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Article
Colossal orders and a Classical fa ade: Hoefnagel and Nonsuch revisited
02/2022 | 1427 | 164
Pages: 178-183
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Author:
Biddle, Martin (Biddle, Martin)
Subjects
artists:
Hoefnagel, Joris (Georg)
buildings:
Nonsuch Palace, (destroyed ca. 1683) , Surrey, Great Britain
dates:
1500-1599
subjects:
British architecture / Columns (architectural components) / Facades / Stuccowork
subjects:
Palaces / Royalty
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Nonsuch Palace, Surrey, by Joducus Hondius after John Speed. 1610. Engraving, 28.5 by 51 cm. (From J. Speed: Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain, London 1611).
Attributed works:
2. Detail of Fig.3, showing the the west end of the south front.
Attributed works:
3. Nonsuch Palace from the south, by Joris Hoefnagel. 1568. Black chalk, pen and brown and black ink and watercolour, heightened with white and gold, on paper, 24.2 by 26.3 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
4. A triumphal arch, by Sebastiano Serlio. (From S. Serlio: Regole generali di architetura sopra le cinque maniere de gli edifici, Venice 1537; Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York).
Article
Global mission iconography in the Jesuit Church in Innsbruck (1636–66)
08/2020 | 1409 | 162
Pages: 658-672
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Author:
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
Subjects
artists:
Opstal, Bartolomäus von / Schönfeld, Johann Heinrich / Pock, Paul
artists:
Ortelius, Abraham
buildings:
St Francis Xavier Chapel, Holy Trinity Church, Innsbruck, Austria
dates:
1630-1669
media:
Stuccowork / Marbles / Gilding
patrons:
Medici, Claudia de' / Medici, Anna de'
places:
Innsbruck
styles:
Baroque
subjects:
Xavier, Francis / Ignatius of Loyola, Saint / Jesuits / Missionaries / Iconography / Church decoration / Maps / Ceilings / Retables / Altarpieces / Sculptors / Asians / Amerindians (South America) / Africans
subjects:
Four Continents
subjects:
Austrian art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. St Francis Xavier and the miracle of the crab. Second half of the seventeenth century. Oil on canvas. (Chapel of St Francis Xavier, Church of the Holy Trinity, Innsbruck).
Attributed works:
10. Design for the Francis Xavier altar, by Bartolomäus von Opstal. c.1666. Bistre, graphite, wash and reddish and ochre pigments on paper, 16.2 by 21 cm. (Archives of the Jesuit College, Innsbruck).
Attributed works:
11. Detail of Fig.5.
Attributed works:
12. Design for the Francis Xavier altar, by Bartolomäus von Opstal. c.1666. Black ink and reddish pigment on paper, 43.4 by 29.8 cm. (Archives of the Jesuit College, Innsbruck).
Attributed works:
13. Design for the Francis Xavier altar, by Bartolomäus von Opstal. c.1666. Black ink, reddish pigment and wash on paper, 42.2 by 24.1 cm. (Archives of the Jesuit College, Innsbruck).
Attributed works:
15. This illustration shows us the people and island which have been discovered by the Christian King of Portugal, by Johann Froschauer. 1505. Woodcut. (From A. Vespucci: Mundus Novus, Augsburg; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
17. Detail of Fig.5.
Attributed works:
2. Vault of the Chapel of St Francis Xavier, Church of the Holy Trinity, Innsbruck, by Georg Braun and others. 1636. Stucco and gilding.
Attributed works:
4. Martyrdom of the Japanese saints Paul Miki, James Kisai and John de Goto, by Paul Pock. 1644. Oil on canvas, height 400 cm. (Church of the Holy Trinity, Innsbruck).
Attributed works:
5. Altar of the Chapel of St Francis Xavier, Church of the Holy Trinity, Innsbruck, by Bartholomäus von Opstal. 1666–68. Marble and gilded bronze, 690 by 400 cm. The altarpiece is Francis Xavier baptising an Indian nobleman, attributed to Heinrich Schönfeld. 1670. Oil on canvas, 250 by 175 cm.
