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Exhibition Review
Figures du fou: Du Moyen Âge aux Romantiques
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 178–180
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Reviewer:
Takanishi Knowles, Marika (Takanishi Knowles, Marika)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
subjects:
Fools / Medieval art / Renaissance art / Romanticism / Paintings / Prints / Stained glass / Woodwork / Manuscripts / Ivories / Medals
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Figures du fou: Du Moyen Âge aux Romantiques Musée du Louvre, Paris 16th October 2024–3rd February 2025 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
16. Towel rail showing a fool embracing a woman, by Arnt van Tricht. c.1535. Polychromed oak, 44.3 by 46.8 by 30 cm. (Museum Kurhaus Kleve; exh. Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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17. Illustration of Psalm 52, from the Psalter of Jean de France, duc de Berry, illuminated by Jacquemart de Hesdin. c.1386. Illumination on parchment, 25 by 19 cm. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, MS 13091, fol.106; exh. Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
18. Ship of fools, by Hieronymus Bosch. c.1505–15. Oil on panel, 58 by 33 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Book Review
A Merchant of Ivory in 16th-Century Paris: The Estate Inventory of Chicart Bailly
07/2024 | 1456 | 166
Pages: 751–2
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Reviewer:
Williamson, Paul (Williamson, Paul)
Subjects
artists:
Bailly, Chicart
subjects:
Ivories / Estate inventories / French medieval art / French decorative art / Workshops (Organisations)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
A Merchant of Ivory in 16th-Century Paris: The Estate Inventory of Chicart Bailly By Katherine Baker. 360 pp. incl. 53 col. ills (Brill, Leiden, 2023), €114. ISBN 978–90–04–53468–1. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Reverse of Fig.3.
Western art unattributed:
3. Tabernacle polyptych with the Virgin and Child and scenes of the Life of the Virgin and the Infancy of Christ. Southern Netherlands, c.1440–70 or Paris, c.1530. Ivory, wood and bone, height 71 cm. (Castello Sforzesco, Milan).
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
Toulouse 1300–1400: L’éclat d’un gothique méridional
01/2024 | 1450 | 166
Pages: 92–93
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Reviewer:
Williamson, Paul (Williamson, Paul)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
dates:
1300-1399
museums and institutions:
Musée de Cluny (Musée National du Moyen Âge), Paris, France
places:
Toulouse
styles:
Gothic architecture / Gothic art / Sculpture / Manuscripts / Ivories / Seals / Ceramicists / Metalwork / Paintings / Altarpieces / Reliquaries
Reviewed Items
styles:
Toulouse 1300–1400: L’éclat d’un gothique méridional Edited by Béatrice de Chancel-Bardelot and Charlotte Riou. 320 pp. incl. 240 col. ills. (Réunion des musées nationaux – Grand Palais, Paris, 2022), €39. ISBN 978–2–7118–7501–6. | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
1. Jean Tissendier with a model of the Rieux Chapel. French (Toulouse), c.1333–43. Limestone, with paint and gilding, 132.5 by 60 by 42 cm. (Musée des Augustins, Toulouse).
Western art unattributed:
2. Detail of St Paul. French (Toulouse), c.1333– 43. Limestone, with paint and gilding, 185 by 63 by 45 cm. (Musée des Augustins, Toulouse).
Obituary
Christian Theuerkauff (1936–2021)
02/2022 | 1427 | 164
Pages: 223-224
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Author:
Trusted, Marjorie (Trusted, Marjorie)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Bodemuseum, Berlin, Germany
subjects:
Theuerkauff, Christian / scholars / Connoisseurs / Ivories / Baroque sculpture
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Christian Theuerkauff, photographed in 2010 by Hiltrud Jehle.
Exhibition Review
Terrible Beauty: Elephant – Human – Ivory
11/2021 | 1424 | 163
Pages: 1061-1063
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Reviewer:
Vogt, Robert J. (Vogt, Robert J.)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Humboldt Forum, Berlin, Germany
subjects:
Elephants / Ivory / Sculpture / Videos / Ivories / Installations (visual works) / Interviews
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Terrible Beauty: Elephant – Human – Ivory Humboldt Forum, Berlin 20th July–28th November | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Jewellery box. Ceylon, 16th century. Ivory with metal fittings, height 10.2 cm. (Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; exh. Humboldt Forum, Berlin; photograph Jürgen Liepe).
