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Book Review
Cristóbal de Villalpando: Mexican Painter of the Baroque. By Jonathan Brown et al.
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 879-880
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Reviewer:
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
Subjects
artists:
Villalpando, Cristóbal de
dates:
1650-1699 / 1700-1749 / 2010-2019
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States / Palacio de Cultura Banamex, Mexico City, Mexico
places:
United States / New York / Mexico / Mexico City / Puebla (Mexico)
subjects:
Mexican painting / Colonial / Baroque / Altarpieces / Commissions / Christian iconography / Colonialism / Exhibition catalogues
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. Moses and the brazen serpent and the Transfiguration of Jesus, by Cristóbal de Villalpando. 1683. Canvas, 8.65 by 5.50 m. (Cathedral of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, Puebla; courtesy Dirección General de Sitios y Monumentos del Patrimonio Cultural).
Book Review
The Art of Painting in Colonial Bolivia / El arte de la pintura en Bolivia colonial. Edited by Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt
04/2018 | 1381 | 160
Pages: 351
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Reviewer:
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
Subjects
dates:
1600-1699 / 1700-1799 / 1800-1849
media:
Paintings
places:
Bolivia
subjects:
Latin American / Colonial / Iconography / Religious art / Religious ceremonies
Exhibition Review
Post-War art. Munich
04/2017 | 1369 | 159
Pages: 339-341
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Reviewer:
Lewison, Jeremy (Lewison, Jeremy)
Subjects
artists:
Beuys, Joseph / Moore, Henry Spencer, 1898-1986 / Auerbach, Frank / Hesse, Eva / Krasner, Lee / Kossoff, Leon / Lassnig, Maria / Schneemann, Carolee / Vedova, Emilio / Rauschenberg, Robert / Pollock, Jackson / Mitchell, Joan
artists:
Ono, Yoko / Uecker, Günther / Johns, Jasper / Neel, Alice / Rivers, Larry / Warhol, Andy / Andre, Carl / Kelly, Ellsworth / Reinhardt, Ad / Albers, Josef / Pasmore, Victor / Martin, Kenneth / Martin, Mary / Twombly, Cy
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
places:
Munich / Germany
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
subjects:
Politics / Philosophy / Modernism
subjects:
Abstract art / Minimalism / Colonial
Illustrations
Attributed works:
79. Berlin '64, by Emilio Vedova. 1964 (Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, Venice; exh. Haus der Kunst, Munich)
Attributed works:
80. Self-portrait of Suffering, by Ibraham El-Salahi. 1961 (Iwalewahaus, Universität Bayreuth; exh. Haus der Kunst, Munich)
Attributed works:
81. Installation view of the 'Concrete Visions' section of Postwar: Art between the Pacific and the Atlantic at the Haus der Kunst, Munich)
Book Review
The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo, by Cécile Fromont
09/2016 | 1362 | 158
Pages: 743
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Reviewer:
Picton, John (Picton, John)
Subjects
places:
Congo / Gabon
places:
Africa / Angola
subjects:
Visual culture / Christian iconography / African / Colonial / Portuguese
Illustrations
Attributed works:
41. Portrait of a Kongo Ambassador to Recife, Brazil, by Albert Eckhout. c.1637-44 (Libri Picturati A 34, fol.1; Jagiellonian Library, Kraków)
Exhibition Review
Artist and Empire. London
05/2016 | 1358 | 158
Pages: 383–85
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Reviewer:
Treuherz, Julian (Treuherz, Julian)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
National Gallery Singapore, Singapore, Singapore / Tate Britain, London, Great Britain
places:
England / London / Singapore
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / History / British / Art history / Colonial
Illustrations
Attributed works:
51. The remnants of an army: Jellalabad, January 13th, 1842, by Elizabeth Butler. 1879 (Tate Britain, London)
Attributed works:
52. A Cheetah and a Stag with Two Indian Attendants, by George Stubbs. 1765 (Manchester Art Gallery; exh. Tate Britain, London)
Non-western art unattributed:
50. Figure of Queen Victoria, by a Yoruba artist, Nigeria, c.1898 (Collection of Michael Graham-Stewart; exh. Tate Britain, London)
Book Review
Vanishing Paradise: Art and Exoticism in Colonial Tahiti, E.C. Childs
04/2015 | 1345 | 157
Pages: 273
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Reviewer:
Thomson, Belinda (Thomson, Belinda)
Subjects
art literature:
Adams, Henry, 1838-1918
artists:
Gauguin, Paul
artists:
La Farge, John
artists:
Spitz, Charles
places:
Tahiti
subjects:
Colonial / Anthropology / Photographs / French painting
subjects:
Culture
Illustrations
Attributed works:
45. Tahiti, late nineteenth century. Photograph by Charles Georges Spitz
Article
Two German sculptors who transformed the arts of colonial Chile: Johannes Bitterich and Jacob Kelner
11/2014 | 1340 | 156
Pages: 741-745
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Author:
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
