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Book Review
Piero della Francesca: The Augustinian Polyptych Reunited
11/2024 | 1460 | 166
Pages: 1164-1166
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Franklin, David (Franklin, David)
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Piero della Francesca: The Augustinian Polyptych Reunited Edited by Machtelt Brüggen Israëls with Nathaniel Silver. 224 pp. incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Dario Cimorelli Editore, Milan, 2024), €32. ISBN 979–12–5561–061–8. | :
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10. St Augustine, by Piero della Francesca. 1468–69. Oil and on panel, 135.5 by 66.5 cm. (Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon; exh. Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan).
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8. Installation view of Piero della Francesca: The Augustinian Polyptych Reunited at the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, 2024. (Courtesy Museo Poldi Pezzoli).
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9. Reconstruction of the polyptych for S. Agostino (now S. Chiara), Sansepolcro, by Piero della Francesca. 1468–69. (Reconstruction by Machtelt Brüggen Israëls, drawing by Andrea Santacesaria and rendering by Giacomo Tenti. 2024).
Article
The ‘Madonna del Baraccano’: Francesco del Cossa’s reworking of a miraculous fresco
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 900-911
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Hartkamp, Julie (Hartkamp, Julie)
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1. Madonna del Baraccano, by Pseudo Jacopino di Francesco (or circle of) and Francesco del Cossa. c.1326–27 and 1472. Detached fresco, 250 by 450 cm. (S. Maria del Barracano, Bologna; by concession of the Ministero della Cultura – Archivio Fotografico dei Musei Nazionali di Bologna).
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10. Proposed reconstruction of Pseudo Jacopino di Francesco’s entire fresco with the Virgin and Child, St Nicholas of Tolentino and the empty space occupied by a second saint. (Illustration the author and Robert Esser).
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10. Proposed reconstruction of Pseudo Jacopino di Francesco’s entire fresco with the Virgin and Child, St Nicholas of Tolentino and the empty space occupied by a second saint. (Illustration the author and Robert Esser).
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11. Detail of Madonna and Child and the Man of Sorrows between saints, by Lippo di Dalmasio. Late 14th century. Detached fresco. (S. Maria dei Servi, Bologna; photograph the author).
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12. Recovery of a fragment of St Nicholas during the restoration of the Madonna del Baraccano by Ottorino Nonfarmale, 1969. Photograph. (Photograph by concession of the Ministero della Cultura – Archivio Fotografico dei Musei Nazionali di Bologna).
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13. Left: Frontispice of Statutes of the Compagnia del Baraccano, by the Master of the Statutes of the Compagnia del Baraccano. 1446. Illuminated miniature. (ASB, Statuti della Compagnia detta di S. Maria del Baraccano, Cartone Statuti n.1, book 1; photograph the author).
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14. Right: Detail of St Monaca, by Giulio Bonasone. 1572. Oil on canvas. (Conservatorio del Baraccano, Bologna; photograph by concession of the Ministero della Cultura – Archivio Fotografico dei Musei Nazionali di Bologna).
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15. Photograph of Fig.1, by Villani e Figli. c.1967–69. Gelatin silver print, 23.5 by 18 cm. (Fondazione Federico Zeri, Bologna).
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16. Drawing of the Madonna del Baraccano, by Francesco Cavazzioni. 1608. Ink and watercolour on paper, 21 by 15 cm. (From Corona di gratie, MS B298, fol.155; photograph courtesy Biblioteca comunale dell’Archiginnasio).
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3. Map of Bologna, by Franz Hogenberg, showing Santa Maria del Baraccano in the top-left corner. 1588. Ink on paper. (Biblioteca communale dell’Archiginnasio, Raccolta piante e vedute della città di Bologna, Bononia Alma Studiorum Mater, Cartella 1, n.2.).
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4. Detail of Map of Bologna in 1600, by Jean Blaeu, showing the Baroque church of the Madonna del Baraccano. 1663. Ink and watercolour on paper. (Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice; Bridgeman Images).
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5. Madonna and Child, by Pseudo Jacopino di Francesco. 1320s. Detached fresco. (S. Giovanni in Monte, Bologna; photograph the author).
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7. Third strappo of Fig.1. (Photograph by concession of the Ministero della Cultura – Archivio Fotografico dei Musei Nazionali di Bologna).
