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Exhibition Review
Medieval Women: In Their Own Words
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 270–73
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Reviewer:
Antille, Diane (Antille, Diane)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
British Library, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Medieval / Social history / Visual culture / Women / Literature / Illuminated manuscripts / Documents
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Medieval Women: In Their Own Words British Library, London 25th October 2024–2nd March 2025 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Building the City of Ladies, from Livre de la Cité des Dames, by Christine de Pizan. 1410–c.1414. Ink and pigment on parchment, 36.5 by 28.5 cm. (British Library, London, Harley MS 4431/2, f.290r).
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8. Birthing girdle. England, early 15th century. Ink and pigment on two pieces of parchment stitched together, 122 by 8.5 cm. (British Library, London, Harley Roll T.11).
Attributed works:
9. Bas-de-page illustration of women bringing in the harvest, from the Luttrell Psalter. Lincolnshire, 1325–40. Ink and pigment on parchment, 35 by 24.5 cm. (British Library, London, Add MS 42130, f.172v).
Book Review
Roma medievale: Il volto perduto della città
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 290–91
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Reviewer:
Doherty, Hugh (Doherty, Hugh)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
museums and institutions:
Museo di Roma, Rome, Italy
places:
Rome
subjects:
Medieval / Pilgrimages / Churches / Cities / Cityscapes
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Roma medievale: Il volto perduto della città Edited by Marina Righetti and Anna Maria D’Achille. 300 pp. incl. 310 col. ills. (De Luca Editori d’Arte, Rome, 2022), €48. ISBN 978–88–6557–531–4. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. Detail of Fig.3.
Attributed works:
of the 13th century. Silk embroidered with gold thread, 140 by 325 cm. (Museo della Cattedrale, Anagni).
Western art unattributed:
1. Pilgrim. France, probably Limoges, 13th century. Embossed and gilded copper, 13.7 by 6 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Book Review
Genealogy and the Politics of Representation in the High and Late Middle Ages
08/2023 | 1445 | 165
Pages: 916-918
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Reviewer:
Opacic, Zoë (Opacic, Zoë)
Subjects
patrons:
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1459-1519 / Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814 / Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, 1316-1378
subjects:
Genealogy / Royalty / Emperors / Medieval / Medieval architecture / Scrolls (Rolls)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Genealogy and the Politics of Representation in the High and Late Middle Ages By Joan A. Holladay. 406 pp. incl. 11 col. + 143 b. & w. ills. (Cambridge University Press, 2019), $135. ISBN 978–1–108–47018–6. | :
Book Review
Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts: The Phenomenal Book
10/2022 | 1435 | 164
Pages: 1046
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Reviewer:
Van Haaren, Suzette (Van Haaren, Suzette)
Subjects
subjects:
Medieval / Illuminated manuscripts / Manuscripts
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Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts: The Phenomenal Book By Elaine Treharne. 272 pp. incl. 29 b. & w. ills. (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2021), £30. ISBN 978–0–19–284381–4. | :
Book Review
Treasury, Memory, Nature: Church Objects in the Middle Ages
02/2022 | 1427 | 164
Pages: 213-214
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Reviewer:
Nickson, Tom (Nickson, Tom)
Subjects
subjects:
Medieval / Relics / Art objects / Liturgy / Churches / Cathedrals
subjects:
Reliquaries
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Treasury, Memory, Nature: Church Objects in the Middle Ages By Philippe Cordez. 284 pp. incl. 75 col. ills. (Harvey Miller, London and Turnhout, 2020), £76.50. ISBN 978–1–912554–61–4. | :
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Western art unattributed:
2. Ostrich egg reliquary. Probably second half of the 13th century. Gilt silver, precious stones, enamel and ostrich egg, height 33.5 cm. (Domschatz Halberstadt; © Landesamt für Demkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen- Anhalt; photograph Juraj Lipták).
Book Review
Mobilier du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance: La collection du musée du Louvre
01/2021 | 1414 | 163
Pages: 84-85
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Reviewer:
Jervis, Simon (Jervis, Simon; J., S.; J., S. S.)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
styles:
Medieval / Renaissance
subjects:
Furniture studies (discipline) / Furniture / Collections, Public / Collecting
subjects:
French (people)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Mobilier du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance: La collection du musée du Louvre By Agnès Bos. 456 pp. incl. 536 col. + 46 b. & w. ills. (Musée du Louvre and Somogy Editions d’art, Paris, 2019), €59. ISBN 978–2–7572–1453–4. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. Armoire, possibly by Hugues Sambin. 1590– 1600. Walnut, 190.5 by 160 by 55 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; photograph Philippe Fuzeau).
