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Book Review
Peintures germaniques des collections françaises (1370–1550)
12/2024 | 1461 | 166
Pages: 1264–7
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Reviewer:
Viehweger, Lea (Viehweger, Lea)
Subjects
art literature:
Catalogues / Exhibition catalogues
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Besançon, France / Musée des Beaux Arts de Dijon, Dijon, France / Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France
places:
France
subjects:
German art / Art museums / Holy Roman Empire
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Peintures germaniques des collections françaises (1370–1550) Edited by Isabelle Dubois-Brinkmann and Aude Briau. 416 pp. incl. 200 ills. (Éditions Faton, Paris, and Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Dijon, 2024), €39. ISBN 978–2–87844–348–6. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. Emperor Augustus and the Tiburtine Sibyl, Konrad Witz. c.1435. Mixed media on panel, 108 by 83 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon; Bridgeman Images).
Western art unattributed:
1. Tree of Jesse. Upper Rhenish, Basel(?), c.1490– 1500. Mixed media on panel, 213.4 by 229.5 cm. (Saint-George, Marckolsheim)
Western art unattributed:
3. St Catherine. Switzerland, c.1460. Oil on panel, 60 by 66 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Exhibition Review
Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800–1500
07/2022 | 1432 | 164
Pages: 705-706
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Reviewer:
Diebold, William (Diebold, William)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
museums and institutions:
Morgan Library and Museum, New York, United States
subjects:
Holy Roman Empire / Books / Manuscripts / Medieval art / Christianity
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800–1500 By Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Joshua O’Driscoll. 216 pp. incl. 152 col. ills. (Morgan Library and Museum, New York, with D. Giles Ltd., Lewes, 2021), £39.95. ISBN 978–1–911282–86–0. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Back cover of the Lindau Gospels. Salzburg, 700–800. Gilt silver, enamel, and jewels, 32 by 27.5 cm. (Morgan Library and Museum, New York, MS M.1; photograph Graham S. Haber).
Attributed works:
Nuremberg, by the workshop of Michael Wolgemut, from the Nuremberg Chronicle, by Hartmann Schedel. 1493. Hand-coloured woodcut on laid paper, 47 by 64.8 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991.7.1, f.99v–100r; exh. Morgan Library and Museum, New York).
Publication Received
Animating Empire: Automata, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Early Modern World. By Jessica Keating
05/2020 | 1406 | 162
Pages: 465-466
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Reviewer:
Jowitt, Claire (Jowitt, Claire)
Subjects
places:
Holy Roman Empire / Augsburg
subjects:
Automata / Cultural history
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Animating Empire: Automata, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Early Modern World By Jessica Keating. 184 pp. incl. 37 col. + 23 b. & w. ills. (Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park PA, 2018),  49.95. ISBN 978–0–271–08002–4. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Diana automaton, attributed to Joachim Freiss. c.1620. Partially gilded silver, enamels, jewels, iron and wood, height 37.5 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Book Review
Painting the Page in the Age of Print: Central European Manuscript Illumination of the Fifteenth Century. Edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Robert Suckale and Gude Suckale-Redlefsen, with Eberhard König, transl. David Sánchez
09/2019 | 1398 | 161
Pages: 782-783
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Reviewer:
White, Eric (White, Eric)
Subjects
dates:
1400-1499
places:
Holy Roman Empire
subjects:
Illuminated manuscripts / Incunabula / Books / Book illustrations / Secular / Religious art
Book Review
Denkmale der deutschen Konige und Kaiser. Ein Beitrag zur Herrschergeschichte von Karl dem Grossen bis Friedrich II. 768-1250
02/1966 | 755 | 108
Pages: 95
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Reviewer:
Beckwith, John (Beckwith, John)
Subjects
dates:
0800-0899 / 0900-0999 / 1000-1099 / 1100-1199 / 1200-1299
places:
Germany / France / Italy
subjects:
Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814
subjects:
Carolingian / Holy Roman Empire
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Denkmale der deutschen Konige und Kaiser. Ein Beitrag zur Herrschergeschichte von Karl dem Grossen bis Friedrich II. 768-1250 | author: Mütherich, Florentine , author: Schramm, Percy Ernst
Book Review
Schriftquellen zur Kunstgeschichte des 11. und 12. Jahrhunderts fur Deutschland, Lothringen und Italien
11/1939 | 440 | 75
Pages: 214-215
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Reviewer:
Kurz, Otto (Kurz, Otto; K., O.)
Subjects
dates:
1050-1099 / 1100-1199
places:
Italy / Germany / Lorraine
subjects:
Merovingian / Anglo-Saxon / Medieval / Holy Roman Empire
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Schriftquellen zur Kunstgeschichte des 11. und 12. Jahrhunderts fur Deutschland, Lothringen und Italien | author: Lehmann-Brockhaus, Otto
Article
Ancient Weapons of the Chase. Article II
02/1904 | 11 | 4
Pages: 156-159+162-165+167
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Author:
Baillie-Grohman, William A. (Baillie-Grohman, William A.; Grohman, William A. Baillie-; Baillie-Grohman, W. A.; Grohman, W. A. Baillie -; Baillie-Grohman, Wm. A.)
Subjects
dates:
1300-1599
places:
Europe
subjects:
Hunting / Weapons / Holy Roman Empire / Knives (weapons) / Spears (weapons) / Swords
Illustrations
Attributed works:
The Emperor Charles V and the Electors at a Stag-Drive, by Lucas Cranach the Younger; In the Collection of the Viscount Powerscourt, K. P.
Attributed works:
The Use of the Hunting Spear, from the Original Drawing by Stradanus (1523-1605) in Mr. W. A. Baillie-Grohman's Collection
Western art unattributed:
Arms from the Ambras Collection in the Imperial Museum, Vienna. Fig. 1.-Sword for wild boar (1500) Fig. 2.-Hunting Knife of Charles the Bold of Burgundy (1450) Fig. 3.-French Hunting Knife (1480) Figs. 4 and 4a.-Hunting Sword of Emperor Maximilian I, with Sheath and Small Knives, German work of 1490 Fig. 5.-Sixteenth-century 'Waidblatt,' used for 'undoing' big game. Figs. 6 and 6a.-Hunting Knife and Sheath of 1310 Fig. 7.-Sword for wild boar. Where the blade broadens is the guard
Western art unattributed:
Arms from the Ambras Collection in the Imperial Museum, Vienna. Figs. 1 and 1a.-Crossbow used for the chase of Louis XII of France, with windlass, dating from about 1499 Fig. 2.-Crossbow used for the chase of Emperor Maximilian I (1510) Figs. 3 and 3a.-Stalking Crossbow of King Maximilian II, of about 1560 Figs. 4 and 4a.-Set of Hunting Knives of German work of 1640 Fig. 5.-The Stock of a Sixteenth-century Crossbow