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Article
Goya’s ‘Self-portrait with Dr Arrieta’
12/2023 | 1449 | 165
Pages: 1300–1304
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Author:
Céron-Peña, Mercedes (Céron-Peña, Mercedes)
Subjects
artists:
Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de
dates:
1820-1829
museums and institutions:
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, United States
subjects:
Self-portraits / Spanish art / Spanish artists / Medicine / Politics / Symbolism (artistic concept) / Colour
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Self-portrait with Dr Arrieta, by Francisco de Goya. 1820. Oil on canvas, 114.6 by 76.5 cm. (Minneapolis Institute of Art; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
2. Detail of Fig.1, showing green and red brushstrokes in the white bedsheet.
Attributed works:
3. Detail of Fig.1, showing the face of the man behind Goya’s left shoulder.
Attributed works:
5. Detail of Fig.1, showing the friar or monk behind Arrieta’s right elbow.
Western art unattributed:
4. An allegory of Ferdinand VII’s constitutional oath. 1820. Handcoloured engraving, 19.4 by 25 cm. (Ayuntamiento de Madrid; Museo de Historia de Madrid).
Exhibition Review
Fragmented Illuminations: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Cuttings at the V&A
11/2021 | 1424 | 163
Pages: 1058-1060
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Reviewer:
Kidd, Peter (Kidd, Peter)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Illuminated manuscripts / Renaissance art / Collectors / Patrons / Ecclesiastical / Illuminators / Medicine / Law / Literature / Literature / Forgeries / Thieves
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Fragmented Illuminations: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Cuttings at the V&A Victoria and Albert Museum, London 8th September 2021–8th May 2022 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Initial ‘M’ showing St Giustina, by Girolamo da Cremona, from an antiphonary, Padua. Before 1462. Water based pigments, gilding and ink on parchment, 21 by 19 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; MS 817-1894).
Attributed works:
5. Manuscript cuttings from a Sistine Chapel missal, by Vincent Raimond. c.1523–34. Collage and frame, 19th century. Water based pigments, gilding and ink on parchment, 51 by 37.5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; MS E.4577-1910).
Exhibition Review
Portraying Pregnancy: From Holbein to Social Media. Foundling Museum, London
04/2020 | 1405 | 162
Pages: 336-338
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Reviewer:
de Carlos Varona, María Cruz (de Carlos Varona, María Cruz)
Subjects
artists:
Mor, Antonis / Geeraerts, Marcus, the younger, 1561-1635 / Dyck, Anthony van / Holbein, Hans the Younger, ca. 1497-1543
artists:
Liebovitz, Annie / Howard, Ghislaine
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
The Foundling Museum, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Pregnancy / Medicine
subjects:
Royalty
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Portraying Pregnancy: From Holbein to Social Media Foundling Museum, London 24th January–26th April | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Unknown lady in red, by Marcus Gheeraerts II. 1620. Oil on panel, 114.3 by 90.2 cm. (Tate, London; exh. Foundling Museum, London).
Attributed works:
11. Plate I from William Hunter’s Anatomia uteri umani gravidi tabulis illustrata, London 1774, by F.S. Ravenet after Jan van Rymsdyk. Engraving, 57 by 48 cm. (National Library of Medicine, Bethesda MD; exh. Foundling Museum, London).
Attributed works:
12. Pregnant self-portrait, by Ghislaine Howard. 1984. Oil on board, 86.5 by 61 cm. (Collection of the artist; exh. Foundling Museum, London).
Editorial
Art and illness
04/2020 | 1405 | 162
Pages: 275
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Subjects
subjects:
Disease / Neuroscience / Science / Art history / Medicine
Short Notice
Rediscovered drawings by Erwin Dominik Osen
03/2020 | 1404 | 162
Pages: 224-227
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Author:
Blackshaw, Gemma (Blackshaw, Gemma)
Subjects
artists:
Osen, Erwin, Dominik / Schiele, Egon
dates:
1910-1919
museums and institutions:
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria
places:
Vienna
subjects:
Austrian art / Medicine / Drawings / Hospitals
Illustrations
Attributed works:
14. Portrait of a patient, by Erwin Dominik Osen. 1915. Graphite and watercolour on paper, 56.7 by 39.8 cm. (Leopold Museum, Vienna).
Attributed works:
15. Portrait of a patient, by Erwin Dominik Osen. 1915. Graphite and watercolour on paper, 48.3 by 32 cm. (Leopold Museum, Vienna).
Attributed works:
16. Erwin Dominik Osen, nude with crossed arms, by Egon Schiele. 1910. Black chalk, watercolour and gouache on paper, 44.7 by 31.5 cm. (Leopold Museum, Vienna; photograph Manfred Thumberger).
Exhibition Review
Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future
04/2019 | 1393 | 161
Pages: 320-323
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Reviewer:
Barratt, Martha (Barratt, Martha)
Subjects
artists:
Klint, Hilma af
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Drawings / Paintings / Watercolours
museums and institutions:
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States
subjects:
Swedish School / Theosophy / Spirituality / Symbols / Botanical drawings / Medicine / Abstract art / Nonrepresentational art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Group I, Primordial Chaos, No. 16, from The WU/ Rose Series, by Hilma af Klint. 1906–07. Canvas, 53 by 37 cm. (Hilma af Klint Foundation, Stockholm; photograph Albin Dahlström, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; exh. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York).
