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Book Review
Oxfordshire: Oxford and the South-East (The Buildings of England)
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 188–189
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Reviewer:
Whyte, William (Whyte, William)
Subjects
art literature:
Pevsner, Nikolaus
places:
Oxford / Oxfordshire
subjects:
Architectural historians / Architectural history / Architecture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Oxfordshire: Oxford and the South-East (The Buildings of England) By Simon Bradley, Nikolaus Pevsner and Jennifer Sherwood. 936 pp. incl. 130 col. + 80 b. & w. ills. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2023), £45. ISBN 978–0–300–20929–7. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. St Catherine’s College, Oxford, designed by Arne Jacobsen. 1960–64.
Exhibition Review
America’s Cool Modernism:O’Keeffe to Hopper. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
07/2018 | 1384 | 160
Pages: 593-595
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Reviewer:
Anfam, David (Anfam, David)
Subjects
artists:
O'Keeffe, Georgia / Hopper, Edward / Demuth, Charles / Davis, Stuart, 1894-1964 / Hartley, Marsden / Steichen, Edward / Abbott, Berenice / Ault, George / cummings, e e / Schamberg, Morton Livingston / Lawrence, Jacob / Bluemner, Oscar / Dove, Arthur Garfield / Lewis, Martin, 1881-1962
artists:
Lozowick, Louis
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / Oxford
subjects:
American painting (United States of America) / Abstract art / Precisionism / Machine aesthetic / Style / Capitalism / Film (cinema) / Literature
Illustrations
Attributed works:
23. New York night, no.2, by George Ault. 1921. Canvas, 51.4 by 35.6 cm. (The Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
24. Dawn in Pennsylvania, by Edward Hopper. 1942. Canvas, 61.9 by 112.4 cm. (Terra Collection, Chicago; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
25. Red circle, by Louis Lozowick. 1924. Canvas. 45.7 by 38.1 (The Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Book Review
Italian Maiolica and Europe: Medieval, Renaissance and Later Italian Pottery in the Ashmolean Museum. By Timothy Wilson
03/2018 | 1380 | 160
Pages: 254-255
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Reviewer:
Thornton, Dora (Thornton, Dora)
Subjects
dates:
1450-1599
media:
Maiolica / Ceramics
museums and institutions:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain
places:
France / Italy / Netherlands / Belgium / Great Britain / Oxford
subjects:
Collections, Private / Collections, Public / Provenance / Castel Durante Maiolica / Pottery / Decorative arts / Medici Porcelain Factory
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. Dish with a composite head of penises, by Francesco Urbini. c.1536. Tin-glazed earthenware, possibly Gubbio. Diameter 23.2 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Exhibition Review
Raphael in Oxford and Vienna
03/2018 | 1380 | 160
Pages: 226-233
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Reviewer:
Henry, Tom (Henry, Tom)
Subjects
artists:
Raphael / Giulio Romano
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Drawings
museums and institutions:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain / Albertina, Vienna, Austria
places:
Great Britain / Oxford / Austria / Vienna
subjects:
Old-master drawings / Old-master paintings / Italian painting / Cartoons (working drawings) / Rhetoric / Attributions / Infrared reflectography
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Seated male nude, by Raphael. c.1511–14. Black chalk, 34.4 by 26.7 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
10. Infra-red reflectograph of Venus, Vulcan, Cupid and five putti, by Giulio Romano. c.1530. Panel, 37.6 by 24.3 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
2. Two figure studies and drafts of a sonnet, by Raphael. c.1508–10. Black chalk, pen and brown ink over blind stylus, 38.8 by 23.6 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
3. A standing figure and a drapery study, by Raphael. c.1499–1502. Pen and brown ink and black chalk, 25.4 by 21.6 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
4. Portrait of a boy, here attributed to Giulio Romano. c.1516–18. Canvas, 43.8 by 29 cm. (Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid).
Attributed works:
5. Portrait of a woman, by Giulio Romano. c.1518–20. Panel, 59.5 by 44 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg).
Attributed works:
6. The Transfiguration with nude figures, school of Raphael. c.1519–20. Pen and brown ink, over some black chalk, 53.6 by 37.7 cm. (Albertina, Vienna).
