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Book Review
The Mystery of Master Fortezza: The Šibenik Engraver’s European Legacy
05/2025 | 1466 | 167
Pages: 505–7
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Belamarić, Josip (Belamarić, Josip)
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The Mystery of Master Fortezza: The Šibenik Engraver’s European Legacy Edited by Marina Lambaša and Flora Turner-Vučetić. 232 pp. incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Šibenik Municipal Museum and Klovićevi dvori Gallery, Zagreb), €20. ISBN 978–953–6844–89–0. | :
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4. Display plate with Foscari arms, engraved by Orazio Fortezza. c.1560. Brass, engraved and inlaid with pitch, diameter 47.5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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5. Detail of Fig.4.
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6. Display plate, engraved by Orazio Fortezza. 1555. Brass, engraved and damascened with silver, diameter 48.3 cm. (British Museum, London).
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Expanding the oeuvre of the master metalsmith Orazio Fortezza
06/2024 | 1455 | 166
Pages: 570–579
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Turner-Vučetić, Flora (Turner-Vučetić, Flora)
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1. Display plate with Michiel coat of arms, here attributed to Orazio Fortezza. (From sale, Sotheby’s, London, Valuable Renaissance Works of Art, p.12).
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10. Detail of Fig.2, showing a portrait here identified as Orazio Fortezza.
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11. Abduction of Helen, by Andrea Meldolla (also known as Schiavone). 1547. Etching, 40 by 51.6 cm. (British Museum, London).
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12. Detail of Fig.2, showing the central battle scene.
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13. Basin, by Orazio Fortezza (signed Oracio Fortezza). c.1560. Brass, height 11.5 cm. (Museo Correr, Venice).
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14. Detail of a ewer, by Orazio Fortezza, showing a portrait with initials in the medallion. c.1557. Brass. (Museo Bargello, Florence).
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15. Detail of Fig.4, showing the Roman commander Horatius Cocllite defending Rome at the Tiber Bridge.
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16. Detail of Fig.4, showing Torquatus fighting against the Gauls.
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17. Detail of Fig.2, showing the Roman commander Horatius Cocllite defending Rome at the Tiber Bridge.
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18. Detail of Fig.6, showing the battle between Publicola and Tarquin the Proud.
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2. Display plate with Foscari arms, here attributed to Orazio Fortezza. c.1560. Brass, engraved and inlaid with pitch, diameter 47.5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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3. Display plate, by Orazio Fortezza. 1555. Brass, engraved and partially inlaid with silver, diameter 48.3 cm. (British Museum, London).
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4. Salver, by Orazio Fortezza (signed Horacio Fortezza). 1562. Brass, diameter 46.2 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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5. Ewer, by Orazio Fortezza (signed Horativs Sibenici). c.1560. Brass, height 30 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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6. Display plate, by Orazio Foretzza (signed Oratio Fortezza). c.1572–75. Brass, diameter 47.5 cm. (City Museum, Šibenik).
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7. Detail of a ewer, by Orazio Fortezza, showing Suetonius in the bottomleft corner. c.1557. Brass. (Museo Bargello, Florence).
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8. Detail of Fig.2, showing a portrait here identified as Girolamo Contarini.
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9. Detail of Fig.2, showing a portrait here identified as Andrea Meldola (also known as Meldolla or Schiavone).
Article
Imagery by Raja Ravi Varma on Raj Silver
10/2022 | 1435 | 164
Pages: 976-985
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Dehejia, Vidya J. (Dehejia, Vidya J.)
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11. Tea service, designed and made by P. Orr & Sons. 1907. Silver, heights12 cm (teapot), 7.8 cm (sugar bowl) and 9.5 cm (cream jug). (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto).
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12. Detail of the teapot in Fig.11, showing Lakshmi.
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13. Detail of the sugar bowl in Fig.11, showing Saraswati seated on a rock.
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14. Detail of the cream jug in Fig.11, showing Saraswati seated on a rock.
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15. Detail of the sugar bowl in Fig.11, showing Lakshmi.
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16. Detail of the teapot in Fig.11, showing Saraswati seated on a peacock.
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19. Detail of Fig.17 showing Vishvamitra and Shakuntala.
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2. Ahalya, by Raja Ravi Varma. c.1898. Chromolithograph, 35.6 by 25.4 cm. (Private collection).
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22. Kamsa-Maya, by Raja Ravi Varma. 1896. Oil on canvas, 168.1 by 116.8 cm. (Royal Gaekwad Collection, Lakshmi Vilas Palace).
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24. Birth of Shakuntala (Shakuntala Janm), after Raja Ravi Varma. c.1894. Chromolithograph, 49.8 by 34.8 cm. (Private collection).
