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Book Review
In Italien Karriere machen: Der flämische Maler Michele Desubleo zwischen Rom, Bologna und Venedig (ca.1624–1664)
07/2023 | 1444 | 165
Pages: 806–807
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Reviewer:
Osnabrugge, Marije (Osnabrugge, Marije)
Subjects
artists:
Desubleo, Michele
dates:
1630-1639 / 1630-1669 / 1620-1629
places:
Rome / Bologna / Venice
subjects:
Flemish painting / Technical analysis / Provenance / Patronage / Style
Reviewed Items
subjects:
In Italien Karriere machen: Der flämische Maler Michele Desubleo zwischen Rom, Bologna und Venedig (ca.1624–1664) By Stefania Girometti. 466 pp. incl. 63 col.+ 53 b. & w. ills. (arthistoricum.net, Heidelberg, 2022), €64.90 ISBN 978–3–98501–045–5. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Martyrdom of St Lawrence, by Michele Desubleo. Early 1640s. Oil on canvas, 250 by 140 cm. (Private collection).
Article
Architectural history after Summerson
08/2020 | 1409 | 162
Pages: 686-693
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Author:
Brindle, Steven (Brindle, Steven)
Subjects
art literature:
Summerson, John / Colvin, Howard / Pevsner, Nikolaus / Soane, John
museums and institutions:
Royal Commission on Historical Monuments
museums and institutions:
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, Great Britain / Yale University Press, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Architectural historians / Architectural history / Conservation / Classicism / Gothic architecture
subjects:
Aesthetics / Style / British architecture / Social history / Patrons / scholars / Surveys / Dating
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. John Summerson in Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photograph by Stephen Hyde, 1984. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
4. Design for the Banqueting House, Whitehall, by Inigo Jones. c.1619. Pen and ink with wash over graphite, 36.6 by 43.7 cm. (Chatsworth House, Derbyshire; photograph © The Devonshire Collections.)
Attributed works:
5. The Midland Grand Hotel, St Pancras Station, London, by George Gilbert Scott. 1867–76. Photograph by Bedford Lemere, 1881. (Bridgeman Images).
Western art unattributed:
2. The Great Hall, Hampton Court Palace, London. c.1532–35. (Historic Royal Palaces).
Western art unattributed:
3. Swakeleys, Hillingdon, London. 1638. (Wikimedia Commons).
Book Review
Sartorial Politics in Early Modern Europe: Fashioning Women
07/2020 | 1408 | 162
Pages: 629-630
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Reviewer:
Rublack, Ulinka (Rublack, Ulinka)
Subjects
subjects:
Fashion / Politics / Style / Women / Courts (social groups) / Isabella d’Este, Marquise of Mantua, 1474-1539 / Medici, Maria de', Queen consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1573-1642 / Eleanor of Austria, Queen, consort of Francis I, King of France, 1498-1558 / Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 / Henrietta Maria, Queen, Consort of Charles I, King of England, 1609-1669
subjects:
Catherine of Braganza, Queen of England
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Sartorial Politics in Early Modern Europe: Fashioning Women Edited by Erin Griffey. 344 pp. incl. 11 col. + 68 b. & w. ills. (Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2019), £94. ISBN 978–94–6298–600–8. | :
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The patron of Raphael’s ‘Madonna of the candelabra’ and its medieval sources
06/2019 | 1395 | 161
Pages: 491-493
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Author:
Cavazzini, Patrizia (Cavazzini, Patrizia)
Subjects
artists:
Raphael / Penni, Giovanni Francesco / Torriti, Jacopo / Cavallini, Pietro
dates:
1500-1519
museums and institutions:
Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Rome, Italy
patrons:
Cinquini, Francesco
subjects:
Patronage / Sources / Christian iconography / Style
works:
Madonna of the Candelabra (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. The Madonna of the candelabra, by Raphael and his workshop. c.1514. Panel, 65.7 by 64 cm. (The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore).
