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Exhibition Review
Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece. British Museum, London
07/2018 | 1384 | 160
Pages: 578-580
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Reviewer:
Thomson, Richard (Thomson, Richard)
Subjects
art literature:
Graf Kessler, Harry
artists:
Rodin, Auguste
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Sculpture / Reliefs
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain / Musée Rodin, Paris, France
places:
Great Britain / London / France / Paris
subjects:
French sculpture / Greek (ancient) sculpture / Greek (ancient) architecture / Greek iconography / Greek (ancient) / Neo-classicism / Antiquities / Parthenon, Athens, Greece / Exposition universelle internationale de Paris (1900) / Collecting / Restoration (process) / Friezes / Ornament / Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
works:
Elgin Marbles (British Museum, London) / The Gates of Hell (Musée Rodin, Paris)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Ancient scene, by Auguste Rodin. Before 1870. Canvas, 81.2 by 126 cm. (Musée Rodin, Paris; exh. British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
2. Pallas (Athena) with the Parthenon, by Auguste Rodin. 1896. Marble and plaster, 47 by 38.7 by 31 cm. (Musée Rodin, Paris; exh. British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
3. The kiss, large version, by Auguste Rodin. 1888–98. Plaster, cast from marble after 1898, 184 by 112 by 110 cm. (Musée Rodin, Paris; exh. British Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
4. Goddesses in diaphanous drapery, Figures L and M from the East Pediment of the Parthenon. c.438–32 BC. Marble, 123 by 233 by 98 cm. (British Museum, London).
Book Review
Cultures in Contact – From Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean in the Second millennium B.C., J. Aruz, S.B. Graff and Y. Rakic, eds.
06/2015 | 1347 | 157
Pages: 415
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Reviewer:
Collon, Dominique (Collon, Dominique)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
subjects:
Conferences / Archaeology / Excavations / Essays / Art objects / Art / Art history / Mesopotamian / Mediterranean / Turkish / Greek (ancient) / Assyrian / Syrian / Egyptian / Babylonian / Iranian / Afghan
Book Review
The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence
06/2012 | 1311 | 154
Pages: 424
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Reviewer:
McGrath, Elizabeth (McGrath, Elizabeth; McG., E.)
Subjects
art literature:
Lucretius
dates:
1400-1599
places:
Florence
print:
Lucretius
subjects:
Poetry / Philosophers / Philosophy / Roman (ancient) / Antiquity / Greek (ancient)
subjects:
Humanism / Renaissance
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence | author: Brown, Alison
Exhibition Review
Treasures from Macedon. Oxford
08/2011 | 1301 | 153
Pages: 554-555
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Reviewer:
Elsner, Jas (Elsner, Jas)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019 / 0499-0400 BC / 0399-0300 BC
museums and institutions:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain
places:
Oxford / England
print:
Macedonian
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Macedonian School / Macedonian / Greek (ancient) / Greek (ancient) art / Gold / Hellenistic / Antiquities / Classical / Sculpture / Greek (ancient) sculpture / Ceramics / Funerary art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Heracles to Alexander the Great: Treasures from the Royal Capital of Macedon, a Hellenic Kingdom in the Age of Democracy | institution: Ashmolean Museum
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
31. Lekythoi (oil containers). Athenian, c.430–20 BC. White ground on clay, dimensions variable (tallest, approx. 50 cm. high). (Museum of the Royal Tombs of Aegae, Vergina; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Western art unattributed:
32. Oak-leaf and acorn wreath. Aegae, c.310 BC. Gold, diameter 16.5 cm. (Museum of the Royal Tombs of Aegae, Vergina; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Western art unattributed:
33. Clay bust. Aegae, c.480 BC. Clay, approx. 30 cm. high. (Museum of the Royal Tombs of Aegae, Vergina; exh. Ashmolean Mus­eum, Oxford).
Article
A manuscript of the works of Archimedes in the hand of Piero della Francesca
03/2005 | 1224 | 147
Pages: 165-169
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Author:
Banker, James R. (Banker, James R.)
Subjects
artists:
Piero della Francesca
dates:
1450-1469
museums and institutions:
Biblioteca Riccardiana, Florence, Italy
print:
Piero della Francesca
subjects:
Manuscripts / Illuminated manuscripts / Copies / Mathematics / Geometry / Greek (ancient) / Italian / Science
subjects:
Collections, Public
Illustrations
Attributed works:
22. Piero della Francesca: Trattato d'abaco. Autograph manuscript. ?1450s. 21.5 by 14 cm (Biblioteca Laurenziana, Florence; MS Ashburnham 359*, fol.3r)
Attributed works:
23. Archimedes: Opera, written by Piero della Francesca. ?1459-70. 28.5 by 21.5 cm. (Biblioteca Riccardiana, Florence; MS Ricc.Lat.106, fol.1r).
Book Review
The Votive Statues of the Athenian Acropolis.