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9. Fourth strappo of Fig.1. (Photograph the author).
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2. S. Maria del Baraccano, Bologna, seen from Viale Giovanni Gozzadini, showing the original fourteenth-century city wall with the protruding baraccano. (Photograph the author).
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6. Second strappo of Fig.1. (Photograph by concession of the Ministero della Cultura – Archivio Fotografico dei Musei Nazionali di Bologna).
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8. Detail of Fig.9, showing St Nicholas and the hands of a donor figure. (Photograph the author).
Short Notice
The missing woman: the reunion of a family portrait by Cornelis de Vos
07/2024 | 1456 | 166
Pages: 708–13
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Jager, Angela (Jager, Angela)
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Wadum, Jørgen (Wadum, Jørgen)
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1. Portrait of husband and wife, by Cornelis de Vos. After 1635. Oil on canvas, 173 by 132 cm. (The Nivaagaard Collection).
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2a–b. Reconstruction showing Portrait of a father and son and Portrait of a woman by Cornelis de Vos reunited.
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2b. Right: Portrait of a woman. 1626. Oil on canvas, 57.5 by 48.7 cm. (The Nivaagaard Collection).
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3. Fig.2b, before conservation in 2014.
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4. Portrait of a family with four daughters and a son, by Cornelis de Vos. 1626. Oil on canvas, 160.5 by 184.5 cm. (Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne).
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5. Photograph of detail of Fig.2a, showing the lower-right corner after removal of overpaint. 1966. (Statens Museum for Kunst Archive, Copenhagen).
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6. Strainer of Fig.2b, showing the wax seal in the upper-right corner and label reading ‘No 25’ attached to the cross bar.
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7. Detail of the wax seal of Fig.2b, showing the monogram ‘MB’.
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8. Detail of annotated copy of sale catalogue of Lord Northwick’s collection. (National Gallery Research Centre, London, no.NGA 28/1/6).
Book Review
Le Retable de l’Annonciation d’Aix: Récit, prophétie et accomplissement dans l’art de la fin du Moyen Âge
06/2024 | 1455 | 166
Pages: 661–662
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Elsig, Frédéric (Elsig, Frédéric)
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Le Retable de l’Annonciation d’Aix: Récit, prophétie et accomplissement dans l’art de la fin du Moyen Âge By Christian Heck. 208 pp. incl. 68 col. + 8 b. & w. ills. (Édition Faton, Dijon, 2023), €29. ISBN 978–2–87844–340–0. | :
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10. Annunciation, central panel from the Aix Triptych, by Barthélemy d’Eyck. Oil on panel, 155 by 176 cm. Provence, 1443–44. (Sainte-Madeleine, Aix-en-Provence).
Exhibition Review
Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color
03/2023 | 1440 | 165
Pages: 312-315
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Rumora, Roko (Rumora, Roko)
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Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 5th July 2022–26th March 2023 | :
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6. Reconstruction of the so-called ‘Cuirass-Torso’ from the Athenian Acropolis, Variant B, by Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch- Brinkmann. 2005. Plaster cast, natural pigments in egg tempera and gold foil, 60 by 44 by 25 cm. (Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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8. Reconstruction of a marble finial in the form of a sphinx, by Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch- Brinkmann. 2022. Cast from polymethyl metacrylate, natural pigments in egg tempera, gold foil and copper, 85 by 28 by 57 cm. (Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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9. Installation view of Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023, showing the reconstruction of the funerary stele of Phrasikleia, by Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch- Brinkmann. 2010, updated 2019. Polymethyl metacrylate, 200 by 68 by 69 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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7. Marble finial in the form of a sphinx. Archaic Greek, c.530 BC. Marble, height (with akroterion) 142.6 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Article
Cut from the same cloth: a composite canvas by Paul Cezanne
12/2022 | 1437 | 164
Pages: 1224-1233
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Aebi, Kiko (Aebi, Kiko)
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Haddad, Abed (Haddad, Abed)
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1. Still life with apples, by Paul Cezanne. c.1878. Oil on canvas, 19 by 27 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, lent by the Provost and Fellows of King’s College, Cambridge, Keynes Collection).
