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Book Review
The Smiling Walls: Dante e le arti figurative / Dante and the Visual Arts
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 978-9
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Reviewer:
Ekserdjian, David (Ekserdjian, David; E., D.)
Subjects
art literature:
Dante Alighieri / Divine Comedy (Dante)
dates:
1350-1549 / 1550-1599
subjects:
Italian art / Frescoes / Mosaics
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Smiling Walls: Dante e le arti figurative / Dante and the Visual Arts Edited by Rossend Arqués, Silvia Maddalo and Laura Pasquini. 544 pp. incl. 120 col. ills. (Brepols, Turnhout, 2023), €190. ISBN 978–2–503–59450–7. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Dante and Virgil watching Ugolino della Gherardesca, Count of Donoratico, gnawing the neck of Archbishop Ruggieri. Fresco. 1446. (S. Giorgio di Campochiesa, Albenga).
Book Review
Botticelli’s Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
01/2024 | 1450 | 166
Pages: 94–96
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Reviewer:
Evans, Mark (Evans, Mark)
Subjects
artists:
Botticelli, Sandro
subjects:
Renaissance art / Drawings / Illustrations / Dante Alighieri
works:
Divine Comedy (Dante)
Reviewed Items
works:
Botticelli’s Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance By Joseph Luzzi. 352 pp. incl. 19 col. ills. (W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 2022), $28.95. ISBN 978–1–324–00401–1. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. The giants, an illustration for Dante’s Inferno, canto XXXI, by Sandro Botticelli. 1490s. Metalpoint and ink on vellum, 32.4 by 42.7 cm. (Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin).
Article
Bronzino’s ‘Petrarch’ retrieved: new light on Bartolomeo Bettini’s ‘camera’
01/2023 | 1438 | 165
Pages: 16-41
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Author:
Stumpel, Jeroen (Stumpel, Jeroen; Stumpel, Jeroem)
Subjects
art literature:
Vasari, Giorgio
artists:
Bronzino, Agnolo / Pontormo / Michelangelo
dates:
1520-1539
patrons:
Bettini, Bartolomeo
subjects:
Florentine art / Italian art / Half-length portraits / Commissions / Dante Alighieri / Petrarca, Francesco / Boccaccio, Giovanni / Poetry / Lunettes
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1 and 2. Portraits of Dante and Petrarch published as works by Pontormo. (From L’arte, November 1941, pp.xvii and xix).
Attributed works:
10. Venus and Cupid, by Jacopo Pontormo, based on a cartoon by Michelangelo. c.1532–33. Oil on panel, 194 by 128 cm. (Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
11. Detail of Fig.6, probably showing Petrarch’s house in the Vaucluse.
Attributed works:
12. Detail of Fig.6, showing a lira da braccio tied to a laurel tree.
Attributed works:
13. Detail of Fig.6, showing Petrarch holding an open book.
Attributed works:
14. Proposed reconstruction of original placement of Figs.3 and 8.
Attributed works:
15. Cosimo I de’ Medici as Orpheus, by Agnolo Bronzino. c.1537–39. Oil on canvas, 93.7 by 76.4 cm. (Philadelphia Museum of Art; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
16. Six Tuscan poets, by Giorgio Vasari. c.1544. Oil on panel, 132.1 by 131.1 cm. (Minneapolis Institute of Art; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
17. Petrarch, by a follower of Cristofano di Papi dell’Altissimo. c.1560. Oil on panel, 63 by 49 cm. (Palazzo Pitti, Florence; courtesy Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi).
Attributed works:
18. Dante, by a follower of Cristofano di Papi dell’Altissimo. c.1560. Oil on panel, 63 by 49 cm. (Palazzo Pitti, Florence; courtesy Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi).
Attributed works:
19. Boccaccio, by a follower of Cristofano di Papi dell’Altissimo. c.1560. Oil on panel, 65 by 51 cm. (Palazzo Pitti, Florence; courtesy Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi).
