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Book Review
A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Siena
01/2023 | 1438 | 165
Pages: 92-93
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Reviewer:
Dalvit, Giulio (Dalvit, Giulio)
Subjects
places:
Siena
subjects:
Sienese art / History / Music / Literature / Politics / Religion / Urban history / Historiography
Reviewed Items
subjects:
A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Siena Edited by Santa Casciani and Heather Richardson Hayton. 356 pp. incl. 19 col. ills. (Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2021), €160. ISBN 978–90–04–38999–1. | :
Book Review
Time’s Witness: History in the Age of Romanticism
01/2022 | 1426 | 164
Pages: 93-95
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Reviewer:
Buchanan, Alexandrina (Buchanan, Alexandrina)
Subjects
subjects:
Antiquarianism / Romanticism / Medievalists / Scott, Walter / Historiography / Historicism / Historic preservation
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Time’s Witness: History in the Age of Romanticism By Rosemary Hill. 416 pp. incl. 65 col. ills. (Allen Lane, London, 2021), £25. ISBN 978–1–84614–312–0. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. George IV, by David Wilkie. 1829. Oil on canvas, 279.4 by 179.1 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © HM Queen Elizabeth II, 2022).
Exhibition Review
Nero: The Man Behind the Myth
10/2021 | 1423 | 163
Pages: 937-939
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Reviewer:
Gardner-Dseagu, Christine (Gardner-Dseagu, Christine)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
media:
Sculpture / Film (cinema) / Videos / Frescoes / Mosaics
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Nero, Emperor of Rome, 37-68 / Roman history / Historiography
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Nero: The Man Behind the Myth British Museum, London 27th May–24th October | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
4. Nero. Roman, 50–100, with later additions. Marble, height 45 cm. (Musei Capitolini, Rome; exh. British Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
5. Agrippina the Younger. Roman, 37–39. Chalcedony, height 9 cm. (British Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
6. Fragments of a gilded stucco panel from the Domus Aurea, Rome, showing a pair of sphinxes among acanthus plants. Roman, 64–68. Plaster and paint, height 16.5 cm. (British Museum, London).
Exhibition Review
Museo del Prado 1819–2019: Un lugar de memoria
06/2021 | 1419 | 163
Pages: 546-549
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Reviewer:
Dotseth, Amanda (Dotseth, Amanda)
Subjects
art literature:
Catalogues
museums and institutions:
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
subjects:
Art museums / Museology / Collections, Public / Spanish (people) / Spanish art / Cultural tourism / Politics / Historiography
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Museo del Prado 1819–2019: Un lugar de memoria Edited by Javier Portús et al. 304 pp. incl. numerous col. ills. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2018), €18.95. ISBN 978–84–8480–516–8. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
13. María Isabel de Braganza, Queen of Spain, as founder of the Museo del Prado, by Bernardo López Piquer. 1829. Oil on canvas, 258 by 174 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
14. Museo del Prado 7, by Thomas Struth. 2005. Chromogenic print, 177.5 by 218.6 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
Attributed works:
15. View of the Real Museo de Pintura de Madrid, by Léon-Auguste Asselineau after Fernando Brambilla. c.1833. Illuminated lithograph, 29.5 by 46.5 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
Attributed works:
16. Sala de la Reina Isabel II, by Jean Laurent. c.1895. Gelatin silver print, 24.8 by 35.7 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
Book Review
The Architecture of Art History: A Historiography
08/2020 | 1409 | 162
Pages: 721-722
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Reviewer:
Freigang, Christian (Freigang, Christian)
Subjects
subjects:
Architectural history / Architectural historians / Art history / Art historians / Art historiography / Historiography
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Architecture of Art History: A Historiography By Mark Crinson and Richard J. Williams. 184 pp. incl. 30 b. & w. ills. (Bloomsbury, London, 2019), £24.99. ISBN 978–1–350–14525–2. | :
Book Review
Windows for the World: Nineteenth-Century Stained Glass and the International Exhibitions, 1851–1900. By Jasmine Allen
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 1073-1074
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Reviewer:
Harrison, Martin (Harrison, Martin)
Subjects
art literature:
Winston, Charles
artists:
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore / Parry, Thomas Gambier / Day, Lewis F. / Suffling, Ernest R. / Wiley, Kehinde / Millais, John Everett / Heaton, Butler and Bayne / Gibbs, Alexander
dates:
1850-1899
media:
Stained glass
places:
Great Britain / France / United States
subjects:
Glassmakers / Exhibitions / Cultural history / Politics / Nationalism / Race / Slavery / Style / Iconography / Historiography / Pre-Raphaelite
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Madonna and Child, by Kehinde Wiley. 2016. Stained glass in an aluminium frame, 249 by 117 cm. (© Kehinde Wiley Studio; courtesy the artist and Galerie Templon, Paris and Brussels).
Book Review
Mochi’s Edge and Bernini’s Baroque. By Estelle Lingo
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 981-982
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Reviewer:
Kämpf, Tobias (Kämpf, Tobias)
Subjects
art literature:
Passeri, Giovanni Battista / Vasari, Giorgio
artists:
Mochi, Francesco / Michelangelo / Giovanni Pisano
dates:
1600-1699 / 1600-1649 / 1650-1699
media:
Sculpture / Marbles
places:
Italy / Florence
subjects:
Italian sculpture / Critical Reception / Historiography / Florentine / Style / Eclecticism / Carving (processes) / Nudes
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Virgin Annunciate, by Francesco Mochi. 1608–09. Marble, height 210 cm. (Museo dell’Opera, Orvieto; Bridgeman Images)
Exhibition Review
The Renaissance of Gaudenzio Ferrari. Varallo, Vercelli and Novara
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 776-778
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Reviewer:
De Klerck, Bram (De Klerck, Bram)
Subjects
art literature:
Romano, Giovanni
artists:
Ferrari, Gaudenzio / Cerva, Giovanni Battisa della / Lanino, Bernardino / Profondavalle, Valerio
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Frescoes / Drawings / Stuccowork
museums and institutions:
Pinacoteca, Varallo, Italy / Arca Vercelli, Vercelli, Italy / Broletto, Novara, Italy / Santa Maria delle Grazie, Varallo, Italy / Chiesa di San Cristoforo, Vercelli, Italy / Museo Francesco Borgogna, Vercelli, Italy / Basilica di San Gaudenzio, Novara, Italy
places:
Varallo / Vercelli / Novara / Italy
subjects:
Italian painting / Altarpieces / Altars / Panel paintings / Polyptychs / Cartoons (working drawings) / Churches / Chapels / Patronage / Commissions / Style / Historiography / Iconography / Christian iconography
Illustrations
Attributed works:
8. Altarpiece of the Nativity, by Gaudenzio Ferrari. 1510–11. (Collegiate Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, Arona; exh. Pinacoteca, Varallo).
Attributed works:
9. Lamentation over the Dead Christ, by Gaudenzio Ferrari. c.1535. Panel, 118 by 91.5 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest; exh. Pinacoteca, Varallo).
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).
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