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Book Review
Creating Sculpture: Renaissance Drawings and Models
11/2023 | 1448 | 165
Pages: 1246-1247
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Reviewer:
Calogero, Marcello (Calogero, Marcello)
Subjects
art literature:
Catalogues
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Renaissance sculpture / Renaissance art / Drawings / Models (representations) / Clay / Wax / Wooden / Workshops (Organisations) / Contracts
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Creating Sculpture: Renaissance Drawings and Models Edited by Michael Cole, Ana Debenedetti and Peta Motture, with Kira d’Alburquerque. 224 pp. incl. 150 col. + 5 b. & w. ills. (V&A Publishing, London, 2022), £35. ISBN 978–1–85177–998–7. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. River god, by Giambologna. c.1580. Terracotta, height 31 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Article
The ‘fortuna critica’ of the ‘Maiden of Lille’
05/2020 | 1406 | 162
Pages: 404-411
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Author:
Riviale, Laurence (Riviale, Laurence)
Subjects
artists:
Raphael / Leonardo da Vinci / Sargent, John Singer / Wicar, Jean Baptiste Joseph / Henner, Jean-Jacques / Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste
collectors and dealers:
Gurlitt, Fritz
dates:
1830-1909 / 1900-1999
media:
Wax / Terracotta / Polychromy / Sculpture / Photographs / Engravings
museums and institutions:
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France
places:
Lille
subjects:
Attributions / Attributions, tentative / Attributions, former / Copies / Reproductions / Dating / Casts (sculpture) / Beauty / Symbols / Nationalism
subjects:
Critical Reception / Restoration (process) / Personification
works:
Maiden of Lille
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Study of a bust at Lille, by John Singer Sargent. c.1877. Oil on mahogany panel, 30.7 by 20.6 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
10. The Maiden of Lille, by Arthur Mayeur. Drawing reproduced on the cover of Lille et la région du nord en 1909, Lille 1909.
Attributed works:
2. The ‘Maiden of Lille’ in the Wicar galleries at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, c.1892. (Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille).
Attributed works:
4. The Maiden of Lille, by Aurelio Micheli. c.1909. Plaster, wax and polychromy. (Letter Stiftung, Cologne).
Attributed works:
5. Jean-Jacques Henner’s studio in Paris, with a plaster cast of the ‘Maiden of Lille’ from the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin. Detail of a photograph, c.1900. (Courtesy Henner Museum, Paris).
Attributed works:
6. Wolfgang Gurlitt’s music room at 113 Potsdamer Strasse, Berlin. Photograph, c.1920. (Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur, Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte, Bildarchiv Foto Marburg). 
Attributed works:
7. The display of old-master drawings in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle. Photograph by James Russell and Sons, 1910. (Manley family collection). 
Attributed works:
8. The plaster-cast room at the Museum of Fine Arts, Copley Square, Boston. Photograph, 1902. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
Attributed works:
9. The Maiden of Lille, in the Musée Wicar, Lille. Photograph by Robert Jefferson Bingham, 1864. (Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille).
Western art unattributed:
3. The Maiden of Lille. Possibly seventeenth or eighteenth century. Beeswax, terracotta and glass, 44.5 by 30.3 by 19.5 cm. (Palais des Beaux- Arts, Lille; photograph the author).
Book Review
A Bibliographical Dictionary of Wax Modellers
02/1976 | 875 | 118
Pages: 110-111
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Reviewer:
Lightbown, R. W. (Lightbown, R. W.; L., R. W.; Lightbown, Mr.; Lightbown, Ronald; Lightbown, Ronald W.)
Subjects
dates:
1400-1899
subjects:
Sculpture / Wax / Sculptors / Biographical dictionaries
subjects:
Wax models
Reviewed Items
subjects:
A Bibliographical Dictionary of Wax Modellers | author: Pyke, E. J.
Article
Gaetano Giulio Zumbo - II: Genoa and France
12/1964 | 741 | 106
Pages: 563-567+569
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Author:
Lightbown, R. W. (Lightbown, R. W.; L., R. W.; Lightbown, Mr.; Lightbown, Ronald; Lightbown, Ronald W.)
Subjects
artists:
Zumbo, Gaetano Giulio
dates:
1650-1699
places:
France / Italy / Genoa
places:
Paris
subjects:
Italian sculpture / Wax models / Wax
subjects:
Documents
subjects:
Jesus Christ
Illustrations
Attributed works:
20. Anatomical Head, by Gaetano Giulio Zumbo. (Museo Zoologico (Formerly Museo di Fisica e Storia Naturale), Florence.) Reproduced by Courtesy of the Museo Zoologico.
