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Cross-cultural diplomacy: a Safavid shield in the Medici armoury
10/2022 | 1435 | 164
Pages: 968-975
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Author:
Rokhgar, Negar Sarah (Rokhgar, Negar Sarah)
Subjects
artists:
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da
dates:
1590-1609
media:
Mother of pearl / Gilding
museums and institutions:
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy
patrons:
Shah Abbas, 1571-1629
places:
Persia / Tuscany
sources:
Archives / Correspondence
styles:
Safavid / Mughal
styles:
Indo-Persian School
subjects:
Shields (Armour) / Gifts / Ottomans (people) / Crusades / East-West trade / Diplomacy / Military art and science / Medici family / Ferdinando I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Detail of the painted ceiling in the Sala dell’Armeria (Room 21), Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence, depicting a Persian soldier by Ludovico Buti. 1588–89. (Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
6. Medusa, by Caravaggio. 1595–98. Oil on canvas applied on a wooden shield, 60 by 55 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence).
Non-western art unattributed:
1. Shield. Persia, late 16th century. Gold damascened steel, Indian cane, silk, mother-of-pearl, leather and velvet, diameter 64.5 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Non-western art unattributed:
2. Detail of Fig.1, showing figures serving food to an authority on a higher seat.
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Detail of Fig.1, showing men on horseback and on foot using spears and arrows to hunt lions.
Non-western art unattributed:
5. Silk fragment with a figured motif. Yazd, Persia, late 16th or early 17th century. Silk lampas, 70.5 by 36 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Non-western art unattributed:
7. Shield. Persia, 17th century. Indian cane covered with silk, metal umbo painted in black with golden arabesque engravings and originally embellished with turquoises and other precious stones, 20 by 62 cm. (Palazzo Ducale, Venice).
Non-western art unattributed:
8. Tray with a scene of lovers in a pavilion. Gujarat, late 16th or early 17th century. Mother-of-pearl and lacquer on wood, diameter 43.5 cm. (Aga Khan Museum, Toronto).
Book Review
Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes Dividing the Spoils: Perspectives on Military Collections and the British Empire
08/2022 | 1433 | 164
Pages: 823-825
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Reviewer:
Evans, Mark (Evans, Mark)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
Nigeria / Asia
styles:
Benin (ancient Nigerian style)
subjects:
Looting / Colonialism / Stolen works of art / Ethnology / Museums / Collections / Military art and science
subjects:
Restitution
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Dividing the Spoils: Perspectives on Military Collections and the British Empire Edited by Henrietta Lidchi and Stuart Allan. 344 pp. incl. 31 b. & w. ills. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2020), £85. ISBN 978–1–5261–3920–7. | :
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Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes By Barnaby Phillips. 416 pp. incl. 15 col. + 26 b. & w. ills. (Oneworld Publications, London, 2021), £10.99. ISBN 978–0–86154–313–7. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Trophy head. Kumasi, Ghana, 18th or 19th century. Gold, height 20 cm. (Wallace Collection, London).
Exhibition Review
Louis-Philippe at Versailles
05/2019 | 1394 | 161
Pages: 402-409
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Reviewer:
Lee, Simon (Lee, Simon)
Subjects
artists:
Vernet, Horace
dates:
1830-1849
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
Château de Versailles, Versailles, France
patrons:
Louis Philippe, King of the French, 1773-1850
subjects:
July Monarchy - Monarchie de Juillet (France: 1830-1848) / French art / History paintings / Military art and science / Musée Historique, Versailles, Versailles, France / Battles
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Louis-Philippe with the plan of the Gallery of Battles, Versailles, by F.X. Winterhalter. 1841. Canvas, 284 by 184 cm. (Musée des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon).
Attributed works:
2. The duc d’Orléans leaving the Palais Royale to go to the Hôtel de Ville, 31st July 1830, by Horace Vernet. 1832. Canvas, 215 by 261.5 cm. (Musée des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon).
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3. Louis-Philippe and his five sons leaving the Palace of Versailles through the Gate of Honour after having reviewed the troops in the courtyards, 10th June 1837, by Horace Vernet. Canvas, 367 by 394 cm. (Musée des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon).
Attributed works:
4. Taking of the city of Constantine, 13th October 1837, by Horace Vernet. 1839. Canvas, 512 by 518 cm. (Musée des chateaux de Versailles et de Trianon).
Attributed works:
5. Detail of Capture of the Smala of Abd el-Kader at Taguin, 16th May 1843, showing the duc d’Aumale accepting the surrender, by Horace Vernet. Canvas, 140 by 450 cm. (Musée des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon).
