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Exhibition Review
Sargent and Spain
05/2023 | 1442 | 165
Pages: 551-554
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Reviewer:
Dini, Jane (Dini, Jane)
Subjects
artists:
Sargent, John Singer
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, United States
subjects:
Spain / Spanish (people) / American painting (United States of America) / Dance / Music / Genre paintings / Landscapes (visual works) / Architecture / Gardens
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Sargent and Spain Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor 11th February–14th May | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. La Carmencita, by John Singer Sargent. 1890. Oil on canvas, 229 by 140 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris; exh. Legion of Honor, San Francisco).
Attributed works:
11. Spanish Roma dwelling, by John Singer Sargent. 1912. Oil on canvas, 71.4 by 91.4 cm. (Addison Gallery of American Art, Philips Academy, Andover MA; Bridgeman Images; exh. Legion of Honor, San Francisco).
Attributed works:
12. Majorcan fisherman, by John Singer Sargent. 1908. Oil on canvas, 69.9 by 54.6 cm. (Private collection; exh. Legion of Honor, San Francisco).
Book Review
Cut in Alabaster: A Material of Sculpture and its European Traditions 1330–1530. By Kim Woods
02/2020 | 1403 | 162
Pages: 167-168
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Reviewer:
de Beer, Lloyd (de Beer, Lloyd)
Subjects
dates:
1300-1599
media:
Alabasters
places:
Europe / England / Spain
subjects:
Sculpture / Techniques / Art market / Patronage / Altarpieces / Effigies
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Cut in Alabaster: A Material of Sculpture and its European Traditions 1330–1530 By Kim Woods. 422 pp. incl. 194 col. + 5 b. & w. ills. (Brepols, Turnhout, 2018), £140. ISBN 978–1–909400–26–9. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. Christ as a Man of Sorrows. First half of the 15th century. Alabaster, height 40 cm. (Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp).
Exhibition Review
A Tale of Two Women Painters: Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
01/2020 | 1402 | 162
Pages: 59-61
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Reviewer:
Barker, Sheila (Barker, Sheila)
Subjects
artists:
Anguissola, Sofonisba / Fontana, Lavinia
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain
patrons:
House of Habsburg
places:
Italy / Spain
subjects:
Italian art / Renaissance art / Portraits / Self-portraits / Religious art / Mythology / Women artists
Reviewed Items
subjects:
A Tale of Two Women Painters: Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid 22nd October 2019–2nd February | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Bernardino Campi painting Sofonisba Anguissola, by Sofonisba Anguissola. c.1559. Oil on canvas, 111 by 109.5 cm. (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena; exh. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; Photo Scala, Florence).
Attributed works:
11. Mars and Venus, by Lavinia Fontana. c.1595. Oil on canvas, 140 by 116 cm. (Fundación Casa de Alba, Madrid; exh. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
Book Review
Avant-garde Art and Criticism in Francoist Spain. By Paula Barreiro López
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 1076
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Reviewer:
Tusell García, Genoveva (Tusell García, Genoveva)
Subjects
art literature:
Restany, Pierre / Argan, Giulio Carlo
dates:
1900-1949 / 1930-1939 / 1940-1949 / 1950-1999 / 1950-1959 / 1960-1969 / 1970-1979
media:
Paintings / Books
places:
Spain
subjects:
Spanish painting / Art criticism / Criticism / Cultural history / Writings / Exhibitions / Biennials / Competitions / Aesthetics / Abstract art / Civil War (Spain:1936-1939) / Cold War / Politics / Fascism / Marxism / Avant-garde
Exhibition Review
Pure Rubens. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 955-958
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Reviewer:
Jaffé, David (Jaffé, David)
Subjects
art literature:
Ovid / McGrath, Elizabeth, London, Great Britain
artists:
Rubens, Peter Paul / Dyck, Anthony van / Snyders, Frans
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Oil sketches / Sketches / Drawings / Paintings / Prints / Engravings
museums and institutions:
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands / Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain
patrons:
Philip IV, King of Spain, 1605-1665
places:
Netherlands / Rotterdam / Spain / Madrid
subjects:
Flemish painting / Workshops (Organisations) / Landscapes (visual works) / Figure paintings / Classical mythology / Modelli / Altarpieces / Brushwork / Dating / Attribution
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Sketch for the Rape of Europa, by Peter Paul Rubens. 1636. Panel, 18.9 by 13.7 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; exh. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam).
Attributed works:
8. The recognition of Phililpoemen, by Peter Paul Rubens and Frans Snyders. c.1609. Canvas, 201 by 311 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; exh. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam).
Attributed works:
9. Sketch for The recognition of Phililpoemen, by Peter Paul Rubens. c.1609. Panel, 50.5 by 66.5 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; exh. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam).
