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Exhibition Review
Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence, c.1504
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 175–177
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Lewis, Grant (Lewis, Grant)
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Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence, c.1504 Royal Academy of Arts, London 9th November 2024–16th February 2025 | :
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13. Virgin and Child with St Anne and the infant St John the Baptist (Burlington House cartoon), by Leonardo da Vinci. Here dated to c.1506–08. Charcoal with black and white chalk on 8 sheets of paper, mounted on canvas, 141.5 by 104.6 cm. (National Gallery, London; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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14. Virgin and Child with the infant St John the Baptist (Taddei tondo), by Michelangelo Buonarroti. c.1504–05. Marble, diameter 106.8 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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15. Studies for the Virgin and Child, by Raphael. c.1506–07. Pen and brown ink over red chalk, 25.3 by 18.3 cm. (British Museum, London; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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Raphael in 1503: new findings on the ‘Virgin and Child with a book’ and other contemporaneous drawings
01/2025 | 1462 | 167
Pages: 16-25
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Aceto, Angelamaria (Aceto, Angelamaria)
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1. Virgin and Child, by Benedetto da Maiano. c.1485–90. Marble with polychromy, 71.1 by 54.6 by 15.2 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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10. Detail of Fig.2, showing the cushion and the drapery.
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11. Detail of Fig.1, showing the cushion and the drapery.
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12. Studies of ornamental details, by Raphael. c.1503. Pen and brown ink with black chalk and leadpoint on paper, 37.7 by 21.9 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
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13. Detail of the ceiling in Piccolomini Library, Siena, by Pintoricchio and workshop. c.1503–07. Fresco. (Bridgeman Images).
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14. Detail of Fig.12, showing the Virgin and Child with St Anne.
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15. The Virgin and Child with St Anne (reversed left to right), by Leonardo da Vinci. c.1510. Oil on panel, 168 by 113 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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16. Holy Family with a lamb, by Raphael. 1507. Oil on panel, 28 by 21.5 cm. (Museo del Prado, Madrid).
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2. Virgin and Child with a book, by Raphael. c.1503. Oil on panel, 55.2 by 40 cm. (Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena; Bridgeman Images).
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3. Studies for Virgin and Child with a book, by Raphael. Mounted in the 20th century. Pen and brown ink over blind stylus on paper, 11.4 by 13 cm. (top: Parker 508a recto, felt side) and 11.5 by 13.2 cm. (bottom: Parker 508b recto, mould side). (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
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4. Parker 508a verso, mould side, shown in raking light.
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5. Parker 508b verso, felt side, shown in raking light.
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6. Facsimile of Figs.3–5. 1841. Lithograph, 26.6 by 27.9 cm. (From A series of Fac-similes of Original Drawings by Raffaelle da Urbino Selected from the Matchless Collection formed by Sir Thomas Lawrence, Published by S. and A. Woodburn, London 1841).
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7. The mould side of the drawings shown in Fig.3 superimposed onto Fig.6 to highlight the extent of the loss and the continuity in the landscape. (Author’s reconstruction rendered by Mauro Mussolin and Leonardo Pili).
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8. The felt side of the drawings shown in Fig.3 superimposed on Fig.6 to highlight the extent of the loss. (Author’s reconstruction rendered by Mauro Mussolin and Leonardo Pili).
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9. The drawings shown in Fig.3 seen in transmitted light. (Author’s reconstruction rendered by Mauro Mussolin and Leonardo Pili).
Letter
Leonardo’s self-portrait in Turin
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 892
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Salvi, Paola (Salvi, Paola)
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Short Notice
Leonardo da Vinci’s Burlington House Cartoon: a new hypothesis
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 928-31
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Shorter Notice by:
Rumberg, Per (Rumberg, Per)
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1. Virgin and Child with St Anne and the infant St John the Baptist (the Burlington House Cartoon), by Leonardo da Vinci. c.1506–08. Charcoal with white chalk on paper, mounted on canvas, 141.5 by 104.6 cm. (National Gallery, London).