Attributed works:
6. Detail of Fig.2, showing the map of India.
Attributed works:
7. A figure of the East Indies and adjacent islands. Hand-coloured engraving, 36 by 48.5 cm. From A. Ortelius: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerp 1570. (Boston Public Library).
Attributed works:
8. A depiction of the islands of Japan. Hand-coloured engraving, 36 by 48.5 cm. From A. Ortelius: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerp 1595. (Sanderus Antiquariaat, Ghent).
Attributed works:
9. Detail of Fig.2, showing the map of Japan.
Attributed works:
Xavierius’s dream of bringing help to the Indies, by Abraham van Diepenbeek. Engraving, 10.5 by 13.5 cm. (From Imago Primi Saeculi Societatis Iesu, Antwerp 1640).
Western art unattributed:
14. Design for the Francis Xavier altar. c.1666. Bistre, graphite and wash on paper. 44.9 by 30.9 cm. (Archives of the Jesuit College, Innsbruck).
Western art unattributed:
16. Design for a sculpture of St Francis Xavier for the Francis Xavier Altar. c.1666. Graphite, black ink and wash on paper, 42 by 24 cm. (Archives of the Jesuit College, Innsbruck).
Western art unattributed:
3. Plan of the Jesuit (now the University) Church, Innsbruck. 1781. Ink and watercolour on paper, 73.5 by 52 cm. (Tiroler Landesarchiv).
Exhibition Review
The Renaissance of Gaudenzio Ferrari. Varallo, Vercelli and Novara
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 776-778
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Reviewer:
De Klerck, Bram (De Klerck, Bram)
Subjects
art literature:
Romano, Giovanni
artists:
Ferrari, Gaudenzio / Cerva, Giovanni Battisa della / Lanino, Bernardino / Profondavalle, Valerio
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Frescoes / Drawings / Stuccowork
museums and institutions:
Pinacoteca, Varallo, Italy / Arca Vercelli, Vercelli, Italy / Broletto, Novara, Italy / Santa Maria delle Grazie, Varallo, Italy / Chiesa di San Cristoforo, Vercelli, Italy / Museo Francesco Borgogna, Vercelli, Italy / Basilica di San Gaudenzio, Novara, Italy
places:
Varallo / Vercelli / Novara / Italy
subjects:
Italian painting / Altarpieces / Altars / Panel paintings / Polyptychs / Cartoons (working drawings) / Churches / Chapels / Patronage / Commissions / Style / Historiography / Iconography / Christian iconography
Illustrations
Attributed works:
8. Altarpiece of the Nativity, by Gaudenzio Ferrari. 1510–11. (Collegiate Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, Arona; exh. Pinacoteca, Varallo).
Attributed works:
9. Lamentation over the Dead Christ, by Gaudenzio Ferrari. c.1535. Panel, 118 by 91.5 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest; exh. Pinacoteca, Varallo).
Article
‘Gerhardt Meyer made me in Stockholm’: a bronze ‘Bathing woman’ after Giambologna
07/2018 | 1384 | 160
Pages: 545-553
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Author:
Diemer, Dorothea (Diemer, Dorothea)
Author:
Hinners, Linda (Hinners, Linda)
Subjects
art literature:
Avery, Charles, Cambridge, Great Britain / Borghini, Raffaello
artists:
Giambologna / Tessin, Nicodemus, the younger, 1654-1728 / Girardon, François / Henrion, Claude / Harleman, Johan
artists:
Meyer, Gerhardt, the Elder / Keller, Jean-Balthazar / Ernst, Johann Conrad
buildings:
Åkerö Castle, Sweden / Ericsberg Castle, Katrineholm, Sweden / Steninge Castle, Märsta, Sweden / Fredensborg Palace, Fredensborg, Denmark
dates:
1650-1699
media:
Sculpture / Marbles / Bronzes / Plaster / Lead / Wood sculpture / Wax models / Stuccowork / Inscriptions / Drawings / Gardens
museums and institutions:
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United States / Fredensborg Palace, Fredensborg, Denmark
patrons:
Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria, 1528-1579 / Francesco I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1541-1587 / Frederick IV, King of Denmark and Norway, 1671-1730 / Gustav II Adolf, King of Sweden, 1611–1632 / Charles XI, King of Sweden, 1660–1697 / Tessin, Carl Gustaf
places:
France / Paris / Sweden / Stockholm
subjects:
Swedish sculpture / Italian sculpture / French sculpture / Casts (sculpture) / Nudes / Bathers / Venus / Provenance / Patronage / Dating / Travel / Study and teaching / Correspondence / Inventories / Damage to works of art / Ornament / Gifts / Fountains / Bells / Cannons (artillery) / Vases / Swedish architecture
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Bathing woman (Venus or Bathsheba), by Giambologna. c.1571–73. Marble, height 105.3 cm. (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; from A. Rudigier, B. Truyols and B. Jestaz: ‘Jean Bologne et les jardins d’Henri IV’, Bulletin monumental 174, 3, 2016).