Exhibition Review
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa
07/2020 | 1408 | 162
Pages: 606-609
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Reviewer:
Rosser-Owen, Mariam (Rosser-Owen, Mariam)
Subjects
media:
Gold / Glassware / Metalwork / Ceramics
museums and institutions:
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, United States
styles:
Arabian / North African
subjects:
East-West trade / Merchants / Africans / Medieval / Umayyad / Fatimid
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington 8th April–29th November | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Detail from the Atlas of Maritime Charts (Catalan Atlas) showing Mansā Mūsā, by Abraham Cresques. 1375. Parchment. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, MS Espagnol 30; exh. Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington).
Non-western art unattributed:
7. Seated figure. c.1300. Copper with traces of arsenic, lead and tin, height 54 cm. (Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Abuja, Nigeria; exh. Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington).
Western art unattributed:
5. Glazed ceramic jar inscribed ‘albaraka’ (‘blessing’), produced at Murcia or Almeria. 1150–1200. (Musée archéologique de Rabat, Morocco; photograph Moroccan- American Project, Sijilmasa, 1988; exh. Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington).
Western art unattributed:
8. Jug with royal arms of England. English, c.1390– 99. Copper alloy, height 62.3 cm. (British Museum, London, England; exh. Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington).
Book Review
Die erneuernde Kraft der Tradition: Spätmittelalterliche Schatz- und Ausstattungsobjekte des Halberstädter Doms. By Patricia Strohmaier
02/2020 | 1403 | 162
Pages: 165-166
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Westermann-Angerhausen, Hiltrud (Westermann-Angerhausen, Hiltrud; Angerhausen, Hiltrud Westermann-)
Subjects
buildings:
Dom Sankt Stephan, Halberstadt, Germany
dates:
1200-1499
subjects:
Relics / Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814 / Bishops / Medieval / Reliquaries / Altars / Textiles / Rood screens / Crucifixes
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Die erneuernde Kraft der Tradition: Spätmittelalterliche Schatz- und Ausstattungsobjekte des Halberstädter Doms By Patricia Strohmaier. 192 pp. incl. 57 col. + 43 b. & w. ills. (Deutscher Verlag für Kunstgeschichte, Berlin, 2019), £80. ISBN 978–3–87157–250–0. | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
2. Skull-reliquary of Charlemagne, known as the Karlspokal. Cut-glass cup, 9th–10th century, silver-gilt mounting with niello and enamel, including a miniature bust of Charlemagne, c.1343. Overall height 42.9 cm. (Halberstadt Cathedral Treasury).
Exhibition Review
Embroidery in the Middle Ages. Musée de Cluny, Paris
01/2020 | 1402 | 162
Pages: 54-57
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Reviewer:
Michael, M. A. (Michael, M. A.)
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collectors and dealers:
Bock, Franz
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Embroidery
museums and institutions:
Musée de Cluny (Musée National du Moyen Âge), Paris, France
places:
France / England / Germany / Flanders
styles:
Medieval / Renaissance
styles:
Opus Anglicanum (English Medieval Needlework)
subjects:
Religious art / Textiles
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Embroidery in the Middle Ages Musée de Cluny, Paris 24th October 2019–20th January | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Miraculous healing at the tomb of St Martin from the Life of St Martin, designed by Barthélémy d’Eyck and embroidered by Pierre du Billant. c.1440–50. Linen, polychrome silk thread wrapped with gold and silver, 17.5 by 15 cm. (Musée de Cluny, Paris; © RMNGrand Palais; photograph Thierry Ollivier).
Western art unattributed:
4. Fragment of an antependium or wall-hanging showing Apostles. Linen, embroidery and polychrome silk, 83 by 59 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; exh. Musée de Cluny, Paris).
Western art unattributed:
6. Virgin and child clothed in the sun with the moon at her feet. Germany (?), c.1500. Canvas, silk thread, gold- and silverwrapped thread, pearls, metal and glass appliqués, 68 by 47 by 2 cm. Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels; exh. Musée de Cluny, Paris).
Book Review
Fifty English Steeples: The Finest Medieval Parish Church Towers and Spires in England. By Julian Flannery
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 166
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Reviewer:
Cameron, James Alexander (Cameron, James Alexander)
Subjects
art literature:
Harvey, John H. / Pevsner, Nikolaus / Gem, Richard, Haddenham, Great Britain / Goodall, John A. A. / Sekules, Veronica
dates:
0500-0599 / 0600-0699 / 0700-0799 / 0800-0899 / 0900-0999 / 1000-1099 / 1100-1199 / 1200-1299 / 1300-1399 / 1400-1499
media:
Architecture / Architectural drawings / Architectural components
places:
Great Britain
subjects:
Churches / Parish churches / Towers / Spires / Steeples / Architects / Architectural historians / Architectural history / Bibliographies / Patronage / Early medieval / Late medieval / Medieval
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