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Book Review
Style & Society: Dressing the Georgians
11/2024 | 1460 | 166
Pages: 1178–1180
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Griffey, Erin (Griffey, Erin)
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Style & Society: Dressing the Georgians By Anna Reynolds. 344 pp. incl. 300 col. ills. (Royal Collection Trust, London, 2023), £30. ISBN 978–1–909741–85–0. | :
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23. Needlework pocketbook, by Queen Charlotte. 1781. Satin, coloured silks and enamelled gold, width 27.7 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2024).
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24. Queen Charlotte with Charlotte, Princess Royal, Benjamin West. 1776. Oil on canvas, 168.2 by 205.7 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2024)
Article
George I’s Kensington Palace: the sculptural dimension
11/2023 | 1448 | 165
Pages: 1196-1205
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Author:
Marsden, Jonathan (Marsden, Jonathan)
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Illustrations
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1. Summer from Four Seasons, by Camillo Rusconi. c.1695. Marble, height (without pedestal) 74.9 cm. (© 2023 HM King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
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10. Flora, by John van Nost II or Robert Pitt. 1724. Gilded lead, height 159 cm.; 11. Apollo, by John van Nost II or Robert Pitt. 1724. Gilded lead, height 165 cm.; 12. Mercury, by J.M. Rysbrack. 1724. Gilded lead, height 167 cm.; 13. Diana, by J.M. Rysbrack. 1724. Gilded lead, height 173 cm. (All © 2023 HM King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
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14. Roman Marriage, by J.M. Rysbrack. 1723. Marble, 195 by 155 cm. (© 2023 HM King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
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15. John Michael Rysbrack, by John Faber the Younger after John Vanderbank. 1734. Mezzotint, 35.4 by 25.2 cm (sheet). (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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16. Flora, by Sigismondo Betti. c.1710–30. Pencil drawing on paper, 57 by 48 cm. (Eton College Library, Windsor; reproduced by permission of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College).
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17. The Cupola Room, Kensington Palace. Photograph. c.1930. (© Historic Royal Palaces).
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18. Hermes Andros / Farnese, attributed to Andrew Carpenter. 1724. Lead, height 78 cm. (© 2023 HM King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
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19. ‘Archimedes’, by Hubert Le Sueur. c.1637–38. Bronze, height 41 cm. (© 2023 HM King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
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2. Kensington Palace: the King’s Gallery, by Charles Wild. 1816. Watercolour with touches of bodycolour over etched outlines, 19.8 by 25 cm. (© 2023 HM King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
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20. Detail of Fig.7, showing a bust over the fireplace.
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21. Bust of an unknown woman. Early seventeenth century. Bronze, height 71 cm. (© 2023 HM King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
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3. The King’s Gallery, Kensington Palace, looking east, with the paintings hung as in George I’s time, with Camillo Rusconi’s Four Seasons on the window piers. (© Historic Royal Palaces).
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4. Kensington Palace: Queen Caroline’s Drawing Room, by Charles Wild. c.1816. Pen and ink with watercolour and bodycolour, over pencil, 20.3 by 25 cm. (© 2023 HM King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
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5. A Roman statue, by Elisha Kirkall. 1720s. Mezzotint, 36.5 by 21.5 cm. (British Museum, London).
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6. Kensington Palace: the Great Staircase, by Charles Wild. 1819. Pen and ink with watercolour and bodycolour, over etched outlines, 25.2 by 20.2 cm. (© 2023 HM King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
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7. Kensington Palace: the Cupola Room, by Richard Cattermole. c.1817. Pen and ink with watercolour and bodycolour, over pencil, 20.4 by 25.3 cm. (© 2023 HM King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
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8. Bacchus, by J.M. Rysbrack. 1724. Gilded lead, height 170 cm. (© 2023 HM King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
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9. Ceres, by J.M. Rysbrack. 1724. Gilded lead, height 193 cm. (© 2023 HM King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
Article
Artemisia Gentileschi’s ‘Susanna and the elders’ painted for Henrietta Maria
10/2023 | 1447 | 165
Pages: 1053–73
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Izat, Adelaide (Izat, Adelaide)
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Munz, Niko (Munz, Niko)
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1. The painting illustrated in Fig.3, before conservation treatment and prior to structural treatment to remove non-original additions.
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10. Infra-red reflectography of Fig.1, showing former non-original canvas extension.
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11. Detail of Fig.10, showing a pinnacle or water-jet and possible part of a wall.
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12. Detail of Fig.10, showing a scroll-like form above the satyr’s head.
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13. Birth of St John the Baptist, by Artemisia Gentileschi. c.1635. Oil on canvas, 184 by 258 cm. (© NPL - DeA Picture Library; G. Dagli Orti; Bridgeman Images; Museo del Prado, Madrid).
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14. David and Goliath, by Orazio Gentileschi. c.1610–12. Oil on canvas, 173 by 142 cm. (Palazzo Spada, Rome; Bridgeman Images).
