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Book Review
Life and Afterlife in Ancient China
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 301–2
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Steinhardt, Nancy S. (Steinhardt, Nancy S.)
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Life and Afterlife in Ancient China By Jessica Rawson. 506 pp. incl. 37 col. + 135 b. & w. ills. (Allen Lane, London, 2023), £40. ISBN 978–0–241–47270–5. | :
Exhibition Review
The Legacy of Vesuvius: Bourbon Discoveries on the Bay of Naples
12/2024 | 1461 | 166
Pages: 1251–3
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Baxter, Denise Amy (Baxter, Denise Amy)
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The Legacy of Vesuvius: Bourbon Discoveries on the Bay of Naples Meadows Museum, Dallas 15th September 2024–5th January 2025 | :
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16. Plate with dancing maenad, Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea di Napoli. 1780–82. Polychromed porcelain, diameter 24.5 cm. (Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples; exh. Meadows Museum, Dallas).
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17. Fan design with views of Mount Vesuvius and the Tomb of Virgil, probably from the workshop of Giorgio Glass. c.1790–1800. Opaque watercolour on vellum, 30.5 by 50.8 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, exh; Meadows Museum, Dallas).
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18. Wall painting fragments with dancing maenads from the Villa of Cicero, Pompeii. 1st quarter of the 1st century CE. Pigment on plaster, 27 by 71.2 cm. (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli; exh. Meadows Museum, Dallas).
Book Review
Antiquities in Motion: From Excavation Sites to Renaissance Collections
08/2021 | 1421 | 163
Pages: 764-765
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Aymonino, Adriano (Aymonino, Adriano)
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Antiquities in Motion: From Excavation Sites to Renaissance Collections By Barbara Furlotti. 292 pp. incl. 140 col. + 7 b. & w. ills. (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2019), £60. ISBN 978–1–60606–591–4. | :
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2. Finding the Sibylline books and the tomb of Numa Pompilius, by workshop of Giulio Romano with Polidoro Caldara da Caravaggio. c.1524–25. Detached fresco, 98 by 209 cm. (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome).
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The 1584 purchase contract for the Medici group of Niobe sculptures
01/2020 | 1402 | 162
Pages: 26-31
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Nicolai, Fausto (Nicolai, Fausto)
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1. The Niobid Room in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. (Courtesy Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi).
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2. Fleeing Niobid. Roman copy of a Greek original of the second half of the fourth century BC. Pentelic marble, height 228 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; courtesy Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi).
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3. Niobe and her youngest daughter. Roman copy of a Greek original of the second half of the fourth century BC. Pentelic marble, height 228 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
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4. The Niobids’ tutor, by Giovan Battista de’ Cavalieri. Engraving, 27 by 21.3 cm. (From G.B. De’ Cavalieri: Antiquarum Statuarum Urbis Romae, Rome 1594, pl.10).
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5. The Niobids’ tutor (‘Amphion’). Roman. Pentelic marble, height 181 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; courtesy Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi).
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An unfinished mid-thirteenth-century ‘Virgin and Child’ from Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris
11/2019 | 1400 | 161
Pages: 896-903
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Dectot, Xavier (Dectot, Xavier)
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1. Virgin and Child. Here dated 1245–47. Limestone, 150 by 73 by 40 cm. (Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris; Photo Jennifer Vatelot).
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10. St John from the upper chapel of the Sainte-Chapelle, Paris. 1239–48. Photograph taken before conservation. (Musée de Cluny, Paris, © RMN-Grand Palais; photograph Jean-Gilles Berizzi).
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11. Virgin and Child ('Gilded Virgin') from the south transept portal of Amiens Cathedral. c.1250. Limestone, height 230 cm. (Centre des Monuments Nationaux; photograph Philippe Berthé).
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12. Virgin and Child from the north transept portal of Notre-Dame, Paris. Before 1258. Limestone, height 200 cm. (Centre des Monuments Nationaux; photograph Pascal Lemaître).
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2. Detail of Fig.1, showing the line of fracture. (Photograph Jennifer Vatelot).
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3. Detail of Fig.1, showing the use of fine, flat chisels on the righthand side of the Virgin's veil. (Photograph Jennifer Vatelot).
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4. Detail of Fig.1, showing the use of a flat chisel. (Photograph Jennifer Vatelot).
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5. Detail of Fig.1, showing the use of a large tooth chisel. (Photograph Jennifer Vatelot).
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6. Demolition of the Lady Chapel of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris. c.1802. Pen and ink and watercolour and gouache, 9.4 by 16.2 cm. (Bibliothèque national de France, Paris, Destailleur 310).
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7. Plan of the church and monastery of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The Lady Chapel is north-east of the church. 1764. Pen and ink and watercolour, 72 by 58.3 cm. (Bibliothèque national de France, Paris, Destailleur Paris, t.2,306).
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8. Portal of the Lady Chapel of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris. c.1245– 47. Limestone, 630 by 530 cm. (Musée de Cluny, Paris; © RMN-Grand Palais; photograph Gérard Blot).
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9. Childebert from the trumeau of the portal of the refectory of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris. c.1240. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; © RMN-Grand Palais; photograph Tony Querrec).
Exhibition Review
Buried by Vesuvius: The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
10/2019 | 1399 | 161
Pages: 855-858
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Crowley, Patrick (Crowley, Patrick)
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5. Installation view of Buried by Vesuvius: The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2019, showing the Runners (courtesy J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
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6. Detail of a tripod leg, showing cupids making offerings to a herm. First century BC/AD. Ash wood and ivory. (Parco Archeologico di Ercolano; exh. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
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7. Papyrus unrolling machine, Italian. c.1756, manufactured 1800s. Wood, glass and brass, 155.6 by 102 by 50 cm. (closed) (Biblioteca Nazionale ‘Vittorio Emanuele III’, Naples; exh. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
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8. Fresco with window, branch, fillet and painted plaque, Roman. c.40–30 BC. 191.5 by 88.3 cm. (reconstructed) (Parco Archeologico di Ercolano; exh. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
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
Book Review
The Infinite Image. Art, Time and the Aesthetic Dimension in Antiquity, Z. Bahrani
05/2015 | 1346 | 157
Pages: 348
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Collon, Dominique (Collon, Dominique)
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