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Exhibition Review
Figures du fou: Du Moyen Âge aux Romantiques
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 178–180
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Reviewer:
Takanishi Knowles, Marika (Takanishi Knowles, Marika)
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dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
subjects:
Fools / Medieval art / Renaissance art / Romanticism / Paintings / Prints / Stained glass / Woodwork / Manuscripts / Ivories / Medals
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Figures du fou: Du Moyen Âge aux Romantiques Musée du Louvre, Paris 16th October 2024–3rd February 2025 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
16. Towel rail showing a fool embracing a woman, by Arnt van Tricht. c.1535. Polychromed oak, 44.3 by 46.8 by 30 cm. (Museum Kurhaus Kleve; exh. Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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17. Illustration of Psalm 52, from the Psalter of Jean de France, duc de Berry, illuminated by Jacquemart de Hesdin. c.1386. Illumination on parchment, 25 by 19 cm. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, MS 13091, fol.106; exh. Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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18. Ship of fools, by Hieronymus Bosch. c.1505–15. Oil on panel, 58 by 33 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Exhibition Review
Guillaume Lethière
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 959-62
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Reviewer:
Bordes, Philippe (Bordes, Philippe; Bordes, Phillipe)
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artists:
Lethiere, Guillaume
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, United States
subjects:
French art / Creole / Neo-classicism / Romanticism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Guillaume Lethière Clark Art Institute, Williamstown 15th June–14th October | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
17. Brutus condemning his sons to death, by Guillaume Lethière. 1788. Oil on canvas, 59.4 by 99.1 cm. (Clark Art Institute, Williamstown).
Attributed works:
18. Frieze representing the Neuf Thermidor (27th July 1794), by Guillaume Lethière. c.1795– 98. Pen and black and brown ink, brush and black and brown wash, graphite, 40 by 89.5 cm. (Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva; exh. Clark Art Institute, Williamstown).
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19. Judgment of Paris, by Guillaume Lethière. 1812. Oil on canvas, 198 by 279.4 cm. (Private collection; exh. Clark Art Institute, Williamstown).
Book Review
Zeichnen im Zeitalter Goethes: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle aus dem Freien Deutschen Hochstift
09/2023 | 1446 | 165
Pages: 1040-42
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Kunz, Armin (Kunz, Armin)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Goethe Haus, Frankfurt, Germany
subjects:
Watercolours / Drawings / Books / Prints / Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von / German art / Romanticism
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Zeichnen im Zeitalter Goethes: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle aus dem Freien Deutschen Hochstift Edited by Mareike Hennig and Neela Struck. 312 pp. incl. 186 col. ills. (Hirmer, Munich, 2022), €40. ISBN 978–3–7774–3976–1. | :
Exhibition Review
Visionary Romantics: Balke, Lucas, Hertervig
05/2023 | 1442 | 165
Pages: 549-551
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Reviewer:
Jackson, David (Jackson, David)
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artists:
Balke, Peder / Hertervig, Lars / Lucas Velázquez, Eugenio
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid, Spain / Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway / Gundersen Collection, Geilo, Norway
subjects:
Norwegian School / Spanish art / Landscapes (visual works) / Romanticism
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subjects:
Visionary Romantics: Balke, Lucas, Hertervig Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid 16th March–21st May | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Mountainous landscape, by Eugenio Lucas Velázquez. 1850– 70. Ink, wash and watercolour on paper, 45 by 60.7 cm. (Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid).
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8. Northern lights by North Cape, by Peder Balke. 1870. Oil on panel, 20 by 24 cm. (The Gundersen Collection, Oslo).
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9. Landscape, by Lars Hertervig. c.1870s. Watercolour and gouache on paper, 18 by 26 cm. (Stavanger Art Museum).
