The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo: Ceremonies, Costumes, Portraits and Genre (The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo, Series C: Prints, Part 1)
The Print Collection of Cassiano dal
Pozzo: Ceremonies, Costumes, Portraits
and Genre (The Paper Museum of
Cassiano dal Pozzo, Series C: Prints,
Part 1)
Edited by Mark McDonald. Three vols, 1024 pp.
incl. 1676 b. & w. ills. (Harvey Miller, London,
2017), £195. ISBN 978–1–909400–78–8. |
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Book Review
The Sovereign Artist: Charles Le Brun and the Image of Louis XIV. By Wolf Burchard & Charles Le Brun décorateur de fêtes. By Gaëlle Lafage
5. Carpet with personifications of music made at the Savonnerie Manufactory. c.1685–97. Wool, 482.6 by 904.2 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Exhibition Review
Eyewitness Views. Los Angeles, Minneapolis and Cleveland
Eyewitness Vews: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe at J. Paul Getty Museum, Lose Angeles, Minneapolis Institute of Art and Cleveland Museum of Art. |
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Illustrations
Attributed works:
102. The courtyard of the Doge's Palace with the Papal Nuncio Giovani Francesco Stoppani and senators in procession, by Antonio Joli and Michele Marieschi. c. 1741-42 (National Gallery of Art, Washington; exh. Mineapolis Institute of Art).
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103. The procession on the feast day of St Roch, by Antonio Canaletto. c. 1730? (National Gallery, London; Minneapolis Institute of Art).
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104. Detail of Fig. 103.
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105. Regatta in hoour of Prince Freidrich Christian of Savoy, by Michele Marieschi, with figures by Antonio Guardi and (?) Francesco Simonini. c. 1740 (Private collection; exh. Minneapolis Institute of Art).
Book Review
Art, Music and Spectacle in the Age of Rubens, by A.C. Knaap and M.C.J. Putnam
64. The wind gods, detail from Neptune calming the Tempest on the Stage of Welcome, by Theodoor van Thulden after Rubens (From J.C. Gevartius: Pompa Introitus Ferdinandi Austriaci Hispaniarum infantis..., Antwerp 1641)
Article
Milan 1630: the festivities to celebrate the birth of Prince Balthasar of Spain and an invention by Leonardo da Vinci
29. Detail of Fig.30, showing Vulcan, Thetis and the Cyclops
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30. Mount Etna, with the theatre and pedestals erected in the piazzo del Duomo, Milan, designed by Francesco Maria Richini, drawn by Carlo Biffi and engraved by Cesare Bassano. 1630 (From Emanuele Tesauro: Racconto delle publiche allegrezze fatte dalla città di Milano alli IV febraro MDCXXX per la felice Nascita del Sereniss. Primogenito di Spagna Baldasar Carlo Dominico, appresso gli heredi di Melchior Malatesta, Milan 1630)
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31. Studies of buckler-type shields (rotelle), burning balls, an armoured waggon and an architectural drawing, by Leonardo da Vinci. Here dated 1485-87. Fol.59r of Manuscript B (Institut de France, Paris)
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32. Studies of burning balls, two figure studies (not by Leonardo) and annotations, by Leonardo da Vinci. Here dated 1485-87. Fol.4r of Manuscript B (Institut de France, Paris)
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33. Studies of ballistics, by Leonardo da Vinci. Here dated 1485-87 (Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris, EBA 423)
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34. Study for a temporary structure or triumphal arch, by Leonardo da Vinci. Here dated 1487-90. Fol.22r of the Codex Trivulziano (Biblioteca Trivulziana, Milan)