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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 | :
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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).
Book Review
The Radical Print: Art and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 194–195
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Reviewer:
Savage, Elizabeth (Savage, Elizabeth)
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artists:
Barry, James, 1741-1806 / Mortimer, John Hamilton / Gillray, James / Bewick, Thomas / Blake, William
museums and institutions:
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great Britain
subjects:
British art / Prints / Politics
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subjects:
The Radical Print: Art and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain By Esther Chadwick. 248 pp. incl. 200 col. + b. & w. ills. (Paul Mellon Centre, London, 2024), £45. ISBN 978–1–913107–43–7. | :
Exhibition Review
In Your Wildest Dreams: Ensor Beyond Impressionism and Ensor’s States of Imagination
01/2025 | 1462 | 167
Pages: 51-4
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Reviewer:
Lloyd, Joe (Lloyd, Joe)
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artists:
Ensor, James
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium / Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp, Belgium
subjects:
Belgian painting / Prints
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Ensor’s States of Imagination Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp 28th September 2024–19th January 2025 | :
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In Your Wildest Dreams: Ensor Beyond Impressionism Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp 28th September 2024–19th January 2025 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
22. Self-portrait with flowered hat, by James Ensor. 1888. Oil on canvas, 76.5 by 61.5 cm. (Mu. ZEE, Ostend; exh. Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp).
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23. Temptation of St Anthony, by James Ensor. 1887. Coloured pencil and scraping, graphite, charcoal, crayon, coloured chalk and watercolour with cut and pasted elements on fifty-one sheets of paper laid on canvas, 179.5 by 154.7 cm. (Art Institute of Chicago; exh. Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp).
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24. Pride from the series Seven deadly sins, by James Ensor. 1904. Coloured etching on paper, 9.3 by 14.6 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent; exh. Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp).
Exhibition Review
The Legacy of Vesuvius: Bourbon Discoveries on the Bay of Naples
12/2024 | 1461 | 166
Pages: 1251–3
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Reviewer:
Baxter, Denise Amy (Baxter, Denise Amy)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Meadows Museum, Dallas, United States
subjects:
Vesuvius / Volcanos / Excavations / House of Bourbon / Paintings / Prints / Porcelain / Fans (costume accessories)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Legacy of Vesuvius: Bourbon Discoveries on the Bay of Naples Meadows Museum, Dallas 15th September 2024–5th January 2025 | :
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Attributed works:
16. Plate with dancing maenad, Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea di Napoli. 1780–82. Polychromed porcelain, diameter 24.5 cm. (Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples; exh. Meadows Museum, Dallas).
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17. Fan design with views of Mount Vesuvius and the Tomb of Virgil, probably from the workshop of Giorgio Glass. c.1790–1800. Opaque watercolour on vellum, 30.5 by 50.8 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, exh; Meadows Museum, Dallas).
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18. Wall painting fragments with dancing maenads from the Villa of Cicero, Pompeii. 1st quarter of the 1st century CE. Pigment on plaster, 27 by 71.2 cm. (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli; exh. Meadows Museum, Dallas).
Book Review
Contact: Art and the Pull of Print
12/2024 | 1461 | 166
Pages: 1286
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Salsbury, Britany (Salsbury, Britany)
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Printmakers / Prints / Techniques / American art / Contemporary art
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Contact: Art and the Pull of Print By Jennifer L. Roberts. 232 pp. incl. 117 col. + 14 b. & w. ills. (Princeton University Press, 2024), £35. ISBN 978–0–691–25585–9. | :
Exhibition Review
Yoshida: Three Generations of Japanese Printmaking
10/2024 | 1459 | 166
Pages: 1069–71
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Reviewer:
Nakanishi, Minami (Nakanishi, Minami)
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artists:
Yoshida-Takeda, Tomiko / Yoshida, Ayomi (b.1958) / Yoshida, Chizuko (1924-2017) / Yoshida, Fujio (1887-1987) / Yoshida, Hiroshi (1876-1950) / Yoshida, Hokada (1926-95) / Yoshida, Toshi (1911-95)
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Japanese art / Prints
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Yoshida: Three Generations of Japanese Printmaking Dulwich Picture Gallery, London | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
16. Kumoi cherry trees, by Hiroshi Yoshida. 1926. Woodblock print, ink and colour on paper, 53.9 by 70.7 cm. (Fukuoka Art Museum Collection, Japan; exh. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London).
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17. Camouflage, by Yoshida Toshi. 1985. Woodblock print, ink and colour on paper, 64.4 by 41.7 cm. (Fukuoka Art Museum Collection, Japan; exh. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London).
Book Review
Connecting Worlds: Artists and Travel
08/2024 | 1457 | 166
Pages: 870–2
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Reviewer:
Pietrabissa, Camilla (Pietrabissa, Camilla )
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art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
museums and institutions:
Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden, Germany / Residenzschloss, Dresden, Germany
subjects:
Travel / Sketchbooks / Drawings / Prints
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Connecting Worlds: Artists and Travel Edited by Stephanie Buck and Anita Viola Sganzerla with the assistance of Jane Boddy. 274 pp. incl. 200 col. ills. (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and Paul Holberton Publishing, London, 2023), £45. ISBN 978–1–913645–48–9. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. The artist sketching while trapped in a crevasse, by Eugène Emmanuel Violletle- Duc. 1870. Watercolour and gouache on paper, 22.9 by 13.3 cm. (Private collection).
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11. The Colosseum seen from the Palatine Hill, Rome, by Carlo Labruzzi. Late 1760s–1780s. Pen and ink, watercolour and graphite on paper, 37.5 by 54 cm. (Private collection).
Exhibition Review
Guercino: Il mestiere del pittore
07/2024 | 1456 | 166
Pages: 729–31
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Reviewer:
Bohn, Babette (Bohn, Babette)
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artists:
Barbieri, Giovanni Francesco, called Il Guercino
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Musei Reali Turin, Turin, Italy
subjects:
Italian art / Italian drawing / Italian painting / Prints
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Guercino: Il mestiere del pittore Musei Reali, Turin 23rd March–28th July | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Madonna of the Rosary with St Dominic and St Catherine of Siena, by Guercino. 1637. Oil on canvas, 378 by 255 cm. (S. Domenico, Turin; exh. Musei Reali, Turin).
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7. Diana, by Guercino. 1646. Oil on canvas, 102 by 84 cm. (Fondazione Marini Clarelli Santi, Perugia; exh. Musei Reali, Turin).
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8. Study for St William kneeling and dressed in armour, by Guercino. 1620. Charcoal on paper, 62 by 41.3 cm. (Musei di Strada Nuova, Genoa; exh. Musei Reali, Turin).
Exhibition Review
Thinking Small: Dutch Art to Scale
07/2024 | 1456 | 166
Pages: 717–29
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Reviewer:
Golahny, Amy (Golahny, Amy)
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dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Center for Netherlandish Art (CNA), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, United States / Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, United States
subjects:
Dutch art / Shells (animal material) / Books / Prints / Paintings / Metalwork / Medals
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Thinking Small: Dutch Art to Scale Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 18th November 2023 –3rd November 2024 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Floral still life, by Dirck van Rijswijck. 17th century. Oak panel, ebony, rosewood, mother-of-pearl and African blackwood, 43.7 by 33.5 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
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5. Tromp l’oeil, by Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts. 1663. Oil on canvas, 73.7 by 86.4 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
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).
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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).
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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).
Attributed works:
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).
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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).
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