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Book Review
La sagrestia di Michelangelo: Nuovi studi e restauro
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 191–193
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Lupi, Livia (Lupi, Livia; Lupi, Livia)
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La sagrestia di Michelangelo: Nuovi studi e restauro Edited by Monica Bietti and Claudia Echinger- Maurach. 376 pp. incl. 330 col. + 50 b. & w. ills. (Mandragora, Florence, 2023), €80. ISBN 978–88–7461–668–8. | :
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4. Detail of Twilight, by Michelangelo Buonarroti. c.1524–c.1531. Marble. (New Sacristy, S. Lorenzo, Florence).
Exhibition Review
Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence, c.1504
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 175–177
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Lewis, Grant (Lewis, Grant)
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Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence, c.1504 Royal Academy of Arts, London 9th November 2024–16th February 2025 | :
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13. Virgin and Child with St Anne and the infant St John the Baptist (Burlington House cartoon), by Leonardo da Vinci. Here dated to c.1506–08. Charcoal with black and white chalk on 8 sheets of paper, mounted on canvas, 141.5 by 104.6 cm. (National Gallery, London; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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14. Virgin and Child with the infant St John the Baptist (Taddei tondo), by Michelangelo Buonarroti. c.1504–05. Marble, diameter 106.8 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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15. Studies for the Virgin and Child, by Raphael. c.1506–07. Pen and brown ink over red chalk, 25.3 by 18.3 cm. (British Museum, London; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Article
Michelangelo’s Bruges Madonna: its patron, material and meaning
11/2024 | 1460 | 166
Pages: 1123–1139
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Nuttall, Paula (Nuttall, Paula)
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1. The Bruges Madonna in situ in the Chapel of the Holy Sacrament, Church of Our Lady, Bruges. (Photograph the author).
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10. Virgin and Child, by Benedetto da Maiano. Before 1497, completed 1575. Marble, height 140 cm. (Oratorio della Misericordia, Florence).
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11. Detail of the Barbadori Altarpiece, by Filippo Lippi. 1438. Tempera on panel. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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12. Detail of Fig.2. (Photograph the author).
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13. Virgin and Child, by Gentile da Fabriano. 1425. Fresco. (Orvieto Cathedral; photograph Jeff Cotton).
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14. Detail of Fig.13, showing left hands of the Virgin and Child. (Photograph Jeff Cotton).
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15. Detail of Fig.2, showing the hands of the Virgin and Child. (Photograph the author).
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16. Virgin and Child, by Tino da Camaino. 1320–21. Marble, height 78 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
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18. Studies for the Apostles, Battle of Cascina, the Bruges Madonna and an architectural element, by Michelangelo. c.1503–04. Black chalk, dark brown ink, pen and lead point on paper, 27.3 by 26.2 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).
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19. Detail of Fig.18 (top right of sheet), showing a study for the Bruges Madonna.
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2. Madonna and Child (the Bruges Madonna), by Michelangelo. 1504–05. Marble, height 128 cm. (Church of Our Lady, Bruges; Bridgeman Images).
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20. Detail of Fig.18 (centre of sheet), showing a study for the Bruges Madonna.
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21. Detail of Fig.18 (top of left-hand edge), showing a study for the Bruges Madonna.
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22. Detail of Fig.18 (centre and bottom of left-hand edge), showing studies for the Bruges Madonna.
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23. Three studies of nude men and the Virgin and Child, by Michelangelo. c.1504–05. Black chalk, dark and light brown ink, pen and lead point on paper, 31.5 by 27.7 cm. (British Museum, London).
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24. Tomb of Pieter Moscron. 1829, with original sixteenth-century brass coats-of-arms. (Chapel of the Holy Sacrament, Church of Our Lady, Bruges; photograph Brit Vanraepenbusch).
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25. Detail of Fig.23, showing a study for the Bruges Madonna.
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26. Detail of Fig.1, showing the Moscron coat-of-arms, here attributed to Joost Aerts and Jan de Smet. c.1558–65. (Photograph the author).
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27. Detail of Fig.1, showing the 17th-century swag above the central niche. (Photograph the author).
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3. Margaret of York and Mary of Burgundy kneeling before a white statue of St Anne, fol.2v of the Register of the Guild of St Anne, by Circle of Vienna Master of Mary of Burgundy. c.1476. Gold and bodycolour on vellum, height 33 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © Royal Collection Enterprises Limited, 2024; Bridgeman Images).
