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From Giotto to the Bushmen: Roger Fry at the Slade 1909–13
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 727-733
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Author:
Elam, Caroline (Elam, Caroline; E., C.; E., C. M.)
Subjects
art literature:
Fry, Roger (R. F.; R. E. F.) / Brockwell, Maurice W. / Brown, Frederick / MacColl, D. S. / Tonks, Henry / Ruskin, John / Berenson, Bernard / Bell, Clive
artists:
Giotto / Cézanne, Paul / Gogh, Vincent van / Gauguin, Paul / Piero della Francesca / Nash, Paul / Bomberg, David / Spencer, Stanley / Gertler, Mark / Wadsworth, Edward / Nevinson, C. R. W. / Roberts, William, 1895-1980 / Carrington, Dora / Raverat, Gwen / Sickert, Walter / Steer, Philip Wilson / Chassériau, Théodore / Hunt, William Morris / Watts, George Frederic / Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre / John, Augustus Edwin / Gozzoli, Benozzo / Pinturicchio, Bernardino / Ghirlandaio, Domenico / Masaccio / Uccello, Paolo / Andrea del Castagno / Grant, Duncan / Etchells, Frederick / Holbein, Hans the Younger, ca. 1497-1543 / Bruegel, Pieter, the Elder / Lorrain, Claude / Blake, William / Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon / Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de / Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique / Currie, John / Bell, Vanessa
artists:
Donatello / Bate, Francis
dates:
1900-1919 / 1900-1909 / 1910-1919
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
Slade School of Fine Art, London, Great Britain / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States / Grafton Galleries, London, Great Britain / Omega Workshops / Academie Julian, Paris, France / New English Art Club (NEAC)
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
Italian painting / Old-master paintings / French painting / Post-Impressionism / Modernism / Study and teaching / Art schools / Art critics / Art historians / Curators / Burlington Magazine / Portraits / Life drawings / Lectures / Surveys / Formal analysis / Primitivism (Cultural anthropology related concept) / Cave paintings / Children's art / Influence
subjects:
British painting
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Vision, volumes and recession, by Walter Sickert. c.1923, published 1929. Etching, 20 by 11.1 cm. (Courtauld Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
2. The unknown god: Roger Fry preaching the new faith, by Henry Tonks. Exhibited 1923. Canvas, 41.5 by 56 cm. (Private collection; courtesy Pym’s Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
3. Poster for the first Post-Impressionist exhibition, Grafton Galleries, London. 1910. Lettering by Roger Fry. 76.3 by 50.9 cm. (The Courtauld Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
4. The meeting at the Golden Gate from John Ruskin, Giotto and his Works in Padua, Orpington 1900, p.77. (Warburg Institute, London).
Attributed works:
5. Detail of The meeting at the Golden Gate, by Giotto. c.1305. Fresco. (Arena Chapel, Padua; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
6. Some later primitives and Madame Tisceron, by John Currie. 1912. Tempera on canvas, 46 by 127 cm. (The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
7. John Donne arriving in heaven, by Stanley Spencer. 1911. Canvas, 37 by 40.5 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
Exhibition Review
Raphael in Oxford and Vienna
03/2018 | 1380 | 160
Pages: 226-233
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Reviewer:
Henry, Tom (Henry, Tom)
Subjects
artists:
Raphael / Giulio Romano
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Drawings
museums and institutions:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain / Albertina, Vienna, Austria
places:
Great Britain / Oxford / Austria / Vienna
subjects:
Old-master drawings / Old-master paintings / Italian painting / Cartoons (working drawings) / Rhetoric / Attributions / Infrared reflectography
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Seated male nude, by Raphael. c.1511–14. Black chalk, 34.4 by 26.7 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
10. Infra-red reflectograph of Venus, Vulcan, Cupid and five putti, by Giulio Romano. c.1530. Panel, 37.6 by 24.3 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
2. Two figure studies and drafts of a sonnet, by Raphael. c.1508–10. Black chalk, pen and brown ink over blind stylus, 38.8 by 23.6 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
3. A standing figure and a drapery study, by Raphael. c.1499–1502. Pen and brown ink and black chalk, 25.4 by 21.6 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
4. Portrait of a boy, here attributed to Giulio Romano. c.1516–18. Canvas, 43.8 by 29 cm. (Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid).
