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Interpreting Arcimboldo: grotesque parodies or serious jokes?
05/2018 | 1382 | 160
Pages: 368-375
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Author:
Kaufmann, Thomas Dacosta (Kaufmann, Thomas Dacosta)
Subjects
art literature:
Gombrich, E. H.
artists:
Arcimboldi, Giuseppe / Mor, Antonis / Sánchez Coello, Alonso
dates:
1500-1599 / 2010-2019
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States / Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain / National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan / Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy / Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
patrons:
Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598 / Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1552-1612 / Ernst, Archduke of Austria, 1553-1595
patrons:
Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1527-1576
subjects:
Italian painting / Allegory / Natural history / Satire / Iconography / Attribution / Patronage / Exhibition reviews
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Spring, by Giuseppe Arcimboldo. After 1563. Canvas, 66 by 50 cm. (Museo de Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid; exh. Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao).
Attributed works:
10. A reindeer, by Giuseppe Arcimboldo. 1562. 25.8 by 22.2 cm. (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden; BPK).
Attributed works:
2. Flora, by Giuseppe Arcimboldo. c.1589. Panel, 74.5 by 57.5 cm. (Private collection, Madrid; courtesy Fundación March; exh. Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao).
Attributed works:
3. Flora Meretrix, by Giuseppe Arcimboldo. c.1590. Panel, 80.5 by 61 cm. (Private collection, Madrid; courtesy Fundación March; exh. Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao).
Attributed works:
4. Winter, by Giuseppe Arcimboldo. 1563. Canvas, 66.6 cm by 50.5 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
Attributed works:
5. Winter, here attributed to an imitator of Arcimboldo. c.1590. Panel, 67.8 by 56.2 cm. (Bavarian State Collections, Munich; exh. Gallerie Nazionale di Arte Antica di Roma, Palazzo Barberini, Rome).
Attributed works:
6. Summer, by Giuseppe Arcimboldo. 1563. Canvas, 67 by 50.8 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
Attributed works:
7. Archduchess Magdalena, here attributed to a contemporary of Arcimboldo. c.1563. Canvas, 43.7 by 32.8 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; exh. National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, and Palazzo Barberini, Rome).
Attributed works:
8. Tree of Jesse, by Giuseppe Meda and Giuseppe Arcimboldo. 1556. Fresco (Monza Cathedral).
Attributed works:
9. Nature studies, by Giuseppe Arcimboldo and others. Inscribed with dates 1553 and 1572. 36.1 by 48.7 cm. (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Handschriftensammlung, Vienna).
Exhibition Review
Vilhelm Hammershøi
09/2008 | 1266 | 150
Pages: 624-625
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Reviewer:
Sloan, Rachel (Sloan, Rachel)
Subjects
artists:
Hammershøi, Vilhelm
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great Britain / National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan
places:
London / England / Japan / Tokyo
print:
Hammershøi, Vilhelm
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Vilhelm Hammershøi: The Poetry of Silence | institution: National Museum of Western Art , institution: Royal Academy of Arts
Illustrations
Attributed works:
51. Interior with woman at piano, Strandgade 30, by Vilhelm Hammershøi. 1901. Canvas, 55.9 by 45.1 cm. (Private collection; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Attributed works:
52. Near Fortunen, Jægersborg Deer Park, by Vilhelm Hammershøi. 1901. Canvas, 55 by 65 cm. (Statens Museum for Kunst, Copen?hagen; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Attributed works:
53. Sunbeams or sunshine. Dust motes dancing in the sunbeams, by Vilhelm Hammershøi. 1900. Canvas, 70 by 59 cm. (Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Exhibition Review
Leonardo da Vinci. Florence, London, Oxford and Munich
04/2007 | 1249 | 149
Pages: 283-286
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Reviewer:
Waldman, Louis Alexander (Waldman, Louis Alexander; Waldman, Louis; Waldman, Louis A.)
Subjects
artists:
Leonardo da Vinci
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy / Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain / Council of Europe / Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy / Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain / Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany / National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan
places:
Tokyo / Oxford / Munich / London / Italy / Germany / Florence / England / Japan
print:
Leonardo da Vinci
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Imagining Leonardo | institution: Ashmolean Museum
subjects:
La mente di Leonardo. Al tempo della \'Battaglia di Anghiari\' | institution: Galleria degli Uffizi
subjects:
La mente di Leonardo. Nel laboratorio del Genio universale | institution: Galleria degli Uffizi , institution: National Museum of Western Art
subjects:
Leonardo and Milan: Drawings from the Guise Collection | institution: Christ Church Picture Gallery
subjects:
Leonardo da Vinci. Die Madonna mit der Nelke | institution: Alte Pinakothek
subjects:
Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design | institution: Victoria and Albert Museum
Illustrations
Attributed works:
67. Combat of soldiers on horseback, by Giovan Francesco Rustici. c.1508. Terracotta, 44 cm. high. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence; exh. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).
Attributed works:
68. ‘Irrigation Systems’ of the female body: respiratory, vascular and urino-genital, by Leonardo da Vinci. c.1507–08. Pen and ink and wash over black chalk on paper, pricked for transfer, 47 by 32.8 cm. (Royal Collection, Windsor Castle; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
69. Portrait of a young man, traditionally identified as Raphael, by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, called Sodoma (formerly attributed to Leonardo). c.1500–05. Black chalk with white bodycolour, 40.4 by 28.8 cm. (Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford).
