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Book Review
Italy, Cyprus, and Artistic Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean
06/2023 | 1443 | 165
Pages: 662-665
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Reviewer:
Olympios, Michalis (Olympios, Michalis)
Subjects
dates:
1200-1299 / 1300-1399
places:
Cyprus / Italy / Mediterranean
subjects:
Medieval art / Byzantine art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Italy, Cyprus, and Artistic Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean By Anthi Andronikou. 410 pp. incl. 142 col. + b. & w. ills. (Cambridge University Press, 2022), £75. ISBN 978–1–316–51092–6. | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
2. Virgin of the Carmelites (St Kassianos Virgin). Second half of the thirteenth century. Tempera and gold on parchment and wood, 203 by 156 cm. (Byzantine Museum and Art Gallery of the Archbishop Makarios III Foundation, Nicosia).
Exhibition Review
Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
05/2023 | 1442 | 165
Pages: 546-549
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Reviewer:
Stephenson, Roy (Stephenson, Roy)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Great Britain
places:
Mediterranean / Cyprus / Crete / Sardinia
subjects:
Antiquity / Greek (ancient) School / Material culture (genre) / Neolithic / Roman (ancient)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 24th February–4th June | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
5. Aphrodite Anadyomene. Cyprus, c.300– 100 BC. Marble, height 116 cm. (Cyprus Museum).
Western art unattributed:
6. Astarte standing on an ingot. Cyprus, 1200–1100 BC. Copper alloy, height 9.9 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Western art unattributed:
Fig.4. Finds at the Sanctuary of Agia Eirini, Cyprus. Photograph, c.1929. (Courtesy Världskulturmuseerna, Sweden).
Book Review
Seeking Transparency: Rock Crystals Across the Medieval Mediterranean
10/2021 | 1423 | 163
Pages: 967-968
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Reviewer:
Milner, Lesley (Milner, Lesley)
Subjects
subjects:
Rock crystals / Medieval art / Islamic art / Christianity / Mediterranean / East-West trade
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subjects:
Seeking Transparency: Rock Crystals Across the Medieval Mediterranean Edited by Cynthia Hahn and Avinoam Shalem. 334 pp. incl. 56 col. + 140 b. & w. ills. (Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin, 2020), £60. ISBN 978–3–7861–2843–4. | :
Book Review
The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion: Metalwork, Art and Technology in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean
08/2020 | 1409 | 162
Pages: 713-715
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Reviewer:
Rosser-Owen, Mariam (Rosser-Owen, Mariam)
Subjects
places:
Pisa / Córdoba
styles:
Islamic sculpture
subjects:
Metalwork / Medieval art / Mediterranean / Technical analysis
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion: Metalwork, Art and Technology in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean Edited by Anna Contadini. 544 pp. incl. 300 col. + b. & w. ills. (Pacini Editore, Pisa, 2018), £90. ISBN 978–88–6995–306–4. | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
2. Mari-Cha Lion. 1100–30. Bronze, height 73 cm. (Private collection; courtesy Museum of Islamic Art, Doha).
Western art unattributed:
3. Pisa Griffin. c.1100. Bronze, height 107 cm. (Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Pisa; courtesy Museum of Islamic Art, Doha).
Book Review
Dibujos y ornamento. Trazas y Dibujos de Artes decorativas entre Portugal, España, Italia, Malta y Grecia: Estudio en honor de Fuensanta García de la Torre. Edited by Sabina de Cavi
07/2017 | 1372 | 159
Pages: 599-560
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Reviewer:
Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, Simonetta (Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, Simonetta)
Subjects
dates:
1500-1799
subjects:
Monographs / Architectural drawings / Drawings / Baroque / Southern European / Essays / Design / Mediterranean / Festschriften
Book Review
Le Maroc médiéval: Un empire de l’Afrique à l’Espagne, Y. Lintz, C. Déléry and B.T.Leonetti, eds.
12/2015 | 1353 | 157
Pages: 855
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Reviewer:
Rosser-Owen, Mariam (Rosser-Owen, Mariam)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France / Musée Mohammed VI d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Rabat, Morocco
subjects:
Exhibition catalogues / Cultural history / North African / Mediterranean / Medieval / Historiography
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
42. Le 'grand lustre' from the al-Qarawiyyin Mosque in Fez, hanging at the entrance to the exhibition Maroc médiéval. Un empire de l'Afrique à l'Espagne at the Musée du Louvre, Paris (October 2014 to January 2015)
Non-western art unattributed:
43. Wall painting from one of the houses discoverd during the excavations of the al-Qarawiyyin Mosque, before 1134
Book Review
Cultures in Contact – From Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean in the Second millennium B.C., J. Aruz, S.B. Graff and Y. Rakic, eds.
06/2015 | 1347 | 157
Pages: 415
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Reviewer:
Collon, Dominique (Collon, Dominique)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
subjects:
Conferences / Archaeology / Excavations / Essays / Art objects / Art / Art history / Mesopotamian / Mediterranean / Turkish / Greek (ancient) / Assyrian / Syrian / Egyptian / Babylonian / Iranian / Afghan
Book Review
Crusader Art in the Holy Land, from the Third Crusade to the Fall of Acre, 1187–1291
08/2007 | 1253 | 149
Pages: 556
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Reviewer:
Cormack, Robin (Cormack, Robin)
Subjects
dates:
1180-1189 / 1190-1199 / 1200-1299
places:
Israel
places:
Jerusalem
print:
Medieval art
subjects:
Crusades
subjects:
Byzantine School / Byzantine art / Crusader / Early Christian / Islamic / Mediterranean / Muslim / European / Art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Crusader Art in the Holy Land, from the Third Crusade to the Fall of Acre, 1187–1291 | author: Folda, Jaroslav
Book Review
British Art and the Mediterranean
09/1948 | 546 | 90
Pages: 271
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Reviewer:
Waterhouse, Ellis K. (Waterhouse, Ellis K.; Waterhouse, Ellis Kirkham; Waterhouse, E. K.; W., E. K.; Waterhouse, Ellis)
Subjects
dates:
1500-1699
places:
England / Italy
subjects:
Italian / Mediterranean / Art / Influence
subjects:
Cultural history / British painting
Reviewed Items
subjects:
British Art and the Mediterranean | author: Saxl, Fritz , author: Wittkower, Rudolf
Short Notice
English Art and the Mediterranean
11/1941 | 464 | 79
Pages: 146
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Subjects
dates:
1940-1949
museums and institutions:
Warburg Institute, London, Great Britain
places:
England
subjects:
British painting / Mediterranean / Influence / Exhibitions
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