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Paul Sandby and Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn revisited
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 258–61
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Fairclough, Oliver (Fairclough, Oliver)
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1. Bala in the county of Merioneth: A rejoicing scene when Sir W.W. Wynn visited that place August 22 1771, by Paul Sandby. Bodycolour over pencil on linen, 18 by 26 cm. (Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, Cardiff).
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2. The iron forge (incorrectly titled Aber Glaslyn in the county of Merioneth), by Paul Sandby. 1771. Bodycolour over pencil on paper, 18 by 26 cm. (Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, Cardiff).
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3. The iron forge between Dolgelli and Barmouth in Merioneth Shire, from XII Views in North Wales, by Paul Sandby. 1776. Aquatint on paper, 29 by 38 cm. (Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, Cardiff).
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4. Waterfall at Tanberis North Wales, by Paul Sandby. 1771. Bodycolour over pencil on paper, 18 by 26 cm. (Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, Cardiff).
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5. Detail of Fig.1, showing Sir William- Wynn and his party arriving in Bala.
Article
The elder sisters of the ‘The Campbell sisters’: William Gordon Cumming’s patronage of Lorenzo Bartolini
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 126–153
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Stevens, Timothy (Stevens, Timothy)
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Wood, Lucy (Wood, Lucy)
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1. The Campbell sisters dancing a waltz, by Lorenzo Bartolini. Here dated 1817–18. Marble, height 170 cm; height of plinth, 92 cm. (National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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10. Eliza Maria, Lady Gordon Cumming, by George Sanders. 1838. Photogravure by Emery Walker, after a painting of 1838. (From C.F. Gordon Cumming: Memories, Edinburgh 1904, facing p.38).
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11. Lady Charlotte Campbell and John Campbell of Islay, thought to be by George Sanders. c.1796. Oil on board(?); each 13.6 by 10.5 cm. (framed individually and mounted together on velvet in a gilded wood frame, not shown). (Private collection; photograph Marc Hindley).
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12. Altyre House, Morayshire, by Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming. After a drawing of before 1854. (From C.F. Gordon Cumming: Memories, Edinburgh 1904, facing p.52).
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13. Sofa table, by George Bullock. c.1815–18. Veneered in rosewood with brass marquetry and lacquered brass mounts, 70.6 by 172.5 by 91.3 cm. (Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool).
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14. Model for The Campbell sisters dancing a waltz, by Lorenzo Bartolini. Plaster, height 167 cm. (Gipsoteca Bartolini, Accademia, Florence; Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali, no.0900337755).
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16. Bust of a man (left), here identified as Walter Frederick Campbell, and bust of a woman (right), here identified as Lady Charlotte Campbell (later Bury), both by Lorenzo Bartolini. c.1817–18. Marble, height 74 cm. (left) and 82 cm. (right). (Present location unknown; photograph Christie’s, London).
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17. Model for the bust in Fig.16 (left), by Lorenzo Bartolini. Plaster, height 61 cm. (Gipsoteca Bartolini, Accademia, Florence; Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali, no.0900382892).
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18. Model for the bust in Fig.16 (right), by Lorenzo Bartolini. Plaster, height 63 cm. (Gipsoteca Bartolini, Accademia, Florence; Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali, no.0900382921, as ‘Marchioness of Londonderry’).
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19. Fig.16 (left) on its pedestal, supplied by Lorenzi Bartolini. Marble, pedestal height 107 cm. (Present location unknown; photograph Christie’s, London).
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2. Eliza Maria (née Campbell), Lady Gordon Cumming, by Lorenzo Bartolini. 1817–18. Marble, height with socle 81.5 cm. (Private collection; photograph Cara Willoughby).
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20. Fig.2 on its pedestal, supplied by Lorenzi Bartolini. Marble, pedestal height 106 cm. (Private collection; photograph Cara Willoughby).
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21. Design for a vase and columnar pedestal, inscribed (top left) ‘15’, by Lorenzo Bartolini’s workshop. Pen and ink on paper, 26 by 18.4 cm. (Museo Civico, Prato, inv no.1035).
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22. Model for the bust of Eleanora Campbell (Fig.3), by Lorenzo Bartolini. 1817. Plaster, height 64 cm. (Gipsoteca Bartolini, Accademia, Florence; Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali, no.0900382923).
