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Book Review
Kunstkammer: Early Modern Art and Curiosity Cabinets in the Holy Roman Empire
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 976-7
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Reviewer:
Sandbichler, Veronika (Sandbichler, Veronika)
Subjects
dates:
1550-1649
places:
Munich / Innsbruck / Dresden / Prague / Graz / Stuttgart / Kassel
subjects:
Kunstkammer / Cabinets of curiosities
subjects:
Collecting / Collectors
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Kunstkammer: Early Modern Art and Curiosity Cabinets in the Holy Roman Empire By Jeffrey Chipps Smith. 319 pp. incl. 179 col. + 10 b. & w. ills. (Reaktion Books, London, 2022), £35. ISBN 978–1–78914–612–7. | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
3. Cabinet of Archduke Ferdinand II. Nuremberg or Mantua, c.1582. Ebony, maple, walnut and silver, 75 by 62 by 45 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
Book Review
Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance: A Contribution to the History of Collecting
07/2023 | 1444 | 165
Pages: 803–804
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Reviewer:
Koeppe, Wolfram (Koeppe, Wolfram)
Subjects
art literature:
Schlosser, Julius
museums and institutions:
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
subjects:
Cabinets of curiosities / Kunstkammer / Collecting / Collections / Vienna School of Art History
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance: A Contribution to the History of Collecting By Julius von Schlosser, edited by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, translated by Jonathan Blower. 232 pp. incl. 7 col. + 103 b. & w. ills. (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2021), £55. ISBN 978–1–60606–665–21. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. Frontispiece to Ole Worm’s Museum Wormianum (Leiden 1655), by G. Wingendorp. Engraving, 27.8 by 35.8 cm. (Bodleian Library, Oxford).
Exhibition Review
Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe
08/2020 | 1409 | 162
Pages: 697-699
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Reviewer:
Kirchweger, Franz (Kirchweger, Franz)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
subjects:
Kunstkammer / Cabinets of curiosities / Courts (social groups) / Collecting / Science / Automata / Clocks / Goldsmiths
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe Edited by Wolfram Koeppe. 308 pp. incl. 300 col. ills. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2019), £50. ISBN 978–1–58839–677–8. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Writing box, by Wenzel Jamnitzer. c.1560–70. Silver, 6 by 22.7 by 10.2 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
Attributed works:
5. Objects in turned ivory, from C. Plumier: L’art de Tourner, ou De Faire en Perfection Toutes Sortes d’Ouvrages au Tour, Paris 1749. By François Baillieul after Charles Plumier. Engraving, 40.5 by 26.8 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
6. Celestial globe with clockwork, by Gerhard Emmoser. 1579. Silver (partially gilt), brass (gilt) and steel, height 27.3 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Book Review
Interactive and Sculptural Printmaking in the Renaissance (Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 270/21). By Suzanne Karr Schmidt
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 980-981
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Reviewer:
Savage, Elizabeth (Savage, Elizabeth)
Subjects
dates:
1400-1499 / 1500-1599
media:
Books / Book illustrations / Prints / Ivories / Furniture
places:
Europe / Germany
subjects:
Printmaking / Printmakers / Cultural history / Social history / Iconography / Religious ceremonies / Reformation / Counter Reformation / Luther, Martin, 1483-1546 / Propaganda / Cabinets of curiosities / Science / Art market / Electronic publishing
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
4. Diser Bapst Alexander der Sechst. German, after 1555. Hand-coloured woodcut and letter- press, shown both closed, 33.5 by 17 cm., and open. (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Einbl. VII,23 a; photograph Creative Commons).
Book Review
A Rothschild Renaissance: A New Look at the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum. Edited by Pippa Shirley and Dora Thornton
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 878-879
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Reviewer:
Kirchweger, Franz (Kirchweger, Franz)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Rothschild, Ferdinand / Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria, 1529-1595
dates:
1800-1899 / 2010-2019
media:
Jewellery / Enamels / Sculpture / Glassware / Silverwork / Forgeries / Art objects
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain / Waddesdon Manor, Waddesdon, Aylesbury, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / London / Waddesdon
subjects:
Collections / Collecting / Cabinets of curiosities / Collectors / Curators / Rothschild family / Limoges porcelain / Cups / Nautilus shell cups / Art market / Art dealers / Scientific analysis / Technical analysis / Bequests
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. Miniature tabernacle, by workshop of Adam Dircksz. 1500–30, base 1562. Boxwood, 22.2 by 14.7 by 13 cm. (British Museum, London).
Exhibition Review
The Art of Power: Habsburg Women in the Renaissance. Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 852-854
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Reviewer:
Fössel, Amalie (Fössel, Amalie)
Subjects
artists:
Meit, Conrat
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Books / Armour / Textiles / Tapestries / Porcelain / Sculpture / Furniture / Fans (costume accessories) / Glassware / Ivories / Art objects / Emblems
museums and institutions:
Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck, Austria
patrons:
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1459-1519 / Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria, 1529-1595 / Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands, 1480-1530 / Mary of Habsburg, 1505-1558 / Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558
patrons:
Catherine of Austria, 1507–1578
places:
Austria / Innsbruck
subjects:
House of Habsburg / Collecting / Collections, Public / Collections, Private / Patronage / Women / Politics / Diplomacy / Courts (social groups) / Portraits / Cabinets of curiosities / Gifts / Busts
subjects:
Literature / Music / Coral / Vessels / Religious art / Science
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Margaret of Austria, by Conrat Meit. c.1518. Pear wood (?), 7.7 by 7.2 by 4.6 cm. (Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich; exh. Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck).