Attributed works:
11. Church bell, cast by Gerhardt Meyer the Elder. 1696. Bronze. (St Charles’ Church, Tallinn).
Attributed works:
12. Detail of Fig.6, showing the ‘6’ in the date superimposed by the rotated outline of ‘9’.
Attributed works:
13. Detail of Fig.6, showing the ornament on the socle.
Attributed works:
2–5. Details of Fig.6, showing the signature of Gerhardt Meyer the Elder and the date.
Attributed works:
6. Bathing woman, cast by Gerhardt Meyer the Elder. 1697. Bronze, height 103.3 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
7. Fig. 1 from an alternate angle.
Attributed works:
8. Detail of a cannon, cast by Johann Meyer. 1665. Bronze. (Army Museum, Stockholm).
Attributed works:
9 and 10. Details of the inscription on a garden vase, cast by Gerhardt Meyer the Younger. 1725. Bronze. (Private collection, Paris).
Western art unattributed:
14. Detail of stucco ornament in the Palace of Nicodemus Tessin, Stockholm. c.1700. (Photograph County Administrative Board of Stockholm).
Western art unattributed:
15. The bathroom, Ericsberg Castle, Katrineholm, Sweden.
Western art unattributed:
16. Bathing woman. 1697 or later. Lead, height 110 cm. (Ericsberg Castle).
Western art unattributed:
17. Bathing woman. 1697 or later. Plaster, height c.108 cm. (Ericsberg Castle).
Western art unattributed:
18. Detail of Fig.16. (All photographs the authors).
Western art unattributed:
19. Bathing woman. 1697 or later. Lead. (Fredensborg Palace Garden, Denmark; photograph Thomas Rahbeck).
Book Review
Making Magnificence: Architects, Stuccatori and the Eighteenth-Century Interior. By Christine Casey
08/2017 | 1373 | 159
Pages: 642-643
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Reviewer:
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
Subjects
dates:
1700-1799
subjects:
Architects / Architecture / Interiors / Stuccowork / Italian / Swiss
Illustrations
Attributed works:
48. Stairhall ceiling at Lytham Hall, Lancashire, by Giuseppe Cortese. 1757-64
Article
Two drawings by Giovan Battista Ricci da Novara for the decoration of the portico of new St Peter’s
03/2011 | 1296 | 153
Pages: 163-167
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Author:
Bortolozzi, Anna (Bortolozzi, Anna)
Subjects
artists:
Maderno, Carlo / Ricci, Giovanni Battista
buildings:
Basilica di San Pietro, Rome, Italy
dates:
1600-1649
museums and institutions:
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
print:
Ricci, Giovanni Battista
subjects:
Architecture / Architectural drawings / Architectural components / Christian iconography / Iconography / Stuccowork / Reliefs / Ceilings / Collections, Public / Doorways
subjects:
Religious architecture / Churches
Illustrations
Attributed works:
33. Detail of the façade of St Peter’s, Rome, designed by Carlo Maderno. c.1607–12. (Photograph: A. Bortolozzi).
Attributed works:
34. Courtyard of old St Peter’s, Rome, by Domenico Tasselli da Lugo. c.1605. Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Archivio di S. Pietro, ‘Album’ A 64 ter, fol.10. (Photograph: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana).