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4. White Virgin of Jean de Berry. French, c.1400. Marble, height 146 cm. (Bourges Cathedral; Alamy Stock Photo).
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5. Detail of a cast of the Bruges Madonna, showing the different treatment of the front and back of the base. 1871. Plaster. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; photograph the author).
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6. Detail of Fig.2, showing the chisel marks on the base. (Photograph the author).
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7. Detail of Fig.2, seen from the left. (Photograph the author).
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8. Detail of Fig.2. (Photograph the author).
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9. Detail of Judith and Holofernes, by Donatello. c.1456. Bronze. (Palazzo Vecchio, Florence; Photo Scala, Florence).
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17. Our Lady of Leuven. Netherlandish, 13th century (reworked 1442). Polychromed and gilded wood and rock crystal, height 160 cm. (Church of St Peter, Leuven).
Exhibition Review
Late Michelangelo
07/2024 | 1456 | 166
Pages: 716–23
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Elam, Caroline (Elam, Caroline; E., C.; E., C. M.)
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Michelangelo: the last decades, British Museum, (2nd May–28th July). | :
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1. Christ on the Cross, by Michelangelo. c.1543. Black chalk on paper, 36.8 by 26.8 cm. (British Museum, London).
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10. Crucifixion with two figures, by Michelangelo. c.1558–63. Black chalk and lead white on paper, 27.8 by 23.4 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; exh. British Museum, London).
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2. Crucifixion, by Marcello Venusti. c.1545–60. Oil on panel, 88.9 by 28.8 cm. incl. frame, not shown here. (Campion Hall, Oxford; exh. British Museum, London).
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3. Annunciation, attributed to Michelangelo. c.1545–60. Black chalk on paper, 38.3 by 29.7 cm. (Morgan Library and Museum, New York; exh. British Museum, London).
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4. Annunciation, by Marcello Venusti. c.1545–60. Oil on wood, 45 by 30 cm. (Galleria Corsini, Rome; exh. British Museum, London).
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5. Study for the Porta Pia, by Michelangelo. 1561. Stylus, black chalk and brown wash, with lead white, on several conjoined pieces of paper, 44.2 by 28.2 cm. (Casa Buonarroti, Florence; exh. British Museum, London).
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6. Epifania, by Michelangelo. c.1550–53. Black chalk on 26 conjoined sheets, 234.6 by 173.7 cm. (British Museum, London).
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7. Epifania, by Ascanio Condivi. c.1550–53. Oil on panel, 240 by 187 cm. (Casa Buonarroti, Florence; exh. British Museum, London).
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8. Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John the Evangelist, by Michelangelo. c.1558–63. Black chalk and lead white on paper, 41.2 by 28.5 cm. (British Museum, London).
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9. Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John the Evangelist, by Michelangelo. c.1555–63. Black chalk and lead white on paper, 41 by 27.8 cm. (British Museum, London).
Letter
A Classical source for Michelangelo’s Florence ‘Pietà’
02/2024 | 1451 | 166
Pages: 112–113
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Ekserdjian, David (Ekserdjian, David; E., D.)
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1. Studies from the Antique with rams’ heads, barbarian trophies and figures of Victory, by the workshop of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. c.1755–65. Red and black chalk on paper, 46.7 by 37.4 cm. (Morgan Library and Museum, New York).
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2. Pietà, by Michelangelo. 1553. Marble, height 277 cm. (Museo dell’ Opera del Duomo, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
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3. Detail of Fig.1, showing a fallen Amazon supported by a companion in a Phrygian cap.
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4. Mould-made pottery lamp decorated with an Amazon assisting a fallen comrade, here reproduced in reverse. Roman (Italy), c.40–75. Terracotta, 10.4 by 8.2 cm. (British Museum, London).
