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Book Review
Venus and the Arts of Love in Renaissance Florence
04/2023 | 1441 | 165
Pages: 475-476
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Reviewer:
Nuttall, Paula (Nuttall, Paula )
Subjects
places:
Florence
subjects:
Renaissance art / Renaissance Italy / Venus / Love / Eroticism / Marriage
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Venus and the Arts of Love in Renaissance Florence By Rebekah Compton. 292 pp. incl. 109 col. ills. (Cambridge University Press, 2021), £75. ISBN 978–1–108–84291–4. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. Marriage casket with the Triumph of Venus, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia). 1421. Wood and paint, diameter 29.3 cm. without handles. (RMNGrand Palais; Musée du Louvre, Paris; photograph Stéphane Maréchalle).
Exhibition Review
Poussin et l’amour
03/2023 | 1440 | 165
Pages: 320-322
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Reviewer:
Whitlum-Cooper, Francesca (Whitlum-Cooper, Francesca)
Subjects
artists:
Poussin, Nicolas
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France
subjects:
French art / Love / Eroticism / Paintings / Drawings / Exhibition catalogues
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Poussin et l’amour Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon 26th November 2022–5th March 2023 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
16. Inspiration of the poet, by Nicolas Poussin. c.1628–29. Oil on canvas, 182 by 213 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; exh. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon).
Attributed works:
17. Nymph spied on by satyrs, by Nicolas Poussin. c.1626. Oil on canvas, 66.4 by 50.3 cm. (National Gallery, London; exh. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon).
Attributed works:
18. Venus and Adonis, by Nicolas Poussin. c.1626–27. Oil on canvas, 98.5 by 134.6 cm. (Kimbell Museum of Art, Fort Worth; exh. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon).
Book Review
L’Amour peintre: L’imagerie érotique en France au XVIIIe siècle
08/2021 | 1421 | 163
Pages: 770-771
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Reviewer:
Laing, Alastair (Laing, Alastair)
Subjects
artists:
Boucher, François / Baudouin, Pierre Antoine / Fragonard, Jean-Honoré / Gravelot, Hubert François Bourguignon
subjects:
French art / Eighteenth-century art / Eroticism / Literature / Love
Reviewed Items
subjects:
L’Amour peintre: L’imagerie érotique en France au XVIIIe siècle By Guillaume Faroult. 572 pp. incl. 320 col. + b. & w. ills. (Cohen & Cohen, Paris, 2020), €160. ISBN 978–2–36749–073–1. | :
Exhibition Review
Passion and Fervour
03/2021 | 1416 | 163
Pages: 275-278
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Reviewer:
Stiegemann, Christoph (Stiegemann, Christoph)
Subjects
artists:
Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig / Barlach, Ernst / Grünewald, Matthias / Baldung, Hans / Dürer, Albrecht / Paolo Fiammingo
artists:
Dix, Otto / Goldin, Nan / Mendieta, Ana / Beckmann, Max / Fuseli, Henry
artists:
De Bruyckere, Berlinde / Lassnig, Maria
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
LWL - Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Germany
subjects:
Emotion / Love / Violence
works:
Laocoön (Vatican Museums, Rome)
Reviewed Items
works:
Passion and Fervour LWL – Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster 9th October 2020– 14th February 2021 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Study for a self-portrait, by Henry Fuseli. 1780s. Black-andwhite chalk with ink inscription, 27 by 19.4 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; exh. LWL – Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster).
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8. The fruit of love, from the series Love Scenes, by Pauwels Franck, called Paolo Fiammingo. 1585– 89. Oil on canvas, 158.7 by 257.3 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; exh. LWL – Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster).
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9. Pietà, by Berlinde de Bruyckere. 2007–08. Wax, cushions, wood, iron and epoxy, 126 by 90 by 188 cm. (Private collection; © Berlinde De Bruyckere; courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth; exh. LWL – Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster; photograph Mirjam Devriendt).
