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An Afro-Portuguese ivory from Ksar es-Seghir, Morocco
09/2021 | 1422 | 163
Pages: 822-824
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Author:
Afonso, Luís Urbano (Afonso, Luís Urbano)
Author:
Gomes, Mário Varela (Gomes, Mário Varela)
Subjects
dates:
Sixteenth-century
media:
Ivories
places:
Morocco / Portugal / Benin / Africa
subjects:
African sculpture / African / Portuguese / Carvings / Ivories / Spoons / Saltcellars / Oliphants / Forks / Pyxes
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
1. Fragments of a Bini-Portuguese spoon or fork. 1525–50. Ivory, length c.7.6 cm. (From C. Redman: Qsar es-Seghir: An Archaeological View of Medieval Life, Orlando 1986, p.130).
Non-western art unattributed:
2. Technical drawing based on Fig.1. (J. Gonçalves).
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Spoon. Bini-Portuguese, 1525–50. Ivory, length 26 cm. (Welt Museum, Vienna).
Non-western art unattributed:
4. Spoon. Bini-Portuguese, 1525–50. Ivory, 22 cm long. (Musée du Quai Branly, Paris).
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)
Book Review
Illuminated Manuscripts in Cambridge. A catalogue of Western book illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part Two, Italy & the Iberian Peninsula, volumes one and two
12/2012 | 1317 | 154
Pages: 847
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Reviewer:
Watson, Rowan (Watson, Rowan)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Great Britain / University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Great Britain
subjects:
Illuminated manuscripts / Manuscripts / European / Medieval / Illuminations / Acquisitions / Books of hours / Psalters / Collections, Public
subjects:
Italian / Spanish / Portuguese
Book Review
A Story in Stones. Portugal’s Influences on Culture and Architecture in the Highlands of Ethiopia 1493–1634
06/2010 | 1287 | 152
Pages: 416-417
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Reviewer:
Gervers, Michael (Gervers, Michael)
Subjects
dates:
1490-1499 / 1500-1599 / 1600-1649
places:
Ethiopia
print:
Ethiopia
subjects:
Cultural history / Ethiopian / Architecture / Influence / Portuguese
subjects:
Architectural history
Reviewed Items
subjects:
A Story in Stones. Portugal’s Influences on Culture and Architecture in the Highlands of Ethiopia 1493–1634 | author: Hespeler-Boultbee, John Jeremy
Book Review
The Arts of Spain, Iberia and Latin America 1450–1700
08/2008 | 1265 | 150
Pages: 550-551
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Reviewer:
Mulcahy, Rosemarie (Mulcahy, Rosemarie)
Subjects
dates:
1450-1599 / 1600-1699
print:
Spanish art
subjects:
Spanish painting / Spanish sculpture / Spanish architecture / Latin American / Paintings / Sculpture / Architecture / Portuguese architecture / Portuguese painting / Portuguese sculpture / Decorative arts / Spanish / Portuguese
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Arts of Spain, Iberia and Latin America 1450–1700 | author: Trusted, Marjorie
Illustrations
Attributed works:
35. Apostle or prophet, by Alonso Berruguete. From the altarpiece formerly in S. Benito, Valladolid. c.1526–31. Painted and gilt-wood. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Publication Received
Nuno Goncalves, Novos documentos, Estudo da pintura portuguesa do Sec. XV
11/1995 | 1112 | 137
Pages: 763
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Reviewer:
Campbell, Lorne (Campbell, Lorne; C., L.)
Subjects
artists:
Gonçalves, Nuno
dates:
1400-1499
places:
Portugal
subjects:
Portuguese / Paintings / Monographs / Documents / Biographies
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Nuno Goncalves, Novos documentos, Estudo da pintura portuguesa do Sec. XV | author: Abrantes, Ana Paula , author: Cruz, António João , author: Markl, Dagoberto , author: Moreira, Rafael , author: Pereira, Fernando António Baptista , author: Pessoa, José , author: Rodrigues, Dalila , author: Seabra Carvalho, José Alberto , author: Vandevivere, Ignace
Exhibition Review
The Portuguese Discoveries. Lisbon
09/1983 | 966 | 125
Pages: 576-579
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Reviewer:
Delaforce, Angela (Delaforce, Angela)
Subjects
dates:
1980-1989
museums and institutions:
Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, Portugal
places:
Portugal / Lisbon
subjects:
Exhibitions / Reviews
subjects:
Portuguese / Travel
Illustrations
Attributed works:
54. Panel from the São Vicente Altar-Piece, by Nuno Gonçalves. Tempera and Oil on Oak, 220 by 128 cm. (Museu de Arte Antiga, Lisbon).
Attributed works:
55. The Elephant Hanno, by Francisco de Holanda, after a Lost Fresco by Raphael. Mss Os Desenhos dos Antigualhas, by Francisco de Holanda, Folio 31v, Escorial). This Drawing Can be Related to that Mentioned on p. 577.
Western art unattributed:
56. and 57. Details from the Cloister, Votive Church of Santa Maria de Belém, Monastery of the Jeronimos, Lisbon).
Book Review
L'Art Portugais [and] O Manuelino
07/1955 | 628 | 97
Pages: 228-229
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Reviewer:
Taylor, R. C. (Taylor, R. C.; Taylor, Rene)
Subjects
dates:
1480-1519
patrons:
Manuel I, King of Portugal, 1469-1521
places:
Portugal
subjects:
Portuguese painting / Portuguese / Patronage
subjects:
Manueline
Reviewed Items
subjects:
L'Art Portugais | author: Santos, Reynaldo dos , author: Santos, Reynaldo dos
subjects:
O Manuelino | author: Santos, Reynaldo dos
Book Review
Vasco Fernandes e os pintores de Viseu do seculo XVI
12/1947 | 537 | 89
Pages: 351
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Reviewer:
Waterhouse, Ellis K. (Waterhouse, Ellis K.; Waterhouse, Ellis Kirkham; Waterhouse, E. K.; W., E. K.; Waterhouse, Ellis)
Subjects
artists:
Fernandes, Vasco
dates:
1500-1599
places:
Portugal / Lisbon
subjects:
Portuguese / Paintings / Monographs
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Vasco Fernandes e os pintores de Viseu do seculo XVI | author: Reis Santos, Luís
Letter
A Gift from the Cook Collection
09/1945 | 510 | 87
Pages: 234
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Author:
Kaines-Smith, S. C. (Kaines-Smith, S. C.)
Subjects
artists:
Fernandes, Vasco
subjects:
Paintings / Portuguese / Conservation
subjects:
Cook collection
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