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Book Review
Il giovane Cavalcaselle: ‘Il più curioso, il più intrepido, il più appassionato di tutti gli affamati di pittura’
01/2025 | 1462 | 167
Pages: 72-3
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Reviewer:
Davoli, Silvia (Davoli, Silvia)
Subjects
subjects:
Cavalcaselle, G. B. / Crowe, J. A.
subjects:
Art history / art history publishing / art history publishing / Art historians / Connoisseurs
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Il giovane Cavalcaselle: ‘Il più curioso, il più intrepido, il più appassionato di tutti gli affamati di pittura’ By Giovanni Mazzaferro. 244 pp. incl. 16 col. ills. (Olschki, Florence, 2023), €26. ISBN 978–88–22–26888–4. | :
Book Review
Caravaggio’s ‘Cardsharps’ on Trial: Thwaytes v. Sotheby’s
09/2022 | 1434 | 164
Pages: 944-945
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Reviewer:
White, Michael (White, Michael)
Subjects
artists:
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da
collectors and dealers:
Mahon, Denis
museums and institutions:
Sotheby's, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Auction houses / Attributions / Connoisseurs / Connoisseurship
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Caravaggio’s ‘Cardsharps’ on Trial: Thwaytes v. Sotheby’s By Richard E. Spear. 384 pp. incl. 66 col. + 20 b. & w. ills. (Burlington Press, London, 2020), £35. ISBN 978–1–916237–81–0. | :
Exhibition Review
Collectors, Curators, Connoisseurs: A Century of the Oriental Ceramic Society 1921–2021
04/2022 | 1429 | 164
Pages: 402-403
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Reviewer:
Lam, Peter Y. K. (Lam, Peter Y. K. )
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Oriental Ceramic Society
museums and institutions:
Brunei Gallery, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Asian art / Ceramics / Chinese art / Japanese art / Korean art
subjects:
Connoisseurs / Curators / Collectors
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Collectors, Curators, Connoisseurs: A Century of the Oriental Ceramic Society 1921–2021 Edited by Sarah Wong and Stacey Pierson. 336 pp. incl. 331 col. + 68 b. & w. ills. (Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 2021), £100. ISBN 978–1–5272–8762–4. | :
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
1. Underglaze blue porcelain vase. Yuan dynasty, Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi Province, 14th century. Porcelain, height 45.7 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
Non-western art unattributed:
2. Yellow-glazed porcelain dish. Ming dynasty, Chenghua mark and of the period, Jingdezhen kilns, Jingxi Province, 1465–87. Diameter 17.2 cm. (Bristol Museum and Art Gallery).
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Carved lacquer box and cover. Ming dynasty, 16th–17th century. Diameter 24.2 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Obituary
Christian Theuerkauff (1936–2021)
02/2022 | 1427 | 164
Pages: 223-224
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Author:
Trusted, Marjorie (Trusted, Marjorie)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Bodemuseum, Berlin, Germany
subjects:
Theuerkauff, Christian / scholars / Connoisseurs / Ivories / Baroque sculpture
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Christian Theuerkauff, photographed in 2010 by Hiltrud Jehle.
Book Review
Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth- Century France, 1853–1914
10/2021 | 1423 | 163
Pages: 972-973
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Reviewer:
Legé, Alice S. (Legé, Alice S.)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Musée d'Ennery, Paris, France
subjects:
Japonisme / Japanese art / Women / Collectors / Connoisseurs / Art market / France
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Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth- Century France, 1853–1914 By Elizabeth Emery. 280 pp. incl. 13 col. + 61 b. & w. ills. (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, London, 2020), £90. ISBN 978–1–5013–4463–3. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Young woman holding a Japanese vase (The Japanese vase), by James Tissot. c.1870. Oil on canvas, 36.5 by 40.5 cm. (Private collection).
