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Exhibition Review
Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece
08/2023 | 1445 | 165
Pages: 895–898
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Reviewer:
Gardner-Dseagu, Christine (Gardner-Dseagu, Christine)
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Reviewed Items
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Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece British Museum, London 4th May–13th August | :
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
7. Plate showing a banqueting scene based on the triumph of Dionysos. Parthian or early Sasanian, 100– 300. Silver and gold, diameter 22.3 cm. (British Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
8. Drinking mug in the form of a lion’s head. Greek, 500–470 BC. Pottery with redfigure decoration, height 14 cm. (British Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
9. Rhyton terminating in a stag’s head decorated with episodes from the myths of Herakles and Theseus. Hellenistic (found in Panagyurishte, Bulgaria), c.300 BC. Gold, height 13.7 cm. (National Museum of History, Sofia; exh. British Museum, London).
Exhibition Review
Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
05/2023 | 1442 | 165
Pages: 546-549
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Reviewer:
Stephenson, Roy (Stephenson, Roy)
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dates:
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Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 24th February–4th June | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
5. Aphrodite Anadyomene. Cyprus, c.300– 100 BC. Marble, height 116 cm. (Cyprus Museum).
Western art unattributed:
6. Astarte standing on an ingot. Cyprus, 1200–1100 BC. Copper alloy, height 9.9 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Western art unattributed:
Fig.4. Finds at the Sanctuary of Agia Eirini, Cyprus. Photograph, c.1929. (Courtesy Världskulturmuseerna, Sweden).
Exhibition Review
Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color
03/2023 | 1440 | 165
Pages: 312-315
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Reviewer:
Rumora, Roko (Rumora, Roko)
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Reviewed Items
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Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 5th July 2022–26th March 2023 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Reconstruction of the so-called ‘Cuirass-Torso’ from the Athenian Acropolis, Variant B, by Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch- Brinkmann. 2005. Plaster cast, natural pigments in egg tempera and gold foil, 60 by 44 by 25 cm. (Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
8. Reconstruction of a marble finial in the form of a sphinx, by Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch- Brinkmann. 2022. Cast from polymethyl metacrylate, natural pigments in egg tempera, gold foil and copper, 85 by 28 by 57 cm. (Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
9. Installation view of Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023, showing the reconstruction of the funerary stele of Phrasikleia, by Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch- Brinkmann. 2010, updated 2019. Polymethyl metacrylate, 200 by 68 by 69 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Western art unattributed:
7. Marble finial in the form of a sphinx. Archaic Greek, c.530 BC. Marble, height (with akroterion) 142.6 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Editorial
The Parthenon sculptures
11/2022 | 1436 | 164
Pages: 1063
Exhibition Review
Une antiquité moderne
12/2020 | 1413 | 162
Pages: 1097-1098
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Reviewer:
Varela Braga, Ariane (Varela Braga, Ariane)
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art literature:
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Une antiquité moderne Edited by Jean-Luc Martinez and Elisabeth Le Breton. 272 pp. incl. 62 col. + 57 b. & w. ills. (Oficina Libraria, Milan, 2019), €39. ISBN 978–88–336–7077–5. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
16. The older son from the Niobe Group, moulded by Giovanni Arnaldi. 1686–87. Plaster cast, 120 by 125 by 60 cm. (Villa Medici, Rome; photograph Daniele Molajoli, Académie de France à Rome– Villa Médicis, 2019).
Western art unattributed:
17. Commodus as Hercules. c.1673– 84. Plaster cast, 237 by 62 by 82 cm. (Villa Medici, Rome; photograph Daniele Molajoli, Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis, 2019).
Article
The reopening of the Dresden Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
11/2020 | 1412 | 162
Pages: 992-977
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Author:
Gajewski, Alexandra (Gajewski, Alexandra)
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museums and institutions:
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Hall of antiquities, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister und Skulpturensammlung bis 1800 (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; photograph H.C. Krass).
Attributed works:
2. Christ flagellated, by Balthasar Permoser. 1728. Coloured marble, 81 by 27 by 25 cm. (Skulpturensammlung bis 1800, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; photograph David Brandt).
Attributed works:
3. Plan of the first storey of the Gemäldegalerie, with the south-side at the top. c.1845. Lithograph, 23 by 41.5 cm. (Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden).
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4. Installation view of the Italian galleries, looking towards Raphael’s Sistine Madonna, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden; photograph H.C. Krass).
Attributed works:
5. Frederick III of Saxony, called the Wise, by Adriano Fiorentino. 1498. Bronze, 62.8 by 51 by 30.6 cm. (Skulpturensammlung bis 1800, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden).
Attributed works:
6. Madonna of the Cuccina family, by Paolo Veronese. c.1571. Oil on canvas, 167 by 416 cm. (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden).
Attributed works:
8. Installation view of the ‘Rubens and Van Dyck’ gallery, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister und Skulpturensammlung bis 1800 (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden; photograph Alexandra Gajewski).
Article
Avatars of Antiquity I: From the nude warrior in Florence to the alien maiden in Piccadilly
11/2020 | 1412 | 162
Pages: 956-971
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Author:
Penny, Nicholas (Penny, Nicholas)
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Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Theseus and the minotaur, by Antoine-Louis Barye. Modelled 1841 or 1842. Bronze, height 45.9 cm., including the integral plinth. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
10. Bronze head, by John Samuel Agar. 1809. Stipple engraving of a marble copy of an archaic bronze head (from Specimens of Antient Sculpture published 1809).
Attributed works:
12. Detail of Lady Caroline Crichton and her Grandfather the 4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry, by Hugh Douglas Hamilton. 1790. Oil on canvas, 224.4 by 199.5 cm. (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin).