Attributed works:
2. Group IV, The Ten Largest, No. 7, Adulthood, by Hilma af Klint. 1907. Tempera on paper mounted on canvas, 315 by 235 cm. (Hilma af Klint Foundation, Stockholm; photograph Albin Dahlström, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; exh. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York).
Attributed works:
3. Group IX/SUW, The Swan, No. 17, from The SUW/ UW Series, by Hilma af Klint. 1915. Canvas, 150.5 by 151 cm. (Hilma af Klint Foundation, Stockholm; photograph Albin Dahlström, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; exh. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York).
Attributed works:
4. Group IX/SUW, The Swan, No. 1, from The SUW/ UW Series, by Hilma af Klint. 1915. Canvas, 150 by 150 cm. (Hilma af Klint Foundation, Stockholm; photograph Albin Dahlström, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; exh. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York).
Book Review
Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages. By Jack Hartnell
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 976-977
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Reviewer:
Bhalla, Niamh (Bhalla, Niamh)
Subjects
dates:
0200-0299 / 0300-0399 / 0400-0499 / 0500-0599 / 0600-0699 / 0700-0799 / 0800-0899 / 0900-0999 / 1000-1099 / 1100-1199 / 1200-1299 / 1300-1399 / 1400-1499 / 1500-1599
media:
Manuscripts / Drawings / Book illustrations / Art objects
places:
Europe
subjects:
Visual culture / Medicine / Philosophy / Theology / Art theory / Disease / Science / Relics / Treatises
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
2. Surgical instruments in use in an operation for an anal fistula. English, c.1475–1500. Pen and ink and tempera on vellum, 25.4 by 17.8 cm. (Glasgow University Library, MS Hunter 251 fol.43v; Bridgeman Images.)
Exhibition Review
Art AIDS America. Tacoma, Kennesaw, New York and Chicago
12/2016 | 1365 | 158
Pages: 1007-1009
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Reviewer:
Boaden, James (Boaden, James)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Alphawood Gallery, Chicago, United States / Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, United States / Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, United States / Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, United States
places:
United States / Tacoma / New York / Kennesaw / Chicago
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Politics / Medicine / Disease
Illustrations
Attributed works:
78. Untitled (self-portrait), by Mark Morrisroe. 1989 (Fotomuseum Winterthur; exh. Alphawood Gallery, Chicago)
Attributed works:
79. 24, by Kia Labeija. 2014 (Tacoma Art Museum and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; exh. Alphawood Gallery, Chicago)
Attributed works:
80. Icarian I Incline, by Daniel Goldstein. 1993 (Collection of Richard Gere; exh. Alphawood Gallery, Chicago)
Book Review
The Healing Presence of Art – A History of Western Art in Hospitals
10/2012 | 1315 | 154
Pages: 713-714
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Reviewer:
Loppert, Susan (Loppert, Susan)
Subjects
subjects:
Art history / Paintings / Altarpieces / Hospitals / Sculpture / Art / Medicine
Article
A recently discovered portrait of the surgeon Ange Bernard Imbert-Delonnes (1747–1818) by Pierre Chasselat
04/2012 | 1309 | 154
Pages: 236-240
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Author:
Fecker, Marc (Fecker, Marc)
Author:
Schupbach, William (Schupbach, William)
Subjects
artists:
Chasselat, Pierre
dates:
1790-1799 / 1800-1809
museums and institutions:
Wellcome Collection, London, Great Britain
print:
Chasselat, Pierre
subjects:
Full-length portraits / Portraits / Pastels / Drawings / Collections, Public / French / Identification / Acquisitions
subjects:
Science / Medicine
subjects:
Imbert-Delonnes, Ange-Bernard
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Portrait of Ange Bernard Imbert-Delonnes, by Pierre Chasselat. Dated L’an 8 (1799/1800). Black chalk heightened with white, 62.5 by 47.8 cm. (sheet size). (Wellcome Library, London).
Attributed works:
2. Portrait of Jacobus Blauw, by Jacques-Louis David. 1795. Canvas, 92 by 73 cm. (National Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
3. Portrait of Gaspar Meyer, by Jacques-Louis David. 1795. Canvas, 116 by 89 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
4. Vue interieure d’un Sarcocele du poids de 28 livres [. . .], by François Godefroy after A. Lemonnier. Engraving, from A.B. Imbert-Delonnes: Nouvelles Considérations sur le Cautère Actuel, Avignon 1812, pl.[1].
Attributed works:
5. Portrait of Perier de Gurat after the operation, by François Godefroy after Joseph Boze. Engraving, from A.B. Imbert-Delonnes: Nouvelles Considérations sur le Cautère Actuel, Avignon 1812, pl.[3].
Attributed works:
6. Portrait of Perier de Gurat before the operation, by François Godefroy after Joseph Boze. Engraving, from A.B. Imbert-Delonnes: Nouvelles Considérations sur le Cautère Actuel, Avignon 1812, pl.[4].
Attributed works:
7. Portrait of Jean Allut, by Pierre Chasselat. 1790s. Watercolour on ivory, diameter 6 cm. (Galerie Jaegy-Theoleyre, Paris).
Attributed works:
8. Portrait of Ange Bernard Imbert-Delonnes, by François Godefroy after Pierre Chasselat. 1799/1800. Engraving, 13.5 by 8.6 cm. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
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