Author:
Guzmán, Fernando (Guzmán, Fernando)
Subjects
artists:
Bitterich, Johannes / Kelner, Jakob
dates:
1710-1719 / 1720-1729 / 1730-1739 / 1740-1749 / 1750-1759 / 1760-1769
places:
South America / Chile
subjects:
German sculpture / Wood sculpture / Polychromy / Religious art / Churches / Influence
subjects:
Germanic / Central European / Colonial
subjects:
Composition (artistic arrangement) / Physiognomy
subjects:
Saints / Commissions / Jesuits
Illustrations
Attributed works:
21. St Anne, here attributed to Johannes Bitterich (Museo del Carmen de Maipú)
Attributed works:
22. St Joaquim, here attributed to Johannes Bitterich (Sacristy, Santiago Cathedral)
Attributed works:
23. Detail of Fig.21
Attributed works:
24. Detail of Fig.22
Attributed works:
25. Detail of Fig.26
Attributed works:
26. Dying St Francis Xavier, here attributed to Jacob Kelner (Cathedral, Santiago)
Attributed works:
27. St Francis Xavier, by Johannes Bitterich (Martinskirche, Bamberg)
Attributed works:
28. St Ignatius of Loyola (detail), by Johannes Bitterich (Martinskirche, Bamberg)
Attributed works:
29. St Cunigunde, by Johannes Bitterich (Chapel, Schloss Weissenstein, Pommersfelden)
Attributed works:
30. St John Nepomuk, circle of Matthias Bernhard Braun (National Gallery, Prague)
Attributed works:
31. St Martin of Tours, by Johannes Bitterich (Chapel, Schloss Weissenstein, Pommersfelden)
Attributed works:
32. Virgin of Sorrows, by Johann Georg Pinsel (Former church of the Poor Clares, Lvov)
Attributed works:
33. St John Nepomuk, by Antoni Osinski (Bernardine Church, Lvov)
Book Review
Under the Banyan Tree: Relocating the Picturesque in British India, R. Ray
05/2014 | 1334 | 156
Pages: 319-320
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Reviewer:
Willcock, Sean (Willcock, Sean)
Subjects
dates:
1700-1899
places:
India
subjects:
Picturesque, the / British painting / Anglo-Indian School / Anglo-Indian / Colonial / Landscapes (visual works)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
28. Maharaja Dalip Singh, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Royal Collection, Windsor)
Article
The Rococo altarpiece of St Ignatius: Chile’s grandest colonial retable rediscovered
12/2013 | 1329 | 155
Pages: 815-820
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Author:
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
Author:
Guzmán, Fernando (Guzmán, Fernando)
Subjects
artists:
Colegio Máximo, Santiago, Chile / Workshops (Organisations) / Jesuits
buildings:
San Juan Evangelista, Santiago, Chile
dates:
1740-1749 / 1750-1779
places:
Santiago / Chile
subjects:
German architecture / German sculpture / Altarpieces / Retables / Rococo / Central European / Colonial / Visual sources
subjects:
Ignatius of Loyola, Saint
subjects:
Influence
subjects:
Formal analysis
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. High altar, by Johann Joachim Dietrich (Abbey Church, Diessen)
Attributed works:
11. Detail of Fig. 8
Attributed works:
12. Detail of Fig. 8
Attributed works:
13. Detail of the altarpiece from the Colegio de San Borja, by the Jesuit atelier at the Colegio Máximo, Santiago (Museo de San Francisco, Santiago)
Attributed works:
14. St Ignatius of Loyola, by the Jesuit atelier at the Colegio Máximo, Santiago (Museo del Carmen de Maipú)
Attributed works:
15. Altar of the church of St-Jean-en-Grève, Paris, by Jacques-François Blondel. Designed 1720-21. Engraving from J. Barozzio de Vignole: Livre Nouveau ou Regles des cinq ordres d'Architecture, Paris 1767. (Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris)
Attributed works:
16. Model altarpiece from series 80, by Franz Xaver Habermann, published by Georg Hertel (Kunstsammlungen und Museen, Augsburg)
Attributed works:
17. Altar of the Virgin Immaculate, by the Jesuit atelier at the Colegio Máximo, Santiago. (From the oratory of the Larraín Rojas family of Santiago; altarpiece destroyed 2010)
Attributed works:
18. Detail of Fig. 8
Attributed works:
19. Rocaille, from series 111, by Franz Xaver Habermann, published by Georg Hertel. (Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich)
Attributed works:
8. Former altar of St Ignatius, by the Jesuit atelier at the Colegio Máximo, Santiago (Church of San Juan Evangelista, Santago; photograph by Nicolás Aguayo)
Attributed works:
9. Former side altarpiece from the church of San Miguel, Santiago, by the Jesuit atelier at the Colegio Máximo, Santiago (Cathedral Museum, Santiago)
Book Review
Imperial Gothic. Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in the British Empire, c.1840–1870, G.A. Bremner
11/2013 | 1328 | 155
Pages: 781-782
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Reviewer:
Herrick, Francesca (Herrick, Francesca)
Subjects
dates:
1840-1859 / 1860-1869
subjects:
Gothic Revival / Religious architecture / British architecture / Colonial / Churches / Cathedrals
Illustrations
Attributed works:
32. St Barnabas's Church, Petteson Memorial Chapel, Norfolk Island, New Zealand, by T.G. Jackson
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