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Book Review
Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages: Exploring a Connected World
11/2023 | 1448 | 165
Pages: 1253-1254
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Reviewer:
Nickson, Tom (Nickson, Tom)
Subjects
subjects:
Europe / Byzantine Empire / Islamic art / Medieval art / Medieval architecture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages: Exploring a Connected World By Jill Caskey, Adam S. Cohen and Linda Safran. 400 pp. incl. 426 col. ills. (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2023), $189.95 (HB). ISBN 978–1–5017–6610–7. $69.95 (PB). ISBN 978–1–5017–0282–2. | :
Book Review
Never Again. Gardens of Peace: A Landscape and Architectural History of War Cemeteries
11/2020 | 1412 | 162
Pages: 1007-1009
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Subjects
subjects:
World War (1914-1918) / Memorials / Cemeteries / Commemorative monuments / Europe
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Never Again. Gardens of Peace: A Landscape and Architectural History of War Cemeteries Edited by Michel Racine. 224 pp. incl. 200 col. ills. (Mercatorfonds, Brussels, and Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2020), £30. ISBN 978–0–300–24649–0. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
8. Hooglede German First World War Cemetery, West Flanders, Belgium, designed by Robert Tischler. (Photograph Christine Bastin and Jacques Evrard).
Book Review
Cut in Alabaster: A Material of Sculpture and its European Traditions 1330–1530. By Kim Woods
02/2020 | 1403 | 162
Pages: 167-168
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Reviewer:
de Beer, Lloyd (de Beer, Lloyd)
Subjects
dates:
1300-1599
media:
Alabasters
places:
Europe / England / Spain
subjects:
Sculpture / Techniques / Art market / Patronage / Altarpieces / Effigies
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Cut in Alabaster: A Material of Sculpture and its European Traditions 1330–1530 By Kim Woods. 422 pp. incl. 194 col. + 5 b. & w. ills. (Brepols, Turnhout, 2018), £140. ISBN 978–1–909400–26–9. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. Christ as a Man of Sorrows. First half of the 15th century. Alabaster, height 40 cm. (Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp).
Book Review
The Cross, the Gospels, and the Work of Art in the Carolingian Age. By Beatrice E. Kitzinger
01/2020 | 1402 | 162
Pages: 74-75
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Reviewer:
Chazelle, Celia (Chazelle, Celia)
Subjects
media:
Illuminated manuscripts / Metalwork
places:
Great Britain / Europe
subjects:
Holy Cross / Jesus Christ: Crucifixion / Carolingian School / Religious art / Poetry / Early medieval
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Cross, the Gospels, and the Work of Art in the Carolingian Age By Beatrice E. Kitzinger. 322 pp. incl. 148 col. ills. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2018), £57.99. ISBN 978–1–108–42881–1. | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
2. Crucifixion, from the Angers Gospels. Brittany or Loire Valley, late 9th–early 10th century. Coloured ink on parchment, 30.7 by 21 cm. (Bibliothèque municipale Angers, MS 24(20), fol.7v).
Book Review
Mughal Occidentalism: Artistic Encounters between Europe and Asia at the Courts of India, 1580–1630. By Mika Natif
12/2019 | 1401 | 161
Pages: 1065-1066
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Reviewer:
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
Subjects
dates:
1550-1649
subjects:
Mughal School / Europe / Paintings / Miniatures (paintings) / Western painting / Indo-Persian School
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Mughal Occidentalism: Artistic Encounters between Europe and Asia at the Courts of India, 1580–1630 By Mika Natif. 310 pp. incl. 100 ills. (Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2018), £99. ISBN 978–90–04–37499–7. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Seated European nude man, attributed to Ruqaya Banu, after an engraving by Jan Sadeler. Early 17th century or c.1630, Mughal India. Opaque watercolour and gold on paper, 16.9 by 9 cm. (Chester Beatty Library, Dublin).
Book Review
From Darkness to Light: Writers in Museums 1798–1898. Edited by Rosella Mamoli Zorzi and Katherine Manthorne
11/2019 | 1400 | 161
Pages: 978-979
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Reviewer:
Wildman, Stephen (Wildman, Stephen)
Subjects
art literature:
Conferences / Essays
places:
Europe / United Kingdom / United States
subjects:
Art museums / Lighting
Reviewed Items
subjects:
From Darkness to Light: Writers in Museums 1798–1898 Edited by Rosella Mamoli Zorzi and Katherine Manthorne. 394 pp. incl. 44 col. ills. (Open Book Publishers, Cambridge, 2019), £24.95. ISBN 978–1–78374–549–4. | :
Publication Received
Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place. Edited by Ittai Weinryb
10/2019 | 1399 | 161
Pages: 888
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Reviewer:
Maniura, Robert (Maniura, Robert)
Subjects
dates:
Antiquity / Twentieth-century
museums and institutions:
Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, New York, United States
places:
South Asia / Europe / United States / South America
subjects:
Votive images / Religion / Secular
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place Edited by Ittai Weinryb. 352 pp. incl. numerous col. ills. (Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York, and Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2018), $65. ISBN 978–0–300–22296–8. | :
Editorial
Hilliard in Europe
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 99
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Subjects
art literature:
Donne, John
artists:
Hilliard, Nicholas / Kapoor, Anish
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Miniatures (paintings)
museums and institutions:
National Portrait Gallery, London, Great Britain
patrons:
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603
places:
Great Britain / France / Europe
subjects:
British painting / French painting / Politics / Nationalism / Protestantism / Portraits / Sitters / Poetry / Exhibitions / Biographies
Book Review
Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form. By Allison Morehead
01/2019 | 1390 | 161
Pages: 94-95
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Reviewer:
Thomson, Belinda (Thomson, Belinda)
Subjects
art literature:
Germain, Alphonse / Zola, Emile / Poe, Edgar Allan
artists:
Denis, Maurice / Vuillard, Edouard / Strindberg, August / Munch, Edvard / Bonnard, Pierre
dates:
1850-1899 / 1900-1949 / 1890-1899 / 1890-1899 / 1900-1909 / 1910-1919
media:
Paintings / Drawings
places:
Europe
subjects:
French painting / Norwegian / Swedish painting / Symbolist movement / Art theory / Science / Psychology / Primitivism (Cultural anthropology related concept) / Children's art / Outsider art / Writings / Literature / Translations / Nudes / Landscapes (visual works) / Dreams / Disease
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Study for Décor, by Maurice Denis. c.1890–91. Charcoal and pastel on paper, 31.2 by 24.7 cm. (Private collection).
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