1515–20. Oil on panel, 20 by 14 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence).
Attributed works:
5. Deity mask. Mexico, late 15th–early 16th century. Wood, resin, turquoise and motherof- pearl, 24 by 14.5 by 1.35 cm. (Museo delle Civiltà, Rome).
Book Review
Lord Cowper: Un conte inglese a Firenze nell’età dei Lumi
03/2024 | 1452 | 166
Pages: 330–331
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Reviewer:
Benassai, Silvia (Benassai, Silvia)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Cowper, 3rd Earl, George Nassau Clavering
places:
Florence
subjects:
Italian art / Collecting / Collections / Grand tours / Renaissance art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Lord Cowper: Un conte inglese a Firenze nell’età dei Lumi By Charles S. Ellis and Paola Gibbin. 408 pp. incl. 32 col. + b. & w. ills. (Polistampa, Florence, 2022), €25. 978–88–596–2238–3 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Large Cowper Madonna, by Raphael. 1508. Oil on panel, 80.7 by 57.5 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Short Notice
A panel painting of Our Lady with the Child by Leonardo
04/2023 | 1441 | 165
Pages: 412-413
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Author:
Spallanzani, Marco (Spallanzani, Marco)
Subjects
artists:
Leonardo da Vinci / Ghirlandaio, Domenico
dates:
1500-1519
places:
Florence
subjects:
Italian painting / Panel paintings / Purchase / Account books / Payments / Pucci family
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Virgin and Child enthroned with Sts Dionysius the Aeropagite, Domenic, Clement and Thomas Aquinas, by Domenico Ghirlandaio. 1481–83. Oil on panel, 168 by 197 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence; photograph Nicolò Orsi Battaglini; Bridgeman Images).
Book Review
Venus and the Arts of Love in Renaissance Florence
04/2023 | 1441 | 165
Pages: 475-476
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Reviewer:
Nuttall, Paula (Nuttall, Paula )
Subjects
places:
Florence
subjects:
Renaissance art / Renaissance Italy / Venus / Love / Eroticism / Marriage
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Venus and the Arts of Love in Renaissance Florence By Rebekah Compton. 292 pp. incl. 109 col. ills. (Cambridge University Press, 2021), £75. ISBN 978–1–108–84291–4. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. Marriage casket with the Triumph of Venus, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia). 1421. Wood and paint, diameter 29.3 cm. without handles. (RMNGrand Palais; Musée du Louvre, Paris; photograph Stéphane Maréchalle).
Book Review
The Allure of Glazed Terracotta in Renaissance Italy
02/2023 | 1439 | 165
Pages: 209-210
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Reviewer:
Warren, Jeremy (Warren, Jeremy)
Subjects
places:
Marche / Florence
subjects:
Terracotta / Sculpture / Glazes / Ceramics / Reliefs / Altarpieces / Devotional images
subjects:
Renaissance art / Renaissance Italy / Renaissance sculpture / Italian art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Allure of Glazed Terracotta in Renaissance Italy By Zuzanna Sarnecka. 184 pp. incl. 144 col. + 3 b. & w. ills. (Harvey Miller, London, 2022), €75. ISBN 978–1–912554–78–2. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Tempietto, by an anonymous artist from Urbino. c.1560. Tin-glazed earthenware, height 42.5 cm. (Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza).
Book Review
Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence: Screens and Choir Spaces, from the Middle Ages to Tridentine Reform
11/2022 | 1436 | 164
Pages: 1162-1163
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Reviewer:
Young, Michela (Young, Michela)
Subjects
places:
Florence
subjects:
Churches / Religious architecture / Florentine / Choir screens
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence: Screens and Choir Spaces, from the Middle Ages to Tridentine Reform By Joanne Allen. 366 pp. incl. 180 col. ills. (Cambridge University Press, 2022), £90. ISBN 978–1–108–83359–2. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (?), by Fra Carnevale, also known as Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini. c.1467. Oil and tempera on panel, 146.4 by 96.5 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
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