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15–17: Details of Fig.8 outlined in orange, overlaid with the corresponding lines in green from Fig.3 in three positions: (Fig.15) showing the match around the shoulder and back with the orange dots following where the Royal Collection pentiment lines up with Susanna’s back in the Burghley House painting; (Fig.16) shifted to show the match of the shoulder, arm and hand; and (Fig.17) lining up the Royal Collection knee tracing over the visible pentiment (shown with green dashed lines) of Susanna’s knee in the Burghley House painting.
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18. Detail of Fig.19 outlined in blue overlaid with a tracing in orange from Fig.3.
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19. St Catherine of Alexandria, by Artemisia Gentileschi. c.1627–30?. Oil on canvas, 90 by 75.4 cm. (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm; photograph © Christie’s Images; Bridgeman Images).
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2. Self-portrait as the Allegory of Painting, by Artemisia Gentileschi. c.1638–39?. Oil on canvas, 96.8 by 75.2 cm. (© His Majesty King Charles III, 2023; Royal Collection Trust).
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20. Detail of Fig.13, showing the midwife outlined in green, overlaid with an inverted tracing in orange of the right-hand elder in Fig.3.
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21. Detail of Fig.3, showing Susanna’s raised foot with pentiment and early drawing line visible in the white drapery.
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22. Bathsheba at her bath, attributed to Artemisia Gentileschi. c.1640– 45. Oil on canvas, 288 by 228 cm. (Private collection).
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23. Detail of a design for a painted vertical panel with grotesque ornament, by Inigo Jones, showing Henrietta Maria’s cipher. 1630s. Pen, ink and wash on paper. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
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24. Design for a chimneypiece and overmantel for the Queen’s House, Greenwich, by Inigo Jones. c.1637. Pen, ink and wash on paper, 19.3 by 29.5 cm. (Royal Institute of British Architects, London).
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25. Detail of Fig.10, showing carbon-based markings to denote positioning.
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26. X-radiograph of Fig.7, showing the hooded reserve left for the elders (showing dark) against the sky, similar in technique and handling to the early reserve left for the elders and visible in Fig.9.
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27. X-radiograph of Fig.14, showing the broad sweeping contour around the shoulder to lay in David’s form and echoing in style and technique the preliminary placing of Susanna’s outline as seen in Fig.9.
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28. Detail of Fig.13, showing the grid-like craquelure resulting from the relatively open weave of the canvas substrate.
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29. Detail of Fig.3, showing the wider craquelure resulting from the finer-woven canvas.
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3. Susanna and the elders, by Artemisia Gentileschi. 1638–39. Oil on canvas, 188.9 by 143.2 cm. (after structural treatment to remove non-original additions). (© His Majesty King Charles III, 2023; Royal Collection Trust).
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30. Paint cross section of Fig.3, from the area to the right of Susanna’s lower foot.
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31. Paint cross section of Fig.3, taken from the right edge in the elder’s green brocade .
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32. Paint cross section of Fig.3, from the left side of the sky; the warm red preparatory layer is absent from this sample but it shows the lower pale brown preliminary layer that was used under much of the sky area, followed by a bright blue layer containing indigo and lead white. The discoloured smalt layer lies above this.
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33. Paint cross section of Fig.3, from the sky area above the elder’s head.
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34. Paint cross section of Fig.3, taken from a shadow area of Susanna’s hip with some reflected light, showing the thick preparatory layer containing red ochre, followed by the darker brown underpaint for the flesh tones, and finally the bright, densely encrusted aggregates of lead-tin-antinomy yellow near the top.
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4. Detail of the reverse of Fig.3, showing ‘CR’ brand.
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5. The Queen’s Bedchamber, Kensington Palace, by Richard Cattermole. c.1818. Watercolour and bodycolour on paper, 20.2 by 26.3 cm. (© His Majesty King Charles III, 2023; Royal Collection Trust).
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6. Photograph of the painting illustrated in Fig.3, from the inventory ‘Pictures in the Royal Collections’, by Richard Redgrave (29th May 1862). (© His Majesty King Charles III, 2023; Royal Library, Royal Collection Trust).
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7. Susanna and the elders, by Artemisia Gentileschi. 1610. Oil on canvas, 170 by 119 cm. (Schloss Weissenstein, Pommersfelden; Scala, Florence).
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8. Susanna and the elders, by Artemisia Gentileschi. 1622. Oil on canvas, 162.5 by 121.9 cm. (Burghley House, Stamford; Bridgeman Images).
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9. X-radiography of Fig.3.
Article
‘An Antiquity of Piety’
11/2022 | 1436 | 164
Pages: 1078-1087
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Marsden, Jonathan (Marsden, Jonathan)
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6. Cimon and Pero, by Sebald Beham. 1544. Engraving, 7.1 by 4.8 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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8. Cleopatra, by Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, known as Antico. c.1525. Bronze with gilding, height 64.4 cm. (Photograph © 2022 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
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9. Ariadne, by Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, known as Antico. c.1520–22. Bronze with gilding and silver inlays, height 50 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; KHM-Museumsverbad).
