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Book Review
Gustave Moreau: Le Moyen Âge Retrouvé
08/2024 | 1457 | 166
Pages: 874–5
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Reviewer:
Cooke, Peter (Cooke, Peter)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
artists:
Moreau, Gustave
museums and institutions:
Musée National Gustave Moreau, Paris, France
subjects:
French art / French medieval art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Gustave Moreau: Le Moyen Âge Retrouvé By Lilie Fauriac, Marie-Cécile Forest and Emmanuelle Macé, with contributions by Charlotte Denoël, Maxence Hermant and Isabelle Saint-Martin. 256 pp. incl. 202 col. ills. (Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris, and Éditions El Viso, Paris, 2023), €39. ISBN 978–84–12–67461–3. | :
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Attributed works:
14. Ange voyageur, by Gustave Moreau. Watercolour on vellum, 31 by 24 cm. (Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris).
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15. St Cecilia, by Gustave Moreau. Watercolour on vellum, 69.5 by 41 cm. (Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris).
Exhibition Review
Joris-Karl Huysmans: De Degas à Grünewald
08/2020 | 1409 | 162
Pages: 705-708
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Reviewer:
Ward-Jackson, Philip (Ward-Jackson, Philip; Ward-Jackson, Phillip; Jackson, Philip Ward; Ward-Jackon, Philip)
Subjects
art literature:
Huysmans, J. K. / Exhibition catalogues
artists:
Moreau, Gustave / Caillebotte, Gustave / Degas, Edgar / Pelez, Fernand / Bouguereau, William-Adolphe
museums and institutions:
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France / Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, France
subjects:
Art criticism / Writings / French art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Joris-Karl Huysmans: De Degas à Grünewald Edited by Stéphane Guégan and André Guyaux. 228 pp. incl. 91 col. + 12 b. & w. ills. (Musée d’Orsay and Gallimard, Paris, 2019), £45. ISBN 978–2–07–286560–2. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
16. Galatea, by Gustave Moreau. c.1880. Oil on panel, 85.5 by 66 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris; courtesy Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg).
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17. Death of Emperor Commodus, by Fernand Pelez. 1879. Oil on canvas, 58 by 37.5 cm. (Petit Palais, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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18. Parquet scrapers, by Gustave Caillebotte. 1875. Oil on canvas, 102 by 147 cm. (Musee d’Orsay, Paris; courtesy Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg).
Book Review
Painting and Narrative in France, from Poussin to Gauguin. Edited by Peter Cooke and Nina Lübbren
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 801
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Reviewer:
Lee, Simon (Lee, Simon)
Subjects
art literature:
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781
artists:
Poussin, Nicolas / Gauguin, Paul / Le Brun, Charles / David, Jacques-Louis / Delacroix, Eugène / Delaroche, Paul / Gérôme, Jean-Léon / Moreau, Gustave / Robert, Louis Léopold / Orsel, André Jacques Victor
dates:
1650-1699 / 1700-1799 / 1800-1899
media:
Paintings
places:
France
subjects:
French painting / History paintings / Conferences / Essays / Critical Reception / Art criticism / Ancien Régime (France) / Second Empire (France: 1852-1870) / Literature in art / Theatre (discipline) / Historiography
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. The Execution of the Doge Marino Faliero, by Eugène Delacroix. 1825–26. Canvas, 145.6 by 113.8 cm. (Wallace Collection, London).
Article
Gustave Moreau and the theatre
09/2017 | 1374 | 159
Pages: 706-713
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Author:
Cooke, Peter (Cooke, Peter)
Subjects
artists:
Moreau, Gustave
buildings:
Comédie-Française, Paris, France
buildings:
Opéra de Paris, Paris, France
subjects:
Theatre design
subjects:
Orpheus
subjects:
Salome
subjects:
Shakespeare
subjects:
Opera
Illustrations
Attributed works:
24. Orpheus, by Gustave Moreau. 1865 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
Attributed works:
26. Costume design for Mercury in Theodore de Banville's play La Pomme, by Gustave Moreau. 1865 (Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris)
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27. Salome, by Gustave Moreau. 1876 (Hammer Museum, Los Angeles)
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28. Costume design for Pittacus the Tyrant, from Charles Gounod's opera Sapho, by Gustave Moreau. 1883 (National Gallery of Art, Washington)
Attributed works:
29. Costume design for Pittacus the Tyrant from Charles Gounod's opera Sapho, by Gustave Moreau. 1883 (National Gallery of Art, Washington)
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30. Helen on the Walls of Troy, by Gustave Moreau. Late 1880s (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
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31. Julia Bartet in Bérénice. c. 1913. Photograph by Chéri Rousseau (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris)
Attributed works:
32. Costume designs for Julia Bartet in Bérénice, by Gustave Moreau. 1893 (Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris)
Attributed works:
33. Julia Bartet in Bérénice. 1893. Photograph by Reutlinger (Bibliothèque de la Comedie-Française, Paris)
Attributed works:
Costume design for Venus in Théodore de Banville'splay La Pomme, by Gustave Moreau. 1865 (Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris)
Attributed works:
The suitors, by Gustave Moreau, begun 1860 (Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris)
Book Review
Gustave Moreau: History Painting, Spirituality, and ­Symbolism, P. Cooke
04/2015 | 1345 | 157
Pages: 272-273
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Reviewer:
Allan, Scott (Allan, Scott)
Subjects
artists:
Moreau, Gustave
subjects:
French painting / Symbolism (artistic concept) / Monographs / History paintings / Art theory
Illustrations
Attributed works:
