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Book Review
Être sculpteur à Florence au temps des derniers Médicis
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 292–4
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Reviewer:
Ciarlo, Nicola (Ciarlo, Nicola)
Subjects
artists:
Foggini, Giovanni Battista
subjects:
Florence
subjects:
Sculptors / Baroque sculpture / Medici family / Courts (social groups)
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Être sculpteur à Florence au temps des derniers Médicis By Kira d’Alburquerque. 320 pp. incl. 27 col. + b. & w. ills. (CTHS and INHA, Paris, 2023), €35. ISBN 978–2–7355–0964–5. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Adoration of the shepherds, by Giovanni Battista Foggini. 1674–76. Marble, 135 by 86 cm. (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg).
Exhibition Review
Luisa Roldán: Escultora real
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 164–164
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Reviewer:
Trusted, Marjorie (Trusted, Marjorie)
Subjects
artists:
Roldán, Luisa / Roldán, Pedro
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid, Spain
subjects:
Spanish art / Women artists / Sculptors / Sculpture
subjects:
Polychromed wood sculpture / Terracotta
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Luisa Roldán: Escultora real Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid 29th November 2024–9th March 2025 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Virgin and Child, by Luisa Roldán. 1699. Polychromed terracotta, 48 by 26 by 24 cm. (Convento San José del Carmen, Seville; exh. Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid).
Attributed works:
2. St Servando, by Luisa Roldán. 1687. Polychromed wood with paste stones and silver accoutrements, 145 by 80 by 40 cm. (Cádiz Cathedral; exh. Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid).
Attributed works:
3. Ecstasy of Mary Magdalene, by Luisa Roldán. c.1689–96. Polychromed terracotta, 21 by 31.5 by 26 cm. (Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid).
Book Review
Late Gothic Sculpture in Northern Italy: Andrea da Giona and i Maestri Caronesi. An Addition to the Pantheon of Venetian Sculptors
11/2024 | 1460 | 166
Pages: 1188–1190
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Reviewer:
Boyd, Rachel (Boyd, Rachel)
Subjects
artists:
Giona, Andrea di (d. c.1449) / Solari, Filippo (d. before 1453)
styles:
Late Gothic
subjects:
Italian sculpture / Sculptors
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Late Gothic Sculpture in Northern Italy: Andrea da Giona and i Maestri Caronesi. An Addition to the Pantheon of Venetian Sculptors By Anne Markham Schulz. 2 vols, 660 pp. incl. 532 b. & w. ills. (Harvey Miller, Turnhout, 2022), €275. ISBN 978–1–912554–80–5. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. St Mark, detail from the altarpiece of the Madonna dei Mascoli, by Andrea da Giona. Early 1430s. (Mascoli Chapel, S. Marco, Venice).
Book Review
Luxury after the Terror
11/2023 | 1448 | 165
Pages: 1254-1256
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Reviewer:
Coquery, Natacha (Coquery, Natacha)
Subjects
artists:
Auguste, Henry / Dugourc, Jean Démosthène / Parent, Aubert / Brongniart, Alexandrine Emilie
subjects:
French decorative art / Goldsmiths / Sculptors / Porcelain / Material culture (genre) / Historical context
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Luxury after the Terror By Iris Moon. 272 pp. incl. 30 col. + 65 b. & w. ills. (Penn State University Press, University Park PA, 2022), $104.95. ISBN 978–0–271–09161–7. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. Advertisement for Nouvelle Cartes de la République Française, by Jean- Démosthène Dugourc and Urbaine Jaume. 1793–94. Wood engraving with hand colouring on paper, 38.5 by 24.4 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Exhibition Review
Io, Canova: Genio europeo
02/2023 | 1439 | 165
Pages: 191-193
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Reviewer:
Leone, Francesco (Leone, Francesco)
Subjects
artists:
Canova, Antonio
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Museo Civico, Bassano del Grappa, Italy
subjects:
Italian sculpture / Patronage / Sculptors
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Io, Canova: Genio europeo Museo Civico, Bassano del Grappa 15th October 2022– 26th February 2023 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
24. Funerary stele for Giovanni Falier, by Antonio Canova. 1806–08. Marble, height 174 cm. (S. Stefano, Venice; exh. Museo Civico, Bassano del Grappa).