Book Review
Les dessins de la collection Mariette: Écoles italienne et espagnole
06/2021 | 1419 | 163
Pages: 550-551
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Reviewer:
Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, Simonetta (Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, Simonetta)
Subjects
art literature:
Catalogues
collectors and dealers:
Mariette, Pierre-Jean, collector and art critic, 1694-1774 / Crozat, Pierre, 1661–1740
museums and institutions:
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France / Albertina, Vienna, Austria / British Museum, Dept. of Prints and Drawings, London, Great Britain / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
museums and institutions:
Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany
subjects:
Collections, Private / Collections, Public / Collectors / Connoisseurs / Italian drawing / Spanish drawings
Reviewed Items
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Les dessins de la collection Mariette: Écoles italienne et espagnole By Pierre Rosenberg et al. Four vols, 1,528 pp. incl. over 4,500 col. + b. & w. ills. (Somogy Éditions d’Art, Paris, 2019), €420. ISBN 978–2–7572–1433–6. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Bust of a child, head turned three quarters to the left, by Annibale Carracci. c.1585–92. Black and white chalk on paper, 31.5 by 25.1 cm. The drawing retains the mount made for Pierre-Jean Mariette. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Obituary
David Scrase (1949–2020)
03/2021 | 1416 | 163
Pages: 306-308
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Author:
Luijten, Ger (Luijten, Ger)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Great Britain
subjects:
Scrase, David, London, Great Britain / Italian drawings / Collections, Public / Curators / Connoisseurs
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. David Scrase in 1994. (Photograph by Frédérick; courtesy the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
Attributed works:
3. Study for ‘The Institution of the Eucharist’, by Federico Barocci. c.1603. Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk, heightened with white, with selected areas worked up in grisaille oils, squared in black chalk, on paper, 51.5 by 35.5 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
Book Review
The Life of Giovanni Morelli in Risorgimento Italy
01/2021 | 1414 | 163
Pages: 88-89
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Reviewer:
Brown, David Alan (Brown, David Alan)
Subjects
art literature:
Morelli, Giovanni, 1816-1891
subjects:
Italian art / Connoisseurs / Attributions / Art museums / Biographies
Reviewed Items
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The Life of Giovanni Morelli in Risorgimento Italy By Jaynie Anderson. 272 pp. incl. 63 col. + 50 b. & w. ills. (Officina Libraria, Milan, 2019), £29.95. ISBN 978–88–99765–95–8. | :
Book Review
A Connoisseur and His Clients: The Correspondence of Charles Fairfax Murray with Frederic Burton, Wilhelm Bode and Julius Meyer (1867–1914). Edited by Paul Tucker
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 883-884
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Reviewer:
Avery-Quash, Susanna (Avery-Quash, Susanna; Quash, Susanna Avery-)
Subjects
art literature:
Murray, Charles Fairfax / Burton, Frederic William / Bode, Wilhelm von / Buchanan, William / Smith, John, English dealer and writer, 1781-1855 / Burckhardt, Jacob / Condivi, Ascanio
art literature:
Meyer, Julius / Hauser, Alois, the elder
artists:
Kettle, Tilly / Rossetti, Dante Gabriel / Bellini, Giovanni / Correggio / Benvenuto, Girolamo di / Lorenzetti, Ambrogio / Lorenzetti, Pietro / Sansovino, Jacopo / Lippi, Filippino / Matteo di Giovanni
dates:
1850-1899 / 1900-1949 / 1900-1909 / 1910-1919
media:
Documents / Drawings / Prints / Sculpture / Metalwork / Maiolica
museums and institutions:
National Gallery, London, Great Britain / Welbeck Abbey, London, Great Britain / New Gallery, London, Great Britain / Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great Britain / Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, Great Britain / Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Great Britain / Agnew's, London, Great Britain
museums and institutions:
Durlacher Bros., London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain
subjects:
British painting / Italian painting / Dutch painting / Northern European / Art dealers / Connoisseurs / Collectors / Curators / Museum directors / Restorers / Donors / Art market / Collections / Collecting / Collections, Public / Collections, Private / Libraries / Gifts / Hanging (installation technique) / Restoration (process) / Conservation / Attribution / Attributions / Attributions, former / Copies / Reproductions / Correspondence / Exhibition reviews
Publication Received
Lo Specchio della Corte; il maestro di casa: Gentiluomini al servizio del collezionismo a Roma nel Seicento, by Natalia Gozzano
09/2016 | 1362 | 158
Pages: 746
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Reviewer:
Langdon, Helen (Langdon, Helen)
Subjects
dates:
1600-1699
places:
Rome
subjects:
Palaces / Social history / Domesticity / Wills / Inventories / Collectors / Collections, Private
subjects:
Connoisseurs / Italian / Roman (post-Classical)
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