Attributed works:
7. Overlay highlighting the spolvero on The heads and hands of two apostles, by Raphael. c.1519–20. Black chalk over pounced underdrawing with some white heightening, 49.9 by 36.4 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
8. Detail of Fig.6. Compare with the overlay in Fig.7.
Attributed works:
9. Venus, Vulcan, Cupid and five putti, here attributed to Giulio Romano. c.1518–20. Pen and ink, heightened with white over traces of black chalk and stylus, 37.1 by 24.2 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Exhibition Review
Sicily. London, Amsterdam and Oxford
09/2016 | 1362 | 158
Pages: 752-754
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Reviewer:
Treuherz, Julian (Treuherz, Julian)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain / Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain / Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands / Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark / LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
museums and institutions:
Arsenale della Real Marina, Palermo, Italy
places:
Palermo / Oxford / Netherlands / London / Italy / Germany / England / Denmark / Copenhagen / Bonn / Amsterdam
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Antiquities / Sicilian / Italian / Cultural history / Art objects / Sicily
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
49. Phiale, from a tomb at Sant'Angelo Muxaro. c.600 BC (British Museum, London)
Western art unattributed:
50. Fragment of the funerary robe of Henry VI of Sicily. Palermo. 1180-90 (British Museum, London)
Western art unattributed:
51. Hercules and Antaeus, fragment of a table leg. 200-100 BC (Museo Civico 'Castello Ursino', Catania; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
Exhibition Review
Andy Warhol from the Hall Collection. Oxford
05/2016 | 1358 | 158
Pages: 385–86
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Reviewer:
Williams, Gilda (Williams, Gilda)
Subjects
artists:
Warhol, Andy
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain
places:
Oxford / England
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
53. The American man (Portrait of Watson Powell), by Andy Warhol. 1964 (The Hall Foundation, New York; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
Attributed works:
54. Unidentified woman, by Andy Warhol. 1986 (The Hall Foundation, New York; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
Attributed works:
55. Map of the Eastern U.S.S.R., missile bases (negative), by Andy Warhol. 1985-86 (The Hall Foundation, New York; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
Exhibition Review
Drawing in Venice
01/2016 | 1354 | 158
Pages: 052
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Reviewer:
Scrase, David (Scrase, David)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain
places:
Oxford / England
places:
Venice
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Drawings / Old-master drawings / Italian / Venetian
Illustrations
Attributed works:
63. Virgin and Child enthroned with angels, and a separate study of a cherub's head, by Titian. c.1517-20 (Christ Church, Oxford; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
Attributed works:
64. The triumph of St George, by Vittore Carpaccio. c.1500-04 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
Attributed works:
65. Lagoon view with the island of San Michele, by Canaletto. c.1742-44 (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
Attributed works:
66. Head of Giuliano de'Medici, by Jacopo Tintoretto. 1540s or later (Christ Church, Oxford; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
Exhibition Review
Adam Buck
10/2015 | 1351 | 157
Pages: 722-723
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Reviewer:
Baker, Christopher (Baker, Christopher)
Subjects
artists:
Buck, Adam
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain
places:
Oxford / England
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
48. Self-portrait, by Adam Buck. 1804 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
Attributed works:
49. Skating lovers, by P. Roberts and J.C. Stadler after Adam Buck. 1800 (British Museum, London; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
Attributed works:
50. Portrait of the artist with his family, by Adam Buck. 1813 (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven)
Exhibition Review
Andy Warhol
04/2015 | 1345 | 157
Pages: 283-284
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Reviewer:
Bracewell, Michael (Bracewell, Michael)
Subjects
artists:
Warhol, Andy
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, Great Britain / Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, Great Britain / Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, Great Britain
places:
Liverpool / England / Birmingham / Oxford
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
56. Installation image from Transmitting Andy Warhol, Tate Liverpool, showing Exploding plastic inevitable, by Andy Warhol (Tate Liverpool)
Attributed works:
57. Debbie Harry: Rockbird. Album sleeve by Andy Warhol (The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York; exh. Tate Liverpool)
Attributed works:
58. Time magazine cover of Michael Jackson, by Andy Warhol. 19th March 1984
Attributed works:
59. Installation image of the upper gallery of Love is Enough at Modern Art Oxford, showing (left) Shirley Temple (unknown photographer); and (right) Marilyn Tapestry (Andy Warhol) hung on William Morris wallpaper
Exhibition Review
William Blake
03/2015 | 1344 | 157
Pages: 206-207
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Reviewer:
Scrase, David (Scrase, David)
Subjects
artists:
Blake, William
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain
places:
Oxford / England
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
63. Los smitten, by William Blake. Exerpted from The first Book of Urizen, 1794, for A Small Book of Designs (British Museum, London; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
Attributed works:
64. Jehovah and his Sons, Satan and Adam, by William Blake (The Keynes Family Trust, on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
Attributed works:
65. Head of a Damned Soul or Satan, after an oil-sketch by Henry Fuseli, by William Blake (The Hunterian, University of Glasgow; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
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