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10. Study of heads, by Pierre-August Renoir. 1890s. Oil on canvas, 46 by 38 cm. (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia).
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2. Glass and apples, by Paul Cezanne. 1879–80. Oil on canvas. 31.5 by 40 cm. (Rudolf Staechelin, Basel).
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3. Female nude (Leda), by Paul Cezanne. c.1887. Oil on canvas stretched on pasteboard, 44 by 62 cm. (Von der Heydt- Museum, Wuppertal).
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4. Reconstituted study sheet of drawings by Paul Cezanne, subsequently divided into three separate compositions: Sheet of studies, including a Skull (left), A historical or Biblical scene (The rape of Lucretia) (top right), and A historical or Biblical scene (bottom right). (From W. Feilchenfeldt, J. Warman and D. Nash: The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne, www.cezannecatalogue.com).
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5. Image of Glass with apples (right) and Still life with apples (left) unframed and in their original configuration, revealing contiguous brush strokes across both pictures. (© Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2022; photograph the authors).
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6. X-ray radiograph of Glass with apples (right) and Still life with apples (left). (Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, and Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
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7. MA-XRF maps of Glass with apples (right) and Still life with apples (left), showing the distribution of iron (Fe), calcium (Ca), zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), cobalt (Co), chromium (Cr) and mercury (Hg). (© Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2022; photograph the authors).
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8. Lead L-series (Pb-L) MA-XRF map of Glass with apples (right) and Still life with apples (left), with inset details magnifying holes along the edge of the original canvas. (© Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2022; photograph the authors).
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9. Five apples, by Paul Cezanne. 1877–78. Oil on canvas, 12.7 by 25.5 cm. (Private collection).
Article
A set of ebony and ivory inlaid furniture for the Duke of Urbino
06/2022 | 1431 | 164
Pages: 546-557
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Tavella, Mario (Tavella, Mario)
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1. The studiolo shown in Fig.2 and the credenza shown in Fig.9 reunited. (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino).
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10. Hinged panel from the top of one of the della Rovere cabinets, attributed to Giorgio Tedesco and Giulio Lupi, c.1599, incorporated into a base made c.1656–67. Ebony inlaid with ivory, 25 by 35 cm. (Private collection).
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11. The studiolo shown in Fig.2 and the credenza shown in Fig.9. (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino).
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12. The credenza shown in Fig.9 opened.
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13. The credenza on the base, as it appeared at auction in Belgium in 1951. The base is in a private collection.
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14. Hinged panel from the top of one of the della Rovere cabinets, attributed to Giorgio Tedesco and Giulio Lupi. c.1599, altered to include the grand ducal crown and incorporated into the top of the prie-dieu shown in Fig.8, c.1656–67. Ebony inlaid with ivory, 32 by 57 cm. (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino).
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15. Hinged panel from the top of one of the della Rovere cabinets, attributed to Giorgio Tedesco and Giulio Lupi. c.1599. Ebony inlaid with ivory, in a giltwood frame, 28.5 by 39 cm. (Private collection).
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2. Studiolo with cerquate decoration, attributed to Giorgio Tedesco and Giulio Lupi. c.1599. Ebony inlaid with ivory, 67 by 73 by 45 cm. (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino; photograph Claudio Ripalti – MIC, GNdM-Urbino).
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3. The studiolo shown in Fig.2 opened. (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino. Photograph Claudio Ripalti – MIC, GNdM-Urbino).
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4. Francesco Maria II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, by Giorgio Picchi. c.1590. Oil on canvas, 130 by 97 cm. (Altomani & Sons, Pesaro).
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5. Top of the table shown in Fig.6. Ebony inlaid with ivory, 83 by 133 cm. (Private collection; © Sotheby’s).
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6. Table, attributed to Giorgio Tedesco and Giulio Lupi. c.1596–97. Ebony inlaid with ivory, 83 by 133 by 83 cm. (Private collection; © Sotheby’s).
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7. Detail of the hinged panel on the top of the studiolo shown in Fig.2. (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino; photograph Claudio Ripalti – MIC, GNdM-Urbino).
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8. Prie-dieu. Florence, c.1656–67, incorporating panels attributed to Giorgio Tedesco and Giulio Lupi, c.1599. Ebony inlaid with ivory, 92 by 74 by 80 cm. (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino; photograph Claudio Ripalti – MIC, GNdM-Urbino).