Attributed works:
20. Proposed reconstruction of Figs.3, 8 and 22 as they might have appeared in the camera of Bartolomeo Bettini.
Attributed works:
21. Allegorical portrait of Dante, by Carlo Dolci after Agnolo Bronzino. Red and black chalk on paper, 23.2 by 20.1 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
22. Boccaccio holding a copy of the ‘Decameron’, attributed to a follower of Cristofano di Papi dell’Altissimo. c.1570. Oil on canvas, 70 by 94.2 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
23. Detail of Ugolino Martelli, by Agnolo Bronzino, showing the sitter’s left hand. 1536–37. (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
24. Detail of Laura Battiferro, by Agnolo Bronzino, showing the sitter’s right hand. 1552. (Palazzo Vecchio, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
25. Detail of Fig.22, showing Boccaccio’s hands.
Attributed works:
26. Detail of Guidobaldo della Rovere, by Agnolo Bronzino, showing the sitter’s right hand. c.1544–45. (Palazzo Pitti, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
3. Allegorical portrait of Dante, by Agnolo Bronzino. c.1532. Oil on canvas, 130 by 136 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
4. Dante Alighieri, attributed to Giovanbattista Naldini. 1550–1600. Oil on panel. (Photograph Fondazione Federico Zeri, Bologna).
Attributed works:
5. Petrarch, attributed to Giovanbattista Naldini. 1550–1600. Oil on panel. (Photograph Fondazione Federico Zeri, Bologna).
Attributed works:
6. Detail of Fig.8, showing Petrarch’s face.
Attributed works:
7. Detail of Fig.5, showing Petrarch’s face.
Attributed works:
8. Allegorical portrait of Petrarch, here attributed to a follower of Bronzino. c.1550? Oil on canvas, 110.6 by 124 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
9. Allegorical portrait of Dante, by the workshop of Bronzino. 1 550–1600? Oil on panel, 126.9 by 120 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Article
Dante 1321–2021
03/2022 | 1428 | 164
Pages: 270-275
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Author:
Ekserdjian, David (Ekserdjian, David; E., D.)
Subjects
art literature:
Divine Comedy (Dante)
subjects:
Dante Alighieri / Anniversaries / Exhibitions / art history publishing / Illustrators / Book illustrations / Biographies / Italian School / Italian art / Literature / Literature in art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
John Dickson Batten: Illustrations for Dante’s ‘Inferno’. By Peter Hainsworth. 124 pp. incl. 48 col. ills (Panarc Publishing, Ringwood, Hampshire, 2021) £20, ISBN 978–19–161–5666–1. | :
subjects:
Scaramuzza: Le tavole per la Divina Commedia, with a preface by Carlo Ossola and texts by Vittorio Sgarbi, Lina Bolzoni and Simone Verde. 316 pp. incl. 283 col. + b. & w. ills. (Allemandi, Turin, 2021), €50. ISBN 978–88–422–2544–7. | :
subjects:
Visions of Heaven: Dante and the Art of Divine Light, by Martin Kemp. 240 pp. incl. 122 col. ills. (Lund Humphries, London, 2021), £45. ISBN 978–18–482–2467–4. | :
subjects:
Dante: The Invention of Celebrity, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. (17th September 2021– 9th January 2022) | :
subjects:
An Ancient and Honourable Citizen of Florence: The Bargello and Dante, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence (21st April–31st July 2021). | :
subjects:
Dante a Verona, Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona and elsewhere (2020-21) | :
subjects:
Dante e la cultura del Trecento a Mantova, Museo di Palazzo Ducale, Mantua (15th October 2021–9th January 2022), | :
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Dante: La visione dell’arte, Musei San Domenico, Forlì (30th April–11th July 2021) | :
subjects:
Inferno, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome (15th October 2021–9th January 2022). | :
subjects:
Un splendor mi squarciò il velo: Dante illustrato: dal codice 3285 a Scaramuzza, Complesso Monumentale della Pilotta, Parma (20th November 2021–13th February 2022). | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Virgil, by the Master of Campionese. c.1220. Red Verona marble, 124 by 73 by 40 cm. (Musei Civici, Mantua; Bridgeman Images; exh. Musei San Domenico, Forlì).
