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Renaissance exhibitions in Paris
06/2024 | 1455 | 166
Pages: 612–619
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Author:
Herman, Nicholas (Herman, Nicholas)
Subjects
artists:
Pisanello / Fouquet, Jean, ca. 1415-1481 / Quarton, Enguerrand / Eyck, Barthélemy d' / Perugino, Pietro / Zoppo, Marco
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France / Musée de Cluny (Musée National du Moyen Âge), Paris, France
subjects:
Renaissance art / Humanism / Illuminated manuscripts / Manuscripts / Bookbindings / Books / Prints / Coins / Medals / Portraits / Paintings / Bronzes / Sculpture / Collections / Charles VII, King of France, 1403-1461
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subjects:
The Invention of the Renaissance: the Humanist, the Prince and the Artist, Bibliothèque national de France, 20 February16 June 2024. Les arts en France sous Charles VII, Musée de Cluny – Musée national du Moyen Âge, 12 March–16 June 2024. | :
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Attributed works:
1. Jacopo Antonio Marcello, attributed to Jacopo Bellini. 1453. Tempera on parchment, 18.7 by 13 cm. (Bibliothèque national de France, Paris, MS 940, fol.38v).
Attributed works:
2. Frontispiece. (From Giovanni Michele Nagonio: De laudibus Galliae, Rome c.1500.) Ink and tempera on parchment, 27 by 16 cm. (Bibliothèque national de France, Paris, MS latin 8132, fols.8v–9r).
Attributed works:
3. St John on Patmos from the Hours of Frederick III, by Jean Bourdichon, Giovanni Todeschino and the Master of Claude de France. 1501–02. Tempera on parchment, 24.5 by 15.5 cm. (Bibliothèque national de France, Paris, MS latin 10532, p.62).
Attributed works:
4. Manuscript binding, by Étienne Roffet. c.1542–43. Gilt-tooled leather, 33.5 by 23 cm. (Bibliothèque national de France, Paris, MS latin 6866, upper cover).
Attributed works:
5. So-called dais of Charles VII, perhaps after a design by Jacob de Littemont. c.1430–40. Wool and silk, 292 by 285 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
6. Supplicant in prayer, excised leaf of the Collins Hours, by the Master of the Collins Hours. c.1445–50. Tempera and ink on parchment, 18.5 by 12.5 cm. (Musée de Cluny–Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris, MS Cl.23945).
Attributed works:
7. Detail of the central panel of the Aix Triptych showing the books on the Virgin’s lectern, by Barthélemy d’Eyck. 1443–44. Oil on panel. (Sainte-Madeleine, Aix-en-Provence; photograph the author).
Exhibition Review
Gold
09/2022 | 1434 | 164
Pages: 910-912
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Reviewer:
Wright, Alison (Wright, Alison)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
British Library, Dept. of Manuscripts, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Gold / Illuminated manuscripts / Documents / Scrolls (Rolls) / Bookbindings / Gilding
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Gold British Library, London 20th May–2nd October | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Qur’an of Sultan Uljaytu. 1310–11. Colour on gold leaf on parchment, 57 by 40 cm. (British Library, London, Or 4945, fol.1v–2r).
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8. Chapter 8 from the Lotus Sutra. Japan, 1636. Gold and silver ink on indigo-dyed paper, 27.5 by 57.5 cm. (British Library, London, Or 13926).
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9. Detail from the Carmina regia (‘Address of the City of Prato to Robert of Anjou’), showing Robert of Anjou enthroned. Tuscany, c.1335–40. Colour and gold on parchment, 48 by 34 cm. (British Library, London, Royal MS 6 E.IX, fol.10v).
Book Review
Medieval Illumination: Manuscript Art from England and France, 700–1200
09/2020 | 1410 | 162
Pages: 814-815
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Reviewer:
Sandler, Lucy Freeman (Sandler, Lucy Freeman; Sandler, L. F.)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project
museums and institutions:
British Library, Dept. of Manuscripts, London, Great Britain / Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des manuscrits, Paris, France
subjects:
Illuminated manuscripts / Anglo-Saxon School / French medieval art / Bookbindings / Medieval art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Medieval Illumination: Manuscript Art from England and France, 700–1200 By Kathleen Doyle and Charlotte Denoël. 176 pp. incl. 80 col. ills. (British Library, London, 2019), £10. ISBN 978–0–7123–5327–4. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. Initial ‘B’ of the word beatus introducing the psalm ‘Blessed is the man’ (Psalm 1:1), from a Glossed Psalter. England, c.1150. (British Library, London; MS Additional 17392).
Book Review
Illuminated Manuscripts and Incunabula in Cambridge. A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part V, Illuminated Incunabula. Volume one, Books Printed in Italy before 1501. By Azzurra Elena Andriolo and Suzanne Reynolds
03/2019 | 1392 | 161
Pages: 254-255
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Reviewer:
Szépe, Helena (Szépe, Helena)
Subjects
dates:
1400-1499
media:
Illuminated manuscripts / Incunabula / Books
styles:
Italian art
subjects:
Miniaturists / Collectors / Catalogues / Databases / Digital technology / Illuminators / Bookbindings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Illuminated Manuscripts and Incunabula in Cambridge. A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part V, Illuminated Incunabula. Volume one, Books Printed in Italy before 1501. By Azzurra Elena Andriolo and Suzanne Reynolds | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. Page from Argonautica, by Apollonius Rhodius, edited by Janus Lascaris, Florence 1496. (Trinity College, Cambridge, MS VI.18.38, f.α2r).