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2. Virgin and Child with St Anne and the infant St John the Baptist, surrounded by ten saints (the Pala del Gran Consiglio), by Fra Bartolommeo. 1510–13. Oil on panel, 444 by 308 cm. (Museo Nazionale di San Marco, Florence).
Editorial
An enigmatic smile
08/2024 | 1457 | 166
Pages: 763
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Exhibition Review
L’Autoritratto di Leonardo: Storia e contemporaneità di un capolavoro
06/2024 | 1455 | 166
Pages: 629–631
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Mazzotta, Antonio (Mazzotta, Antonio)
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L’Autoritratto di Leonardo: Storia e contemporaneità di un capolavoro Biblioteca Reale, Turin 28th March–30th June Galleria Sabauda, Turin 28th March–28 July | :
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10. Bearded old man, by Leonardo da Vinci. c.1491–95. Red chalk on paper, 33.3 by 21.3 cm. (Biblioteca Reale, Turin).
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11. Leonardo da Vinci, attributed to Francesco Melzi. c.1515. Red chalk on paper, 27.5 by 19 cm. (© 2024 His Majesty King Charles III / Royal Collection Trust).
Article
Biting satire: notes on Salvador Dalí’s ‘Debris of an automobile’
12/2023 | 1449 | 165
Pages: 1305–1319
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Lomas, David (Lomas, David)
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1. Detail of Fig.2, showing a painter at an easel with the Ampurdan plain stretching beyond.
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10. The dream and lie of Franco, by Pablo Picasso. 1937. Aquatint and etching, image 31.7 by 42.1 cm. (Plate I, 8th January 1937, printed by Roger Lacourière; © Succession Picasso and DACS, London; Scala, Florence).
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11. Plate from Les Chants de Maldoror (Comte de Lautréamont), by Salvador Dalí. 1933–34. Photogravure and drypoint after celluloid engraving, 33 by 25 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; Florence/bpk, Bildagentur fuer Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, Berlin; Sprengel Museum, Hannover).
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12. The knight of death, by Salvador Dalí. c.1934. Oil on canvas, 65 by 54 cm. (Private collection; Bridgeman Images).
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13. Plate from Les Chants de Maldoror (Comte de Lautréamont), by Salvador Dalí. 1934. Photogravure and drypoint after celluloid engraving, 33.2 by 25.2 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; Museum of Modern Art, New York).
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14. Expressions of fury in horses, a lion and a man, by Leonardo da Vinci. c.1503–04. Pen and ink with wash, and red chalk on paper, 19.6 by 30.8 cm. (© 2023 His Majesty King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
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15. Study for Suburbs of a paranoiac-critical town, by Salvador Dalí. 1935. Pencil and ink on paper, 32 by 22.8 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Berlin).
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16. Paranoiac woman-horse (invisible sleeping woman, lion, horse), by Salvador Dalí. 1930. Oil on canvas, 50 by 65 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; NPL – DeA Picture Library; Bridgeman Images; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris).
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17. Conversion of St Paul, by Caravaggio. 1601. Oil on canvas, 230 by 175 cm. (S. Maria del Popolo, Rome; Bridgeman Images).
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18. St George slaying the dragon or Roger and Angelica or Perseus and Andromeda, by Giorgio de Chirico. 1940. Oil on canvas, 91 by 116 cm. (Private collection).
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19. Battle for the Standard (re-touched copy after Leonardo da Vinci’s Battle of Anghiari), by Peter Paul Rubens. 1603. Black chalk, pen and paint on paper, 45.3 by 63.6 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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2. Debris of an automobile giving birth to a blind horse biting a telephone, by Salvador Dalí. 1938. Oil on canvas, 54.5 by 65.1 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; Museum of Modern Art, New York).