Attributed works:
2. Frontispiece of Purgatory, from the Divine Comedy by Dante, copied by Francesco di ser Nardo da Barberino, illuminated by the Master of the Dominican Effigies. 1337. (Codex Trivulsiano 1080, fol.36r; Archivio Storico Civico e Biblioteca Trivulziana, Milan; exh. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Attributed works:
3. Dante Alighieri, by Andrea del Castagno. c.1450. Fresco transferred to canvas, 247 by 153 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; exh. Musei san Domenico, Forlì).
Attributed works:
4. That is the man who went to Hell and came back, by Francesco Saverio Altamura. 1860–65. Oil on canvas, 88 by 203 cm. (Museo dell’ Ottocento, Pescara; exh. Galleria d’Arte Moderna ‘Achille Forti’, Verona).
Attributed works:
5. Cope of Pope Boniface VIII. Opus cyprense, second half of the 13th century. Red silk and gold thread, 140 by 325 cm. (Chapter of the Cathedral Basilica, Anagni; exh. Musei San Domenico, Forlì).
Attributed works:
6. Tree of Life, by Pacino di Buonaguida. 1310–15. Tempera on panel, 248 by 170 cm. (Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence; exh. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Attributed works:
7. Dante in Oxford, from The Poet’s Corner, by Max Beerbohm, London 1904. Lithograph, 37 by 28 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
8. Antaeus, by John Dickson Batten. 1897–1900. Pen-and-ink on paper, 18.4 by 27.7 cm. (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford; courtesy the Principal and Fellows of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford).
Exhibition Review
Ribera: Art of Violence. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
01/2019 | 1390 | 161
Pages: 58-60
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Reviewer:
Finaldi, Gabriele (Finaldi, Gabriele)
Subjects
art literature:
Byron, George Gordon Byron / Ford, Richard, 1796-1858 / Stirling-Maxwell, William / Dante Alighieri
artists:
Ribera, Jusepe de / Michelangelo / Martínez, Jusepe / Callot, Jacques
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Drawings / Prints
museums and institutions:
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
Spanish painting / Violence / Torture / Law / Anatomy / Ecorchés (models) / Portraits / Heraldry / Visual sources / Critical Reception / Saints / Martyrdoms / Martyrs / Blind (people) / Divine Comedy (Dante) / Classical / Marsyas / Apollo / Bartholomew, Saint / Snakes
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. A bat and two ears, by Jusepe de Ribera. Early 1620s. Red chalk, brush and red wash, 15.9 by 27.9 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; exh. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
2. Apollo and Marsyas, by Jusepe de Ribera. 1637. Canvas, 182 by 232 cm. (Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples; exh. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
3. Man bound to a stake, by Jusepe de Ribera. First half of the 1640s. Pen and brown ink with wash, 21.5 by 16.3 cm. (Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; exh. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London).
Exhibition Review
The Orléans Collection. New Orleans Museum of Art
01/2019 | 1390 | 161
Pages: 67-69
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Reviewer:
Zafran, Eric (Zafran, Eric)
Subjects
art literature:
Haskell, Francis / Dante Alighieri / Cervantes, Miguel de
artists:
Dieu, Antoine / Santerre, Jean-Baptiste / Coypel, Antoine / Coypel, Noël-Nicolas / Poussin, Nicolas / Le Sueur, Eustache / Sebastiano del Piombo / Veronese, Paolo / Andrea del Sarto / Giulio Romano / Vasari, Giorgio / Carracci, Lodovico / Domenichino / Albani, Francesco / Reni, Guido / Holbein, Hans the Younger, ca. 1497-1543 / Dürer, Albrecht / Rubens, Peter Paul / Dyck, Anthony van / Rembrandt van Rijn / Schalcken, Godfried / Dou, Gerrit
collectors and dealers:
Crozat, Pierre, 1661–1740
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Sculpture / Drawings / Sketches
museums and institutions:
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, United States
patrons:
Philippe II, duc d'Orléans, 1674–1723 / Christina, Queen of Sweden
places:
United States / New Orleans
subjects:
Collections / Collecting / Collections, Private / Patronage / Commissions / Exhibition catalogues / Inventories / Portraits / Allegories / Taste (aesthetics) / Connoisseurship / Religious art / Iconography / Christian iconography / Classical mythology / Classical literature / Aeneid / Eroticism / Baroque / Renaissance / Northern European / Eclecticism / Study and teaching
Illustrations
Attributed works:
13. The Meeting of David and Abigail, by Guido Reni. c.1615–20, Canvas, 155.5 by 163.8 cm. (Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk VA; exh. New Orleans Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
14. Allegory of Philippe II, duc d’Orléans, Regent of the Realm, by Antoine Dieu. 1718. Canvas, 106 by 77 cm. (Musée National du Château de Versailles; exh. New Orleans Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
15. Preciosa recognised, by Godfried Schalcken. Late 1660s. Panel, 44.2 by 31.2 cm. (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin; exh. New Orleans Museum of Art).