Attributed works:
6. Virgin and Child, attributed to the circle of Jacopo Torriti. Mosaic, thirteenth century. (S. Maria in Aracoeli, Rome).
Attributed works:
7. Virgin and Child between St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist, by the workshop of Pietro Cavallini. Fresco, end of the thirteenth century. (S. Maria in Aracolei, Rome).
Exhibition Review
Gainsborough’s Family Album. National Portrait Gallery, London; Early Gainsborough: ‘From the Obscurity of a Country Town’. Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 146-148
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Reviewer:
Shawe-Taylor, Desmond (Shawe-Taylor, Desmond)
Subjects
artists:
Gainsborough, Thomas
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
National Portrait Gallery, London, Great Britain / Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / London / Sudbury
subjects:
British painting / Portraits / Family portraits / Landscapes (visual works) / Style / Sitters / Study and teaching
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Mary and Margaret Gainsborough, by Thomas Gainsborough. c.1763–64. Canvas, 127.3 by 101.7 cm. (Worcester Art Museum; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
8. Margaret Gainsborough, by Thomas Gainsborough. c.1777. Canvas, 76.6 by 63.8 cm. (Samuel Courtauld Trust; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
9. Gainsborough Dupont, by Thomas Gainsborough. 1773. Canvas, 51.6 by 38.8 cm. (Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
Exhibition Review
Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill: Masterpieces from Horace Walpole’s Collection. Strawberry Hill, Twickenham
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 148-151
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Reviewer:
Aldrich, Megan (Aldrich, Megan)
Subjects
artists:
Clouet, François / Batoni, Pompeo / Müntz, Johann Heinrich / Holbein, Hans the Younger, ca. 1497-1543 / Vertue, George / Dyck, Anthony van / Kneller, Godfrey / Boulle, André-Charles, I, 1642-1732 / Langlois, Pierre Eloy
artists:
Reynolds, Joshua
collectors and dealers:
Walpole, Horace, Fourth Earl of Orford, 1717-1797
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Interiors / Paintings / Watercolours / Sculpture / Bronzes / Ceramics / Miniatures (paintings) / Art objects / Furniture
museums and institutions:
Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
Collecting / Collections / Collections, Private / Collectors / Taste (aesthetics) / Country houses / Decorative arts / Antiquities / Style / Gothic Revival / Tudor Revival / Baroque / Copies / Coffers / Vases / Attributions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
11. Horace Walpole, by Joshua Reynolds. c.1756–57. Canvas, 127 by 110 cm. (Ragley Hall, Warwickshire; exh. Strawberry Hill, Twickenham).
Attributed works:
12. Catherine de Medici and her children, by the studio of François Clouet. 1561. Canvas, 198 by 137.2 cm. (Private collection; exh. Strawberry Hill, Twickenham).
Attributed works:
13. Installation view of Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill in the Library, Strawberry Hill (Photograph Kilian O’Sullivan).
Exhibition Review
Romanticism. Gallerie d’Italia and Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 151-154
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Reviewer:
Hecker, Sharon (Hecker, Sharon)
Subjects
artists:
Azeglio, Massimo Taparelli / Molteni, Giuseppe / Hayez, Francesco / Bagetti, Giuseppe / Caffi, Ippolito / Inganni, Angelo / Fergola, Salvatore / Vela, Vincenzo / Bartolini, Lorenzo / Monti, Raffaele / Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille / Turner, Joseph Mallord William / Friedrich, Caspar David / Induno, Gerolamo / Strazza, Giovanni
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Sculpture / Marbles / Porcelain / Costume / Videos
museums and institutions:
Gallerie d'Italia, Milan, Italy / Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy
patrons:
Cavendish, William George Spencer, Sixth Duke of Devonshire, 1790-1858
places:
Italy / Milan
subjects:
Italian painting / Italian sculpture / Romanticism / Music / Opera / Literature / Landscapes (visual works) / Portraits / Allegory / Sublime / Busts / Nudes / Politics / Nationalism / Style
Illustrations
Attributed works:
14. Nocturne in Capri, by Salvatore Fergola. 1843. Canvas, 106 by 131 cm. (Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples; exh. Gallerie d’Italia, Milan).