Exhibition Review
Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World. Guggenheim Bilbao
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 793-795
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Reviewer:
Teo, Wenny (Teo, Wenny)
Subjects
art literature:
Foster, Hal
artists:
Gehry, Frank / Yongping, Huang / Xu, Bing / Sun, Yuan / Peng, Yu / Koons, Jeff / Wright, Frank Lloyd / Lin, Yilin / Chen, Shaoxiong / Xu, Tan / Yan, Lei / Hong, Hao / Zhen, Chen, b. 1955
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Architecture / Installations (visual works) / Sculpture / Videos
museums and institutions:
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain / Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States
places:
United States / New York / Spain / Bilbao / China
subjects:
Chinese sculpture / Capitalism / Globalism / Animals / Censorship / Politics
Illustrations
Attributed works:
31. Precipitous parturition, by Chen Zhen. Rubber bicycle inner tubes, aluminium and plastic toy cars, metal, fragments of bicycles, silicone and paint, length c.20 m. (Pinault Collection, Venice).
Attributed works:
32. Installation view showing Theater of the world (1993; diameter 160 cm.) and The bridge (1995; length 12 m.), by Huang Yong Ping at Guggenheim Bilbao. 2018. (Courtesy the artist).
Exhibition Review
Joan Miró: Sculptures 1928–1982. Centro Botín, Santander
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 786-788
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Reviewer:
Watkins, Nicholas (Watkins, Nicholas)
Subjects
artists:
Miró, Joan / Piano, Renzo / luis vidal + architects / Llorens Artigas, Josep / Gardy-Artigas, Joan
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Architecture / Sculpture / Bronzes
museums and institutions:
Centro Botín, Santander, Spain
places:
Spain / Santander
subjects:
Spanish sculpture / Spanish architecture / Art museums / Neo-classicism / Fascism / Figurative art / Primitivism (Cultural anthropology related concept) / Cave paintings / Paleolithic / Casts (sculpture) / Patina / Polychromy
Illustrations
Attributed works:
19. The Centro Botín, Santander, photographed from the Pareda Gardens, June 2017. (Photograph Belen de Beneto).
Attributed works:
20. Souvenir de la Tour Eiffel, by Joan Miró, cast by Fundicío Parellada, Barcelona. Bronze, 334 by 54 by 80 cm. (Private collection; exh. Centro Botín, Santander).
Attributed works:
21. Personnage et oiseau, by Joan Miró, cast by Fundicío Parellada, Barcelona. Bronze, 104 by 63 by 20 cm. (Private collection; exh. Centro Botín, Santander).
Book Review
The End Again: Degeneration and Visual Culture in Modern Spain. By Oscar E. Vázquez
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 804-805
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Reviewer:
Brauer, Fae (Brauer, Fae)
Subjects
art literature:
Darwin, Charles / Baudelaire, Charles / Engels, Friedrich
artists:
Fortuny y Carbó, Mariano José María Bernardo, 1838-1874 / Mani, Carles / Cabello Izarra, Segundo / Santa María Sedano, Marceliano / Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquín / Rusiñol, Santiago / Regoyos, Dario de / Garnelo y Alda, José / García Sampedro, Luis / Picasso, Pablo / Gargallo, Pablo / Nonell, Isidre
dates:
1850-1899 / 1900-1949
media:
Paintings / Drawings / Gouaches / Photographs
places:
Spain
subjects:
Spanish painting / Spanish sculpture / Nationalism / Disease / Death / History paintings / Gender / Psychology / Race / Capitalism / Catholicism / Cultural history / Ethnology / Occult sciences / Science / Politics / Visual culture / Historiography / Criticism / Critical Reception / Modernism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Degenerates, by Carles Mani. 1891–1904. Plaster, 20.5 by 37 by 22 cm. (Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona).
Book Review
Romanesque and the Mediterranean. Edited by Rosa Bacile and John McNeill
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 798-799
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Reviewer:
Vernon, Clare (Vernon, Clare)
Subjects
buildings:
Cattedrale di San Sabino, Canosa di Puglia, Italy / Angoulême Cathedral, Angoulême, France
dates:
0900-0999 / 1000-1099 / 1100-1199
media:
Paintings / Sculpture / Stone / Ivories / Architecture / Illuminated manuscripts
places:
Italy / Spain / France / Hungary / Palermo
subjects:
Romanesque / Churches / Cathedrals / Byzantine Empire / Fatimid School / Crusades / Franciscans / French architecture / French sculpture / Italian architecture / Italian sculpture / Spanish architecture / Spanish sculpture / Patronage / Oliphants / Conferences / Essays
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
2. Oliphant, Italy. Eleventh to twelfth century. Ivory, length 66 cm. (National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh).
Book Review
Obras emblemáticas del taller de orfebrería medieval de Silos: ‘el Maestro de las Aves’ y su círculo. By Lourdes de Sanjosé Llongueras
08/2018 | 1385 | 160
Pages: 697-698
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Reviewer:
Kennedy, Kirstin (Kennedy, Kirstin)
Subjects
dates:
1150-1199
media:
Enamels / Plaques / Metalwork / Illuminated manuscripts
places:
Spain / Burgos
subjects:
Enameling / Enamel / Workshops (Organisations) / Funerary art / Caskets / Altars / Abbeys / Iconography / Christian iconography / Birds / Style / Visual sources / Restoration (process)
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
2. Plaque from the panel associated with the tomb of St Dominic of Silos, Spain. 1150– 60. Copper, gilded and enamelled. (Museo de Burgos).
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