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23. Model for a bust, probably Eliza Gordon Cumming (Fig.2), by Lorenzo Bartolini. 1817. Plaster, height 46.5 cm. (Gipsoteca Bartolini, Accademia, Florence; Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali, no.0900750676).
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24. Model for a statue of a child, possibly Penrose Gordon Cumming, by Lorenzo Bartolini. 1818. Plaster, height 101 cm. (Gipsoteca Bartolini, Accademia, Florence; Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali, no.0900337775).
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26. Model for a bust of Madame de Staël, by Lorenzo Bartolini. 1816. Plaster, height 78 cm. (Gipsoteca Bartolini, Accademia, Florence; Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali, no.0900742880).
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28. Model for a statue of Venus, formerly with a figure of Cupid, by Lorenzo Bartolini. c.1817. Plaster, height 158 cm. (Gipsoteca Bartolini, Accademia, Florence; Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali, no.0900337748).
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29. Lorenzo Bartolini’s receipt for 484 francesconi for the items in Sir William Gordon Cumming’s third commission, dated 12th June 1818 and annotated by Sir William with individual prices and the total, including his second commission. (National Library of Scotland, Dep.175, Box 128; see Appendix 3.4).
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3. Eleanora Campbell (later Countess of Uxbridge), by Lorenzo Bartolini. 1817–18. Marble, height with socle 78 cm. (Private collection; photograph Cara Willoughby).
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4. Side view of Fig.2. (Photograph Cara Willoughby).
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5. Side view of Fig.3. (Photograph Cara Willoughby).
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6. Eliza Maria Campbell. c.1815. Possibly watercolour on ivory, 9 by 8 cm. (Private collection; photograph Marc Hindley).
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7. Eliza Maria, Lady Gordon Cumming, by Henry Raeburn. 1817. Oil on canvas, 76.2 by 63.5 cm. (Present location unknown; courtesy of the Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London).
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8. Charles Cumming (later Cumming Bruce) in Turkish dress, by Andrew Geddes. 1817. Oil on panel, 64.1 by 53.3 cm. (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).
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9. Sir William Gordon Cumming, by George Sanders. 1838. Photogravure by Emery Walker, after a painting of 1838. (From C.F. Gordon Cumming: Memories, Edinburgh 1904, facing p.136).
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Opposite 15. Detail of Fig.1.
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27. Venus and Cupid. Roman, partly mid-2nd century CE, restored 1584. Marble, height 182 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence; photograph Gabinetto Fotograficao).
Article
Lucchese patronage in Papal Avignon: the chapel of Carlo Spiafame in Notre-Dame-des-Doms
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 96–114
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Nuttall, Geoffrey (Nuttall, Geoffrey)
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10. Vaults of the Spiafame Chapel, designed by Pierre Milhard and Guillaume de Lonay (?), Notre-Dame-des-Doms, Avignon. c.1412–18. (Courtesy the diocèse d’Avignon).
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11. Interior of the Spiafame Chapel, designed by Pierre Milhard and Guillaume de Lonay (?), Notre-Dame-des-Doms, Avignon. c.1418–23. (Courtesy the diocèse d’Avignon).
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12. Detail of a column and the Spiafame eagle, carved by Guillaume de Lonay(?). c.1418. (Notre-Dame-des-Doms, Avignon; with the kind permission of the diocèse d’Avignon).
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14. Tomb of the Spiafame family, by Guillaume de Lonay (?), Notre-Damedes- Doms, Avignon. 1418–23. (Courtesy the diocèse d’Avignon).
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15. Baptism of Christ with saints and members of the Landi family, by a follower of Giovannino dei Grassi. c.1400–05. Fresco. (Museo del Palazzo Farnese, Piacenza; Photo Scala, Florence).
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17. Road to Calvary, from the Grandes Heures of Jean de Berry, attributed to Jacquemart de Hesdin. c.1400. Illumination on vellum, 37.9 by 28.3 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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18. Detail of Baptism of Christ, by Thomas Patch after Spinello Aretino. 1772. Engraving. (British Museum, London).
