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A reverse-glass painting by Gerhard Janssen in the Valtice Palace
07/2024 | 1456 | 166
Pages: 675–9
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Macurová, Zuzana (Macurová, Zuzana)
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Míchalová, Zdeňka (Míchalová, Zdeňka)
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1. The inscription on the panel on the reverse of Fig.3.
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2. Detail of Fig.3, showing the fragment of Gerhard Janssen’s monogram.
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3. The baptism of the eunuch, here attributed to Gerhard Janssen. 1677. Pigment and gold leaf on glass, 56 by 52 cm. (Valtice Palace, National Heritage Institute; photograph Martin Kučera).
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4. Detail of Fig.3, showing St Philip and the eunuch.
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5. The baptism of the eunuch, by Jan Gillisz. van Vliet, after Rembrandt. 1631. Engraving, 59.2 by 49.1 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
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6. Detail of Fig.3, showing the man on horseback.
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7. Gerhardt Janssen, by Ulrich Daniel Metzger. 1725. Pigment and gold leaf on glass, 13.5 by 10.7 cm. (Vitromusée, Romont)
Article
A medal of the Sun King by Claude I Ballin
05/2024 | 1454 | 166
Pages: 441–445
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Jouvet, Ludovic (Jouvet, Ludovic)
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1. Louis XIV, by Henri de Villers after Claude I Ballin. 1754 (after a wax of 1672). Uniface bronze, diameter 165 mm. (with frame). (Private collection).
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2. Louis XIV, by Jean Warin. 1665. Marble, height 106 cm. (Château de Versailles).
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3. Abraham Simon, by Georges Vertue after G. Kneller. First half of the 18th century. Red chalk and wash on paper, 16 by 13.1cm. (British Museum, London).
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4. Louis XIV, by Robert Nanteuil. 1664. Engraving, 40.2 by 31.5 cm. (plate). (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
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5. Ferrante Loffredo, Marquess of Trevico. French, mid-16th century. Wax on glass, diameter 10 cm. (Frick Collection, New York).
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6. Louis XIV, by Francesco Bertinetti. 1672. Uniface bronze, diameter 140 mm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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7. Claude Ballin orfèvre, by Jacques Lubin. c.1675–1700. Etching and engraving, 25.1 by 19.5 cm. (British Museum, London).
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8. Louis XIV, by Jean Warin. 1665. Gold, diameter 100 mm. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
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9. Louis XIV, after Claude I Ballin. 1750–1800 (after a wax of 1672). Uniface bronze, diameter 165 mm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Article
Soldani’s ‘Lamentation’ in Córdoba
11/2022 | 1436 | 164
Pages: 1118-1122
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Loffredo, Fernando (Loffredo, Fernando)
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1. Lamentation over the dead Christ, by Massimiliano Soldani Benzi. Wax, 57 by 38 cm. (Museo Richard-Ginori della Manifattura di Doccia, Sesto Fiorentino; courtesy Ministero della Cultura – Direzione regionale Musei della Toscana – Firenze and Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut; photograph Luigi Artini).
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2. Lamentation over the dead Christ, by Massimiliano Soldani Benzi. c.1714. Bronze, 57 by 37 cm. (Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich).
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3. Lamentation over the dead Christ, by Massimiliano Soldani Benzi. 1690–92(?). Gilded bronze, 57 by 40 cm. (Córdoba Cathedral).
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4. Chapel of St Teresa of Ávila, also known as the Chapel of the Cardinal, Córdoba Cathedral. (Alamy Stock Photo).
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5. Cardinal Pedro Salazar, by Jacques Blondeau after Carlo Maratti. c.1686. Engraving, 21.1 by 15.5 cm. (British Museum, London).
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6. The Agony in the Garden, by Massimiliano Soldani Benzi. c.1695 Terracotta, 60.3 by 40.6 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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7. The death of St Joseph, by Massimiliano Soldani Benzi. 1727. Bronze, 65 by 44 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Article
‘A gracious invention’: Veronese’s unfinished painting for the Mocenigo family
09/2022 | 1434 | 164
Pages: 854-863
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Anderson, Jaynie (Anderson, Jaynie)
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1. Detail of Fig.3, showing Venus.