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4. Temptress (Mohini), after Raja Ravi Varma. Undated chromolithograph, 49.8 by 34.8 cm. (Private collection).
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5. Design for a teapot in a Cutch Swamy work tea service, by the Oomersee Mawji silver workshop, Kutch. Late 19th or early 20th century. Pencil on paper, approx. 10 by 15 cm. (Private collection).
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6. Arjuna and Subhadra, Visvamitra and Menaka, Shakuntala writing a love-letter and Savitri pleading with Yama for Satyavan’s life, by the Oomersee Mawji silver workshop, Kutch, after Raja Ravi Varma. Late 19th or early 20th century. Pencil on paper, approx. 15 by 25 cm. (Private collection).
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7. Saraswati, by Raja Ravi Varma. c.1896. Chromolithograph, 69.2 by 49.8 cm. (Private collection).
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8. Lakshmi, by Raja Ravi Varma. c.1896. Chromolithograph, 70.8 by 49.8 cm. (Private collection).
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9. Saraswati seated on a peacock and Lakshmi standing in a lotus pond, by the Oomersee Mawji & Sons silver workshop, Kutch. Late 19th or early 20th century. Pencil on paper, approx. 10 by 15 cm. (Private collection).
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1. Vase depicting a woman with a basket. Indian, twentieth century. Silver, height 61 cm. (Private collection).
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10. The rear of the vase illustrated in Fig.3.
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17. Kamandalu. Indian, twentieth century. Silver, height 29 cm. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London).
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18. Detail of Fig.17 showing Vishvamitra and Menaka.
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20. Detail of Fig.17, showing Arjuna and Subhadra.
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21. Detail of Fig.17, showing Kamsa-Maya.
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23. Tea caddy. Indian, twentieth century. Silver, height 15 cm. (Private collection).
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3. Vase with a scene of a woman on a swing. Indian, twentieth century. Silver, height 61 cm. (Private collection).
Book Review
The Golden Age of Italian Maiolica-Painting: Catalogue of a Private Collection. By Timothy Wilson
07/2019 | 1396 | 161
Pages: 608-609
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Mallet, J. V. G. (Mallet, J. V. G.; Mallet, John)
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The Golden Age of Italian Maiolica-Painting: Catalogue of a Private Collection By Timothy Wilson. 512 pp. incl. 220 col. + 77 b. & w. ills. (Umberto Allemandi, Turin, 2018), | :
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3. Plate, Michelangelo and Vitruvius and the arms of Paleologo of Monferrato, by Nicola da Urbino. c.1533. Tin-glazed earthenware, diameter 26.2 cm. (Private collection).
Article
Giovanni Francesco Arrighi: a newly discovered account book
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 824-832
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Montagu, Jennifer (Montagu, Jennifer)
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1. Reliquary, by Giovanni Francesco Arrighi. 1722. Silver, height 120 cm. (S. Maria di Monserrato, Rome).
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2. Reliquary, by Giovanni Francesco Arrighi. 1727/28. Silver, height 77 cm. (Museo Diocesano, Jesi).
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3. Above Detail of Fig.4.
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4. Right Crucifix, by Giovanni Giardini. c.1706. Bronze, ebony and ivory, height 230 cm. (Notre-Dame, Paris).
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5. Detail of Pietà, by Giovanni Giardini. 1688–1702. Gilt bronze on velvet, 54.5 by 33.5 cm. (Private collection; photograph Sotheby’s, London).
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6. The Agony in the garden, after Angelo de Rossi, attributed to Giovanni Francesco Arrighi. c.1700. Copper, 53 by 46.5 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
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A dish from the Cantagalli workshop in the British Museum
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 816-823
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Thornton, Dora (Thornton, Dora)
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1. Iznik-style dish, marked for the Figli di Giuseppe Cantagalli workshop, Florence. c.1890–95. Tin-glazed earthenware, diameter 41 cm. (British Museum, London).
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2. Reverse of the dish illustrated in Fig.1, showing the cockerel mark for the Cantagalli workshop.
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3. Iznik-style dish with scalloped edge and floral sprays, marked for the Figli di Giuseppe Cantagalli workshop, Florence. c.1899. Tin-glazed earthenware, diameter 39 cm. (Stibbert Museum, Florence).
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5. Iznik-style vase, marked for the Figli di Giuseppe Cantagalli workshop, Florence. 1883. Tin-glazed earthenware, diameter 57 cm. (Stibbert Museum, Florence).
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8. Curiosités, by Antoine Vollon. 1868. Canvas, 264 by 192 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
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9. The sixteenth-century room at Hertford House, London, looking north, by J.J.Thomson. c.1890. Photograph. (The Wallace Collection, London).
