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Book Review
Knick-knackery: The Deards Family and their Luxury Shops 1685–1785
05/2024 | 1454 | 166
Pages: 535–537
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Reviewer:
Clifford, Helen (Clifford, Helen)
Subjects
subjects:
Shopping / Luxury / British / Eighteenth-century
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Knick-knackery: The Deards Family and their Luxury Shops 1685–1785 By Vanessa Brett. 536 pp. incl. 285 col + 176 b. & w. ills. (Privately published, Bath, 2023), £35. ISBN 978–1–3999–6598–9. | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
5. Loupe, or magnifying glass. c.1740. Gold and agate with diamond knop, length 14.8 cm. (open), width 5.2 cm. (Private collection).
Exhibition Review
Seventeenth- and eighteenth century Venetian painting
05/2022 | 1430 | 164
Pages: 507-509
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Reviewer:
Pietrabissa, Camilla (Pietrabissa, Camilla )
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy
subjects:
Venetian art / Seventeenth-century / Eighteenth-century / Art museums / Displays
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Seventeenth- and eighteenthcentury Venetian painting Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice from 31st August 2021 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
19. Installation view of the seventeenthcentury collections (room 5), Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice, 2022. (© G.A.VE Archivio fotografico; courtesy Ministero della Cultura; photograph Matteo De Fina).
Attributed works:
20. Detail from Scourge of the serpents, by Giambattista Tiepolo. c.1731. (Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia; © G.A.VE Archivio fotografico; courtesy Ministero della Cultura; photograph Matteo De Fina).
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21. Installation view of the eighteenthcentury collections (room 6), Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice, 2022, showing Erminia and Vafrino ministering to the wounded Tancredi, by Gian Antonio Guardi. c.1750–55. Oil on canvas, 253.5 by 263 cm. (© G.A.VE Archivio fotografico; courtesy Ministero della Cultura; photograph Matteo De Fina).
Book Review
Goya: A Portrait of the Artist
09/2021 | 1422 | 163
Pages: 874-875
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Reviewer:
Lee, Simon (Lee, Simon)
Subjects
artists:
Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de
subjects:
Spanish art / Spanish artists / Eighteenth-century / Nineteenth-century
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Goya: A Portrait of the Artist By Janis Tomlinson. 448 pp. incl. 35 col. + 46 b. & w. ills. (Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 2020), £28. ISBN 978–0–691–19204–8. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Second of May 1808 in Madrid or ‘The fight against the Mamelukes’, by Francisco de Goya. 1814. Oil on canvas, 268.5 by 347.5 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
Book Review
L’Art et la manière: Dessins français du XVIIIesiècle des musées de Marseille
06/2021 | 1419 | 163
Pages: 557-558
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Reviewer:
Vogtherr, Christoph Martin (Vogtherr, Christoph Martin)
Subjects
art literature:
Catalogues
museums and institutions:
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille, France / Musée Grobet-Labadié, Marseille, France
subjects:
French art / Drawings / Eighteenth-century
Reviewed Items
subjects:
L’Art et la manière: Dessins français du XVIIIesiècle des musées de Marseille Edited by Luc Georget and Gérard Fabre. 384 pp. incl. 316 col. + 14 b. & w. ills. (Silvana Editoriale, Milan, 2019), €39. ISBN 978–88–366–4013–3. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Judgment of St Crispin and St Crispinian, by Joseph II Cellony. c.1745–50. Pen, ink and grey wash on laid paper with watermark, 29.5 by 23 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille).
Book Review
Mrs. Delany: A Life
10/2020 | 1411 | 162
Pages: 913
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Reviewer:
Kerhervé, Alain (Kerhervé, Alain)
Subjects
art literature:
Biographies
artists:
Delany, Mary
subjects:
British art / Eighteenth-century
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Mrs. Delany: A Life By Clarissa Campbell Orr. 448 pp. incl. 50 col. ills. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2019), £30. ISBN 978–0–300–16113–7. | :
Book Review
La Griffe du peintre: La valeur de l’art (1730–1820). By Charlotte Guichard
12/2019 | 1401 | 161
Pages: 1066-1067
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Subjects
subjects:
French art / Eighteenth-century / Signatures
subjects:
Art market / Attributions
Reviewed Items
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La Griffe du peintre: La valeur de l’art (1730–1820) By Charlotte Guichard. 368 pp. incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Seuil, Paris, 2018), £52. ISBN 978–2–02–140231–5. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Young student drawing, by Jean-Siméon Chardin. 1738. Oil on panel, 21 by 17.1 cm. (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth).
Book Review
Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul. By Ünver Rüstem
09/2019 | 1398 | 161
Pages: 787-788
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Reviewer:
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
Subjects
dates:
Eighteenth-century
places:
Istanbul
subjects:
Turkish architecture / Ottoman / Baroque / Rococo
Publication Received
European Porcelain in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. By Jeffrey H. Munger and Elizabeth Sullivan
03/2019 | 1392 | 161
Pages: 263
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Reviewer:
Bodinek, Claudia (Bodinek, Claudia)
Subjects
dates:
Sixteenth-century / Seventeenth-century / Eighteenth-century / Nineteenth-century
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
subjects:
European porcelain
Reviewed Items
subjects:
European Porcelain in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. By Jeffrey H. Munger and Elizabeth Sullivan | :
Book Review
Paris: Life & Luxury in the Eighteenth Century
09/2012 | 1314 | 154
Pages: 644-645
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Reviewer:
Wine, Humphrey (Wine, Humphrey)
Subjects
dates:
1700-1799
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United States
places:
Paris / France
print:
Eighteenth-century
subjects:
Exhibitions / History / Social history / Urban history
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Paris: Life & Luxury in the Eighteenth Century | editor: Bremer David, Charissa
Illustrations
Attributed works:
30. Portrait of Madame Marsollier and her daughter, by Jean-Marc Nattier. 1749. Canvas, 146.1 by 114.3 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Publication Received
Antiquaries: The Discovery of the Past in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
08/2005 | 1229 | 147
Pages: 566
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Reviewer:
Sweetman, John (Sweetman, John; Sweetman, J. E.)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Stukeley, William
collectors and dealers:
Grose, Francis / Carter, John, architect and antiquary, 1748-1817
dates:
1700-1799
places:
Great Britain
print:
Eighteenth-century
subjects:
Antiquarianism / Collectors / Art history / Art criticism / Art theory / Manuscripts / Coins / Architecture / Society of Antiquaries of London, Great Britain
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Antiquaries: The Discovery of the Past in Eighteenth-Century Britain. | author: Sweet, Rosemary
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