Attributed works:
13. Speranza, by Bertel Thorvaldsen. 1859. Marble, height 160.5 cm. (Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen).
Attributed works:
14. Detail of the sculpture in Fig.1, showing Theseus’s head.
Attributed works:
16. St Cecilia with angels, by Paul Delaroche. 1836. Oil on canvas, 202 by 162 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
17. Mrs Robert Hollond, by Ary Scheffer. 1851. Oil on canvas, 81.9 by 60.3 cm. (National Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
18. Preparatory painting for the St Pelagia in the frieze in Saint-Vincent-de- Paul, Paris, by Hippolyte Flandrin. c.1850. Oil on canvas, 73 by 60 cm. (Musée des Beaux Arts, Besançon).
Attributed works:
19. Rachel in the role of Phèdre, by Jean Jacques Barre. 1848. Ivory, height 46 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
2. Atalanta (right), by Pierre Lepautre. 1703–04. Carrara marble, height 126 cm.; with Hippomenes (left) by Guillaume Coustou I. 1711–12. Carrara marble, height 134 cm. (Both Musée du Louvre, Paris; photograph © RMN-Grand Palais/Tony Querrec).
Attributed works:
20. ‘Pourtalès Aphrodite’. Hellenistic, 200–100 BC. Bronze, height 25.4 cm. (British Museum, London).
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21. Gentle spring, by Frederick Sandys. 1864–65. Oil on canvas, 121 by 64 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
22. Salome, by Paul Manship. 1915. Bronze, height 47 cm. (Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington; SCALA Archives).
Attributed works:
23. Artemis (kneeling dancer), with a portion of its integral pedestal, by Elie Nadelman. 1916–18. Limestone, height 114.3 cm. (Chrysler Art Museum, Norfolk, VA).
Attributed works:
24. Figure V, by Barbara Hepworth. Cast 1925. Bronze, height 42 cm. (Daniel Katz Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
25. Peace, by Alfred F. Hardiman. 1946 (based on a model of 1920–24). Bronze, life-size. (Memorial Garden, St James’s Piccadilly, London).
Attributed works:
3. Princely glory, by Giovanni Baratta. Dated 1715. Carrara marble, 335.5 cm., excluding the later English pedestal. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
4. Detail of Marriage à-la-mode: Scene 2 The tête-à-tête, by William Hogarth, showing the mantel shelf. c.1743. (National Gallery, London; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
5. Engraving after ‘Quonin Household God of the Chinese’, by Bernard Picart. (From B. Picart: Ceremonies et coutumes Religieuses des peoples idolatres, Amsterdam 1728, II, pp.222–23).
Attributed works:
6. Detail of Battle relief, by Bertoldo di Giovanni. 1480s. Bronze, 99 by 45 cm. (Museo Nazional del Bargello, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
7. Warriors fighting, by Raphael. c.1510. Red chalk over stylus on paper, 37.9 by 28.1 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
9. Detail of The fire in the Borgo, by Raphael. 1516– 17. (Stanza dell’Incendio, Vatican; Bridgeman Images).
Western art unattributed:
11. Apollo of Piombino. Greek, First century BC. Bronze, height 115 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
Western art unattributed:
15. Detail of a Greek or Etruscan statue of an athlete. c.Fifth century BC. Bronze, height 45.8 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
Western art unattributed:
8. Juno Ludovisi (portrait of the deified Antonia Minor, mother of Emperor Claudius). First century AD. Luna marble, height 115 cm. (Palazzo Altemps, Rome; Bridgeman Images).
Article
J.J. Winckelmann and the Society of Antiquaries of London: new documents
02/2020 | 1403 | 162
Pages: 126-135
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Author:
Hornsby, Clare (Hornsby, Clare)
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art literature:
art literature:
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Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Johann Joachim Winckelmann, by Anton von Maron. 1767. Oil on canvas, 136 by 99 cm. (Stadtschloss, Weimar; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
2. The Villa Albani, Rome, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. 1760–78. Etching, 44.5 by 69.7 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
3. Thomas Jenkins, by Anton von Maron. 1791, possibly after an original of 1761. Oil on canvas, 66.5 by 50 cm. (Accademia di San Luca, Rome).
Attributed works:
4. Thomas Hollis, by Richard Wilson. 1752. Oil on canvas, 56.5 by 44.4 cm. (Harvard College Library, Harvard University, Cambridge MA).
Western art unattributed:
5. Votive stele, known as the ‘Mantheos relief’. Ancient Peloponnese Greek or eighteenth-century pastiche. Marble, 39 by 52 cm. (Wilton House, Wiltshire).
Western art unattributed:
6. The Albani-Farnese Athena. Roman, after a fifth century BC Greek original, with additions by Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, c.first– second century AD. Marble, height 224 cm. (Museo Archaeologico, Naples; Bridgeman Images).
Exhibition Review
Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 774-776
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Reviewer:
Cooney, Kathlyn M. (Cooney, Kathlyn M.)
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dates:
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
5. Sarcophagus of Wahibreemakhet, Egyptian. c.600 BC. Basalt, 230 by 94 by 105 cm. (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden; exh. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
Western art unattributed:
6. Julius Caesar, Roman. First century BC–First century AD. Graywacke, 44 by 26 by 25 cm. (Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; exh. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
Western art unattributed:
7. Head of Caracalla, Romano-Egyptian. AD 211–17. Granite, 51 by 34 by 52 cm. (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia; exh. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
Publication Received
Greek Art
11/1992 | 1076 | 134
Pages: 736