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10. Venus and Mercury present Eros and Anteros to Jupiter, by the studio of Paolo Veronese. 1565. Brown ink with highlights in white, and grey-brown wash with brush on paper, 31.2 by 42.7 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
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11. Megara, the third wife of Hercules, begging to save the life of their last son in the face of her husband’s madness, by Paolo Veronese. 1570s. Oil on canvas, 105 by 153 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
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12. Detail of Fig.3, showing the Palladian building in the background.
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13. Palazzi Mocenigi a S. Samuele, by Luca Carlevarijs. 1703. Etching, 20.9 by 20.2 cm. (From L. Carlevaris: Le fabriche e vedute di Venetia; British Museum, London).
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14. The Villa Mocenigo on the Brenta. Woodcut. 1570. (From A. Palladio: I Quattro Libri, Venice 1570, II, p.66).
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2. Detail of Fig.3, showing Minerva, Juno and Mocenigo.
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3. Mocenigo deciding between the active and contemplative life, here attributed to Paolo Veronese and dated c.1572. Oil on canvas, 134 by 204.5 cm. (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne).
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5. Charity, by Maarten Peters after Francesco Primaticcio. c.1560. Engraving, 23.9 by 16.6 cm. (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris).
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6. Ars naturam adiuvans (‘Art is safe against the power of fortune’), emblem of Mercury and Fortuna. (From A. Alciati: Emblemata, Lyon 1550, no.XCVIII).
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7. A young patrician from the Sanudo family choosing Virtue rather than Vice, by Paolo Veronese. c.1560. Oil on canvas, 102 by 153 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
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8. The choice between Virtue and Vice, by Paolo Veronese. c.1565. Oil on canvas, 219 by 169.5 cm. (Frick Collection, New York).
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9. Venus and Mercury present Eros and Anteros to Jupiter, by Paolo Veronese. 1565. Oil on canvas, 150 by 243 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence).
Western art unattributed:
4. Charity, by an artist from the School of Fontainebleau (formerly attributed to Francesco Primaticcio). c.1560. Panel transferred to canvas, 147 by 96.5 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
Article
Counter-Reformation ambers: Friedrich Schmidt’s workshop in Kretinga, Lithuania
09/2022 | 1434 | 164
Pages: 839-853
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kulka, Rahul (kulka, Rahul)
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1. Altar, by Friedrich Schmidt. 1678. Amber, ivory, wood, glass, silver and parchment, 29 by 20.7 by 16.5 cm. (Altonaer Museum, Hamburg; © SHMH-Altonaer Museum, permanent loan from the Federal Republic of Germany).
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10. Detail of the altar in Fig.1, showing an ivory panel carved with a kneeling saint.
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11. Detail of the casket in Figs.13 and 14, showing an ivory panel carved with the Annunciation.
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12. Detail of the altar in Fig.1, showing an ivory panel carved with the Annunciation.
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13 and 14. Casket of St Casimir (Cassetta di San Casimiro), by Friedrich Schmidt and workshop. 1678. Amber, ivory, glass, wood and silver, 35.5 by 58 by 20 cm. (Museo degli Argenti, Florence; © su concessione del Ministero della Cultura – Gallerie degli Uffizi, Tesoro dei Granduchi).
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15 and 16. Small altar with Crucifixion group, by the workshop of Friedrich Schmidt. 1677–78. Amber, ivory, glass and wood, height 59 cm. (Museo degli Argenti, Florence; © Su concessione del Ministero della Cultura – Gallerie degli Uffizi, Tesoro dei Granduchi).
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17 and 18. Large altar with Crucifixion group, by Friedrich Schmidt and workshop. c.1678. Amber, ivory, glass and wood, height 136 cm. (Museo degli Argenti, Florence; © Su concessione del Ministero della Cultura – Gallerie degli Uffizi, Tesoro dei Granduchi).