Book Review
Ambrogio Lorenzetti. Edited by Alessandro Bagnoli, Roberto Bartalini and Max Seidel
04/2018 | 1381 | 160
Pages: 346-347
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Reviewer:
Lubbock, Jules (Lubbock, Jules)
Subjects
art literature:
Ghiberti, Lorenzo / Vasari, Giorgio
artists:
Lorenzetti, Ambrogio / Giotto / Martini, Simone
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Frescoes
museums and institutions:
Ospedale di Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Italy
places:
Italy / Siena
subjects:
Italian painting / Exhibition catalogues / Attributions / Iconography / Philosophy / Fresco painting
subjects:
Dante Alighieri
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. Detail from Presentation at the Temple, by Ambrogio Lorenzetti. 1342. Tempera on wood, 257 by 168 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence).
Article
A drawing for the tomb of Dante attributed to Tullio Lombardo
11/2006 | 1244 | 148
Pages: 734-746
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Author:
Pincus, Debra (Pincus, Debra)
Author:
Shapiro Comte, Barbara (Shapiro Comte, Barbara)
Subjects
artists:
Lombardo, Pietro / Lombardo, Tullio
buildings:
Chiesa di San Francesco, Ravenna, Italy
dates:
1480-1489
museums and institutions:
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
patrons:
Bembo, Bernardo
print:
Dante Alighieri
print:
Lombardo, Tullio
subjects:
Dante Alighieri / Drawings / Architectural drawings / Preliminary drawings / Italian architecture / Italian sculpture / Reliefs / Funerary structures / Portraits / Book illustrations / Sepulchral monuments / Collections, Public
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Tomb of Dante, by Pietro Lombardo and workshop. c.1483. Marble and Istrian stone. (S. Francesco, Ravenna).
Attributed works:
10. Drawing after the tomb of Dante, by Camillo Morigia. c.1780. Pen and grey wash on paper, 60 by 43 cm. (Biblioteca Classense, Ravenna).
Attributed works:
11. Project for church façade, by Buonacorso Ghiberti. c.1472–83. Grey and coloured inks on parchment, 22.3 by 16 cm. (from B. Ghiberti: Zibaldone, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Cod. Banco Rari 228, carta 38v).
Attributed works:
13. Contract drawing for the tomb of Cristoforo Recanati, by Giovanni Minello. 1483. Pen and ink, 43 by 29.5 cm. (Formerly Archivio di Stato, Padua).
Attributed works:
15. Cappella Cornaro, SS. Apostoli, Venice, attributed to Tullio Lombardo and Mario Codussi. c.1485–99.
Attributed works:
16. S. Maria Maggiore, Venice, nave, by Tullio Lombardo. c.1522–23.
Attributed works:
17. Altarpiece of St Mark, by Tullio Lombardo. 1491. Marble, 237 by 208 cm. (Ravenna Cathedral).
Attributed works:
18. Frontispiece to Dante: Le terze rime, published by Aldus Manutius, Venice 1502, attributed to a follower of Benedetto Bordon. Parchment, double-page spread, 15 by 17 cm. (The Newberry Library, Chicago, Wing ZP 535.A354, fols.a1v–a2r).
Attributed works:
3. Tempietto for the tomb of Dante, designed by Camillo Morigia. c.1780. (S. Francesco, Ravenna).
Attributed works:
4. Church and monastery of S. Francesco, Ravenna, by Vincenzo Coronelli. c.1706–07. Woodcut, 16.7 by 23 cm. (from V. Coronelli: Ravenna ricercata. Antico-Moderna, Venice 1706–07).