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19. Detail of Baptism of Christ, from the Belles Heures of Jean de Berry, by the Limbourg Brothers. 1405–1408/1409. Illumination on vellum, 23.8 by 17 cm. (Met Cloisters, New York, object no.fol.211v).
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2. Detail of ground-plan of Notre-Dame-des-Doms, Avignon, showing the Spiafame Chapel (A), the narthex (B) and the porch (C). (From Plan de la cathédrale d’Avignon et ses dépendances, by E. Danjoy, Paris 1890; Archives Nationales, Paris).
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20. Entombment (Sielern Triptych), attributed to Robert Campin. c.1425. Oil on panel, 60 by 48.9 cm. (Courtauld Gallery, London).
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23. Virgin and Child with St Stephen and St Lucy, by Jacques Yverni. c.1425. Tempera and gold on panel and canvas, 163 by 200 cm. (Galleria Sabauda, Musei Reali di Torino; courtesy the Italian Ministry of Culture; Bridgeman Images).
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24. Crucifixion with the Virgin, Mary Magdalene, St Michael and donor presented by St Anthony Abbot, by Robin Favier and Jacques Yverni(?). 1415–25. Fresco. S. Antoine de Vienne. (© Yann Forget; Wikimedia Commons).
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25. Virgin of mercy with saints and scenes from the resurrection of Christ, by Jean Mirailhet. 1425. Face of the Virgin and the figures of St Cosmos and St Damien repainted by Ludovico Brea(?). c.1515. Tempera on panel, 260 by 219 cm. (Chapel of the Confraternity of the Pénitents Noirs, Nice).
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3. Spiafame Chapel with the porch of the cathedral to the right, north side of Notre-Dame-des-Doms, Avignon. 1412–23. (Photograph the author).
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7. Virgin and Child and standing saint, c.1360. Fresco. (Notre-Dame-des-Doms, Avignon; courtesy the diocèse d’Avignon).
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9. Map of Avignon, showing Notre-Dame-des-Doms (top circle), Livreé Albano (centre circle) and le Petit Paradis (bottom circle). (From Atlas van Loon, Amsterdam 1663, X).
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1. Baptism (the Spiafame Baptism). c.1422–28. Fresco. (Notre-Damedes- Doms, Avignon; courtesy the diocèse d’Avignon).
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13. The blocked north window of the Spiafame Chapel, Notre-Dame-des- Doms, Avignon. (Courtesy the diocèse d’Avignon).
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16. Detail of the Spiafame Baptism, showing Margarita di Cacherano della Rocca with her daughters, Agnes and Catherine, Notre-Damedes- Doms, Avignon. (Courtesy the diocèse d’Avignon).
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21. Detail of the Spiafame Baptism, showing the family at prayer, Notre-Dame-des-Doms, Avignon. (Courtesy the diocèse d’Avignon).
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22. Arms of the Caetani dell’ Aquila. c.1340. (Livrée Ceccano-Bibliothèque municipal, Avignon).
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4. Interior of Notre-Dame-des-Doms, Avignon, with the Spiafame Chapel on the left, looking towards the nave. (Courtesy the diocèse d’Avignon).
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5. Inscription above the entrance to the Spiafame Chapel flanked by the family’s coats of arms. (Notre-Dame-des-Doms, Avignon; courtesy the diocèse d’Avignon).
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6. Exterior wall of the Spiafame Chapel, looking towards the porch. (Notre-Dame-des-Doms, Avignon; courtesy the diocèse d’Avignon).
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7. Virgin and Child and standing saint, c.1360. Fresco. (Notre-Dame-des-Doms, Avignon; courtesy the diocèse d’Avignon).
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8. Detail of the Spiafame Baptism, showing the family at prayer before the baptism of Christ. (Notre-Dame-des-Doms, Avignon; courtesy the diocèse d’Avignon).
