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Book Review
La sagrestia di Michelangelo: Nuovi studi e restauro
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 191–193
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Lupi, Livia (Lupi, Livia; Lupi, Livia)
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La sagrestia di Michelangelo: Nuovi studi e restauro Edited by Monica Bietti and Claudia Echinger- Maurach. 376 pp. incl. 330 col. + 50 b. & w. ills. (Mandragora, Florence, 2023), €80. ISBN 978–88–7461–668–8. | :
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4. Detail of Twilight, by Michelangelo Buonarroti. c.1524–c.1531. Marble. (New Sacristy, S. Lorenzo, Florence).
Book Review
Grands décors restaurés de Notre- Dame de Paris
01/2025 | 1462 | 167
Pages: 62-3
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Bastet, Delphine (Bastet, Delphine)
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Grands décors restaurés de Notre- Dame de Paris Edited by Caroline Piel and Emmanuel Pénicaut. 112 pp. incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Silvana Editoriale, Milan, and Mobilier national, Paris, 2024), €15. ISBN 978–88–366–5682–0. | :
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1. Interior of Notre-Dame, Paris. c.1650. Oil on canvas, 83 by 93 cm. (Société des amis de Notre-Dame de Paris).
Editorial
Restoring the ‘belle époque’
10/2024 | 1459 | 166
Pages: 995–6
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1. Façade of the Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, facing the courtyard, designed by Henri Parent. (© Culturespaces; Sophie Lloyd).
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2. Library of the Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, looking towards Rembrandt’s Supper at Emmaus. (© Culturespaces; Sophie Lloyd).
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3. Half of the double-flight staircase in the Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris; at the upper left is Giambattista Tiepolo’s Henry III being welcomed by the Doge Contarini. (© Culturespaces; Nicolas Héron).
Book Review
Restoration as Fabrication of Origins: A Material and Political History of Italian Renaissance Art
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 988-9
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Ventra, Stefania (Ventra, Stefania)
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Restoration as Fabrication of Origins: A Material and Political History of Italian Renaissance Art Edited by Henri de Riedmatten, Fabio Gaffo and Mathilde Jaccard. 190 pp. incl. 92 col. ills. (De Gruyter, Berlin, 2023), £44.50. ISBN 978–3–11–107227–2. | :
Article
The oculi of Notre-Dame, Paris
07/2024 | 1456 | 166
Pages: 689–95
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Nouzeran, Dylan (Nouzeran, Dylan)
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Phalip, Bruno (Phalip, Bruno)
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Ybert, Arnaud (Ybert, Arnaud)
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1. South side of the chevet of Notre-Dame, Paris, before April 2019. (© Mathieu Ducros 2024; Bridgeman Images).
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11. Chevet oculus as designed by Viollet-le-Duc, Notre-Dame, Paris, taken by drone. (Photograph Dylan Nouzeran).
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12. Reconstruction of the elevation of the chevet. (Dylan Nouzeran).
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13. Stone-by-stone survey of the chevet of Notre-Dame, Paris, showing in dark red the reconstruction of the rediscovered oculus; in orange oculi of which some traces have remained; and in yellow a proposal for the size and position of the remaining oculi. (Dylan Nouzeran).
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14. Detail of a ground-plan of Notre-Dame, Paris, showing the first turning bay of the apse.
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15. Photogrammetic image showing the outline of an oculus visible on the jambs of the clerestorey in the first turning bay on the north side of the apse. (Dylan Nouzeran).
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2. Clerestorey window of Notre-Dame, Paris, before April 2019. (Courtesy the Mapping Gothic Project, Media Center for Art History; photograph Stephen Murray, 2011).
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6. Fragment of an oculus arm from Notre-Dame, Paris. c.1160. Limestone, height 79.5 cm. (Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris; CC0 Paris Musées).
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7. Interior of Saint-Martin de Champeaux, showing the oculi (now walled up) in the nave elevation. (Photograph Elise Baillieul).
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9b. Below, left: flat blade tool marks on an impost of an arcade capital on the north side of the chevet of Notre-Dame, Paris. (Photograph Arnaud Ybert).
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10. Above: flat and toothed blade tool marks on detail of clerestorey window jambs in the chevet of Notre-Dame, Paris. (Photograph Arnaud Ybert).
Western art unattributed:
3. Y-shaped fragment of an oculus from Notre-Dame, Paris. c.1160. Limestone, height 35 cm. (Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris; CC0 Paris Musées).
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4. Fragment of an oculus arm from Notre-Dame, Paris. c.1160. Limestone, height 91.5 cm. (Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris; CC0 Paris Musées).
Western art unattributed:
5. Fragment of an oculus arm from Notre-Dame, Paris. c.1160. Limestone, height 63 cm. (Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris; CC0 Paris Musées).
Western art unattributed:
8. Interior of Notre-Dame de la Nativité, Moret-sur-Loing, showing the oculi in the apse elevation. (Photograph Elise Baillieul).