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4. Iznik rimless dish with flower sprays, Iznik, Ottoman Turkey. c.1550. Fritware painted in underglaze blues, green and mauve, diameter 33.6 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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6. Iznik dish with peahen amid prunus branches, Iznik, Ottoman Turkey. c.1580–90. Fritware painted in underglaze blue, green and red, diameter 47.4 cm. (Wallace Collection, London).
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7. The comte de Nieuwerkerke’s collections in his private apartments in the Louvre, unknown photographer. c.1865. Stereoscopic glass negative. (The Wallace Collection, London).
Article
Six Elizabethan Silver-Gilt Plates
07/1947 | 532 | 89
Pages: 182+184-187
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Mayne, Jonathan (Mayne, Jonathan)
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Oman, Charles (Oman, Charles; Oman, Charles Chichele; O., C. C.; Oman, C. C.; Oman, Charles C.)
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Plate I. Silver-Gilt Plate. London Hall-Mark for 1573-4, Maker's Mark Fr. Diameter, 25.4 cm. Centre Medallion Showing Abram and Sarai Praying for a Child. (Victoria and Albert Museum). Six Elizabethan Silver-Gilt Plates
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Plate III. B-Venus. Engraving by Adriaen Collaert. 16.5 by 16.2 cm. Six Elizabethan Silver-Gilt Plates
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Plate III. C-Neptune. Engraving by Adriaen Collaert. 16.5 by 16.2 cm. Six Elizabethan Silver-Gilt Plates
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Plate II. A-Detail of Silver-Gilt Plate. Centre Medallion Showing Abraham and the Three Angels. (Victoria and Albert Museum). Six Elizabethan Silver-Gilt Plates
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Plate II. B-Detail of Silver-Gilt Plate. Centre Medallion Showing the Sacrifice of Isaac. (Victoria and Albert Museum). Six Elizabethan Silver-Gilt Plates
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Plate II. C-Detail of Silver-Gilt Plate. Centre Medallion Showing Rebecca at the Well. (Victoria and Albert Museum). Six Elizabethan Silver-Gilt Plates
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Plate II. D-Detail of Silver-Gilt Plate. Centre Medallion Showing the Meeting of Isaac and Rebecca. (Victoria and Albert Museum). Six Elizabethan Silver-Gilt Plates
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Plate III. A-Silver-Gilt Plate, One of Set of Six. Centre Medallion Showing Jacob Stealing the Blessing of Isaac. (Victoria and Albert Museum). Six Elizabethan Silver-Gilt Plates
Letter
Mrs. Hogarth's Collection
02/1945 | 503 | 86
Pages: 46+51
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Harding, H. Wareham (Harding, H. Wareham)
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B-Figure with Cornucopia. Delft Plate, Painted by Sir James Thornhill. (British Museum). Letter: "Mrs. Hogarth's Collection"
Short Notice
A French Silver Rosewater Ewer and Dish in the Possession of the Earl of Ellesmere
08/1942 | 473 | 81
Pages: 202+204-205
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Jones, E. Alfred (Jones, E. Alfred; Jones, Edward Alfred; J., E. A.; Jones, E. A.)
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A-French Silver Rosewater Ewer and Dish. A French Rosewater Ewer and Dish. First Quarter of the Eighteenth Century. Diameter of Dish, 73.7 cm. (The Earl of Ellesmerf). Shoter Notices: A French Silver Rosewater Ewer and Dish
Article
Some Maiolica Paintings by Nicola Pellipario
03/1935 | 384 | 66
Pages: 104-105+108-109
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Rackham, Bernard (Rackham, Bernard; R., B.; Rackham, B.; R.)
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Plate I. A-The Virgin And Child between St. Lawrence And St. Francis. B-Five Saints, Here Identified as by Nicola Pellipario. 1528. Maiolica Roundels, Diam. 27.9 cm. (Victoria & Albert Museum). Some Maiolica Paintings by Nicola Pellipario
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Plate I. C-The Virgin And Child, Attributed to Nicola Pellipario. 1527. Maiolica Relief (The Beit Collection). Some Maiolica Paintings by Nicola Pellipario
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Plate I. D-The Metamorphosis of Daphne, Here Identified as by Nicola Pellipario. 1532. Maiolica Dish, Diam. 35.5 cm. (Museo Civico, Pesaro). Some Maiolica Paintings by Nicola Pellipario
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Plate II. A-Adam And Eve with Their Children. About 1525. B-Aeneas at the Palace of Evander. About 1530 C-Hercules Killing the Hydra. About 1530. D-Apollo And Daphne. About 1500. Here Identified as by Nicola Pellipario. Maiolica Plates, Diam. 27 cm. (Castello Sforzesco, Milan). Some Maiolica Paintings by Nicola Pellipario
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