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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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Reviewer:
Belamarić, Josip (Belamarić, Josip)
Subjects
artists:
Fortezza, Orazio
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Klovićevi dvori Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
subjects:
Goldsmiths / Engravers / Miniaturists / Ewers / Plates
Reviewed Items
subjects:
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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Attributed works:
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).
Attributed works:
5. Detail of Fig.4.
Attributed works:
6. Display plate, engraved by Orazio Fortezza. 1555. Brass, engraved and damascened with silver, diameter 48.3 cm. (British Museum, London).
Article
Cristoforo de Predis at the Sforza Court
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 206–11
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Author:
Schrader, Jeffrey (Schrader, Jeffrey)
Subjects
artists:
Predis, Cristoforo de / Pedius, Quintus
dates:
1470-1479
museums and institutions:
Wallace Collection, London, Great Britain
patrons:
Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, 1444-1476
sources:
Pliny, the Elder, 23-79 AD
subjects:
Illuminators / Illuminated manuscripts / Inscriptions / Italian art / Renaissance art / Sforza family / Courts (social groups) / Disabled / Miniaturists
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Marriage of the Virgin, from the Borromeo Book of Hours, by Cristoforo de Predis. 1478 or 1486. Gouache on vellum, 10.3 by 7.6 cm. (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, S.P.42, fol.15v; Mondadori Portfolio; Bridgeman Images).
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2. Initial ‘A’ with Galeazzo Maria Sforza in prayer, by Cristoforo de Predis. Probably 1477. Gouache on vellum, 22.4 by 18.9 cm. (Wallace Collection, London; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
3. Arms and imprese of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, from the Book of Gioacchino and Anna, by Cristoforo de Predis. 1476. Gouache on parchment, 27.3 by 19.1 cm. (Biblioteca Reale, Turin, Codice Varia 124, fol.2v; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
4. St Martin with the poor and Annunciation, from the Ingressarium of Fabrizio Marliani, by Cristoforo de Predis. 1476. Illumination on parchment, 57.2 by 41.2 cm. (Museo Baroffio e del Santuario del Sacro Monte sopra Varese, inv.1000, fol.1r).
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5. Melanthus Cycionius, Apelles, Protogenes Caunius, Quintus Pedius, Praxiteles Graecus, Mecenas, by Joachim von Sandrart. 1683. Engraving. (From J. von Sandrart and P. Killian: L’Academia todesca della architectura, scultura & pittura, oder, Teutsche Academie der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste, Nuremberg 1683, second part, first book, plate E; New York Public Library).
Attributed works:
6. Details of Figs.4, 3, 2 and 1, showing the various signatures of Cristoforo de Predis.
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).
Book Review
Da ‘Universitas’ ad ‘Academia’. La corporazione dei Pittori nella chiesa di San Luca a Roma. 1474–1588, I. Salvagni
03/2016 | 1356 | 158
Pages: 207-208
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Reviewer:
Sparti, Donatella Livia (Sparti, Donatella Livia; Sparti, Donatella L.)
Subjects
dates:
1470-1479 / 1480-1489 / 1490-1499 / 1500-1599
museums and institutions:
Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome, Italy
places:
Rome
subjects:
History / Guilds / Artists / Artisans / Goldsmiths / Miniaturists / Painters / Academies
subjects:
Italian
Book Review
Bartolomeo della Gatta. Pittore e Miniatore tra Arezzo, Roma e Urbino, C. Martelli
06/2015 | 1347 | 157
Pages: 417
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Reviewer:
Henry, Tom (Henry, Tom)
Subjects
artists:
Bartolomeo della Gatta
subjects:
Monographs / Miniaturists / Italian painting / Biographies
Illustrations
Attributed works:
39. Virgin and Child with Sts Peter, Paul, Michael and Julian, by Bartolomeo della Gatta (Collegiata di San Giuliano, Castiglione Fiorentino)
Book Review
Heinrich Friedrich Füger 1751–1818
02/2011 | 1295 | 153
Pages: 112-113
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Reviewer:
Jacoby, Joachim (Jacoby, Joachim)
Subjects
artists:
Füger, Heinrich
dates:
1760-1769 / 1770-1779 / 1780-1829
print:
Füger, Heinrich
subjects:
Portraits / Miniatures (paintings) / Miniaturists / Monographs / History paintings / Biographies
subjects:
German painting
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Heinrich Friedrich Füger 1751–1818 | author: Keil, Robert