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Book Review
The Literature of Art: A Manual for Source Work in the History of Early Modern European Art Theory
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 303
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Reviewer:
Marmor, Max (Marmor, Max)
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subjects:
Schlosser, Julius / Sources / Art history / art history publishing / Art literature
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The Literature of Art: A Manual for Source Work in the History of Early Modern European Art Theory By Julius von Schlosser, edited by Karl Johns and Barbara Gable, translated by Karl Johns. 711 pp. incl. 1 ill. (Ariadne Press, Riverside, 2023), $89.95. ISBN 978–1–57241–220–0. | :
Book Review
The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 294
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Nethersole, Scott (Nethersole, Scott)
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art literature:
Essays
subjects:
Renaissance art / Globalism
subjects:
Art history
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The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art Edited by Stephen J. Campbell and Stephanie Porras. 732 pp. incl. 38 col. + 136 b. & w. ills. (Routledge, London and New York, 2024), £230. ISBN 978–1–03–226158–4. | :
Book Review
Il giovane Cavalcaselle: ‘Il più curioso, il più intrepido, il più appassionato di tutti gli affamati di pittura’
01/2025 | 1462 | 167
Pages: 72-3
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Davoli, Silvia (Davoli, Silvia)
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subjects:
Cavalcaselle, G. B. / Crowe, J. A.
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Art history / art history publishing / art history publishing / Art historians / Connoisseurs
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Il giovane Cavalcaselle: ‘Il più curioso, il più intrepido, il più appassionato di tutti gli affamati di pittura’ By Giovanni Mazzaferro. 244 pp. incl. 16 col. ills. (Olschki, Florence, 2023), €26. ISBN 978–88–22–26888–4. | :
Editorial
The life cycle of art history
11/2024 | 1460 | 166
Pages: 1099
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museums and institutions:
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, Great Britain / Warburg Institute, London, Great Britain
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Art history / Art historians / Students / Universities
Book Review
Aby Warburg 150: Work, Legacy, Promise
11/2024 | 1460 | 166
Pages: 1199–1200
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Reviewer:
Centanni, Monica (Centanni, Monica)
Subjects
art literature:
Essays
museums and institutions:
Warburg Institute, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Warburg, Aby / Art historians / Art history / Art historiography / Art theory / Conferences
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Aby Warburg 150: Work, Legacy, Promise Edited by David Freedberg and Claudia Wedepohl. 464 pp. incl. 30 col. + 70 b. & w. ills. (De Gruyter, Berlin and Boston, 2024), £42.50. ISBN 978–3–11–061256–1. | :
Book Review
Painting in Fifteenth-Century Italy: This Splendid and Noble Art
10/2024 | 1459 | 166
Pages: 1085–7
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Nuttall, Paula (Nuttall, Paula)
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subjects:
Renaissance art / Renaissance Italy / Italian art / Art history
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Painting in Fifteenth-Century Italy: This Splendid and Noble Art By Diane Cole Ahl. 320 pp. incl. 184 col. ills. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2023), £55. ISBN 978–0–300–26961–1. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Portal with a nude man and putto supporting a roundel, by Nicolò di Liberatore. 1473. Fresco. (Monastery of S. Anna, Foligno).
Book Review
Woman in Art: Helen Rosenau’s ‘Little Book’ of 1944
06/2024 | 1455 | 166
Pages: 663–664
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Goodpasture, Eliza (Goodpasture, Eliza)
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Rosenau, Helen / Art historians / Art history / Feminism
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Woman in Art: Helen Rosenau’s ‘Little Book’ of 1944 By Griselda Pollock, with contributions by Adrian Rifkin and Rachel Dickson. 400 pp. incl. 140 col. and b. & w. ills. (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, 2023), £35. ISBN 978–1–913107–41–3. | :
Book Review
Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Second Commentary in Context, with a New Transcription, English Translation, and Commentary
04/2024 | 1453 | 166
Pages: 425–426
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Dalvit, Giulio (Dalvit, Giulio)
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artists:
Ghiberti, Lorenzo
subjects:
Commentaries / Art historiography / Art history / Italian art
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Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Second Commentary in Context, with a New Transcription, English Translation, and Commentary By Janice L. Hurd. 333 pp. incl. 10 b. & w. ills. (Janice L. Hurd, Scarborough MA, 2022), $50. ISBN 979–8–218–00864–2. | :
Article
Reviving Delaroche
02/2024 | 1451 | 166
Pages: 171–177
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Author:
Bann, Stephen (Bann, Stephen)
Subjects
artists:
Delaroche, Paul
subjects:
French art / History paintings / Critical Reception / Art history / Nineteenth-century French art
subjects:
art history publishing / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Paul Delaroche, by Jean Gigoux. 1832. Pencil on paper, 25 by 17 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
2. The princes in the tower (Les enfants d’Édouard), by Paul Delaroche. 1830. Oil on canvas, 181 by 215 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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3. Bonaparte crossing the Alps, by Paul Delaroche. 1848. Oil on canvas, 222 by 289 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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4. Joan of Arc taken prisoner, by John Thompson after Paul Delaroche. Engraving, 14 by 9.5 cm. (From Prosper de Barante: Histoire des Ducs de Bourgogne, Paris 1842, opposite p.395).
Attributed works:
5. Installation view of Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey at the National Gallery, London, 2010, showing Charles I insulted by the soldiers of Cromwell, by Paul Delaroche as it appeared after its rediscovery. 1836. Oil on canvas, 300 by 400 cm. (Courtesy National Gallery, London).
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6. Assassination of the Duc de Guise, after Paul Delaroche. Engraving, 10.5 by 15 cm. (From J. Ruutz Rees: Horace Vernet, Paul Delaroche, London 1880, between pp.62–63).
Attributed works:
7. The blind fiddler (1806), by John Quartley after David Wilkie. 1806. Engraving, 13 by 15 cm. (From Magasin pittoresque 20 (1847), p.184).
Book Review
The Lives of Francesco Francia and Lorenzo Costa (Carlo Cesare Malvasia’s ‘Felsina Pittrice’: Lives of the Bolognese Painters, 2.1)
02/2024 | 1451 | 166
Pages: 213–214
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Reviewer:
Bondini, Saida (Bondini, Saida)
Subjects
art literature:
Felsina Pittrice (Carlo Cesare Malvasia)
artists:
Costa, Lorenzo di Ottavio, ca.1460-1535 / Francia, Francesco
subjects:
Bolognese / Italian art / Art history
Reviewed Items
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The Lives of Francesco Francia and Lorenzo Costa (Carlo Cesare Malvasia’s ‘Felsina Pittrice’: Lives of the Bolognese Painters, 2.1) Edited by Elizabeth Cropper and Lorenzo Pericolo. 410 pp. incl. 163 col. + 14 b. & w. ills. (Harvey Miller, Turnhout, 2022), €200. ISBN 978–1–912554–79–9. | :
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