Attributed works:
35. Design for the stucco ceiling of the portico of St Peter’s, Rome, by Giovan Battista Ricci da Novara. c.1618. Graphite, pen and brown ink, brown and light-blue wash, 20.5 by 43 cm. (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).
Attributed works:
36. Design for the stucco ceiling of the portico of St Peter’s, Rome, by Giovan Battista Ricci da Novara. c.1618. Graphite, pen and brown ink, brown and blue wash, 40.6 by 65.3 cm. (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).
Attributed works:
37. Detail of the central doorway of the portico in Fig.33. (Photograph: A. Bortolozzi).
Attributed works:
38. Interior of the portico of St Peter’s, Rome. Designed by Carlo Maderno. c.1618–20.
Attributed works:
39. Detail of Fig.36.
Western art unattributed:
40. Detail of St Andrew presents St Peter to Christ from the stucco ceiling of the por­tico of St Peter’s, Rome.
Article
When Serpotta is not Serpotta: the stuccos in the church of S. Spirito in Agrigento
06/2005 | 1227 | 147
Pages: 368-375
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Author:
Garstang, Donald (Garstang, Donald)
Subjects
artists:
Serpotta, Giacomo / Serpotta, Giuseppe / Serpotta, Procopio
buildings:
Santo Spirito, Agrigento, Italy
dates:
1660-1719 / 1720-1729
places:
Agrigento / Italy / Sicily
print:
Serpotta, Giacomo
print:
Serpotta, Giuseppe
subjects:
Stuccowork / Sculpture / Religious architecture / Religious art / Reliefs / Architectural components / Italian sculpture / Italian
subjects:
Restoration (process) / Attributions / Attributions, tentative / Attribution
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. View of the nave and chancel of S. Spirito, Agrigento, by stuccatori working in the manner of Giacomo Serpotta, possibly Giuseppe and Procopio Serpotta. After 1709. Stucco.
Attributed works:
10. The Nativity, by a stuccatore working in the manner of Giacomo Serpotta, possibly Giuseppe Serpotta. Early 1700s. Stucco. (Oratorio delle Sorelle Spatafora, Badia Nuova, Palermo).
Attributed works:
11. A pair of standing angels, by Giuseppe Serpotta. After 1701. Stucco. (Oratorio di S. Giuseppe dei Falegnami, Palermo).
Attributed works:
12. Detail of Glory with Sts Benedict and Bernard showing St Bernard, music-making angels and putti, by a stuccatore working in the manner of Giacomo Serpotta, possibly Procopio Serpotta. ?Late 1720s. Stucco. (S. Spirito, Agrigento).
Attributed works:
13. Detail of Glory of St Francis of Assisi, by Giacomo Serpotta. About 1703. Stucco. (Oratorio di S. Lorenzo, Palermo).
Attributed works:
14. Detail with youthful angel, by a stuccatore working in the manner of Giacomo Serpotta, possibly Procopio Serpotta. ?1720s. Stucco. (S. Spirito, Agrigento).
Attributed works:
15. Detail of the Glory with large angels, by a stuccatore working in the manner of Giacomo Serpotta, possibly Procopio Serpotta. c.1710-16. (Church of the Assunta, Palermo).
Attributed works:
16. God the Father, by Giacomo Serpotta. 1724. Stucco. (S. Agostino, Palermo).
Attributed works:
17. Glory of God, by Procopio Serpotta. 1705. Stucco. (Church of the Gesù, called Casa Professa, Palermo).
Attributed works:
18. Fragment from the Glory showing the Father, by Giacomo Serpotta. 1703-04. Stucco. (Formerly Church of the Stimmate, now Oratorio dei Bianchi, Palermo).
Attributed works:
2. Adoration of the shepherds, by a stuccatore working in the manner of Giacomo Serpotta, possibly Giuseppe Serpotta. After 1709. Stucco. (S. Spirito, Agrigento).
Attributed works:
3. Adoration of the Magi, by a stuccatore working in the manner of Giacomo Serpotta, possibly Giuseppe Serpotta. After 1709. Stucco. (S. Spirito, Agrigento).