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19. Detail of the altar in Figs.17–18.
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2. The rear of the altar illustrated in Fig.1 .
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20. Candlestick, one of a small-sized pair, by Friedrich Schmidt and workshop. c.1678. Amber, ivory and wood. (Museo degli Argenti, Florence; © Su concessione del Ministero della Cultura – Gallerie degli Uffizi, Tesoro dei Granduchi).
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21. Candlestick, one of a medium-sized pair, by Friedrich Schmidt and workshop. c.1678. Amber, ivory and wood. (Museo degli Argenti, Florence; © Su concessione del Ministero della Cultura – Gallerie degli Uffizi, Tesoro dei Granduchi).
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22. Altar with Crucifixion group, by the workshop of Friedrich Schmidt, c.1678. Amber, ivory and wood, height 78 cm. (Schloss Weißenstein, Pommersfelden; from A. Rohde: Bernstein: Ein deutscher Werkstoff, Berlin 1937, fig.214).
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23 and 24. Reliquary by Friedrich Schmidt and workshop. c.1678. Amber, ivory, glass, wood and silver, 32 by 49.5 by 24.2 cm. (Convento di Santa Chiara, Naples; photograph © Marco Pedicini, courtesy the Central Directorate for Religious Affairs and for the Administration of the Fondo Edifici di Culto of the Ministry of the Interior).
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25. Candlestick, by the workshop of Friedrich Schmidt. c.1678. Amber, ivory and wood, height 28 cm. (Museo di Capodimonte, Naples; © Su concessione del Ministero della Cultura – Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte).
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26. Altar, by the workshop of Friedrich Schmidt. c.1678. Amber, ivory, glass and wood, height 31 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; photograph © 2022 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
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27. Detail of the altar in Fig.28, showing a verre églomisé panel from the right side.
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28. St Casimir, by the Władysław Łazarski printing house. Early 20th-century reprint of an 18th-century woodblock print, 34 by 24 cm. (Częstochowa Museum; © Muzeum Częstochowskiego).
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29. Detail of the top of the altar in Fig.26.
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3. The interior of the altar illustrated in Fig.1.
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4. Detail of the altar illustrated in Fig.1, showing a verre églomisé panel.
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5. Detail of the altar illustrated in Fig.1, showing the inscription on the book.
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6 and 7. Details of an altar with Crucifixion group, by the workshop of Friedrich Schmidt. c.1678. Amber, ivory, glass and silver, height 45 cm. (© Muzeum Bursztynu, Malbork; on permanent loan from Muzeum Okręgowe, Tarnów).
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8. Altar, attributed to the workshop of Friedrich Schmidt. After 1678. Amber, ivory and wood, 53 by 36 by 23 cm. (Ostpreussisches Landesmuseum, Lüneburg; © Ostpreußisches Landesmuseum Lüneburg, Deutschbaltische Abteilung).
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9. Detail of the left side of the casket in Figs.13 and 14.
Article
A modello by Louis Laguerre and the programme of the Painted Hall at Chatsworth
08/2022 | 1433 | 164
Pages: 760-767
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Marandet, François (Marandet, François)
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1. Ruth and Boaz, here attributed to Louis Laguerre. c.1716. Oil on canvas, 38 by 63 cm. (Location unknown).
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10. The assassination of Julius Caesar, with the soul of Caesar transformed into a comet, by Antonio Tempesta. 1606. Engraving, 10.7 by 12 cm.
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11. The assassination of Julius Caesar, by Louis Laguerre. 1695–97. Oil on plaster. (Painted Hall, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire; (© The Devonshire Collections, Chatsworth; reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees; photograph Paul Barker, 2014).
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12. The apotheosis of the Duke of Buckingham, by Peter Paul Rubens. Before 1625. Oil on panel, 64 by 64 cm. (National Gallery, London).
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13. The apotheosis of Julius Caesar, by Louis Laguerre. 1695–97. Oil on plaster. (Painted Hall, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire; © The Devonshire Collections, Chatsworth; reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees; photograph Paul Barker, 2014).
