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Book Review
Piranesi: Earliest Drawings / I primi disegni
06/2023 | 1443 | 165
Pages: 666-667
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Reviewer:
Hornsby, Clare (Hornsby, Clare)
Subjects
artists:
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista
subjects:
Italian drawings / Architecture / Ruins / Antiquities / Fantasy
subjects:
Early works
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Piranesi: Earliest Drawings / I primi disegni By Andrew Robison. 96 pp. incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Artemide Edizioni, Rome, 2022), €20. ISBN 978–88–7575–415–0. | :
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Attributed works:
4. Fantasy of an ancient arcade with fragmentary ruins, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. 1741–42. Pen and brown ink with grey-brown wash over black chalk, with later red chalk revisions, 16.3 by 10.4 cm. (Private collection).
Book Review
Fancy in Eighteenth-Century European Visual Culture
11/2020 | 1412 | 162
Pages: 1004-1006
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Reviewer:
Jackall, Yuriko (Jackall, Yuriko)
Subjects
art literature:
Conferences
subjects:
Fantasy / Visual culture / Paintings / Literature / Gardens
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Fancy in Eighteenth-Century European Visual Culture Edited by Melissa Percival and Muriel Adrien. 325 pp. incl. 69 col. + b. & w. ills. (Voltaire Foundation with Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2020), £65. ISBN 978–1–789–62003–0. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. A Venetian courtesan, by John Faber II after Philippe Mercier. Engraving, 32.7 by 22.7 cm. (British Museum, London).
Exhibition Review
Jean-Jacques Lequeu: Visionary Architect. Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Morgan Library and Museum, New York
05/2020 | 1406 | 162
Pages: 432-435
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Reviewer:
Bergdoll, Barry (Bergdoll, Barry)
Subjects
artists:
Lequeu, Jean-Jacques
dates:
2020-2030
media:
Architectural drawings / Watercolours
museums and institutions:
Morgan Library and Museum, New York, United States / Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France / Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, France / Menil Collection, Houston, United States
subjects:
French architecture / Fantasy
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Jean-Jacques Lequeu: Visionary Architect. Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France Morgan Library and Museum, New York 31st January–10th May | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Aqueduct to bring water to the Holy City, from L’Architecture Civile (1777–1825), by Jean-Jacques Lequeu. Pen, wash, and watercolour, 51.6 by 36.4 cm. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; exh. Morgan Library and Museum, New York).
Attributed works:
1. Aqueduct to bring water to the Holy City, from L’Architecture Civile (1777–1825), by Jean-Jacques Lequeu. Pen, wash, and watercolour, 51.6 by 36.4 cm. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; exh. Morgan Library and Museum, New York).
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3. Draughtsman’s tools, from Architecture Civile (1777–1825), by Jean-Jacques Lequeu. Pen, ink, wash and watercolour, 51.6 by 36.4 cm. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; exh. Morgan Library and Museum, New York).
Exhibition Review
Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance. Modern 2, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
04/2020 | 1405 | 162
Pages: 351-353
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Reviewer:
Thompson, Susannah (Thompson, Susannah)
Subjects
artists:
Rego, Paula
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Great Britain / Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, Great Britain / Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
subjects:
Feminism / Politics / Gender / Fantasy / Fascism / Figurative art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
26. Manifesto (for a lost cause), by Paula Rego. 1965. Acrylic, crayon, graphite and paper glued on canvas, 183 by 152 cm. (Calouste Gulbenkian Museum - Modern Collection, Lisbon;   Paula Rego, courtesy of Marlborough, New York and London; exh. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh).
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27. Untitled no.4, by Paula Rego. 1998. Pastel on paper, 110 by 100 cm. (Private collection;   Paula Rego, courtesy of Marlborough, New York and London; exh. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh).
Attributed works:
28. Painting him out, by Paula Rego. 2011. Pastel on paper mounted on aluminium, 119.4 by 179.7 cm. (Private collection;   Paula Rego, courtesy of Marlborough, New York and London; exh. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh).
Exhibition Review
Fragonard’s fantasy figures. Washington
12/2017 | 1377 | 159
Pages: 1020-1022
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Reviewer:
Rand, Richard (Rand, Richard)
Subjects
artists:
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré
dates:
Eighteenth-century art
styles:
French art
subjects:
Half-length portraits / Fantasy
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Fragonard: The Fantasy Figures at the National Gallery of Art, Washington | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
86. Sketches of portraits, by Jean Honoré Fragonard. c.1769 (Private collection; exh. National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Attributed works:
87. M. de La Bretèche, by Jean Honoré Fragonard, 1769 (Musée du Louvre, Paris; exh. National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Attributed works:
88. Young girl reading, by Jean Honoré Fragonard, c.1769 (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Exhibition Review
Fantasy figures
03/2016 | 1356 | 158
Pages: 225-226
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Reviewer:
Jackall, Yuriko (Jackall, Yuriko)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France
places:
Toulouse / France
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Portraits / Fantasy
Illustrations
Attributed works:
80. Head of an old man, by Giambattista Tiepolo. c.1752 (Martin von Wagner Museum der Universität. Würzburg; exh. Musée des Augustins, Toulouse)
Attributed works:
81. Old woman, by Balthasar Denner. Before 1749 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; exh. Musée des Augustins, Toulouse)
Attributed works:
82. Cavalier seated by a fountain, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. c.1769 (Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona; exh. Musée des Augustins, Toulouse)
Book Review
Futures of Surrealism: Myth, Science Fiction and Fantastic Art in France, 1936–1969, G. Parkinson
01/2016 | 1354 | 158
Pages: 042
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Author:
Radford, Robert (Radford, Robert)
Subjects
dates:
1930-1939 / 1940-1959 / 1960-1969
places:
France
subjects:
Surrealism / French / Fantasy / Mythology / Literature
Book Review
Fragonard and the Fantasy Figure: Painting the Imagination
05/2013 | 1322 | 155
Pages: 333-335
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Reviewer:
Bailey, Colin B. (Bailey, Colin B.; Bailey, Colin)
Subjects
artists:
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré
subjects:
French painting / Half-length portraits / Portraits / Three-quarter length portraits / Fantasy
Illustrations
Attributed works:
33. Portrait of a lady with a dog, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Publication Received
Children’s Stories and ‘Child-Time’ in the Work of Joseph Cornell and the Transatlantic Avant-Garde
06/2012 | 1311 | 154
Pages: 433
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Reviewer:
White, Celia (White, Celia)
Subjects
artists:
Cornell, Joseph
dates:
1920-1929 / 1930-1939 / 1940-1959 / 1950-1959 / 1960-1979
print:
Cornell, Joseph
subjects:
Biographies / Children / Literature in art / Iconography / Avant-garde / American (United States of America) / Toys (recreational artifacts) / Art objects / Art theory / Fantasy / Dreams
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Children’s Stories and ‘Child-Time’ in the Work of Joseph Cornell and the Transatlantic Avant-Garde | author: Leppanen-Guerra, Analisa
Publication Received
The Mermaids of Venice. Fantastic Sea Creatures in Venetian Renaissance Art
01/2012 | 1306 | 154
Pages: 50
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Reviewer:
McHam, Sarah Blake (McHam, Sarah Blake)
Subjects
places:
Venice / Italy
print:
Venetian art
subjects:
Italian painting / Italian sculpture / Italian architecture / Renaissance / Architectural components / Monsters / Mythology / Mythical animals / Marine art / Fantasy / Iconography
subjects:
Venetian
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Mermaids of Venice. Fantastic Sea Creatures in Venetian Renaissance Art | reviewer: Luchs, Alison
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