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Book Review
Maiolica and Ceramics in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello
08/2024 | 1457 | 166
Pages: 876–7
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Reviewer:
Wilson, Timothy (Wilson, Timothy; W., T. H.; W., T.; Wilson, Timothy H.; Thw)
Subjects
art literature:
Catalogues
museums and institutions:
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy
subjects:
Maiolica
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Maiolica and Ceramics in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello By Marino Marini, transl. by Anna Moore Valeri. 516 pp incl. 1,042 col. ills. (Allemandi, Turin, 2024), €150. ISBN 978–88–422–2557–7. | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
1. Ewer. 1573. Maiolica, height 32 cm.; diameter of foot 7.5 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
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A 1550 ‘double Jubilee’ medal by Alessandro Cesati
11/2023 | 1448 | 165
Pages: 1190-1195
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Author:
Daniele, Giulia (Daniele, Giulia)
Subjects
artists:
Cesati, Alessandro
dates:
1550-1559
museums and institutions:
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy
patrons:
Julius III, Pope, 1487-1555
sources:
Vasari, Giorgio
subjects:
Medals / Lead / Bronzes / Iconography / Medallists
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Jubilee medal of Pope Julius III (reverse), by Alessandro Cesati. 1550. Silver plated thin uniface lead striking, diameter 47.1 mm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence; inv. no.6275).
Attributed works:
11. Martyrdom of St John the Evangelist, by the circle of Daniele da Volterra. c.1550–60. Oil on panel, 62.5 by 37 cm. (Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
2 and 3. Jubilee medal of Pope Julius III, by Alessandro Cesati. 1550. Gilded thin uniface lead strikings, diameter 47.7 mm. (obverse) and 46.9 mm. (reverse). (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence; inv. no.6269).
Attributed works:
4 and 5. Jubilee medal of Pope Julius III, by Alessandro Cesati. 1550. Gilded thin uniface lead strikings, diameter with frame 60.2 mm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence; inv. no.6270).
Attributed works:
6. Enlargement of Fig.1, showing three standing male figures.
Attributed works:
7 and 8. Jubilee medal of Pope Julius III, by Alessandro Cesati. 1550. Silver-plated thin uniface lead strikings, diameter with frame 63 mm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
9 and 10. Stater from Metaponto, Italy. 510–480 BC. Silver. (British Museum, London; inv. no.1924,1110.2)
Article
Cross-cultural diplomacy: a Safavid shield in the Medici armoury
10/2022 | 1435 | 164
Pages: 968-975
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Author:
Rokhgar, Negar Sarah (Rokhgar, Negar Sarah)
Subjects
artists:
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da
dates:
1590-1609
media:
Mother of pearl / Gilding
museums and institutions:
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy
patrons:
Shah Abbas, 1571-1629
places:
Persia / Tuscany
sources:
Archives / Correspondence
styles:
Safavid / Mughal
styles:
Indo-Persian School
subjects:
Shields (Armour) / Gifts / Ottomans (people) / Crusades / East-West trade / Diplomacy / Military art and science / Medici family / Ferdinando I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Detail of the painted ceiling in the Sala dell’Armeria (Room 21), Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence, depicting a Persian soldier by Ludovico Buti. 1588–89. (Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
6. Medusa, by Caravaggio. 1595–98. Oil on canvas applied on a wooden shield, 60 by 55 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence).
Non-western art unattributed:
1. Shield. Persia, late 16th century. Gold damascened steel, Indian cane, silk, mother-of-pearl, leather and velvet, diameter 64.5 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Non-western art unattributed:
2. Detail of Fig.1, showing figures serving food to an authority on a higher seat.
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Detail of Fig.1, showing men on horseback and on foot using spears and arrows to hunt lions.
