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Book Review
French Gothic Ivories: Material Theologies and the Sculptor’s Craft
06/2024 | 1455 | 166
Pages: 650–651
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Reviewer:
Speakman, Naomi (Speakman, Naomi)
Subjects
dates:
1200-1299 / 1300-1349
subjects:
French medieval art / Ivories / Gothic art / Statuettes / Sculpture / Religious art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
French Gothic Ivories: Material Theologies and the Sculptor’s Craft By Sarah M. Guérin. 334 pp. incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Cambridge University Press, 2022), £90. ISBN 978–1–316–51100–8. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. Descent from the cross, central part of Deposition. c.1260–70. Ivory, height 20 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
Book Review
The Bologna Cope: Patronage, Iconography, History and Conservation
03/2024 | 1452 | 166
Pages: 325–326
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Reviewer:
Edwards, Emma (Edwards, Emma)
Subjects
dates:
1300-1349
places:
Bologna
subjects:
Copes / Opus Anglicanum (English Medieval Needlework) / Iconography / Patronage / Conservation
Reviewed Items
subjects:
3. Bologna Cope. England, before 1304. Silver-gilt and silver thread and coloured silks on two layers of linen. (Museo Civico Medievale, Bologna) | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
3. Bologna Cope. England, before 1304. Silver-gilt and silver thread and coloured silks on two layers of linen. (Museo Civico Medievale, Bologna)
Article
Two music theory manuscripts reunited: book illumination in the circle of Matteo Giovannetti
01/2024 | 1450 | 166
Pages: 16–29
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Author:
Manzari, Francesca (Manzari, Francesca)
Author:
Stoessel, Jason (Stoessel, Jason)
Subjects
artists:
Giovannetti, Matteo / circle of
dates:
1300-1349
places:
Avignon
sources:
Marchetto of Padua (fl. 1305 – 1319)
subjects:
Music / Illuminated manuscripts / Manuscripts / Patrons / Dating / Attribution / Workshops (Organisations) / Franciscans / Cardinals
Illustrations
Attributed works:
13. Leaf from the Milan manuscript. (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, MS D 5 inf., fol.52r; Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Mondadori Portfolio Fotoriproduzione).
Attributed works:
18. Detail of Miracle of St Martial, by Matteo Giovannetti. 1344–45. Fresco. (Chapel of St Martial, Papal Palace, Avignon).
Attributed works:
20. Detail of Sacrifice of Zacharias, by Matteo Giovannetti. 1344–45. Fresco. (Chapel of St John, Papal Palace, Avignon).
Attributed works:
21. Angel of the Annunciation, by Matteo Giovannetti. c.1345. Oil on wood transferred to canvas. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Scala, Florence).
Attributed works:
Emanuele III, Naples, MS V A 14, fol.49r).
Western art unattributed:
1. Leaves from the Naples manuscript, showing Lady Music and God in Majesty. (Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, Naples, MS V A 14, fols.46v–47r).
Western art unattributed:
10. Leaf from the Milan manuscript. (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, MS D 5 inf., fol.21v; Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Mondadori Portfolio Fotoriproduzione).
Western art unattributed:
11. Leaf from the Milan manuscript. (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, MS D 5 inf., fol.31r; Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Mondadori Portfolio Fotoriproduzione).
Western art unattributed:
12. Leaf from the Naples manuscript. (Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, Naples, MS V A 14, fol.88r).
Western art unattributed:
14. Leaf from the Milan manuscript. (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, MS D 5 inf., fol.78r; Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Mondadori Portfolio Fotoriproduzione).
Western art unattributed:
15. Leaf from the Milan manuscript. (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, MS D 5 inf., fol.78v; Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Mondadori Portfolio Fotoriproduzione).
Western art unattributed:
16. Leaf from the Milan manuscript. (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, MS D 5 inf., fol.110v; Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Mondadori Portfolio Fotoriproduzione).