Book Review
‘Ars Habsburgica’: New Perspectives on Sixteenth-Century Art
01/2025 | 1462 | 167
Pages: 67-8
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Gutiérrez Baños, Fernando (Gutiérrez Baños, Fernando)
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‘Ars Habsburgica’: New Perspectives on Sixteenth-Century Art Edited by Fernando Checa and Miguel Ángel Zalama, 268 pp. incl. 45 b. & w. ills. (Brepols, Turnhout, 2023), €99. ISBN 978–2–503–59594–8. | :
Article
Michelangelo’s Bruges Madonna: its patron, material and meaning
11/2024 | 1460 | 166
Pages: 1123–1139
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Nuttall, Paula (Nuttall, Paula)
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1. The Bruges Madonna in situ in the Chapel of the Holy Sacrament, Church of Our Lady, Bruges. (Photograph the author).
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10. Virgin and Child, by Benedetto da Maiano. Before 1497, completed 1575. Marble, height 140 cm. (Oratorio della Misericordia, Florence).
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11. Detail of the Barbadori Altarpiece, by Filippo Lippi. 1438. Tempera on panel. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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12. Detail of Fig.2. (Photograph the author).
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13. Virgin and Child, by Gentile da Fabriano. 1425. Fresco. (Orvieto Cathedral; photograph Jeff Cotton).
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14. Detail of Fig.13, showing left hands of the Virgin and Child. (Photograph Jeff Cotton).
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15. Detail of Fig.2, showing the hands of the Virgin and Child. (Photograph the author).
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16. Virgin and Child, by Tino da Camaino. 1320–21. Marble, height 78 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
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18. Studies for the Apostles, Battle of Cascina, the Bruges Madonna and an architectural element, by Michelangelo. c.1503–04. Black chalk, dark brown ink, pen and lead point on paper, 27.3 by 26.2 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).
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19. Detail of Fig.18 (top right of sheet), showing a study for the Bruges Madonna.
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2. Madonna and Child (the Bruges Madonna), by Michelangelo. 1504–05. Marble, height 128 cm. (Church of Our Lady, Bruges; Bridgeman Images).
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20. Detail of Fig.18 (centre of sheet), showing a study for the Bruges Madonna.
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21. Detail of Fig.18 (top of left-hand edge), showing a study for the Bruges Madonna.
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22. Detail of Fig.18 (centre and bottom of left-hand edge), showing studies for the Bruges Madonna.
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23. Three studies of nude men and the Virgin and Child, by Michelangelo. c.1504–05. Black chalk, dark and light brown ink, pen and lead point on paper, 31.5 by 27.7 cm. (British Museum, London).
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24. Tomb of Pieter Moscron. 1829, with original sixteenth-century brass coats-of-arms. (Chapel of the Holy Sacrament, Church of Our Lady, Bruges; photograph Brit Vanraepenbusch).
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25. Detail of Fig.23, showing a study for the Bruges Madonna.
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26. Detail of Fig.1, showing the Moscron coat-of-arms, here attributed to Joost Aerts and Jan de Smet. c.1558–65. (Photograph the author).
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27. Detail of Fig.1, showing the 17th-century swag above the central niche. (Photograph the author).
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3. Margaret of York and Mary of Burgundy kneeling before a white statue of St Anne, fol.2v of the Register of the Guild of St Anne, by Circle of Vienna Master of Mary of Burgundy. c.1476. Gold and bodycolour on vellum, height 33 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © Royal Collection Enterprises Limited, 2024; Bridgeman Images).
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4. White Virgin of Jean de Berry. French, c.1400. Marble, height 146 cm. (Bourges Cathedral; Alamy Stock Photo).
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5. Detail of a cast of the Bruges Madonna, showing the different treatment of the front and back of the base. 1871. Plaster. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; photograph the author).
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6. Detail of Fig.2, showing the chisel marks on the base. (Photograph the author).
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7. Detail of Fig.2, seen from the left. (Photograph the author).
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8. Detail of Fig.2. (Photograph the author).
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9. Detail of Judith and Holofernes, by Donatello. c.1456. Bronze. (Palazzo Vecchio, Florence; Photo Scala, Florence).
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17. Our Lady of Leuven. Netherlandish, 13th century (reworked 1442). Polychromed and gilded wood and rock crystal, height 160 cm. (Church of St Peter, Leuven).