Attributed works:
5. Portrait of a woman, by Giulio Romano. c.1518–20. Panel, 59.5 by 44 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg).
Attributed works:
6. The Transfiguration with nude figures, school of Raphael. c.1519–20. Pen and brown ink, over some black chalk, 53.6 by 37.7 cm. (Albertina, Vienna).
Attributed works:
7. Overlay highlighting the spolvero on The heads and hands of two apostles, by Raphael. c.1519–20. Black chalk over pounced underdrawing with some white heightening, 49.9 by 36.4 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
8. Detail of Fig.6. Compare with the overlay in Fig.7.
Attributed works:
9. Venus, Vulcan, Cupid and five putti, here attributed to Giulio Romano. c.1518–20. Pen and ink, heightened with white over traces of black chalk and stylus, 37.1 by 24.2 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Article
Nicolas Poussin and the King’s mathematician
10/2017 | 1375 | 159
Pages: 772-777
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Author:
Batalla-Lagleyre, Gabriel (Batalla-Lagleyre, Gabriel)
Subjects
art literature:
Félibien, André / Bellori, Giovanni Pietro
artists:
Poussin, Nicolas / Raphael
artists:
Aleaume, Jacques / Courtois, Alexandre
media:
Engravings / Old-master paintings
patrons:
Dal Pozzo, Cassiano, 1588-1657
places:
Palais du Louvre, Paris, France
subjects:
Mathematics / Optics / Perspective / Science
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. St Dionysus the Areopagite, by Nicolas Poussin. 1610s (Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen).
Attributed works:
2. Detail of Fig. 1.
Attributed works:
3. Frontispiece of the Plans des villes frontières de Picardie, by Jacques Aleaume. c. 1610 (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
Book Review
The Schorr Collection of Old Master and Nineteenth-Century Paintings, C. Wright
11/2015 | 1352 | 157
Pages: 792-793
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Reviewer:
Green, Richard (Green, Richard)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Schorr Collection / Lewis, David, art collector
dates:
1800-1899
subjects:
Old-master paintings / Catalogues / Collections, Private
Illustrations
Attributed works:
70. Christ as the Man of Sorrows, by Jan van Hemessen. c.1555 (Schorr Collection; on loan to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery)
Exhibition Review
The taste for the ‘Primitives’
11/2014 | 1340 | 156
Pages: 770-772
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Reviewer:
Levi, Donata (Levi, Donata)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy
places:
Florence / Italy
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Italian painting / Primitives (Late Medieval and Early Renaissance) / Old-master paintings / Collecting
Illustrations
Attributed works:
58. St Andrew, by Lippo Memmi (Museo Nazionale di San Matteo, Pisa; exh. Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence)
Attributed works:
59. Breviary of the Carthusian use, open to show fol.1r, the frontispiece of the Psalter by the Master of the London Pliny (Bodleian Library, Oxford; exh. Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence)
Publication Received
Singular Vision. Haboldt & Co.’s Old Master Paintings and Drawings since 1983
07/2013 | 1324 | 155
Pages: 497
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Reviewer:
Spaans, Erik (Spaans, Erik)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Haboldt & Co, Paris, France
subjects:
Art dealers / Old-master drawings / Old-master paintings / Anniversaries
Article
Cézanne and the past
03/2013 | 1320 | 155
Pages: 173-176
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Author:
Stonard, John-Paul (Stonard, John-Paul)
Subjects
artists:
Cézanne, Paul
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Szépművészeti Múzeum (Museum of Fine Arts), Budapest, Hungary
subjects:
French painting / Old-master paintings / Old-master drawings / Influence / Visual sources / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
27. Medea, by Paul Cézanne after Eugène Delacroix (Kunsthaus Zürich; exh. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest)
Attributed works:
28. Medée furieuse, by Marie-Alexandre (Menut) Alophe after Eugène Delacroix (Département littérature et art, Bibliothèque national de France, Paris; exh. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest)
Attributed works:
29. Bellona, by Paul Cézanne after Peter Paul Rubens (Private collection; exh. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest)
Attributed works:
30. Cardinal Richelieu, by Paul Cézanne after Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Kunstmuseum Basel; exh. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest)
Attributed works:
31. Detail of the Portrait of Cardinal Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Musée du Louvre, Paris; exh. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest)
Book Review
Old Masters’ Gallery Catalogues. Szépmüvészeti Múzeum Budapest. Volume 2. Dutch and Flemish Still Lifes 1600–1800
02/2013 | 1319 | 155
Pages: 107-108
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Reviewer:
Loughman, John (Loughman, John)
Subjects
dates:
1600-1799
museums and institutions:
Szépművészeti Múzeum (Museum of Fine Arts), Budapest, Hungary
subjects:
Collections, Public / Old-master paintings / Catalogues / Dutch painting / Flemish painting / Still lifes
Book Review
Old Masters’ Gallery Catalogues. Szépmüvészeti Múzeum Budapest. Volume 1. Dutch and Flemish Portraits 1600–1800
02/2013 | 1319 | 155
Pages: 107-108
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Reviewer:
Loughman, John (Loughman, John)
Subjects
dates:
1600-1799
museums and institutions:
Szépművészeti Múzeum (Museum of Fine Arts), Budapest, Hungary
subjects:
Collections, Public / Old-master paintings / Dutch painting / Flemish painting / Catalogues
subjects:
Portraits
Illustrations
Attributed works:
37. Portrait of a family, by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest)
Exhibition Review
Master drawings and paintings. London
09/2010 | 1290 | 152
Pages: 624-625
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Reviewer:
Baker, Christopher (Baker, Christopher)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
places:
London / England
print:
Master Drawings Week
print:
Master Paintings Week
private galleries:
Simon Dickinson, London, Great Britain / Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London, Great Britain / Colnaghi, London, Great Britain / Hill-Stone Inc., New York, United States / Fine Art Society, London, Great Britain / Whitfield Fine Art, London, Great Britain / Deborah Gage, London, Great Britain / Johnny van Haeften, London, Great Britain / Katrin Bellinger, London, Great Britain / Ben Elwes Fine Art, London, Great Britain / Andrew Wyld Gallery, London, Great Britain / Lowell Libson, London, Great Britain
private galleries:
W/S Fine Art Ltd, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Drawings / Paintings
subjects:
Old-master drawings / Old-master paintings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Master Drawings and Master Paintings Week | institution: Andrew Wyld Gallery , institution: Ben Elwes Fine Art , institution: Colnaghi , institution: Deborah Gage , institution: Fine Art Society , institution: Johnny van Haeften , institution: Lowell Libson , institution: Simon Dickinson , institution: Stephen Ongpin Fine Art , institution: Whitfield Fine Art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
61. The meeting of Christ and Zacchaeus, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. 1775–80. Brown ink and wash over black chalk on paper, 45.8 by 35.6 cm. (Exh. Katrin Bellinger at Colnaghi, London).
Attributed works:
62. James Byres (1734–1817), by Anton von Maron. c.1768. Canvas, 73.4 by 60.6 cm. (Exh. Colnaghi, London).
Attributed works:
63. Card players, by Gerard ter Borch. c.1659. Canvas laid down on panel, 46.7 by 36.8 cm. (Exh. Johnny Van Haeften, London).
Attributed works:
64. Blackcock, by Edwin Landseer. 1848. Ink wash heightened with blue and red chalks on paper, 22.8 by 28 cm. (Exh. Lowell Libson, London).
Attributed works:
65. Jacob’s dream, by John Constable after Aert de Gelder. c.1832. Ink and wash on paper, 17.5 by 15 cm. (Exh. W.S. Fine Art Andrew Wyld, London).
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