Publication Received
Edward Burne-Jones’ Mythical Paintings: The Pygmalion of the Pre-Raphaelite Painters. By Liana de Girolami Cheney, with a foreward by Alicia Craig Faxon.
05/2015 | 1346 | 157
Pages: 358
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Reviewer:
Mann, Fiona (Mann, Fiona)
Subjects
artists:
Burne-Jones, Edward
subjects:
Pre-Raphaelite / British painting / Classical mythology / Love / Beauty / Art theory / Visual sources
Exhibition Review
Art, love and politics in the 1980s. Chicago, Minneapolis and Boston
07/2012 | 1312 | 154
Pages: 517-518
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Reviewer:
Quiles, Daniel R. (Quiles, Daniel R.)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
dates:
1980-1989
museums and institutions:
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, United States / Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, United States / Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, United States
places:
United States / Minneapolis / Chicago / Boston
print:
Contemporary art
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Politics / Art / Love
subjects:
Installations (visual works) / Conceptual art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s | institution: Institute of Contemporary Art , institution: Museum of Contemporary Art , institution: Walker Art Center
Illustrations
Attributed works:
64. Untitled (cowboy), by Richard Prince. 1987. Photograph, 50.8 by 61 cm. (Rubell Family Collection; exh. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis).
Attributed works:
65. ‘Untitled’ (Perfect lovers), by Félix González-Torres. 1987–90. Two wall clocks, 34.3 by 68.6 by 3.2 cm. each. (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford; exh. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis).
Western art unattributed:
63. Installation view of This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2012.
Book Review
Art and the Culture of Love in Seventeenth-Century Holland.
03/2004 | 1212 | 146
Pages: 178-179
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Reviewer:
Jongh, Eddy de (Jongh, Eddy de; De Jongh, E.; Jongh, E. de; Dejongh, Eddy)
Subjects
dates:
1600-1699
places:
Netherlands
print:
Dutch art
subjects:
Dutch painting
subjects:
Iconography / Love
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Art and the Culture of Love in Seventeenth-Century Holland. | author: Nevitt, H. Rodney
Article
In the name of the thistle: Albrecht Dürer's self-portrait of 1493
01/2002 | 1186 | 144
Pages: 14-18
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Author:
Kregten, Jolein van (Kregten, Jolein van; Van Kregten, Jolein)
Author:
Stumpel, Jeroen (Stumpel, Jeroen; Stumpel, Jeroem)
Subjects
artists:
Dürer, Albrecht
dates:
1450-1499
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
places:
Germany
print:
Dürer, Albrecht
subjects:
Iconography / Northern Renaissance / Self-portraits / Fortune / Love / Symbolism (artistic concept) / Botanical drawings
works:
Dürer, Albrecht / Self-portrait, 1493 (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
19. Detail of Fig.20, with the Date and Inscription.
Attributed works:
20. Self-Portrait, by Albrecht Dürer. 1493. Vellum Transferred to Linen, 56.5 by 44.5 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
21. The Great Fortune or Nemesis, by Albrecht Dürer. c.1501. Engraving, 32.9 by 22.4 cm. (Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam).
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22. The Small Fortune, by Albrecht Dürer. c.1495. Engraving, 12 by 6.7 cm. (Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam).
Attributed works:
23. Detail of Fig.20, Showing the Artist's Hands Holding the Thistle.
Publication Received
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: the Strife of Love in a Dream
01/2002 | 1186 | 144
Pages: 37
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Reviewer:
Hemsoll, David (Hemsoll, David)
Subjects
dates:
1450-1499
places:
Italy
print:
Colonna, Francesco / Hypnerotomachia Poliphili / Translations / English
print:
Italian / Art
sources:
Colonna, Francesco / Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
subjects:
Renaissance / Love / Literature / Books / Translations
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: the Strife of Love in a Dream | author: Colonna, Francesco , translated by: Godwin, Joscelyn
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