Attributed works:
21. Lamentation. Engraving by Elisabeth Chéron after Gaetano Giulio Zumbo.
Attributed works:
22. Adoration of the Shepherds, by Gaetano Giulio Zumbo. Wax, 61 by 85.1 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum.) Crown Copyright Reserved.
Article
Gaetano Giulio Zumbo - I: The Florentine Period
11/1964 | 740 | 106
Pages: 486+488-496
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Author:
Lightbown, R. W. (Lightbown, R. W.; L., R. W.; Lightbown, Mr.; Lightbown, Ronald; Lightbown, Ronald W.)
Subjects
artists:
Zumbo, Gaetano Giulio
dates:
1650-1699
patrons:
Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1642–1723
places:
Italy / Florence
subjects:
Italian sculpture / Wax models / Wax
subjects:
Biographies / Documents
subjects:
Visual sources / Plague / Death / Iconography
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. The Tomb. Plate 2 of Errard and Genga, Anatomia, Rome, 1691. By courtesy of the Wellcome Trust.
Attributed works:
11. The Plague of Ashdod. Engraved c.1650 by Jean Baron after Poussin.
Attributed works:
12. A Soul in Hell, by Gaetano Giulio Zumbo. Wax; Height, 20.5 cm; length, 15.5 cm; Depth, 5 cm. (Museo Degli Argenti (No.181), Palazzo Pitti, Florence.)
Attributed works:
13. A Soul in Purgatory, by Gaetano Giulio Zumbo. Wax; Height, 20.6 cm; Length, 15.5 cm; Depth, 5 cm. (Museo Degli Argenti (No.180), Palazzo Pitti, Florence.)
Attributed works:
14. St Francis of Assisi, by Gaetano Giulio Zumbo. Wax; Height, 20.5 cm; Length, 14.9 cm; Depth, 6 cm. (Museo Degli Argenti (No.179), Palazzo Pitti, Florence.)
Attributed works:
15. Allegorical Relief, by Gaetano Giulio Zumbo. Wax, 26.7 by 19.4 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum.) Crown Copyright Reserved.
Attributed works:
7. The Triumph of Time, by Gaetano Giulio Zumbo. Wax; Height, 84.9 cm; Length, 89.7 cm; Depth, 45.5 cm. (Museo Nazionale, Florence.)
Attributed works:
8. La Pestilenza, by Gaetano Giulio Zumbo. Wax; Height, 85.1 cm; Length, 89.8 cm; Depth, 46.4 cm. (Museo Nazionale, Florence.)
Attributed works:
9. The Vanity of Human Greatness, by Gaetano Giulio Zumbo. Wax; Length, 85 cm; Depth, 89.8 cm; Width, 46.9 cm. (Museo Nazionale, Florence.)
Short Notice
An Unknown Wax Bust by Falconet
04/1937 | 409 | 70
Pages: 191+193
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Author:
Réau, Louis (Réau, Louis; Reau, L.)
Subjects
artists:
Falconet, Etienne Maurice
dates:
1700-1799
places:
France
subjects:
French sculpture / Terracottas / Busts
subjects:
Sculpture / Wax models / Wax
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Portrait of a Woman, Here Identified as Madame Roland and As by Etienne Maurice Falconet. Wax, Life-Size. (Mr. E. W. Edwards, Cincinnati). Shorter Notices: An Unknown Wax Bust by Falconet
Article
A Lost Michelangelo Reconstructed
04/1936 | 397 | 68
Pages: 163-164+168-170
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Author:
Tietze-Conrat, Erika (Tietze-Conrat, Erika; Conrat, E. Tietze-; Tietza-Conrat, Erica; Tietze, E.)
Subjects
artists:
Michelangelo
artists:
Dürer, Albrecht
artists:
Danti, Vincenzo
dates:
1500-1549
places:
Italy / Rome / Florence
subjects:
Italian painting / Lost works / Reconstructions
subjects:
Anatomy / Anatomical drawings
subjects:
Ecorchés (models) / Drawings
subjects:
Models (representations) / Wax
subjects:
Italian sculpture
Illustrations
Attributed works:
A-Unknown Subject, by Dürer. Engraving, 18.5 by 13.5 cm. (B. 70). A Lost Michelangelo Reconstructed
Attributed works:
B-Study of a Man, by Michelangelo. (British Museum). A Lost Michelangelo Reconstructed
Attributed works:
C, D-Wax Cast of the So-Called Anatomy by Michelangelo. Height, about 25 cm. (Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin). A Lost Michelangelo Reconstructed
Article
The Wax models by Michael Angelo in the Victoria and Albert Museum
01/1924 | 250 | 44
Pages: 4-5+7-9+11-12+14-16
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Author:
MacLagan, Eric (MacLagan, Eric; MacLagan, Eric R. D.; Maclagan, Mr.)