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2. Ruth and Boaz, by Louis Duguernier, after Louis Laguerre. 1717. Engraving, 10 by 15 cm. (From the Vinegar Bible, Oxford 1717).
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3. The Painted Hall, Chatsworth, Derbyshire, decorated by Louis Laguerre. 1695–97. (© The Devonshire Collections, Chatsworth; reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees; photograph Paul Barker, 2014).
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4. Augustus ordering the closing of the doors of the Temple of Janus, here attributed to Louis Laguerre. c.1695. Oil on canvas, 54 by 126 cm. (Location unknown).
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5. Augustus ordering the closing of the doors of the Temple of Janus, by Carlo Maratta. c.1657. Oil on canvas, 280 by 275 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille).
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6. Augustus ordering the closing of the doors of the Temple of Janus, by Louis Laguerre. 1695–97. Oil on plaster. (Painted Hall, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire; © The Devonshire Collections, Chatsworth; reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees; photograph Paul Barker, 2014).
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7. Detail of the east wall of the Painted Hall, Chatsworth House, showing the right-hand edge of the painting in Fig.6 and part of the painted frame and pilasters. (© The Devonshire Collections, Chatsworth; reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees; photograph Paul Barker, 2014).
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8. Augustus ordering the closing of the doors of the Temple of Janus, by Louis de Boullogne. 1681. Oil on canvas, 176 by 215 cm. (Musée de Picardie, Amiens).
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9. St Ambrose forbidding the emperor Theodosius to enter Milan Cathedral, by Simon Thomassin, after Bon Boullogne. 1686. Engraving, 34 by 23 cm. (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris).
Article
The Apollo Coach by Cristoforo Schor
11/2020 | 1412 | 162
Pages: 938-945
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Arranz, Raúl Martinez (Arranz, Raúl Martinez)
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1. The Apollo Coach, designed and made in the workshop of Cristoforo Schor. 1697 with later alterations. Carved and gilded wood and iron, c.250 by 200 by 550 cm., without the shrine. (Courtesy the Brotherhood of the Holy Virgin of Charity, Camarena, Toledo; © photograph Fernando Maselli).
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10. Modello for a sculpture of Clytia, here attributed to the workshop of Cristoforo Schor. Terracotta, 42 by 21 by 18.5 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia, Rome; © SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma).
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2. The Apollo Coach photographed at the celebrations for the centennial of the declaration of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, Toledo. 1954. (Archivo Municipal de Toledo, Colección Pareja).
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3. Detail of the coach in Fig.1, showing the rear frame. (Courtesy the Brotherhood of the Holy Virgin of Charity, Camarena, Toledo; © photograph Fernando Maselli).
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4. Detail of the coach in Fig.1, showing the rear frame and the supporting iron bars. (Courtesy the Brotherhood of the Holy Virgin of Charity, Camarena, Toledo; © photograph Fernando Maselli).
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5. Design for the rear frame of a coach with Apollo slaying the Python, by the workshop of Cristoforo Schor. c.1696–97. Ink and bistre on paper, 19.5 by 25.4 cm. (Nationalmuseum Stockholm; Cecilia Heisser/Nationalmuseum).
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6. Design for a coach with figures of Justice and Abundance, by the workshop of Cristoforo Schor. c.1696–97. Black chalk, pen and black ink on paper, 19.7 by 20.6 cm. (Nationalmuseum Stockholm; Cecilia Heisser/Nationalmuseum).
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7. Design for a carriage wheel with carved decoration of sunflowers, here attributed to the workshop of Cristoforo Schor. c.1696–97. Pencil and brown ink, lacquered in brown, on paper, 26.1 by 18.6 cm. (Nationalmuseum Stockholm; Cecilia Heisser/ Nationalmuseum).
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8. Detail of the coach in Fig.1, showing one of the back wheels. (Courtesy the Brotherhood of the Holy Virgin of Charity, Camarena, Toledo; © photograph Fernando Maselli).