Attributed works:
70. Warrior on horseback, after Leonardo da Vinci. Early sixteenth century. Bronze, 24.3 cm. high. (Szépmu´´veszéti Múzeum, Budapest).
Western art unattributed:
66. Bust of the youthful Christ, by an anonymous Lombard sculptor. Late fifteenth century. Terracotta, 35 by 40 by 21 cm. (Heirs of Luigi Gallandt, Rome; exh. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).
Exhibition Review
Rodin and Carrière. Paris
09/2006 | 1242 | 148
Pages: 646-647
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Reviewer:
Thomson, Richard (Thomson, Richard)
Subjects
artists:
Rodin, Auguste / Carrière, Eugène
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France / National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan
places:
Tokyo / Paris / Japan / France
print:
Rodin, Auguste
print:
Carrière, Eugène
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Auguste Rodin/Eugène Carrière | institution: Musée d'Orsay , institution: National Museum of Western Art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
73. Self-portrait, by Eugène Carrière. c.1901. Canvas, 46 by 38 cm. (Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg; exh. Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Attributed works:
74. Dernière vision, by Auguste Rodin. 1902? Marble, 49.6 by 66.8 by 25.5 cm. (Musée Rodin, Paris; exh. Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Exhibition Review
Claude Lorrain. Tokyo
12/1998 | 1149 | 140
Pages: 858-859
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Reviewer:
Wine, Humphrey (Wine, Humphrey)
Subjects
artists:
Lorrain, Claude
dates:
1990-1999
museums and institutions:
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan
places:
Japan / Tokyo
subjects:
Exhibitions / Reviews
Illustrations
Attributed works:
98. View of a Port, by Claude Lorrain. c.1633. 97.2 by 130.5 cm. (Museo de Arte de Ponce; Exh. National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo).
Attributed works:
99. Landscape with a Port with Three Buildings and an Embarkation, by Claude Lorrain. c.1628. 76 by 105 cm. (Private Collection, Switzerland; Exh. National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo).
Short Notice
A New Early Veronese in Tokyo
11/1995 | 1112 | 137
Pages: 742-746
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Author:
Gisolfi, Diana (Gisolfi, Diana)
Subjects
artists:
Veronese, Paolo
dates:
1500-1599
museums and institutions:
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan
places:
Italy / Japan / Tokyo / Venice
subjects:
Italian painting / Early works / Attributions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
31. Mystic Marriage of St Catherine (Before Cleaning), Here Attributed to Paolo Veronese. 1547. 88 by 100 cm. (National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo).
Attributed works:
32. X-Radiograph of the Right Side of Fig.31. [Mystic Marriage of St Catherine (Before Cleaning), Here Attributed to Paolo Veronese. 1547. 88 by 100 cm. (National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo).]
Attributed works:
33. Mystic Marriage of St Catherine (After Cleaning), Here Attributed to Paolo Veronese. 1547. 84 by 100 cm. (National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo).
Attributed works:
34. Holy Family with St John, by Paolo Veronese. 60.5 by 63 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
Attributed works:
35. Mystic Marriage of St Catherine, by Paolo Veronese. 57.68 by 91.44 cm. (Barker Welfare Foundation; On Loan to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven).
Attributed works:
36. Oil Sketch for the Bevilaqua Altar-Piece. c.1546. 50 by 36 cm. (Uffizi, Florence).
Attributed works:
37. Detail of Coat-of-Arms in Fig.33. [Mystic Marriage of St Catherine, Here Attributed to Paolo Veronese. 1547. 88 by 100 cm. (National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo).]
Western art unattributed:
38. Detail of the Coat-of-Arms on the della Torre Monument. 1510-20. (S. Fermo, Verona).
Western art unattributed:
39. Detail of the Coat-of-Arms in the Pindemonte Chapel to S. Martino. (S. Anastasia, Verona).
Exhibition Review
'Lots' of Rubens. Tokyo
10/1993 | 1087 | 135
Pages: 718-719
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Reviewer:
Liedtke, Walter A. (Liedtke, Walter A.; Liedtke, Walter)
Subjects
artists:
Rubens, Peter Paul
artists:
Jordaens, Jacob
dates:
1990-1999
museums and institutions:
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan
places:
Tokyo / Japan
subjects:
Exhibitions / Reviews
Illustrations
Attributed works:
55. The Flight of Lot and His Family from Sodom, Here Attributed to Jacob Jordaens. 169.5 by 198.5 cm. (The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo).
Attributed works:
56. Detail of The Flight of Lot and His Family from Sodom, by Peter Paul Rubens. 220.4 by 246 cm. (Whole). (The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota; Exh. The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo).
Attributed works:
57. [detail of: The Flight of Lot and His Family from Sodom, Here Attributed to Jacob Jordaens. 169.5 by 198.5 cm. (The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo).]
Exhibition Review
Tokyo. Fragonard. National Museum of Western Art
05/1980 | 926 | 122
Pages: 372-373+375
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Reviewer:
Wilson, Michael (Wilson, Michael)
Subjects
artists:
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré
dates:
1980-1989
museums and institutions:
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan
places:
Japan / Tokyo
subjects:
Exhibitions / Reviews
Illustrations
Attributed works:
119. Le Pont de Bois, by Fragonard. 59.7 by 82.6 cm. (Private Collection; Exh. Japan).
Attributed works:
120. Rinaldo in Armida's Garden, by Fragonard. 73 by 90.8 cm. (Collection M. Arthur Veil-Picard, Paris; Exh. Japan).