Attributed works:
6. Detail of Capture of the Smala of Abd el-Kader at Taguin, 16th May 1843, showing the harem women, by Horace Vernet. Canvas, 140 by 450 cm. (Musée des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon).
Attributed works:
7. Louis-Philippe and the royal family visit the Crusades rooms at Versailles, July 1844, by Prosper Lafaye. 1844. Canvas, 61 by 86.5 cm. (Musée des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon).
Exhibition Review
Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One. Tate Britain, London
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 788-790
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Reviewer:
Vaizey, Marina (Vaizey, Marina)
Subjects
artists:
Nevinson, C. R. W. / Picasso, Pablo / Moore, Henry Spencer, 1898-1986 / Beckmann, Max / Braque, Georges / Epstein, Jacob, 1880-1959 / Lehmbruck, Wilhelm / Ernst, Max / Barlach, Ernst / Nash, Paul / Orpen, William / Spencer, Stanley / Mare, André / Grosz, George / Tonks, Henry
artists:
Lenk, Franz / Jouve, Paul / Birkle, Albert / Branson, Clive
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Sculpture / Photographs / Videos / Documents / Pastels / Drawings
museums and institutions:
Tate Britain, London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
World War (1914-1918) / World War (1939-1945) / Politics / War Artists / Collections, Public / Archives / Diaries / Correspondence / Soldiers / Nazism / Fascism / Class / Futurism / Abstract art / Figurative art / Neo-classicism / Military art and science / Destruction / Dada / Surrealism / Ruins / War memorials / British painting / French painting / German painting
Illustrations
Attributed works:
22. The floating one, by Ernst Barlach. 1927, cast 1987. Bronze, 213 by 74 by 68 cm. (SchleswigHolsteinische Landesmuseen Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig; exh. Tate Britain, London).
Attributed works:
23. Grey day, by George Grosz. 1921. Canvas, 115 by 80 cm. (Nationalgalerie, Berlin; exh. Tate Britain, London).
Attributed works:
24. Wire, by Paul Nash. 1918–19. Watercolour, chalk and ink on paper, 48.6 by 63.5 cm. (Imperial War Museums, London; exh. Tate Britain, London).
Article
A new contribution to the biography of Leonardo da Vinci
08/2009 | 1277 | 151
Pages: 543
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Author:
Gwynne, P.G. (Gwynne, P.G.)
Subjects
artists:
Leonardo da Vinci
dates:
1490-1519
patrons:
Borgia, Cesare
print:
Leonardo da Vinci
subjects:
Biographies / Military art and science / Engineering
Book Review
The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe
01/2001 | 1174 | 143
Pages: 34-35
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Reviewer:
Blair, Claude (Blair, Claude; Blair, C.)
Subjects
subjects:
Military art and science / Weapons / Renaissance
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe | author: Anglo, Sydney
Publication Received
L'Armee Francaise vue par les peintres: 1870-1914
05/1999 | 1154 | 141
Pages: 302
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Reviewer:
Thomson, Richard (Thomson, Richard)
Subjects
dates:
1870-1909 / 1900-1919
places:
France
subjects:
Third Republic (France: 1870-1940) / French painting / Military art and science
Reviewed Items
subjects:
L'Armee Francaise vue par les peintres: 1870-1914 | author: Robichon, François
Book Review
Artists and Warfare in the Renaissance
05/1991 | 1058 | 133
Pages: 320-321
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Reviewer:
Chambers, David S. (Chambers, David S.; Chambers, D. S.; Chambers, David)
Subjects
dates:
1400-1599
subjects:
Military art and science / War / Renaissance
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Artists and Warfare in the Renaissance | author: Hale, J. R.
Book Review
Firearms & Fortifications: Military Architecture and Siege Warfare in Sixteenth-Century Siena
07/1987 | 1012 | 129
Pages: 465
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Reviewer:
Bury, John Bernard (Bury, John Bernard; Bury, John; B., J.; Bury, J. B.; B., J. B.; Bury, J. B.)
Subjects
dates:
1500-1599
places:
Italy / Siena
subjects:
Italian architecture / Military architecture / Military art and science
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Firearms & Fortifications: Military Architecture and Siege Warfare in Sixteenth-Century Siena | author: Adams, Neil , author: Pepper, D. Stephen
Article
Henry Hexham's 'Of Colours': A Note on a Seventeenth-Century List of Colours
09/1961 | 702 | 103
Pages: 378-380
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Author:
Slive, Seymour (Slive, Seymour)
Subjects
dates:
1650-1699
places:
Netherlands / England
sources:
Hexham, Henry, 1585?-1650?
subjects:
Hexham, Henry, 1585?-1650?
subjects:
Oil painting (technique) / Treatises / Colour / Techniques
subjects:
Aesthetics / Military art and science / Dictionaries
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