Attributed works:
5. Portrait of Dante, by Pietro Lombardo. c.1483. Istrian stone. (Tomb of Dante, S. Francesco, Ravenna).
Attributed works:
6. Drawing for the tomb of Dante, here attributed to Tullio Lombardo, c.1482–83, with sixteenth-century additions. Pen, sepia ink, washes and coloured inks, 41.1 by 28 cm., bound into a copy of C. Landino: Comento sopra la Comedia . . ., Florence 1481. (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Rés.Yd.17).
Attributed works:
8. Letter from Cristoforo Landino to Bernardo Bembo. c.1481–82. (Bound into C. Landino: Comento sopra la Comedia . . ., Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Rés.Yd.17).
Attributed works:
9. Drawing for the tomb of Dante in its first state, here attributed to Tullio Lombardo. c.1482–83. Computer reconstruction by Christina Moore, based on Fig.6.
Western art unattributed:
12. Triumphal arch for festival backdrop, attributed to an anonymous Lombard artist. c.1500. Pen and ink and coloured inks on parchment, 30.2 by 22.2 cm. (Sir John Soane’s Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
14. Barrel-vaulted interior, by an anonymous Milanese architect. c.1500. Pen and ink with wash. c.16.6 by 22.8 cm. (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Codex S.P.10/33, fol.3r).
Western art unattributed:
2. Tomb of Guido, Rolando and Aicarda da Piazzola. Before 1325. Marble and pietra d’Istria. (Piazza del Santo, Padua).
Western art unattributed:
7. C. Landino: Comento sopra la Comedia . . ., illuminated by an anonymous Florentine artist. 1481. 42 by 48 cm. (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Rés.Yd.17, fol.15r).
Article
'Sincerity and earnestness': D.G. Rossetti's early exhibitions 1849–53
01/2004 | 1210 | 146
Pages: 4-12
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Author:
Cruise, Colin (Cruise, Colin)
Subjects
artists:
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
dates:
1800-1899
places:
England
print:
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
subjects:
British painting / Exhibitions / Documents
subjects:
Dante Alighieri
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. The girlhood of Mary Virgin, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 1848–49. 83.2 by 65.4 cm. (Tate, London).
Attributed works:
2. Ecce Ancilla Domini!, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 1849–50. 72.4 by 41.9 cm. (Tate, London).
Attributed works:
3. Wycliffe reading his translation of the New Testament, by Ford Madox Brown. 1847–48. 119.5 by 153.5 cm. (Bradford Art Gallery and Museum).
Attributed works:
5. Rossovestita, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 1850. Watercolour over pen and ink, 24.4 by 13.5 cm. (Birmingham City Art Gallery and Museum).
Attributed works:
6. Giotto painting the portrait of Dante, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 1852. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 36.8 by 47 cm. (Lord Lloyd Webber Collection).
Attributed works:
7. Beatrice, meeting Dante at a marriage feast, denies him her salutation, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 1855. Watercolour on paper, 34.3 by 41.9 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Western art unattributed:
4. ‘The Free Exhibition Society at Knightsbridge’; taken from the Illustrated London News (29th July 1848), p.61.
Short Notice
Arbitrating Artistry: The Case of Domenico di Michelino in 1483
11/2002 | 1196 | 144
Pages: 691-694
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Author:
Geronimus, Dennis (Geronimus, Dennis)
Subjects
artists:
Domenico di Michelino
dates:
1450-1499
places:
Italy / Florence
subjects:
Italian painting
subjects:
Dante Alighieri
subjects:
Documents
Illustrations
Attributed works:
45. Dante reading from the Divine Comedy, by Domenico di Michelino. 1465. 232.5 by 292 cm. (Duomo, Florence).
Attributed works:
47. Christ on the Cross with five saints and angels, by Domenico di Michelino. 1450s? (Villa di Belmonte, Antella; photo: S. Guerrini).
Western art unattributed:
46. Map with location of Domenico di Michelino's workshop in Florence.
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