Western art unattributed:
17. Leaf from the Liber Regulae. (Archivio di Stato, Rome, MS 3193, fol.202v; MIC).
Western art unattributed:
19. Detail of Miracle of St Martial, by Matteo Giovannetti. 1344–45. Fresco. (Chapel of St Martial, Papal Palace, Avignon).
Western art unattributed:
2. Leaf from the Naples manuscript, showing a seated lion holding in its paws the head of an ox. (Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, Naples, MS V A 14, fol.48r).
Western art unattributed:
22. Our Lady of the Annunciation, by Matteo Giovannetti. c.1345. Oil on wood transferred to canvas. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Scala, Florence).
Western art unattributed:
3. Detail of Fig.1, showing one of the lions supporting the throne of Lady Music. (Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, Naples, MS V A 14, fol.47r).
Western art unattributed:
4. Detail of Fig.1, showing the lion as a symbol for the Evangelist Mark. (Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, Naples, MS V A 14, fol.46v).
Western art unattributed:
5. Leaf from the Naples manuscript. (Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, Naples, MS V A 14, fol.1r).
Western art unattributed:
7. Leaf from the Milan manuscript. (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, MS D 5 inf., fol.1r; Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Mondadori Portfolio Fotoriproduzione).
Western art unattributed:
8. Leaf from the Milan manuscript. (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, MS D 5 inf., fol.1v; Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Mondadori Portfolio Fotoriproduzione).
Western art unattributed:
9. Leaf from the Naples manuscript. (Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, Naples, MS V A 14, fol.18v).
Book Review
Die textilen Geschenke Papst Bonifaz’ VIII. (1294–1303) an die Kathedrale von Anagni: Päpstliche Paramente des späten Mittelalters als Medien der Repräsentation, Gaben und Erinnerungsträger. By Christiane Elster
07/2018 | 1384 | 160
Pages: 603-604
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Reviewer:
Monnas, Lisa (Monnas, Lisa)
Subjects
dates:
1250-1299 / 1300-1349
media:
Silverwork / Textiles / Embroidery / Costume / Ivories
museums and institutions:
Cattedrale di Santa Maria, Anagni, Italy
patrons:
Boniface VIII, Pope, d. 1303 / Philip IV, King of France, 1268-1314 / Nicholas IV, Pope, 1227-1292 / Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464
places:
Italy / Anagni
subjects:
Popes / Papacy / Patronage / Gifts / Politics / Diplomacy / Insignias / Coats of arms / Religious ceremonies / Opus Anglicanum (English Medieval Needlework) / Caetani family / Council of Trent (1545-1563) / Inventories / Conservation / Technical analysis / Scientific analysis / Reconstruction / Iconography
works:
Ascoli Cope (Pinacoteca Civica, Ascoli Piceno) / Pienza Cope (Cathedral, Pienza)
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
2. Detail of a cope given by Boniface VIII to Anagni Cathedral. Thirteenth century. Gold embroidery (opus cyprense) on red samite. (Museo della Cattedrale di Anagni).