Non-western art unattributed:
5. Silk fragment with a figured motif. Yazd, Persia, late 16th or early 17th century. Silk lampas, 70.5 by 36 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Non-western art unattributed:
7. Shield. Persia, 17th century. Indian cane covered with silk, metal umbo painted in black with golden arabesque engravings and originally embellished with turquoises and other precious stones, 20 by 62 cm. (Palazzo Ducale, Venice).
Non-western art unattributed:
8. Tray with a scene of lovers in a pavilion. Gujarat, late 16th or early 17th century. Mother-of-pearl and lacquer on wood, diameter 43.5 cm. (Aga Khan Museum, Toronto).
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The problematic ‘Baptist’: Benedetto da Maiano’s Sala dei Gigli doorway
08/2018 | 1385 | 160
Pages: 624-629
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Author:
Dillon, Sarah M. (Dillon, Sarah M. )
Subjects
art literature:
Poggi, Giovanni, 1880-1961 / Vasari, Giorgio
artists:
Benedetto da Maiano / Verrocchio, Andrea del / Ghirlandaio, Domenico / Rossellino, Bernardo / Rossellino, Antonio / Mino da Fiesole
dates:
1450-1499
media:
Sculpture / Reliefs / Doorways / Marbles / Bronzes
museums and institutions:
Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy / Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy
patrons:
Medici, Lorenzo de', il Magnifico, 1449–1492
places:
Italy / Florence
subjects:
Italian sculpture / Italian architecture / Medici family / Patronage / Politics / Iconography / John the Baptist, Saint / Flowers / Putti / David / Archives / Inventories / Supports / Influence / Commissions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Door of the Sala dei Gigli, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, by Benedetto da Maiano. c.1475–78. Marble. (Photograph Raffaello Bencini; Alinari Archives, Florence)
Attributed works:
2. Door of the Sala dei Gigli, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, by Benedetto da Maiano. Photograph by Fratelli Alinari c.1890, 16 by 21 cm. (Alinari Archives, Florence).
Attributed works:
3. Door of the Sala dell’Udienza, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, by Benedetto da Maiano. c.1475–78. Marble. (Photograph Raffaello Bencini; Alinari Archives, Florence).
Attributed works:
4. Above Detail of the door of the Sala dei Gigli, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, showing the base of the figure. (Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
5. Opposite St John the Baptist, by Benedetto da Maiano. Marble, height 125 cm. Photograph by Fratelli Alinari c.1900, 15 by 21 cm. (Alinari Archives, Florence).
Editorial
The Friends of the Bargello
06/2018 | 1383 | 160
Pages: 451
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Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Sculpture / Ivories
museums and institutions:
Friends of the Bargello / Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy
places:
Italy / Florence
subjects:
Collections, Public / Museums / National museums / Arts funding / Politics / Medici family
Exhibition Review
Doccia porcelain sculpture. Florence
09/2017 | 1374 | 159
Pages: 748-749
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Reviewer:
Dawson, Aileen (Dawson, Aileen; D., A.)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Porcelain
museums and institutions:
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy
subjects:
Doccia Manufactory
subjects:
Baroque sculpture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
La fabbrica della bellezza. La manifattura Ginori e il suo popolo di statue | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
74. Tempietto Ginori, modelled by Gaspero Bruschi. 1750–51 (Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca e della Città di Cortona; exh. Museo Nazional del Bargello, Florence)
Attributed works:
75. Chimneypiece, modelled by Gaspero Bruschi and Domenico Stagi. 1754 (Museo Richard Ginori. Sesto Fiorentino; exh. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence)
Attributed works:
76. Lamentation over the dead Christ, after Massimo Soldani Benzi. 1745–50 (Palazzo Corsini, Rome; exh. Museo Nazionale del bargello, Florence)
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Luca Cambiaso the sculptor: a ‘Bacchus’ in the Bargello
11/2014 | 1340 | 156
Pages: 729-735
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Author:
Fontanarossa, Raffaela (Fontanarossa, Raffaela)
Subjects
artists:
Cambiaso, Luca
dates:
1550-1599
museums and institutions:
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy
subjects:
Italian sculpture / Collections, Public / Bacchus / Provenance / Inventories / Composition (artistic arrangement) / Marbles / Visual sources / Fountains
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Bacchus, by Luca Cambiaso (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence)
Attributed works:
11. Detail of Fig.10
Attributed works:
12. Funerary monument of Franco Lercari, fresco, between statues of Fortitude and Faith, by Gio Battista Castello, called il Bergamesco, Luca Cambiaso and Battista Perolli (Cathedral of S. Lorenzo, Genoa)
Attributed works:
13. Fortitude, by Luca Cambiaso. Detail of Fig.12
Attributed works:
14. Bacchus, by Luca Cambiaso (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
Attributed works:
15. Detail of Bacchus from Ulysses shooting the suitors of Penelope, by Luca Cambiaso (Palazzo Grimaldi della Meridiana, Genoa)
Attributed works:
16. Venus and Adonis, by Luca Cambiaso (Gallerie Canesso, Paris)
Attributed works:
9. Virgin and Child, by Luca Cambiaso (Chiesa di S. Pietro Apostolo, Comuneglia, La Spezia)
Western art unattributed:
8. Bacchus. Anonymous. Late nineteenth century (Archivio comunale, Serravalle Scrivia, Alessandria)
Exhibition Review
Bandinelli
09/2014 | 1338 | 156
Pages: 628-630
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Reviewer:
Avery, Charles (Avery, Charles)
Subjects
artists:
Bandinelli, Baccio
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy
places:
Florence / Italy
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
72. Bacchus, by Baccio Bandinelli. 1547-49. Marble, 245 cm. high. (Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; exh. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Attributed works:
73. Self-portrait with his drawing of Hercules and Cacus, by Baccio Bandinelli. c.1545. Panel, 142.5 by 113.5 cm. (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; exh. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Attributed works:
74. Virgin and Child with three putti, by Baccio Bandinelli, after Desiderio da Settignano or Donatello. 1510. Pen and brown ink, 39.7 by 16.7 cm. (Département des Arts graphiques, Musée du Louvre, Paris; exh. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Attributed works:
75. Leda and the swan, by Baccio Bandinelli. c.1530. Bronze, 31.2 cm. high. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Exhibition Review
Maiolica. Florence
09/2012 | 1314 | 154
Pages: 664-665
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Reviewer:
Mallet, J. V. G. (Mallet, J. V. G.; Mallet, John)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy
places:
Florence / Italy
print:
Maiolica
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Maiolica / Ceramics
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Fabuale Pictae: Miti e Storie nelle Maioliche del Rinascimento | institution: Museo Nazionale del Bargello
Illustrations
Attributed works:
62. Hercules and Antaeus, by Antonio Pollaiuolo. c.1475. Bronze, 45 cm. high (with base). (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Western art unattributed:
63. Dish with Hercules and Antaeus. Early sixteenth century. Deruta, tin-glazed earthenware, diameter 43.2 cm. (Robert Lehman Collection, Metropolitan Mus­eum of Art, New York; exh. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Exhibition Review
Ammannati. Florence
08/2011 | 1301 | 153
Pages: 557-558
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Reviewer:
Davis, Charles (Davis, Charles)
Subjects
artists:
Ammannati, Bartolomeo
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy
places:
Florence / Italy
print:
Ammannati, Bartolomeo
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
L’acqua, la pietra, il fuoco: Bartolomeo Ammannati scultore | institution: Museo Nazionale del Bargello
Illustrations
Attributed works:
37. Juno, by Bartolomeo Ammannati. c.1556. Marble, 180 cm. high. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Attributed works:
38 and 39. Two capitals ‘alla grottesca’, designed by Bartolomeo Ammannati. c.1557. Grey stone. (Udienza, Salone dei Cinquecento, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence).
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