Attributed works:
4. Presentation in the Temple, by a stuccatore working in the manner of Giacomo Serpotta, possibly Giuseppe Serpotta. After 1709. Stucco. (S. Spirito, Agrigento).
Attributed works:
5. Flight into Egypt, by a stuccatore working in the manner of Giacomo Serpotta, possibly Giuseppe Serpotta. After 1709. Stucco. (S. Spirito, Agrigento).
Attributed works:
6. The meeting of Abigail and David, by Gioacchino Vitagliano from Giacomo Serpotta's model in terracotta. 1706-08. Marble. (Apse of the Gesù, called Casa Professa, Palermo).
Attributed works:
7. The Nativity, by Giacomo Serpotta. 1685-87. Stucco. (Oratorio del SS. Rosario in S. Cita, Palermo).
Attributed works:
8. Detail of The Martyrdom of St Lawrence, by Giacomo Serpotta. 1703. Stucco. (Oratorio di S. Lorenzo, Palermo).
Attributed works:
9. Detail of a capital of the altar of the Madonna del Carmine, by Giacomo and ?Giuseppe Serpotta. 1683-84. Stucco. (Carmine Maggiore, Palermo).
Publication Received
Il Seicento in Valtellina. Pittura e Decorazione in Stucco
02/1994 | 1091 | 136
Pages: 126
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Subjects
dates:
1600-1699
subjects:
Italian sculpture / Italian painting / Stuccowork
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Il Seicento in Valtellina. Pittura e Decorazione in Stucco | author: Coppa, S.
Exhibition Review
Irish Eighteenth-Century Stuccowork. Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland
05/1991 | 1058 | 133
Pages: 335-336
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Reviewer:
Gow, Ian (Gow, Ian)
Subjects
dates:
1990-1999
museums and institutions:
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
places:
Ireland / Dublin
subjects:
Irish sculpture / Stuccowork / Exhibitions / Reviews
Illustrations
Attributed works:
33. Neptune and Ceres, Detail of a Stucco Ceiling by Paolo and Filippo Lafranchini. 1739. (Carton, Co. Kildare).
Attributed works:
34. Faith, Detail of Stucco Ceiling by Berthemelij Cramillion. 1755-58. (Rotunda Hospital Chapel, Dublin).
Attributed works:
35. Ceiling of the Venus Room, by Michael Stapleton. 1786. 1013 by 665 cm. (Belvedere College, Dublin).
Attributed works:
36. Astronomy. Detail from an Engraving after a Ceiling by Pierre Mignard in the Petite Galerie, Versailles.
Short Notice
The Oratorio della Madonna della Consolazione e S. Mercurio in Palermo and the Early Activity of Giacomo Serpotta
06/1988 | 1023 | 130
Pages: 430-432
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Author:
Garstang, Donald (Garstang, Donald)
Subjects
artists:
Serpotta, Giacomo
buildings:
Oratorio di San Mercurio, Palermo, Italy
dates:
1650-1699
places:
Italy / Palermo
subjects:
Italian sculpture / Stuccowork / Early works
Illustrations
Attributed works:
39. Right Wall of the Oratorio del SS. Rosario in S. Cita Palermo. By Giacomo Serpotta.
Attributed works:
40. Left Wall of the Nave of the Oratorio della Madonna della Consolazione e S. Mercurio, Palermo. Here Attributed to Giacomo Serpotta.
Attributed works:
41. Detail of Fig.40 Showing Putto with Cartouche Bearing Date. [Left Wall of the Nave of the Oratorio della Madonna della Consolazione e S. Mercurio, Palermo. Here Attributed to Giacomo Serpotta.]
Attributed works:
44. Putto, by Giacomo Serpotta (S. Agostino, Palermo).
Western art unattributed:
42. Grotesque Figures. (Right Entrance Door in Vestibule, Oratorio della Madonna della Consolazione e S. Mercurio, Palermo).
Western art unattributed:
43. Putti (Oratorio della Madonna della Consolazione e S. Mercurio, Palermo).
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