Article
Simone Martini's last documented work
01/2017 | 1366 | 159
Pages: 4-13
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Author:
Capron, Emma (Capron, Emma)
Subjects
art literature:
Peruzzi, Luigi di Ridolfo, 1410-1484
artists:
Martini, Simone
artists:
Lippo Memmi / Tederigho Memmi
dates:
1300-1349
places:
Avignon
subjects:
Commissions / Italian painting / Altarpieces / Lost works / Documentation / Manuscripts / Franciscans / Provenance
subjects:
Churches / Patronage
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. The Virgin of Humility, by Simone Martini. 1341 (Musée du Palais des Papes, Avignon; formerly in the porch of the cathedral, Notre-Dame-des-Doms, Avignon)
Attributed works:
10. High altar in Arras Cathedral. Engraving after a sixteenth-century painting of the Miracle of the Holy Candle (From E.-E. Viollet-le-Duc: Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle, Paris 1854, II)
Attributed works:
2. The adoraton of the Cross (The Pérussis altarpiece), by an artist in the circle of Nicolas Froment. 1480 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Attributed works:
3. Manuscript written by Luigi di Ridolfo Peruzzi. 1470s, showing fol.49v. (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence)
Attributed works:
5. The murder of L'Escuyer in the church of the Cordeliers at Avignon on 16th October 1791, by Pierre-Gabriel Berthault after Jean-Louis Prieur (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris)
Attributed works:
8. Maestà, attributed to Lippo and Tederigo Memmi. 1347(?) (Berenson Collection, Villa I Tatti, Florence)
Attributed works:
9. S. Caterina polyptych, by Simone Martini. 1319-20 (Museo Nazionale di S. Matteo, Pisa)
Western art unattributed:
4. Ruspi coat of arms, from Raccolta Ceramelli Papiani, fasc.4144 (Archivio di stato, Florence)
Western art unattributed:
6. The ruins of the Cordeliers church, Avignon
Western art unattributed:
7. Luigi Peruzzi's epitaph. 1480 (Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon; formerly on the north wall of the choir of the Cordeliers church, Avignon)
Book Review
Images-within-Images in Italian Painting (1250–1350). Reality and Reflexivity, P. Bokody
03/2016 | 1356 | 158
Pages: 206-207
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Reviewer:
Schmidt, Victor M. (Schmidt, Victor M.)
Subjects
artists:
Giotto / Daddi, Bernardo / Lorenzetti, Ambrogio / Lorenzetti, Pietro
artists:
Gaddi, Taddeo
buildings:
Cappella degli Scrovegni, Padua, Italy
dates:
1250-1299 / 1300-1349
subjects:
Italian painting / Paintings within paintings / Frescoes / Realism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
55. Presentation in the Temple, by Ambrogio Lorenzetti. 1342 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)
Exhibition Review
Gold and ivory in Paris and Tuscany
10/2015 | 1351 | 157
Pages: 727-728
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Reviewer:
Cannon, Joanna (Cannon, Joanna)
Subjects
dates:
1250-1299 / 1300-1349 / 2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Musée du Louvre-Lens, Lens, France
places:
Lens / France
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Ivories / Goldsmiths / Gold / Art objects / Sculpture / Illuminated manuscripts / Stained glass
subjects:
French / Italian
Illustrations
Attributed works:
59. Chalice, by Tondino di Guerrino and Andrea Riguardi. c.1322-28 (British Museum, London; exh. Musée du Louvre-Lens)
Attributed works:
60. Crucifixion, by the Master of Città di Castello. c.1310-20 (Manchester Art Gallery; exh. Musée du Louvre-Lens)
Western art unattributed:
58. Deposition. Paris, c.1270-80 (Musée du Louvre, Paris; exh. Musée du Louvre-Lens)
Western art unattributed:
61. Jeanne de Navarre (?). Paris, c.1310 (Skulptursammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Berlin; exh. Musée du Louvre-Lens)
Book Review
Gothic Wonder: Art, Artifice and the Decorated Style 1290–1350, P. Binski
03/2015 | 1344 | 157
Pages: 192-193
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Reviewer:
Wilson, Christopher (Wilson, Christopher)
Subjects
dates:
1250-1299 / 1300-1349
subjects:
Gothic (Medieval) / Decorated style / English / British architecture
Book Review
Giotto and the Flood of Florence in 1333. A Study in ­Catastrophism, Guild Organisation and Art Technology, E.S. Skaug
12/2014 | 1341 | 156
Pages: 818
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Reviewer:
Schmidt, Victor M. (Schmidt, Victor M.)
Subjects
artists:
Giotto
dates:
1300-1349
subjects:
Italian painting / Late works / Punch marks / Workshops (Organisations) / Polyptychs / Guilds
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