Book Review
Loss in French Romantic Art, Literature, and Politics
03/2023 | 1440 | 165
Pages: 344-345
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Reviewer:
Bann, Stephen (Bann, Stephen)
Subjects
subjects:
French art / Romanticism / Nineteenth-century French art / Literature / Politics
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subjects:
Loss in French Romantic Art, Literature, and Politics By Jonathan P. Ribner. 278 pp. incl. 32 col. + 57 b. & w. ills. (Routledge, New York and London, 2022), £120. ISBN 978–1–03–202703–6. | :
Book Review
Improbable Pioneers of the Romantic Age: The Lives of John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford, and Georgina Gordon, Duchess of Bedford
01/2023 | 1438 | 165
Pages: 97-99
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artists:
Landseer, Edwin
buildings:
Woburn Abbey, Soulbury, Great Britain
patrons:
Russell, John, Sixth Duke of Bedford, 1766-1839 / Gordon, Georgina (1781–1853)
subjects:
British art / Patronage / Commissions / Landscapes (visual works) / Romanticism / History paintings / Scottish painting
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Improbable Pioneers of the Romantic Age: The Lives of John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford, and Georgina Gordon, Duchess of Bedford By Keir Davidson. 592 pp. incl. 45 col. + 50 b. & w. ills. (Pimpernel Press, London, 2022), £40. ISBN 978–1–910258–25–5. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Sketch for Deer-stalking in the Highlands, by Edwin Landseer. c.1828. Oil on canvas, 43 by 53.5 cm. (Wolverhampton Art Gallery; Bridgeman Images).
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
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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
Im Herzen wild: Die Romantik in der Schweiz
04/2021 | 1417 | 163
Pages: 361-364
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Reviewer:
van der Meij, Lorenz (van der Meij, Lorenz)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
artists:
Fuseli, Henry / Fuseli, Henry / Calame, Alexandre / Wolf, Caspar / Koch, Joseph Anton / Blechen, Carl / Turner, Joseph Mallord William / Friedrich, Caspar David / Carus, Carl Gustav / Oehme, Ernst Ferdinand
museums and institutions:
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
places:
Switzerland
styles:
Romanticism
subjects:
Swiss School / German art / British art / Austrian School
subjects:
Mountains
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Im Herzen wild: Die Romantik in der Schweiz Edited by Jonas Beyer and Esther Braun-Kalberer. 288 pp. incl. 200 col. ills. (Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft / Kunsthaus Zürich and Prestel, Munich, London and New York, 2020), €49. ISBN 978–3– 7913–5988–5. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
12. Passage of Mount St Gotthard from the centre of Teufels Broch (Devil’s Bridge), by J.M.W. Turner. 1804. Watercolour on paper, 101 by 68 cm. (Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Lakeland Arts; The Morse Bequest, 1972; exh. Kunsthaus Zürich).
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13. Summit in the clouds, by Alexandre Calame. 1861. Charcoal and graphite, heightened with white chalk and gouache on blue paper, 15.9 by 23.7 cm. (Musées d’art et d’histoire, Geneva; exh. Kunsthaus Zürich).
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14. The three witches, by Henry Fuseli. 1783. Oil on canvas, 65 by 91.5 cm. (Kunsthaus Zürich).
Exhibition Review
William Blake. Tate Britain, London
11/2019 | 1400 | 161
Pages: 954-956
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Reviewer:
Chadwick, Esther (Chadwick, Esther)
Subjects
artists:
Blake, William
dates:
2010-2019
styles:
Romanticism
subjects:
British art / Prints / Drawings / Watercolours / Books / Patronage / Art market / Art historiography
Illustrations
Attributed works:
16. Albion rose, by William Blake. c.1793. Colour engraving and etching with hand-colouring on paper, 36.8 by 26.3 cm. (Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, San Marino CA; exh. Tate Britain, London).
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17. ‘Europe’ plate I: frontispiece, ‘The Ancient of Days’, by William Blake. 1827. Relief etching with pen and ink, bodycolour and watercolour on paper, 23.2 by 17 cm. (Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester; exh. Tate Britain, London).
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18. Capaneus the Blasphemer, by William Blake. 1824–27. Pen and ink and watercolour over pencil and black chalk, with sponging and scratching out, 37.4 by 52.7 cm. (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; exh. Tate Britain, London).
Book Review
Schinkel: A Meander through his Life and Work
04/2019 | 1393 | 161
Pages: 352-353
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Reviewer:
Bergdoll, Barry (Bergdoll, Barry)
Subjects
artists:
Schinkel, Karl Friedrich
places:
Berlin
subjects:
Architectural history / Philosophy / Romanticism / Science / Cultural history
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Schinkel: A Meander through his Life and Work By Kurt W. Forster. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Polishing the granite basin for the Lustgarten, by Johann Erdmann Hummel. 1831. Cardboard, 46 by 75 cm. (Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin).
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