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Exhibition Review
Gauguin in the World
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 180–183
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Reviewer:
Childs, Elizabeth C. (Childs, Elizabeth C.)
Subjects
artists:
Gauguin, Paul
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, United States
subjects:
French art / Paintings / Ceramics / Sculpture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Gauguin in the World Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 3rd November 2024–16th February 2025 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
19. Le vallon, by Paul Gauguin. 1892. Oil on canvas, 41.5 by 67 cm. (Private collection; exh. Museum of Fine Arts Houston).
Attributed works:
20. Nature morte à L’Espérance, by Paul Gauguin. 1901. Oil on canvas, 65 by 75 cm. (© Enrico de Marco; private collection; exh. Museum of Fine Arts Houston).
Attributed works:
21. Double pot, by Paul Gauguin. c.1887–89. Unglazed stoneware, 15.5 by 12.8 by 11.5 cm. (Te Fare Iamanaha – Musée de Tahiti et des Îles, Punaauia; exh. Museum of Fine Arts Houston).
Exhibition Review
Hand in Hand: Sculpture and Colour in the Spanish Golden Age
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 166–168
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Reviewer:
Hellwig, Karin (Hellwig, Karin)
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artists:
Mena, Pedro de / Martínez Montañés, Francisco / Roldán, Pedro / Roldán, Luisa / Carmona, Luis Salvador / Carducho, Vicente / Ribera, Jusepe de / Coello, Claudio / Herrera Barnuevo, Sebastián de
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain
subjects:
Spanish art / Sculpture / Paintings / Polychromed wood sculpture / Religious art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Hand in Hand: Sculpture and Colour in the Spanish Golden Age Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid 19th November 2024–2nd March 2025 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Christ of forgiveness, by Luis Salvador Carmona. 1756. Polychrome wood enhanced by other media, 163 by 91.5 by 90 cm. (Clarisas Capuchinas, Nava del Rey; exh. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
Attributed works:
5. St Dominic of Guzmán, by Juan Martínez Montañés (sculptor) and Francisco Pacheco (polychrome artist). 1605–09. Polychrome wood, 147 by 126 by 68 cm. (Museo de Bellas Artes, Seville; exh. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
Attributed works:
6. Christ on the Cross, by Sánchez Cotán. Oil on canvas, 220 by 120 cm. (Museo de Bellas Artes, Granada; exh. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
Exhibition Review
Luisa Roldán: Escultora real
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 164–164
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Reviewer:
Trusted, Marjorie (Trusted, Marjorie)
Subjects
artists:
Roldán, Luisa / Roldán, Pedro
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid, Spain
subjects:
Spanish art / Women artists / Sculptors / Sculpture
subjects:
Polychromed wood sculpture / Terracotta
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Luisa Roldán: Escultora real Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid 29th November 2024–9th March 2025 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Virgin and Child, by Luisa Roldán. 1699. Polychromed terracotta, 48 by 26 by 24 cm. (Convento San José del Carmen, Seville; exh. Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid).
Attributed works:
2. St Servando, by Luisa Roldán. 1687. Polychromed wood with paste stones and silver accoutrements, 145 by 80 by 40 cm. (Cádiz Cathedral; exh. Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid).
Attributed works:
3. Ecstasy of Mary Magdalene, by Luisa Roldán. c.1689–96. Polychromed terracotta, 21 by 31.5 by 26 cm. (Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid).
Book Review
Memoria in Stein: Das römische Wandgrabmal der Frührenaissance
01/2025 | 1462 | 167
Pages: 64-5
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Reviewer:
Muijtjens, Philip (Muijtjens, Philip)
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places:
Rome
subjects:
Funerary structures / Sculpture / Italian sculpture / Churches
subjects:
Medieval sculpture / Renaissance sculpture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Memoria in Stein: Das römische Wandgrabmal der Frührenaissance By Michael Kühlenthal. 2 vols, 894 pp. incl. 907 col. + b. & w. ills. (Hirmer Verlag, Munich, 2024), €285. ISBN 978–3–7774–3054–6. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. Tomb of Cardinal Antonio Martinez de Chávez, by Antonio Filarete and Isaia da Pisa, with later alterations by Francesco Borromini. After 1447. Marble. (S. Giovanni in Laterano, Rome).
Book Review
Galleria Borghese. Catalogo generale I: Scultura moderna
11/2024 | 1460 | 166
Pages: 1192–1193
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Reviewer:
Dalvit, Giulio (Dalvit, Giulio)
Subjects
art literature:
Catalogues raisonnés
museums and institutions:
Museo e Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy
subjects:
Sculpture / Italian sculpture / Collections
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Galleria Borghese. Catalogo generale I: Scultura moderna Edited by Anna Coliva with Vittoria Brunetti. 456 pp. incl. 287 col. ills. (Officina Libraria, Rome, 2022), €85. ISBN 978–88–336–7179–6. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Herm of Bacchus, by Luigi Valadier. 1775. Alabaster and bronze, 178.5 by 30.5 by 22 cm. (Galleria Borghese, Rome).