Exhibition Review
Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Making the Glasgow Style. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
08/2018 | 1385 | 160
Pages: 681-684
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Reviewer:
Donnelly, Max (Donnelly, Max)
Subjects
artists:
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie / Thomson, Alexander / McNair, James Herbert / Macdonald, Frances / Macdonald, Margaret, 1865-1933 / Lutyens, Edwin Landseer / King, Jessie Marion / Logan, George / Walton, George
artists:
Newbery, Francis H. / Davidson, Peter Wylie / Morton, William Gibson / Wyse, Henry Taylor / Morris, Talwin / Salmon, James II / Gillespie, John Gaff
buildings:
Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Great Britain
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Architecture / Interiors / Furniture / Stained glass / Mosaics / Drawings / Posters / Watercolours / Textiles / Ceramics / Bookbindings / Videos / Photographs
museums and institutions:
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Great Britain / Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / Glasgow / Liverpool
subjects:
Scottish architecture / British architecture / Art Nouveau / Natural disasters / Destruction / Damage to works of art / Symbolist movement / Tables (support furniture) / Screens (furniture) / Cabinets (furniture) / Metalworking / Metalworkers / Celtic / Chairs
Illustrations
Attributed works:
22. Book binding for L’Evangile de L’Enfance de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ, by Jessie M. King. c.1900–01. Tooled vellum with gilding, 30.6 cm by 23.5 cm. (Glasgow Museums; exh. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow).
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23. Stencil card for the decoration of the Hill House, Helensburgh, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and made by Guthrie & Wells. 1904. Card and paint, 54 cm by 41.5 cm. (Glasgow Museums; exh. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow).
Attributed works:
24. Water sprite, designed by William Gibson Morton and probably made by William Stewart. 1895– 96. Leaded coloured glass, 72 cm by 64.2 cm. (Glasgow Museums; exh. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow).
Book Review
The Look of the Book. Manuscript production in Shiraz, 1303–1452, E. Wright
06/2014 | 1335 | 156
Pages: 396
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Reviewer:
Rogers, J. M. (Rogers, J. M.; Rogers, John Michael; Rogers, Michael)
Subjects
dates:
1300-1499
places:
Iran / Persia
subjects:
Iranian / Illuminated manuscripts / Manuscripts / Manuscript illumination / Bookbindings
subjects:
Persian
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
63. One half of a double-page frontispiece, Kulliyyåt of Sa'di (Chester Beatty Library, Dublin)
Publication Received
The Kelmscott Chaucer
01/2009 | 1270 | 151
Pages: 42
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Reviewer:
Ackroyd, Peter (Ackroyd, Peter)
Subjects
art literature:
Chaucer, Geoffrey
artists:
Morris, William
artists:
Burne-Jones, Edward
print:
Morris, William
print:
Chaucer, Geoffrey
subjects:
Poetry / Book illustrations / Bookbindings
subjects:
Facsimiles / Kelmscott Press
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Kelmscott Chaucer | author: Chaucer, Geoffrey , author: Morris, William
Book Review
Turkish Bookbinding in the 15th Century. The Foundation of an Ottoman Court Style
06/1995 | 1107 | 137
Pages: 396-397
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Reviewer:
Rogers, J. M. (Rogers, J. M.; Rogers, John Michael; Rogers, Michael)
Subjects
dates:
1400-1499
places:
Turkey
subjects:
Bookbindings / Turkish / Ottoman
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Turkish Bookbinding in the 15th Century. The Foundation of an Ottoman Court Style | author: Raby, Julian , author: Stanley, Tim , author: Tanindi, Zeren
Book Review
Humanists and Bookbinders. The Origins and Diffusion of the Humanistic Book-Binding, 1459-1559, with a Census of Historiated Plaquette and Medallion Bindings of the Renaissance
03/1991 | 1056 | 133
Pages: 201-202
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Reviewer:
Rogers, J. M. (Rogers, J. M.; Rogers, John Michael; Rogers, Michael)
Subjects
dates:
1400-1599
subjects:
Bookbindings / Renaissance
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Humanists and Bookbinders. The Origins and Diffusion of the Humanistic Book-Binding, 1459-1559, with a Census of Historiated Plaquette and Medallion Bindings of the Renaissance | author: Hobson, A. R. A.
Book Review
Gold-Tooled Bookbindings Commissioned by Trinity College, Dublin in the Eighteenth Century. (Studies in the History of Irish Bookbinding: 1)
09/1989 | 1038 | 131
Pages: 656-657
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Author:
Morris, John (Morris, John)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
subjects:
Bookbindings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Gold-Tooled Bookbindings Commissioned by Trinity College, Dublin in the Eighteenth Century. (Studies in the History of Irish Bookbinding: 1) | author: Healy, Patrick , author: McDonnell, Joseph
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