12/2004 | 1221 | 146
Pages: 829
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Reviewer:
Platt, Verity (Platt, Verity)
Subjects
print:
Classicism
subjects:
Archaeology / Greek (ancient) / Classicism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Ancient Art and its Historiography. | editor: Donohue, A.A. , editor: Fullerton, Mark D.
subjects:
The Parallel Worlds of Classical Art and Text. | author: Small, Jocelyn Penny
subjects:
The Votive Statues of the Athenian Acropolis. | author: Keesling, Catherine M.
Book Review
The Pleasures of Antiquity: British Collectors of Greece and Rome
10/2003 | 1207 | 145
Pages: 725
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Reviewer:
Sweetman, John (Sweetman, John; Sweetman, J. E.)
Subjects
subjects:
Greek (ancient) / Roman (ancient) / Collecting
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Pleasures of Antiquity: British Collectors of Greece and Rome | author: Scott, Jonathan
Book Review
Catalogue of cycladic antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum: the captive spirit
05/2002 | 1190 | 144
Pages: 294
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Reviewer:
Warren, Peter (Warren, Peter)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain
places:
Greece / England / Oxford
subjects:
Art museums / Archaeology / Antiquities / Catalogues / Greek (ancient)
subjects:
Cycladic
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Catalogue of Cycladic Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum. The Captive Spirit | author: Sherratt, Susan
Article
Braque's Etchings for Hesiod's 'Theogony' and Archaic Greece Revived
04/2000 | 1165 | 142
Pages: 204-214
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Author:
Bowness, Sophie (Bowness, Sophie)
Subjects
artists:
Braque, Georges
dates:
1930-1939
places:
France
subjects:
French painting / Visual sources
subjects:
Hesiod
subjects:
Greek (ancient)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Braque in the Louvre at Work on One of the Two Medallions Which Flank the Central Panel of His Ceiling for the Etruscan Room (Salle Henri II). 1953. Photograph from Le Point, October 1953.
Attributed works:
10. Fragment de vase gravé et peint, by Georges Braque. 1939. Engraved and Painted Plaster, 13 by 20 cm. (Private Collection).
Attributed works:
11. Installation Photograph of the 1935 Exhibition Les Arts Dits Primitifs dans la Maison d'Aujourd'hui, Showing Le Corbusier's Studio at the Rue Nungesser-et-Coli, Paris, with a Polychromed Cast of Moschophoros Sculpture and a Tapestry Version of Fernand Léger's Composition aux trois Figures. From Le Corbusier. L'atelier de la recherche patiente, Paris [1960].
Attributed works:
12. Sketchbook Drawing E 28 with Still Lifes, by Georges Braque. Pencil on Paper, 35 by 44 cm. (Archives Laurens).
Attributed works:
13. Sketchbook Drawing E 36 with Still Lifes, by Georges Braque. Pencil on Paper, 35 by 44 cm. (Archives Laurens).
Attributed works:
14. Braque's Studio with a Lost Atelier Painting of c.1938-39. Photograph by Mariette Lachaud c.1939 (Archives Laurens).
Attributed works:
15. Braque's Studio with Le Peintre et son modèle, 1939. Photograph by Mariette Lachaud c.1939 (Archives Laurens).
Attributed works:
2. Hésiode et la Muse, by Georges Braque. 1932. Etching with Remarques for the Théogonie, 36.6 by 29.8 cm.
Attributed works:
3. Sketchbook Drawing B 63 Related to the Théogonie, by Georges Braque. Pencil on Paper, 34.5 by 21.5 cm. (Archives Laurens).
Attributed works:
4. Sketchbook Drawing E 9 with a Sketch of Bathers (Below), by Georges Braque. Pencil on Paper, 44 by 35 cm. (Archives Laurens).
Attributed works:
5. Sketchbook Drawing F 18 with a Beach Scene and Still Lifes, by Georges Braque. Pencil on Paper, 34.5 by 43 cm. (Archives Laurens).
Attributed works:
6. Sketchbook Drawing D 63 with Still Lifes and Bathers, by Georges Braque. Pencil on Paper, 34.5 by 43 cm. (Archives Laurens).
Attributed works:
7. Sketchbook Drawing A 81 with Cavorting Bathers and Figures Related to the Théogonie Combined, by Georges Braque. Pencil on Paper, 34.5 by 43 cm. (Archives Laurens).
Attributed works:
8. Gaia, by Georges Braque. Etching with Remarques for Hesiod's Théogonie, 37.6 by 29.9 cm. (Archives Laurens).
Western art unattributed:
9. Orientalising Style Boeotian Bird Bowl, Mid-6th Century B. C. Painted Clay, 23.2 by 29.5 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Book Review
Classical Art and the Cultures of Greece and Rome
01/2000 | 1162 | 142
Pages: 40
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Reviewer:
Brilliant, Richard (Brilliant, Richard)
Subjects
subjects:
Classicism / Greek (ancient) / Roman (ancient)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Classical Art and the Cultures of Greece and Rome | author: Onians, John
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