Western art unattributed:
9a. Above, left: toothed blade tool marks on an impost of an arcade capital on the north side of the chevet of Notre-Dame, Paris. (Photograph Arnaud Ybert).
Exhibition Review
Revoir Van Eyck: La Vierge du chancelier Rolin
06/2024 | 1455 | 166
Pages: 626–629
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Nuttall, Paula (Nuttall, Paula)
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Revoir Van Eyck: La Vierge du chancelier Rolin Musée du Louvre, Paris 20th March–17th June | :
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7. Virgin of Chancellor Rolin, by Jan Van Eyck, c.1430-35. Oil on panel, 71 by 65 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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8. Reverse of the Virgin of Chancellor Rolin, by Jan Van Eyck, c.1430–35. Oil on panel, 71 by 65 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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9. Epitaph of Jacques Isaac and Isabeau d’Anvaing. After 1401, c.1420–30?. Tournai stone, 59 by 86 by 12 cm. (Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Tournai; exh. Musée du Louvre, Paris)
Article
The provenance of ‘The death of Sardanapalus’: new insights from unpublished correspondence
05/2024 | 1454 | 166
Pages: 470–478
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WATSON, Andrew M. (WATSON, Andrew M.)
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1. Portrait of Daniel David Wilson, by ?Adolphe-David Fink. 1820s. Oil on canvas, 72 by 58 cm. (Private collection).
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2. The death of Sardanapalus, by Eugène Delacroix. 1827. Oil on canvas, 392 by 496 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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3. Environs of Southampton, by Jules Dupré. 1835. Oil on canvas, 115 by 184 cm. (Musée d’Art et d’Histoire Louis Senlecq, L’Isle-Adam).
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4. Virgin and Child (Madonna of the Rosary), by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. c.1675. Oil on canvas, 167 by 111 cm. (Château de Chenonceau).
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5. Portrait of Henriette Casenave Wilson, c.1830s. Pastel on board(?), 25 by 19 cm. (Private collection).
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6. Woodcutters, by Constant Troyon. 1839. Oil on canvas, 213 by 154 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Rochelle).
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8. A basket of flowers, by Eugène Delacroix. 1848–49. Oil on canvas, 107.3 by 142.2 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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9. Façade of L’hôtel Brochart de Saron, 17, rue de l’Université, by Charles Lansiaux. Photograph. (Musée Carnavalet, Paris; PWB Images; Alamy Stock Photo).
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7. Château d’Écoublay. Postcard, 9 by 13.6 cm. (Private collection).
Obituary
Jacob Rothschild (1936–2024)
05/2024 | 1454 | 166
Pages: 538–540
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Author:
Hall, Michael (Hall, Michael)
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1. Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild (‘Man in a Chair’), by Lucian Freud. 1989. Oil on canvas, 114.3 by 79.7 cm. (Private collection, on loan to the National Portrait Gallery, London).
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2. Louis XVI, by Antoine-François Callet, in a frame attributed to François-Charles Buteux. 1781–82. Oil on canvas in gilded oak frame, 280 by 180 cm. (Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire).
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3. Boy building a house of cards, by Jean-Siméon Chardin. 1735. Oil on canvas, 81 by 101 cm. (Private collection, on loan to Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire; Bridgeman Images).
Article
Matteo Giovannetti, the painter and his work: an assessment in the light of recent restorations
01/2024 | 1450 | 166
Pages: 54–61
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Vingtain, Dominique (Vingtain, Dominique)
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2. St Martial, detail of a fresco by Matteo Giovannetti before and after restoration. 1344–45. Fresco. (Scene D, vault, chapel of St Martial, Papal Palace, Avignon; Consortio Arké).
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4. Vault of the chapel of St Martial, Papal Palace, Avignon, by Matteo Giovannetti. 1344–45. (Photograph Domenico Venturi).
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5. Vault of the chapel of St John, Papal Palace, Avignon, by Matteo Giovannetti. 1346–48. (Photograph Domenico Venturi).
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6. Detail of The beheading of John the Baptist, by Matteo Giovannetti. 1355. Fresco. (Chapel of St John, Chartreuse, Villeneuve-lès-Avignon; Bildarchiv Monheim GmbH; Alamy Stock Photo).
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7. Details of the face of St Martial at different stages of his life as depicted in the Papal Palace, Avignon. (© Dominique Vingtain; photographs Domenico Ventura).
Western art unattributed:
1. Section of the Tower of the Pope and Garderobe Tower, Papal Palace, Avignon.
Western art unattributed:
3. Ground plan of the Papal Palace, Avignon.
Book Review
Mauro Pellicioli e la cultura del restauro nel XX secolo
09/2023 | 1446 | 165
Pages: 1044-45
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Ventra, Stefania (Ventra, Stefania)
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Mauro Pellicioli e la cultura del restauro nel XX secolo Edited by Silvia Cecchini, Maria Beatrice Failla, Federica Giacomini and Chiara Piva. 392 pp. incl. 111 b. & w. ills. (Sagep Editori, Genoa, 2022), €50. ISBN 978–88–6373–868–1. | :
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