Exhibition Review
Revoir Van Eyck: La Vierge du chancelier Rolin
06/2024 | 1455 | 166
Pages: 626–629
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Nuttall, Paula (Nuttall, Paula)
Subjects
artists:
Eyck, Jan van
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
subjects:
Netherlandish painting / Restoration (process) / Panel paintings / Sculpture / Manuscripts / Drawings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Revoir Van Eyck: La Vierge du chancelier Rolin Musée du Louvre, Paris 20th March–17th June | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Virgin of Chancellor Rolin, by Jan Van Eyck, c.1430-35. Oil on panel, 71 by 65 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
8. Reverse of the Virgin of Chancellor Rolin, by Jan Van Eyck, c.1430–35. Oil on panel, 71 by 65 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
9. Epitaph of Jacques Isaac and Isabeau d’Anvaing. After 1401, c.1420–30?. Tournai stone, 59 by 86 by 12 cm. (Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Tournai; exh. Musée du Louvre, Paris)
Book Review
French Gothic Ivories: Material Theologies and the Sculptor’s Craft
06/2024 | 1455 | 166
Pages: 650–651
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Reviewer:
Speakman, Naomi (Speakman, Naomi)
Subjects
dates:
1200-1299 / 1300-1349
subjects:
French medieval art / Ivories / Gothic art / Statuettes / Sculpture / Religious art
Reviewed Items
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French Gothic Ivories: Material Theologies and the Sculptor’s Craft By Sarah M. Guérin. 334 pp. incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Cambridge University Press, 2022), £90. ISBN 978–1–316–51100–8. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. Descent from the cross, central part of Deposition. c.1260–70. Ivory, height 20 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
Article
Renaissance exhibitions in Paris
06/2024 | 1455 | 166
Pages: 612–619
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Author:
Herman, Nicholas (Herman, Nicholas)
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artists:
Pisanello / Fouquet, Jean, ca. 1415-1481 / Quarton, Enguerrand / Eyck, Barthélemy d' / Perugino, Pietro / Zoppo, Marco
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France / Musée de Cluny (Musée National du Moyen Âge), Paris, France
subjects:
Renaissance art / Humanism / Illuminated manuscripts / Manuscripts / Bookbindings / Books / Prints / Coins / Medals / Portraits / Paintings / Bronzes / Sculpture / Collections / Charles VII, King of France, 1403-1461
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Invention of the Renaissance: the Humanist, the Prince and the Artist, Bibliothèque national de France, 20 February16 June 2024. Les arts en France sous Charles VII, Musée de Cluny – Musée national du Moyen Âge, 12 March–16 June 2024. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Jacopo Antonio Marcello, attributed to Jacopo Bellini. 1453. Tempera on parchment, 18.7 by 13 cm. (Bibliothèque national de France, Paris, MS 940, fol.38v).
Attributed works:
2. Frontispiece. (From Giovanni Michele Nagonio: De laudibus Galliae, Rome c.1500.) Ink and tempera on parchment, 27 by 16 cm. (Bibliothèque national de France, Paris, MS latin 8132, fols.8v–9r).
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3. St John on Patmos from the Hours of Frederick III, by Jean Bourdichon, Giovanni Todeschino and the Master of Claude de France. 1501–02. Tempera on parchment, 24.5 by 15.5 cm. (Bibliothèque national de France, Paris, MS latin 10532, p.62).
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4. Manuscript binding, by Étienne Roffet. c.1542–43. Gilt-tooled leather, 33.5 by 23 cm. (Bibliothèque national de France, Paris, MS latin 6866, upper cover).
Attributed works:
5. So-called dais of Charles VII, perhaps after a design by Jacob de Littemont. c.1430–40. Wool and silk, 292 by 285 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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6. Supplicant in prayer, excised leaf of the Collins Hours, by the Master of the Collins Hours. c.1445–50. Tempera and ink on parchment, 18.5 by 12.5 cm. (Musée de Cluny–Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris, MS Cl.23945).
Attributed works:
7. Detail of the central panel of the Aix Triptych showing the books on the Virgin’s lectern, by Barthélemy d’Eyck. 1443–44. Oil on panel. (Sainte-Madeleine, Aix-en-Provence; photograph the author).
Book Review
The Touch of Pygmalion: Rubens and Sculpture in Rome
05/2024 | 1454 | 166
Pages: 512–515
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Reviewer:
Pierguidi, Stefano (Pierguidi, Stefano)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
artists:
Rubens, Peter Paul
dates:
1600-1649
museums and institutions:
Museo e Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy
places:
Rome
subjects:
Antiquity / Sculpture / Paintings / Drawings / Paragone (concept) / Flemish art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Touch of Pygmalion: Rubens and Sculpture in Rome Edited by Francesca Cappelletti and Lucia Simonato. 232 pp. incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Electa, Milan, 2023), €42. 978–88–928–2478–2. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Two studies after the Spinario, by Peter Paul Rubens. 1602. Red chalk, heightened with white, with later grey background wash, on paper. 26.1 by 36 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
7. Death of Adonis, by Peter Paul Rubens. c.1614. Oil on canvas, 212 by 325 cm. (Israel Museum, Jerusalem).
Attributed works:
8. Agrippina and Germanicus, by Peter Paul Rubens. c.1614. Oil on panel, 66.4 by 57 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Exhibition Review
Northern Renaissance gallery Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
04/2024 | 1453 | 166
Pages: 395–398
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Reviewer:
Boivin, Katherine (Boivin, Katherine)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
subjects:
Northern Renaissance / Displays / Art museums / Kunstkammer / Sculpture / Decorative arts / Stained glass / Automata
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Northern Renaissance gallery Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York From 3rd October 2023 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Orpheus cup, by Hans Georg Bramer, Johann Wilhelm Baur, Jan Vermeyen and others. 1641– 42. Gold, enamel and ruby, 18.1 by 13 by 8.9 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
6. Installation view of the Northern Renaissance gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 2023. (photograph Anna-Marie Kellen).
Western art unattributed:
7. Kneeling Black woman. Early 17th century. Brazilian rosewood, lapis lazuli, marble and gilded metal, height 11.7 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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