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1. Pietas. North Italian, probably early sixteenth century. Bronze, height 50.8 cm. (Photograph Royal Collection Trust / © His Majesty King Charles III 2022).
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10. The back of the bust illustrated in Fig.1.
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11. The back of the bust illustrated in Fig.4.
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12. Detail of the bust illustrated in Fig.1, showing the top of the head.
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13. Detail of the bust illustrated in Fig. 4, showing the top of the head.
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2. The bust illustrated in Fig.1 on display in the Privy Chamber, Kensington Palace, London. (© Historic Royal Palaces).
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3. Detail of the bust illustrated in Fig.1, showing the flange along the truncation. (Photograph Jonathan Marsden).
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4. Cinamon. North Italian, probably early sixteenth century. Bronze, height 57 cm. (Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich; photograph Bastian Krack).
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5. Cimon and Pero (Roman Charity). North Italian, sixteenth century. Bronze, diameter 6.35 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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7. Detail of the bust illustrated in Fig.1, showing the condition of the surface.
Exhibition Review
Dürer: The Making of a Renaissance Master
09/2022 | 1434 | 164
Pages: 906-909
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Viehweger, Lea (Viehweger, Lea)
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Dürer: The Making of a Renaissance Master Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham 17th June–25th September | :
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4. Pupila Augusta, by Albrecht Dürer. c.1498. Pen and ink on paper, 25.4 by 19.4 cm. (Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2022; exh. Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham).
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5. Great triumphal cart of Emperor Maximilian, by Albrecht Dürer. 1523. Woodcut from eight blocks, 47.9 by 230 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2022; exh. Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham).
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6. A woman abducted by a man on a unicorn, by Albrecht Dürer. 1516. Etching, 30.7 by 20.1 cm. (Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2022; exh. Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham).
Editorial
The Elizabeth II style
06/2022 | 1431 | 164
Pages: 535
Obituary
Jane Roberts (1949–2021)
10/2021 | 1423 | 163
Pages: 979-980
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Clayton, Martin (Clayton, Martin)
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Jane Roberts, photographed in 2008. (Courtesy Hugh Roberts).
Exhibition Review
Raphael: Prince Albert’s Passion
01/2021 | 1414 | 163
Pages: 64-67
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Hall, Michael (Hall, Michael)
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Raphael: Prince Albert’s Passion The Lightbox, Woking 3rd October 2020– 31st January 2021 | :
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10. Conversion of the proconsul, by Raphael. c.1514. Metalpoint, brown wash, white heightening and later pen and ink over stylus lines, pin-pointing and black-chalk underdrawing on paper, 26.9 by 35.4 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © HM Queen Elizabeth II 2021; exh. The Lightbox, Woking).
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11. Nude study, after Raphael, by Queen Victoria. 1860. Pen, ink and pencil on paper, 17.7 by 11.1 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © HM Queen Elizabeth II 2021; exh. The Lightbox, Woking).
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12. Three men, after Raphael. c.1853–60. Albumen print, 22.9 by 15.6 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © HM Queen Elizabeth II 2021; exh. The Lightbox, Woking).
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13. Colonna Madonna, after Raphael. c.1848–58. Berlin porcelain plaque in gilt-wood frame, 74.2 by 58.3 (plaque), 133.8 by 86.8 (frame). (Royal Collection Trust; © HM Queen Elizabeth II 2021; exh. The Lightbox, Woking).
Book Review
Egyptian and Roman Antiquities and Renaissance Decorative Arts (The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo, Series A: Antiquities and Architecture, Part 8)
11/2020 | 1412 | 162
Pages: 1004
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Jenkins, Ian (Jenkins, Ian; J., I.)
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Egyptian and Roman Antiquities and Renaissance Decorative Arts (The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo, Series A: Antiquities and Architecture, Part 8) Edited by Elena Vaiani, Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò and Helen Whitehouse. Two vols, 957 pp. incl. 437 col. ills. (Royal Collection Trust, and Harvey Miller Publishers, Turnhout, 2018), £150. ISBN 978–1–909400–92–4. | :
Book Review
Japan: Courts and Culture
10/2020 | 1411 | 162
Pages: 898-899
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Pollard, Clare (Pollard, Clare)
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Japan: Courts and Culture Edited by Rachel Peat. 320 pp. incl. 340 col. ills. (Royal Collection Trust, London, 2020), £49.95. ISBN 978–1–909741–68–3. | :
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1. Embroidered folding screen, by Iida & Co., Kyoto. c.1880–1900. Wood, lacquer, silk and silk thread, leather, gilt-brass, watercolour, paper, mother-of-pearl and copper alloy, each panel 192.5 by 73.7 by 3.4 cm. (Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2020).
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