Attributed works:
25. Male nude holding a sword and shield, by Antonio Canova. 1794. Pencil, pen and brown ink on paper, 45.7 by 32 cm. (Museo Civico, Bassano del Grappa).
Attributed works:
26. Leopoldine Esterházy Liechtenstein, by Antonio Canova. 1805–18. Marble, height 146 cm. (Esterhazy Privatstiftung, Eisenstadt; exh. Museo Civico, Bassano del Grappa).
Publication Received
Alfred Janniot: Monumental. By Emmanuel Bréon, Claire Maingon and Victorien Georges
12/2022 | 1437 | 164
Pages: 1303
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Reviewer:
Deltour, Louis (Deltour, Louis)
Subjects
artists:
Janniot, Alfred Auguste
museums and institutions:
Musée Antoine Lécuyer, Saint-Quentin, France
subjects:
French sculpture / Sculptors / Architecture / Politics
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subjects:
Alfred Janniot: Monumental By Emmanuel Bréon, Claire Maingon and Victorien Georges. 175 pp. incl. numerous col. ills. (Norma, Paris, 2022), €45. ISBN 978–2–37666–057–6. | :
Book Review
Les portails du transept de la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris: Architecture, sculpture, polychromie. Edited by Stephan Albrecht, Stefan Breitling and Rainer Drewello, transl. K. Mazurié de Keroualin
12/2022 | 1437 | 164
Pages: 1293-1294
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Reviewer:
Bruzelius, Caroline (Bruzelius, Caroline)
Subjects
buildings:
Notre-Dame de Paris, Paris, France
subjects:
French architecture / Portals / Facades / Medieval architecture / Stonemasons / Architects / Sculptors / Sculpture
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Les portails du transept de la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris: Architecture, sculpture, polychromie Edited by Stephan Albrecht, Stefan Breitling and Rainer Drewello, transl. K. Mazurié de Keroualin. 248 pp. incl. 378 col. + 43 b. & w. ills. (Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg, 2022), €39.95. ISBN 978–3–7319–1039–8. | :
Book Review
Bernini and His World: Sculpture and Sculptors in Early Modern Rome
11/2022 | 1436 | 164
Pages: 1160-1162
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Reviewer:
Connors, Joseph (Connors, Joseph)
Subjects
artists:
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo
places:
Rome
subjects:
Italian sculpture / Baroque sculpture / Sculptors
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Bernini and His World: Sculpture and Sculptors in Early Modern Rome By Livio Pestilli. 288 pp. incl. 140 col. + 27 b. & w. ills. (Lund Humphries, London, 2022), £60. ISBN 978–1–84822–549–7. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Detail of Cardinal Scipione Borghese, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. 1632. Marble, height 78 cm. (Galleria Borghese, Rome).
Book Review
Il Maestro dei bambini turbolenti: Sandro di Lorenzo scultore in terracotta agli albori della Maniera
11/2022 | 1436 | 164
Pages: 1163-1165
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Reviewer:
Avery, Charles (Avery, Charles)
Subjects
artists:
Lorenzo (Master of the Unruly Children), Sandro di
subjects:
Renaissance sculpture / Sculptors / Italian sculpture / Terracotta / Children / Putti / Attributions
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Il Maestro dei bambini turbolenti: Sandro di Lorenzo scultore in terracotta agli albori della Maniera By Lorenzo Principi. 504 pp. incl. 332 col. + 115 b. & w. ills. (Aquaplano, Perugia, 2020), €80. ISBN 978–88–85803–58–9. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. Virgin and Child (or Charity), by Sandro di Lorenzo. c.1520. Terracotta, 72 by 48 by 21 cm. (Private collection).
Book Review
Antoine Coysevox (1640–1720): Le sculpteur du Grand Siècle
11/2022 | 1436 | 164
Pages: 1165-1166
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Reviewer:
Mulherron, Jamie (Mulherron, Jamie)
Subjects
artists:
Coysevox, Antoine
subjects:
French sculpture / Sculptors / Portraits
Reviewed Items
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Antoine Coysevox (1640–1720): Le sculpteur du Grand Siècle By Alexandre Maral and Valérie Carpentier- Vanhaverbeke. 580 pp. incl. 976 col. + b. & w. ills. (Arthena, Paris, 2020), €139. ISBN 978–2– 903239–66–4. | :
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