Book Review
Vittoria Colonna e l’eredità degli spirituali Vittoria Colonna: Poetry, Religion, Art, Impact
10/2023 | 1447 | 165
Pages: 1155–1156
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Zezza, Andrea (Zezza, Andrea)
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Vittoria Colonna e l’eredità degli spirituali By Andrea Donati. 598 pp. incl. 600 col. + b. & w. ills. (Etgraphie, Rome, 2019), €60. ISBN 978–88–99680–18–3. | :
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Vittoria Colonna: Poetry, Religion, Art, Impact Edited by Virginia Cox and Shannon McHugh. 406 pp. incl. 47 col. ills. (Amsterdam University Press, 2021), £117. ISBN 978–94–6372–394–7. | :
Book Review
Sebastiano del Piombo and the Sacred Image: Mediating the Divine in the Age of Reform
08/2023 | 1445 | 165
Pages: 918-919
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Baker-Bates, Piers (Baker-Bates, Piers)
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Sebastiano del Piombo and the Sacred Image: Mediating the Divine in the Age of Reform By Marsha Libina. 270 pp. incl. 121 col. ills. (Brepols, Turnhout, 2022), €125. ISBN 978–2–503–59475–0. | :
Article
Painting on stone in Rome in the sixteenth century
07/2023 | 1444 | 165
Pages: 738–753
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Donati, Andrea Gianluca (Donati, Andrea Gianluca)
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1. Clement VII, by Sebastiano del Piombo. c.1530–34. Oil on slate, 105.4 by 87.6 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
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10. Design for the retablo of the Descalzas Reales, Madrid, by Gaspar Becerra. 1563. Brown ink, chalk and wash on paper, 87 by 50.5 cm. (Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid).
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11. Lucrezia, by Leonardo Grazia. c.1540–48. Oil on slate, 55 by 43 cm. (Galleria Borghese, Rome).
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12. Portrait of a young man (of the Orsini family?), by Daniele da Volterra. c.1545–50. Oil on slate, 54.5 by 40.5 cm. (Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples).
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13. Conversion of St Paul, by Taddeo Zuccaro. 1566. Oil on slate. (Cappella Frangipane, S. Marcello al Corso, Rome).
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14. Martyrdom of St Catherine of Alexandria, by Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta. 1565–66. Oil on slate, 305 by 188 cm. (Cappella Cesi, S. Maria Maggiore, Rome).
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15. Christ on the Mount of the Olives, by Marcello Venusti. After 1550. Oil on slate, 57 by 75 cm. (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin).
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16. St James the Elder, by Marcello Venusti. 1569–70. Oil on slate, 230 by 160 cm. (Cappella Salviati, Arciconfraternitata SS. Annunziata, S. Maria sopra Minerva, Rome).
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17. St Catherine of Alexandria, by Marcello Venusti. After 1566. Oil on slate, 164 by 82 cm. (Cappella Mutini, S. Agostino, Rome).
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18. Cardinal Alessandro Crivelli, by Marcello Venusti. c.1570–74. Oil on oval slate, height 46 cm. (S. Maria in Aracoeli, Rome).
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19. Cappella De Torres, S. Caterina de’ Funari, Rome. (Photograph Paolo Coen).
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2. Deposition, by Luca Penni. After 1542. Oil on slate, 73 by 153 cm. (Auxerre Cathedral).
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20. St John the Baptist, by Marcello Venusti. c.1575. Oil on slate, 260 by 165 cm. (Cappella De Torres, S. Caterina de’ Funari, Rome).
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21. Madonna in glory with the infant Christ, St Peter and St Paul, by Marcello Venusti. 1577. Oil on slate, 243 by 144 cm. (Chapel of Palazzo Senatorio, Rome).
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3. Nativity, by Francesco Salviati. c.1550. Oil on peperino, 176 by 172 cm. (Chapel of the Pallium, Palazzo della Cancellaria, Rome).
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4. Portrait of Roberto Strozzi, by Francesco Salviati. c.1556–57. Oil on Africano marble, diameter 13 cm. (Private collection).
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5. Portrait of a man with a gold coin, by Francesco Salviati. c.1556–57. Oil on slate, 82 by 53.5 cm. (Private collection).
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6. David and Goliath (obverse), by Daniele da Volterra. c.1550–56. Oil on slate, 133 by 172 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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7. David and Goliath (reverse), by Daniele da Volterra. c.1550–56. Oil on slate, 133 by 172 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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8. David and Goliath, possibly by Daniele da Volterra. After 1556. Oil on slate, 33.3 by 43.7 cm. (Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome).
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9. Baptism of Christ, by Daniele da Volterra and Michele Alberti. c.1556–74. Oil on slate, 360 by 230 cm. (Cardinal Ricci chapel, S. Pietro in Montorio, Rome).