Book Review
Dürer’s Lost Masterpiece: Art and Society at the Dawn of a Global World
10/2024 | 1459 | 166
Pages: 1084–5
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Kunz, Armin (Kunz, Armin)
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Dürer’s Lost Masterpiece: Art and Society at the Dawn of a Global World By Ulinka Rublack. 448 pp. incl. 70 col. ills. (Oxford University Press, 2023), £30. ISBN 978–01–9887–310–5. | :
Short Notice
Leonardo da Vinci’s Burlington House Cartoon: a new hypothesis
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 928-31
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Shorter Notice by:
Rumberg, Per (Rumberg, Per)
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1. Virgin and Child with St Anne and the infant St John the Baptist (the Burlington House Cartoon), by Leonardo da Vinci. c.1506–08. Charcoal with white chalk on paper, mounted on canvas, 141.5 by 104.6 cm. (National Gallery, London).
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2. Virgin and Child with St Anne and the infant St John the Baptist, surrounded by ten saints (the Pala del Gran Consiglio), by Fra Bartolommeo. 1510–13. Oil on panel, 444 by 308 cm. (Museo Nazionale di San Marco, Florence).
Book Review
The Embroidered Altarpiece from El Burgo de Osma
08/2024 | 1457 | 166
Pages: 879–80
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Reviewer:
Monnas, Lisa (Monnas, Lisa)
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The Embroidered Altarpiece from El Burgo de Osma Edited by Evelin Wetter and Martha Wolff. 428 pp. incl. 308 col. + b. & w. ills. (Abegg- Stiftung, Riggisberg, 2022), CHF 85. ISBN 978–3–905014–72–3. | :
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3. Detail of the embroidered altarpiece from Burgo de Osma, showing Christ. Spain, mid-1450s–mid-1460s. Linen, silk, gilt and silvered-metal silk threads, seed pearls and metal spangles. (Art Institute of Chicago).
Exhibition Review
Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens
08/2024 | 1457 | 166
Pages: 851–3
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Hearn, Karen (Hearn, Karen)
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Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens National Portrait Gallery, London 20th June–8th September | :
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4. St Mary Magdalene reading, by the Master of the Female Half- Lengths. 1520–30. Oil on panel, 61.5 by 48.2 cm. (National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
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5. Mary I, by the Horenbout family workshop. c.1522. Watercolour on vellum laid down on card, diameter 3.5 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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6. Katherine Parr, attributed to Master John. c.1547. Oil on panel, 92.3 by 71.8 cm. (Private collection, London; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
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7. Design for a table fountain with the badge of Anne Boleyn, by Hans Holbein the Younger. 1533–34. Pen and black ink over chalk on paper, 17.1 by 10 cm. (Kunstmuseum Basel; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
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Eighteenth-century English silver for King João V of Portugal
08/2024 | 1457 | 166
Pages: 826–833
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Vale, Teresa Leonor M. (Vale, Teresa Leonor M.)
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2. Portrait of Secretary of State Diogo Mendonça Corte Real, by Guillaume François Laurent Debrie. 1730. Engraving. (From Retratos de Cardeaes, Bispos, e Varoens Portuguezes Illustres em Nobreza, Armas, Letras, e Santidade Coordenados nos Mezes de Abril e Maio do Anno do Senhor, Lisbon 1791, fol.40A; Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Secção de Iconografia, Lisbon).
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3. Portrait of King D. João V, by Pompeo Batoni. 18th century. Oil on canvas, 90 by 70 cm. (Palácio Nacional da Ajuda, Lisbon).
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4. Model of the sculptural group for the funerary monument of Manuel Pereira de Sampaio, by Filippo della Valle. c.1753. Terracotta and paint, height 56.5 cm. (Museu de Lisboa, Lisbon.)
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5. Centrepiece with Neptune, by Paul Crespin and Nicholas Sprimont. 1741–42. Embossed and chiselled gilded silver, 49 by 66 by 47 cm. (© 2024 HM King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
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6. Wine cooler made for Louis Henri de Bourbon, by Gabriel Huquier after Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier. 1748. Engraving, 17.9 by 25.9 cm. (Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, New York).
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7. Basin, by Paul Crespin. 1722–23. Silver, height 14.7 cm., diameter 49.5 cm. (British Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
1. Paul Crespin. British. c.1726. Oil on canvas, 114 by 90 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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