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20. Paranonïa, by Salvador Dalí. c.1935–36. Oil on canvas, 38.1 by 46 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; Dalí Museum, St Petersburg).
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21. Duncan’s horses, by Salvador Dalí. 1946. Pen and India ink on card, 25.3 by 19.4 cm. (Private collection).
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22. The city rises, by Umberto Boccioni. 1911. Tempera on card, 36 by 60 cm. (Jesi Collection, Milan; Bridgeman Images).
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3. The enigma of Hitler, by Salvador Dalí. 1938. Oil on canvas, 95 by 141 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; Bridgeman Images; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid).
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4. Street lamp, study of light, by Giacomo Balla. 1909. Oil on canvas, 174.7 by 114.7 cm. (© Peter Willi; Bridgeman Images; Museum of Modern Art, New York).
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5. Detail of Fig.2, showing Gala as a winged Victory and a father and child with a Leonardesque rock formation at Cadaqués.
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6. Detail of Guernica, by Pablo Picasso. 1937. Oil on canvas. (© Succession Picasso and DACS, London; Bridgeman Images; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid).
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7. Detail of Fig.2, showing the horse and the light bulb hanging above it, which echoes the position of the electric light in Guernica.
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8. William Tell, by Salvador Dalí. 1930. Oil and collage on canvas, 113 by 87 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; Bridgeman Images; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris).
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9. Horse head: study for ‘Guernica’, May 2, 1937, by Pablo Picasso. Oil on canvas, 65 by 92 cm. (© Succession Picasso and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia, Madrid).
Book Review
The Ugly Duchess: Beauty and Satire in the Renaissance
11/2023 | 1448 | 165
Pages: 1238-1239
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Tantardini, Lucia (Tantardini, Lucia)
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The Ugly Duchess: Beauty and Satire in the Renaissance By Emma Capron, with contributions by Martin Clayton and Charlotte Wytema. 80 pp. incl. 52 col. + b. & w. ills. (National Gallery Global, London, 2023), £16.99. ISBN 978–1–85709–694–1. | :
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6. An old woman (‘The ugly duchess’), by Quinten Massys. c.1513. Oil on panel, 62.4 by 45.5 cm. (National Gallery, London).
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7. A grotesque old woman, attributed to Francesco Melzi after Leonardo da Vinci. c.1510–20. Red chalk, 17.2 by 14.3 cm. (© Royal Collection Trust, HM King Charles III).
Short Notice
A panel painting of Our Lady with the Child by Leonardo
04/2023 | 1441 | 165
Pages: 412-413
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Spallanzani, Marco (Spallanzani, Marco)
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1. Virgin and Child enthroned with Sts Dionysius the Aeropagite, Domenic, Clement and Thomas Aquinas, by Domenico Ghirlandaio. 1481–83. Oil on panel, 168 by 197 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence; photograph Nicolò Orsi Battaglini; Bridgeman Images).
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A pastel ‘Study for a head’ by Boltraffio in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
03/2022 | 1428 | 164
Pages: 266-269
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Allegri, Agostino (Allegri, Agostino)
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Mazzotta, Antonio (Mazzotta, Antonio)
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1. Study for the portrait of a poet, by Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio. c.1500–02. Coloured chalk and pastel on prepared paper, 51.5 by 39.5 cm. (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan).
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2. Detail of St Barbara, by Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio. c.1502. Oil on panel, 172 by 113.5 cm. (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin).
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3. Study for a head, here attributed to Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio. c.1500–02. Coloured chalk and pastel on prepared paper, 25.7 by 25.8 cm. (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan).
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4. Study for a female head, by Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio. c.1500–02. Coloured chalk and pastel on prepared paper, 26.4 by 29.5 cm. (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan).
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5. Studies for a portrait of a woman, by Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio. c.1500–02. Coloured chalk and pastel on prepared paper, 57.3 by 40.7 cm. (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan; Bridgeman Images).
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