Exhibition Review
Donatello in Florence, Berlin and London
07/2023 | 1444 | 165
Pages: 761–771
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Röstel, Alexander (Röstel, Alexander )
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Donatello. Inventor of the Renaissance, Berlin, 2nd September 2022–8th January 2023. | :
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Donatello. Sculpting the Renaissance, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 11th February–11th June 2023. | :
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Donatello. The Renaissance, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 19th March–31st July 2022. | :
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1. Virgin and Child (The Pazzi Madonna), by Donatello. c.1420–25. Marble, 74.5 by 73 by 6.5 cm. (Bode-Museum, Berlin; exh. Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; Gemäldegalerie, Berlin; and Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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10. Installation view of Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance at Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2023, showing a group of sculptures depicting the Virgin and Child.
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11. Virgin and Child (The Piot Madonna), by Donatello and workshop. c.1440. Terracotta with traces of gilding, inset with wax medallions under glass, diameter 75 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; exh. Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; Gemäldegalerie, Berlin; and Victoria & Albert Museum, London).
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12. Virgin and Child (The Dudley Madonna), by Donatello. c.1440. Marble, 27 by 16.5 by 2 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; exh. Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; Florence; Gemäldegalerie, Berlin; and Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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13. Flagellation and Crucifixion (The Forzori Altar), by Donatello. c.1450. Terracotta, 54.5 by 30.4 by 4.5 cm. (Flagellation), 53.5 by 27 by 5 cm. (Crucifixion) and 11.6 by 48.4 by 2.3 cm. (predella). (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; exh. Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; Gemäldegalerie, Berlin; and Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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2. Amor–Attis, by Donatello. c.1435–40. Bronze, partially gilded, 103 by 55 by 45 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence; exh. Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; Gemäldegalerie, Berlin; and Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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3. The feast of Herod, by Donatello. c.1423–27. Gilded bronze, 60 by 59.7 by 9 cm. (Baptistery of S. Giovanni, Siena; exh. Palazzo Strozzi, Florence).
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4. Installation view of Donatello: The Renaissance at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2022, showing on the right St Louis of Toulouse by Donatello.
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5. Ascension with Christ giving the keys to St Peter, by Donatello. c.1428–30. Marble, 40.6 by 114.3 by 5.3 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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6. Capital for the pulpit of Prato Cathedral, by Donatello and Michelozzo. 1433. Bronze, 94.5 by 143.5 by 50 cm. (Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Prato; exh. Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; Gemäldegalerie, Berlin; and Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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7. David, by Donatello. c.1408–16. Marble, 191 by 57.5 by 32 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence; exh. Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; Gemäldegalerie, Berlin; and Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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8. Installation view of Donatello: Inventor of the Renaissance at the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, 2022, showing the Martelli David and Bronzino’s portrait of Ugolino Martelli.
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9. Installation view of Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance at Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2023.
Article
A drawing by Michelangelo for the ‘Worship of the Brazen Serpent’
03/2023 | 1440 | 165
Pages: 220-25
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Joannides, Paul (Joannides, Paul; J., P.; Joannides, P. E. A.)
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1. The backing sheet of Fig.2, showing the collector’s stamps of Chambers Hall (bottom left) and Robert Mond (centre), and the inscription by J.C. Robinson.
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10. Study for an ignudo on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, by Michelangelo. c.1511. Red chalk with white highlights and lead pen on paper, 27.9 by 21.4 cm. (Teylers Museum, Haarlem).
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2. Study for a figure in the Worship of the Brazen Serpent, by Michelangelo. Probably 1512. Red chalk on paper, 15.7 by 19.3 cm. (Private collection).
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3. Detail of Fig.2, showing the partial watermark.
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4. Detail of the backing sheet of Fig.2, showing the watermark.
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5. Detail of Fig.2, rotated 90 degrees clockwise and showing folds in the sheet caused by excessive paste.
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6. Worship of the Brazen Serpent, by Michelangelo. Fresco. 1508–12. (Sistine Chapel, Vatican; The Picture Art Collection; Alamy Stock Photo).
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7. Study for Adam in the Creation of Adam, by Michelangelo. 1511. Red chalk over stylus on paper, 19.3 by 25.9 cm. (British Museum, London).
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8. Detail of Fig.2, showing the irregular shapes on the figure’s left thigh.
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9. Detail of Fig.2, showing the orientation lines at the bottom right of the sheet.
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