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9. Detail of the coach in Fig.1, showing the sculpture of Clytia. (Courtesy the Brotherhood of the Holy Virgin of Charity, Camarena, Toledo; © photograph Fernando Maselli).
Book Review
Francesco Solimena (1657–1747) e le Arti a Napoli. Edited by Nicola Spinosa
03/2020 | 1404 | 162
Pages: 264-266
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Loire, Stéphane (Loire, Stéphane)
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Francesco Solimena (1657–1747) e le Arti a Napoli Edited by Nicola Spinosa. 1100 pp. incl. 400 col. + 600 b. & w. ills. (Ugo Bozzi, Rome, 2018),  365. ISBN 978–88–7003–060–0. | :
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6. The fall of Simon Magus, by Francesco Solimena. 1690. Fresco. (Basilica di San Paolo Maggiore, Naples).
Article
A Bavarian pilgrimage shrine in seventeenth-century Paraguay
02/2020 | 1403 | 162
Pages: 115-125
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Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
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10. Likeness of the statue of the miraculous Blessed Virgin Mary at Oettingen, by Libia Loth. Frontispiece from the patronage book of the Munich Archconfraternity of Our Blessed Lady of Altötting. 1650. Watercolours and gold on parchment, 13 by 20 cm. (Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich).
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11. Copy of the Virgin of Altötting. Seventeenth century. Polychrome and gilded limewood, height 67cm. (Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich).
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13. Mission church of San Miguel, Brazil (formerly Paraguay), by Giovanni Battista Primoli. 1735–45. (Photograph the author).
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14. Double chapel combining small-scale replicas of the Gnadenkapelle of Altötting with the Church of the Sepulchre, Jerusalem, Innichen, South Tyrol. 1653. (Photograph Wilfried Wirth / Alamy Stock Photo).
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2. Gnadenkapelle, Altötting, Bavaria. Begun c.770–77; nave and ambulatory begun c.1518–19. (Photograph the author).
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4. The Virgin of Altötting standing between the Gnadenkapelle and the original Jesuit residence, from J. Irsing: Historiae D. Virginis Oettinganae, Munich 1663. Engraving, 8.5 by 12.5 cm. (Private collection).
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5. The Gnadenkapelle at Altötting during the Hungarian invasion of AD 910, frontispiece to J. Irsing: Historiae D. Virginis Oettinganae, Munich 1663. Engraving, 8.5 by 12.5 cm. (Private collection).
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6. Alten Oetingen, by Matthäus Merian. 1644. Etching, 22.8 by 31.2 cm. (British Museum, London).
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8. The Virgin of Altötting, by the Master of Mühldorf. 1518. Pen and black ink, heightened with white bodycolour on brown paper, 22.3 by 17.8 cm. (British Museum, London).
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9. A true likeness of the statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the ancient shrine of Altötting, by Raphael Sadeler. 1601. Engraving, 25.2 by 18.2 cm. (Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich).
Western art unattributed:
1. The village of San Juan [. . .] on the Uruguay [River]. c.1753. Ink and watercolours on paper, 118 by 105 cm. (Archivo General, Simancas).
Western art unattributed:
12. Copy of the Virgin of Altötting. German, fifteenth or sixteenth century. Limewood with traces of polychromy, height 42 cm. (Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich).
Western art unattributed:
15. Copy of the Virgin of Altötting (?). Seventeenth or eighteenth century. Cedar with traces of polychromy, height 50 cm. (Museu de São Miguel, Brazil).
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3. Bavarian infantry colour showing the Virgin of Altötting, the Gnadenkapelle and the holy linden tree. 1624–31. Silk, 233 by 290 cm. (Armémuseum, Stockholm).
Western art unattributed:
7. The Virgin of Altötting. Early fourteenth century. Limewood, height 64 cm. (Gnadenkapelle, Altötting).
Publication Received
Godefridus Schalcken: A Dutch Painter in Late Seventeenth-Century London. By Wayne Franits
12/2019 | 1401 | 161
Pages: 1074
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Stephens, Richard (Stephens, Richard)
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