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7. Mammoth. 35,000 BC. Ivory, length 3.7 cm. (Archäopark Vogelherd, Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden- Württemberg; exh. Humboldt Forum, Berlin; photograph Manuela Schreiner).
Attributed works:
8. Installation view of Terrible Beauty: Elephant – Human – Ivory at the Humboldt Forum, Berlin, 2021. (Photograph Robert Vogt).
Article
An Afro-Portuguese ivory from Ksar es-Seghir, Morocco
09/2021 | 1422 | 163
Pages: 822-824
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Author:
Afonso, Luís Urbano (Afonso, Luís Urbano)
Author:
Gomes, Mário Varela (Gomes, Mário Varela)
Subjects
dates:
Sixteenth-century
media:
Ivories
places:
Morocco / Portugal / Benin / Africa
subjects:
African sculpture / African / Portuguese / Carvings / Ivories / Spoons / Saltcellars / Oliphants / Forks / Pyxes
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
1. Fragments of a Bini-Portuguese spoon or fork. 1525–50. Ivory, length c.7.6 cm. (From C. Redman: Qsar es-Seghir: An Archaeological View of Medieval Life, Orlando 1986, p.130).
Non-western art unattributed:
2. Technical drawing based on Fig.1. (J. Gonçalves).
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Spoon. Bini-Portuguese, 1525–50. Ivory, length 26 cm. (Welt Museum, Vienna).
Non-western art unattributed:
4. Spoon. Bini-Portuguese, 1525–50. Ivory, 22 cm long. (Musée du Quai Branly, Paris).
Book Review
White Wedding: Die Elfenbeinsammlung Reiner Winkler jetzt im Liebighaus. Für immer.
05/2021 | 1418 | 163
Pages: 475-477
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Reviewer:
Dawson, Aileen (Dawson, Aileen; D., A.)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Liebighaus, Frankfurt, Germany
patrons:
Winkler, Reiner
subjects:
Collections, Private / Collections, Public / Ivories / Carvings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
White Wedding: Die Elfenbeinsammlung Reiner Winkler jetzt im Liebighaus. Für immer. Edited by Maraike Bückling. 342 pp. incl. 372 col. ills. (Hirmer, Munich, 2020), €45. ISBN 978–3–7774–3248–9. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Allegory of a damned soul in Hell, by Johann Christoph Ludwig Lücke. 1736. Ivory, 14.8 by 10 cm. (Liebighaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt;   Städel Museum, Frankfurt; photograph Horst Ziegenfusz).
Book Review
The Wyvern Collection: Medieval and Later Ivory Carvings and Small Sculpture
11/2020 | 1412 | 162
Pages: 1000-1002
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Reviewer:
Guérin, Sarah M. (Guérin, Sarah M.)
Subjects
subjects:
Wyvern Collection / Medieval art / Medieval sculpture / Ivories
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Wyvern Collection: Medieval and Later Ivory Carvings and Small Sculpture By Paul Williamson. 448 pp. incl. 335 col. ills. (Thames and Hudson, London, 2019), £65. ISBN 978–0–500–02283–2. | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
4. Mirror back with royal chess players. French, c.1300. Ivory, diametre 12.6 cm. (Wyvern Collection).
Book Review
Ivories and Narwhal Tusks at Rosenborg Castle: Catalogue of Carved and Turned Ivories and Narwhal Tusks in the Royal Danish Collection 1600–1875
06/2020 | 1407 | 162
Pages: 546-547
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Reviewer:
Warren, Jeremy (Warren, Jeremy)
Subjects
media:
Ivories / Sculpture
museums and institutions:
Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen, Denmark
subjects:
Royalty / Kunstkammer / Carvings
subjects:
Danish sculpture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Ivories and Narwhal Tusks at Rosenborg Castle: Catalogue of Carved and Turned Ivories and Narwhal Tusks in the Royal Danish Collection 1600–1875 By J rgen Hein. 2 vols, 780 pp. incl. 758 col. + 6 b. & w. ills. (Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen, 2018),  196.99. ISBN 978–87–635–4593–8. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. Annointment chair of Absolutism, by Bendix I Grodtschilling and workshop. 1662–71, altered in 1684. Silver-gilt figures of the Virtues, by Johan Kohlman. 1685–90. Narwhal tusk ivory, wood and iron, 252 by 117 by 78 cm. (Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen).
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