44. Galatea, by Gustave Moreau (Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris)
Article
Gustave Moreau and Ingres
04/2014 | 1333 | 156
Pages: 219-227
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Author:
Cooke, Peter (Cooke, Peter)
Subjects
artists:
Moreau, Gustave / Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique
dates:
1850-1899
subjects:
French painting / Influence / Art criticism / Salons (art exhibitions) / Nudes / Visual sources / Iconography
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Antiochus and Statonice, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Musée Condé, Chantilly)
Attributed works:
11. La Source, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
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12. Oedipus and the sphinx, by Gustave Moreau (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Attributed works:
13. Oedipus explaining the riddle of the sphinx, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
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14. Salome, by Gustave Moreau (Armand Hammer Collection, Los Angeles)
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15. Study for The daughters of Thespius, by Gustave Moreau (Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris; des.4114)
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16. Galatea, by Gustave Moreau (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
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17. Jupiter and Antiope, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
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18. The Turkish bath, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
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19. Jupiter and Thetis, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence)
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20. Study for The muses leave Apollo, their father, to go forth and enlighten the world, by Gustave Moreau (Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris; cat. no.334)
Attributed works:
21. Jupiter and Semele, by Gustave Moreau (Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris, cat. no.91)
Exhibition Review
Gustave Moreau. Paris
07/2010 | 1288 | 152
Pages: 492-493
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Reviewer:
Ward-Jackson, Philip (Ward-Jackson, Philip; Ward-Jackson, Phillip; Jackson, Philip Ward; Ward-Jackon, Philip)
Subjects
artists:
Moreau, Gustave
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Musée National Gustave Moreau, Paris, France
places:
Paris / France
print:
Moreau, Gustave
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Gustave Moreau. L’homme aux figures de cire | institution: Musée National Gustave Moreau
Illustrations
Attributed works:
50. Jacob wrestling with the angel, by Gustave Moreau. After 1874. Wax on metal armature, 24 by 12.5 by 10.5 cm. (Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris).
Attributed works:
51. Salome, by Gustave Moreau. After 1876. Pencil on tracing paper, 21.7 by 13.5 cm. (Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris).
Book Review
Gustave Moreau. Catalogue sommaire des dessins du musée Gustave Moreau
04/2010 | 1285 | 152
Pages: 253
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Reviewer:
Cooke, Peter (Cooke, Peter)
Subjects
artists:
Moreau, Gustave
museums and institutions:
Musée National Gustave Moreau, Paris, France
print:
Moreau, Gustave
subjects:
Drawings / French / Collections, Public / Catalogues
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Gustave Moreau. Catalogue sommaire des dessins du musée Gustave Moreau | assisted by: Coron, Anne , author: Forest, Marie-Cecile , author: Mandin, Samuel , assisted by: Patry, Sylvie , author: Peylard, Aurélie
Article
Symbolism, Decadence and Gustave Moreau
05/2009 | 1274 | 151
Pages: 312-318
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Author:
Cooke, Peter (Cooke, Peter)
Subjects
artists:
Moreau, Gustave
dates:
1850-1899
print:
Moreau, Gustave
subjects:
Symbolist movement / French painting
subjects:
Iconography
subjects:
Bible stories / Salome / Classical mythology
Illustrations
Attributed works:
36. Œdipus and the sphinx, by Gustave Moreau. 1864. Canvas, 206.4 by 104.8 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
37. Salome, by Gustave Moreau. 1876. Panel, 144 by 103.5 cm. (UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles).
Attributed works:
38. Galatea, by Gustave Moreau. 1880. Panel, 85.5 by 66 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Attributed works:
39. The apparition, by Gustave Moreau. 1876. Watercolour on paper, 106 by 72.2 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
40. Orpheus, by Gustave Moreau. 1865. Panel, 154 by 23.5 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Attributed works:
41. Orpheus, by Pierre-Amédée Marcel-Beronneau. 1897. Canvas, 195 by 154 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille).
Attributed works:
42. Salome, by Franz von Stuck. 1906. Canvas, 114.5 by 92 cm. (Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich).
Attributed works:
43. Orpheus at Eurydice’s tomb, by Gustave Moreau. c.1890–91. Canvas, 173 by 128 cm. (Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris).
Attributed works:
44. The voices of evening, by Gustave Moreau. 1890s. Watercolour on paper, 34.5 by 32 cm. (Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris).
Attributed works:
45. Jupiter and Semele, by Gustave Moreau. 1895. Canvas, 212 by 118 cm. (Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris).
Publication Received
Turner – Hugo – Moreau. Entdeckung der Abstraktion
03/2008 | 1260 | 150
Pages: 199
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Reviewer:
Stonard, John-Paul (Stonard, John-Paul)
Subjects
artists:
Turner, Joseph Mallord William / Hugo, Victor / Moreau, Gustave
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
print:
Turner, Joseph Mallord William
print:
Hugo, Victor
print:
Moreau, Gustave
subjects:
Exhibition catalogues
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Turner – Hugo – Moreau. Entdeckung der Abstraktion | editor: Hollein, Max , editor: Rosenberg, Raphael
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