Attributed works:
15. Spartacus, by Vincenzo Vela. 1847–50. Marble, 206 by 72.5 by 90 cm. (Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano; photograph Museo Vincenzo Vela / Mauro Zeni; exh. Gallerie d’Italia, Milan).
Attributed works:
16. Meditation, by Francesco Hayez. 1851. Canvas, 92.5 by 71 cm. (Galleria d’Arte Moderna ‘Achille Forti’, Verona; exh. Gallerie d’Italia, Milan).
Attributed works:
17. Veiled Vestal, by Raffaele Monti. 1845. Marble, 48 by 25.5 by 27 cm. (Castle of Racconigi, Cuneo; exh. Gallerie d’Italia, Milan).
Exhibition Review
Picasso: Blue and Rose Musée d’Orsay, Paris; The Young Picasso: Blue and Rose Periods. Fondation Beyeler, Basel
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 154-156
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Reviewer:
Cowling, Elizabeth (Cowling, Elizabeth)
Subjects
art literature:
Daix, Pierre / Richardson, John
artists:
Picasso, Pablo
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Drawings / Sculpture / Prints / Photographs / Radiographs / Documents / Pastels / Terracottas
museums and institutions:
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France / Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Basel, Switzerland
places:
France / Paris / Switzerland / Basel
subjects:
Spanish painting / Portraits / Self-portraits / Caricatures / Style
Illustrations
Attributed works:
18. Woman in blue, by Pablo Picasso. 1901. Canvas, 133 by 100 cm. (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; exh. Fondation Beyeler, Basel).
Attributed works:
19. The embrace, by Pablo Picasso. 1903. Pastel on paper, 98 by 57 cm. (Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris; exh. Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Attributed works:
20. Absinthe drinker, by Pablo Picasso. 1901. Canvas, 81 by 60 cm. (Kunstmuseum, Basel; exh. Fondation Beyeler, Basel).
Attributed works:
21. La coiffure, by Pablo Picasso. 1906. Canvas, 174.9 by 99.7 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; exh. Fondation Beyeler, Basel).
Book Review
Venice Illuminated: Power and Painting in Renaissance Manuscripts. By Helena Katalin Szépe
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 168-169
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Reviewer:
Humfrey, Peter (Humfrey, Peter)
Subjects
artists:
Bellini, Leonardo / Bordon, Benedetto / Moro, Marco dell'Angolo del
dates:
1400-1499 / 1500-1599
media:
Illuminated manuscripts / Manuscripts
patrons:
Barbarigo, Agostino, Doge of Venice,1419-1501
places:
Italy / Venice
subjects:
Italian painting / Doges / Portraits / Style / Dating / Iconography / Mark, Saint / Mary, Virgin / Venetian / Allegories / Dress / Identification
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
4. Girolamo Zane as Procurator and as Captain General of the Sea. 1568. Vellum, 29.5 by 21 cm. (British Library, London; King’s MS 156 fols.11v–12v).
Book Review
Une théorie universelle au milieu du XIXe siècle: La ‘Grammar of Ornament’ d’Owen Jones. By Ariane Varela Braga
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 172-174
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Reviewer:
Van Zanten, David (Van Zanten, David; Zanten, David van)
Subjects
art literature:
Jones, Owen / Semper, Gottfried / Riegl, Alois / Ruskin, John
dates:
1800-1899 / 1850-1899
media:
Architecture
places:
Great Britain
subjects:
British architecture / Design / Decorative arts / Ornament / Pattern / Style / Geometric patterns / Geometry / Colour / Nature / Study and teaching / Art Nouveau / Deutscher Werkbund (art group) / Bauhaus
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Osler’s Gallery, Oxford Street, London, by Owen Jones. c.1858–60. Ink and watercolour, 147.3 by 102 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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