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9. Credenza with cerquate decoration, attributed to Giorgio Tedesco and Giulio Lupi. c.1599. Ebony inlaid with ivory, 74.5 by 72 by 46 cm. (Private collection, on loan to the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino).
Article
The ‘Weston Altarpiece’ in the Museum of the Order of St John, Clerkenwell
02/2022 | 1427 | 164
Pages: 130-144
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West, Richard (West, Richard)
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1. Holy Trinity, here identified as the inner left exterior wing of an altarpiece by a follower of Rogier van der Weyden. c.1478–81. Oil on panel, 119 by 47 cm. (The Museum of the Order of St John, London).
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11. Altarpiece of the Virgin (Strängnäs III) (opened), wings by Colyn de Coter. c.1500–20. Wood and oil on panel, c.125 by 490 cm. (Strängnäs Cathedral).
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12. St Barbara, by the Master of the View of St Gudula. c.1490–1500. Oil on panel. 147 by 64 cm. (St Dymphna’s Church, Geel).
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13. Infancy Altarpiece open, by the Master of the Rieden Altarpiece. c.1440. Wood and oil on panel, c.136 by 354 cm. (Württembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart).
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14. Reconstruction of the Weston Altarpiece open. (Photograph the author).
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15. Reconstruction of the Weston Altarpiece closed. (Photograph the author).
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16. The Meeting at the Golden Gate, by a follower of Rogier van der Weyden. c.1480. Oil on panel. 71 by 33 cm. (Pinacoteca dell’Accademia dei Concordi, Rovigo).
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2. St John the Baptist, here identified as the outer right exterior wing of an altarpiece by a follower of Rogier van der Weyden. c.1478–81. Oil on panel, 119 by 47 cm. (The Museum of the Order of St John, London).
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3. Photograph of the panel in Fig.4. 1932. (The Museum of the Order of St John, London).
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4. Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple, here identified as the outer left interior wing of an altarpiece by a follower of Rogier van der Weyden. c.1478–81. Oil on panel, 119 by 47 cm. (The Museum of the Order of St John, London).
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5. Presentation of Christ in the Temple, here identified as the inner right interior wing of an altarpiece by a follower of Rogier van der Weyden. c.1478–81. Oil on panel, 119 by 47 cm. (The Museum of the Order of St John, London).
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6. Detail of Fig.5, showing the family arms of John Weston.
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7. Detail of Fig.5, showing the shield of office of John Weston.
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8. Detail of Fig.2, showing a heavily restored shield, here identified as the shield of office of John Weston.
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9. Edelheere Triptych, exterior wings, by a follower of Rogier van der Weyden. c.1443. Oil on panel, 99 by 47 cm. (St Peter’s church, Louvain).
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10. Altarpiece of the Passion of Christ (closed), by unknown Brabantine painter. c.1500–20. Oil on panel, c.140 by 490 cm. (Bro church, Uppland).
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17. Cast of original of a seal of John Weston. c.19th century. Wax and plaster, diameter 3.7 cm. (The Museum of the Order of St John, London).
Western art unattributed:
18. Detail from the tomb of John Tregonwell, showing the inscription. c.1565. (Milton Abbey Church). (Photograph the author).
Exhibition Review
Raphael and the Domus Aurea: The Invention of Grotesque Ornament
11/2021 | 1424 | 163
Pages: 1063-1065
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Aymonino, Adriano (Aymonino, Adriano)
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Raphael and the Domus Aurea: The Invention of Grotesque Ornament Domus Aurea, Rome 23rd June 2021–7th January 2022 | :
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10. Detail of the Room of Achilles on Skyros, Domus Aurea, Rome. (Photograph © ph ERCO illuminazione).
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11. The stufetta of Cardinal Bibbiena in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. (Photograph Luisa Ricciarini; Bridgeman Images).
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9. Installation view of Raphael and the Domus Aurea: The Invention of Grotesque Ornament at the Domus Aurea, Rome, 2021, showing the Farnese Atlas in the Octagonal Hall. (Layout and Interaction Design Dotdotdot; photograph Andrea Martiradonna).
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