Subjects
artists:
Michelangelo
dates:
1500-1549
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
Italy / England / London
subjects:
Sculpture / Italian / Renaissance / Wax / Models (representations)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Plate I. A, B, C-Sketch in Wax For a Slave. Actual Size (V. and A. Cat. 4109-1854). The Wax Models by Michael Angelo in the Victoria and Albert Museum
Attributed works:
Plate II. D-Torso of a Woman (4105-1854). The Wax Models by Michael Angelo in the Victoria and Albert Museum
Attributed works:
Plate II. E-Study For a David. Actual Size (4106-1854). The Wax Models by Michael Angelo in the Victoria and Albert Museum
Attributed works:
Plate II. F-Hercules and Cacus (4108-1854). The Wax Models by Michael Angelo in the Victoria and Albert Museum
Attributed works:
Plate II. G-Mask; Dried Clay. Slightly Enlarged (4107-1854). The Wax Models by Michael Angelo in the Victoria and Albert Museum
Attributed works:
Plate II. H-Apollo; Cast in Wax (4116-1854). The Wax Models by Michael Angelo in the Victoria and Albert Museum
Attributed works:
Plate III. J-Anatomical Figure; Study in Reverse For the Bacchus (4114-1854). K-Right Arm of the David (4109-1854). L-Right Arm of the Cupid (4112-1854); M-Left Leg of the David (4111-1854); N-Right Leg of the David (4110-1854). O-Left Leg of Christ in the Pietà in St. Peter's (4113-1854). The Wax Models by Michael Angelo in the Victoria and Albert Museum
Article
The Wall Paintings in Eton College Chapel
11/1923 | 248 | 43
Pages: 228-230+232-233+235-236
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Author:
Holmes, Charles John (Holmes, Charles John; Holmes, C. J.; H., C. J.; Holmes, Charles J.; Holmes, Charles; Holmes, Charles)
Subjects
artists:
Baker, William
buildings:
Eton College, Windsor, Great Britain
dates:
1450-1499
places:
England / Eton
places:
Netherlands / Flanders / Bruges
subjects:
Netherlandish painting / Influence
subjects:
British painting / Wall paintings
subjects:
Techniques / Wax
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Plate I. A-The Miracle of the Jewish Boy, by William Baker. Fragment of Painting in Upper Row on South Side. The Wall Paintings in Eton College Chapel
Attributed works:
Plate I. B-The Empress Takes the Veil, by William Baker. Detail of Painting on South Side. The Wall Paintings in Eton College Chapel
Attributed works:
Plate II. C-Various Miracles of the Virgin, by William Baker. Paintings on North Side. The Wall Paintings in Eton College Chapel
Attributed works:
Plate II. D-The Knight Sells His Wife to the Devil, by William Baker. Paintings on North Side. The Wall Paintings in Eton College Chapel
Attributed works:
Plate III. F-The Story of the Empress, by William Baker. Paintings on South Side. The Wall Paintings in Eton College Chapel
Attributed works:
Plate III. G-The Story of the Empress, by William Baker. Paintings on South Side. The Wall Paintings in Eton College Chapel
Western art unattributed:
Plate II. E-The Virgin of the Shipwreck and St. Christina (?). Fragment of Painting on North Side. The Wall Paintings in Eton College Chapel
Article
Notes on Italian Medals-XXVI. On the Technique of the Renaissance Medal (Continued from p. 183)
12/1917 | 177 | 31
Pages: 211-213+215-217
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Author:
Hill, George Francis (Hill, George Francis; Hill, George Francis; H., G. F.; Hill, George F.; Hill, George; H., G.)
Subjects
artists:
Mola, Gaspare
dates:
1500-1599
places:
Italy
sources:
Vasari, Giorgio
sources:
Cellini, Benvenuto
sources:
Gaurico, Pomponio, 1481 or 82-1528
subjects:
Sculpture / Renaissance / Medals / Techniques / Wax / Bronzes
subjects:
Sources / Documents
subjects:
Italian sculpture
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Wax Models For Florentine, Papal, Mantuan and Other Coins, Partly the Work of Gaspare Mola. In the Collection of Mr. T. Whitcombe Greene, F. S. A. Italian Medals-XXVI
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