Attributed works:
5. Tapestry with the arms of Margaret of Austria, by Henri van Lacke, Edingen. 1528. Silk and wool, 301 by 375 cm. (Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest; exh. Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck).
Non-western art unattributed:
6. Folding fan. Sri Lanka, 1542. Ivory and ebony, 43 by 33 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; exh. Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck)
Article
Daniel Nijs’s cabinet and its sale to Lord Arundel in 1636
03/2012 | 1308 | 154
Pages: 172-176
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Author:
Anderson, Christina M. (Anderson, Christina M.)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Nijs, Daniel / Howard, Thomas, Second Earl of Arundel, 1585-1646
collectors and dealers:
Ferdinand I Gonzaga, 1587-1626, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat
dates:
1600-1649
places:
London / Venice
print:
Nijs, Daniel
subjects:
Merchants / Flemish / Connoisseurs
subjects:
Collectors / Collections, Private / Cabinets (furniture) / Cabinets of curiosities / Contracts / Lost works
subjects:
Provenance
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Daniel Nijs (1572–1647), by Odoardo Fialetti. 1615. Engraving. From G. Cesare Gigli: La pittura trionfante, Venice 1615.
Attributed works:
2. Art cabinet, designed by Philipp Hainhofer. Augsburg, 1625–31. Ebony veneer and pietre dure, 240 by 120 cm. (Museum Gustavianum, Uppsala University Art Collections).
Attributed works:
3. A collector’s cabinet, by Frans Francken the Younger. c.1617. Panel, 90 by 125 cm. (Collection of the Duke of Northumberland).
Western art unattributed:
4. Cabinet. Antwerp, mid-seventeenth century. Ebony decorated with engraved silver leaf, 28 by 24 by 12.5 cm. (Museum Rockoxhuis, Antwerp).
Western art unattributed:
5. Coffer. Antwerp, c.1600. Incised ivory veneer on softwood, 12.2 by 17 by 9 cm. (MAS, Vleeshuis collection, Antwerp).
Book Review
Curiosity and Enlightenment. Collectors and Collections from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century
08/2008 | 1265 | 150
Pages: 548-549
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Reviewer:
Fox, Celina (Fox, Celina)
Subjects
dates:
1500-1899
print:
Collecting
subjects:
Collectors / Collecting / Collections / Cabinets of curiosities
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Curiosity and Enlightenment. Collectors and Collections from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century | author: MacGregor, Arthur
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
34. Butterfly specimens (Danainae) between sheets of mica. (From A. MacGregor: Curiosity and Enlightenment. Collectors and Collections from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century, New Haven and London 2007, fig.88).
Short Notice
Gonzalo Argote de Molina and his museum in Seville
10/2006 | 1243 | 148
Pages: 689-693
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Author:
Cacho Casal, Marta (Cacho Casal, Marta)
Subjects
artists:
Sánchez Coello, Alonso
collectors and dealers:
Argote de Molina, Gonzalo
dates:
1550-1599
places:
Seville / Spain
print:
Argote de Molina, Gonzalo
print:
Collecting
subjects:
Collections, Private / Museums / Patronage / Kunstkammer / Cabinets of curiosities / Portraits / Spanish painting
Illustrations
Attributed works:
30. Portrait of Gonzalo Argote de Molina, by Francisco Pacheco. c.1599. Black and red chalk on paper, 18.9 by 14.9 cm. Libro de descripción de verdareros retratos de ilustres y memorables varones, fol.72r. (Fundación Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid).
Attributed works:
33. Portrait of Philip II, by Alonso Sánchez Coello. 1570–71. Canvas, 109.5 by 92.5 cm. (Pollok House, Glasgow).
Attributed works:
34. Portrait of Süleyman I, the Magnificent, by Theodor de Bry. c.1596. 15.3 by 13 cm. From Vitae et Icones Sultanorum Turcicorum, Frankfurt 1596, fol.172. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
35. Portrait of Carlos de Negrón, by Francisco Pacheco. c.1599. Black and red chalk on paper, 18.9 by 14.9 cm. From Libro de descripción de retratos de ilustres y memorables varones, fol.74r. (Fundación Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid).
Western art unattributed:
31. Impresa of Gonzalo Argote de Molina. c.1572. Engraving, 18.3 by 15 cm. From Geronimo Ruscelli: Le imprese illustri con esposizioni e discorsi, Venice 1572, fol.253v. (By permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library).
Western art unattributed:
32. Armadillo, by an anonymous Italian artist. c.1574. Woodcut, 10.8 by 6.1 cm. From Geronimo Ruscelli: Le imprese illustri con esposizioni e discorsi, Venice 1572, fol.254r. (By permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library).
Book Review
Die Brandenburgisch-Preussische Kunstkammer. Eine Auswahl aus den alten Bestanden
08/1982 | 953 | 124
Pages: 508-509
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Reviewer:
Hayward, J. F. (Hayward, J. F.; Hayward, John Forrest; H., J. F.; Hayward, John)
Subjects
dates:
1500-1899
places:
Germany / Prussia
subjects:
Kunstkammer
subjects:
Cabinets of curiosities
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Die Brandenburgisch-Preussische Kunstkammer. Eine Auswahl aus den alten Bestanden | author: Hildebrand, J. , author: Theuerkauff, Christian
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