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Article
Cross-cultural diplomacy: a Safavid shield in the Medici armoury
10/2022 | 1435 | 164
Pages: 968-975
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Author:
Rokhgar, Negar Sarah (Rokhgar, Negar Sarah)
Subjects
artists:
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da
dates:
1590-1609
media:
Mother of pearl / Gilding
museums and institutions:
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy
patrons:
Shah Abbas, 1571-1629
places:
Persia / Tuscany
sources:
Archives / Correspondence
styles:
Safavid / Mughal
styles:
Indo-Persian School
subjects:
Shields (Armour) / Gifts / Ottomans (people) / Crusades / East-West trade / Diplomacy / Military art and science / Medici family / Ferdinando I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Detail of the painted ceiling in the Sala dell’Armeria (Room 21), Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence, depicting a Persian soldier by Ludovico Buti. 1588–89. (Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
6. Medusa, by Caravaggio. 1595–98. Oil on canvas applied on a wooden shield, 60 by 55 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence).
Non-western art unattributed:
1. Shield. Persia, late 16th century. Gold damascened steel, Indian cane, silk, mother-of-pearl, leather and velvet, diameter 64.5 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Non-western art unattributed:
2. Detail of Fig.1, showing figures serving food to an authority on a higher seat.
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Detail of Fig.1, showing men on horseback and on foot using spears and arrows to hunt lions.
Non-western art unattributed:
5. Silk fragment with a figured motif. Yazd, Persia, late 16th or early 17th century. Silk lampas, 70.5 by 36 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Non-western art unattributed:
7. Shield. Persia, 17th century. Indian cane covered with silk, metal umbo painted in black with golden arabesque engravings and originally embellished with turquoises and other precious stones, 20 by 62 cm. (Palazzo Ducale, Venice).
Non-western art unattributed:
8. Tray with a scene of lovers in a pavilion. Gujarat, late 16th or early 17th century. Mother-of-pearl and lacquer on wood, diameter 43.5 cm. (Aga Khan Museum, Toronto).
Article
The 1584 purchase contract for the Medici group of Niobe sculptures
01/2020 | 1402 | 162
Pages: 26-31
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Author:
Nicolai, Fausto (Nicolai, Fausto)
Subjects
art literature:
Cavalieri, Giovanni Battista de'
collectors and dealers:
Tomassini, Tomaso
dates:
1550-1599
museums and institutions:
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
patrons:
Ferdinando I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609
places:
Rome / Florence
subjects:
Niobe / Sculpture / Purchase / Dating / Contracts / discoveries / Excavations / Reconstructions / Antiquity / Archives
subjects:
Italian sculpture
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
1. The Niobid Room in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. (Courtesy Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi).
Western art unattributed:
2. Fleeing Niobid. Roman copy of a Greek original of the second half of the fourth century BC. Pentelic marble, height 228 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; courtesy Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi).
Western art unattributed:
3. Niobe and her youngest daughter. Roman copy of a Greek original of the second half of the fourth century BC. Pentelic marble, height 228 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
Western art unattributed:
4. The Niobids’ tutor, by Giovan Battista de’ Cavalieri. Engraving, 27 by 21.3 cm. (From G.B. De’ Cavalieri: Antiquarum Statuarum Urbis Romae, Rome 1594, pl.10).
Western art unattributed:
5. The Niobids’ tutor (‘Amphion’). Roman. Pentelic marble, height 181 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; courtesy Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi).
Book Review
Rugs in Late Medieval Siena; Carpet Studies 1300–1600. By Marco Spallanzani
05/2018 | 1382 | 160
Pages: 429-430
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Reviewer:
Penny, Nicholas (Penny, Nicholas)
Subjects
art literature:
Bode, Wilhelm von
artists:
Niccolò di Buonaccorso / Mantegna, Andrea / Giovanni da Udine / Leonardo da Vinci / Gozzoli, Benozzo / Lorenzetti, Ambrogio / Giovanni di Paolo
collectors and dealers:
Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530
dates:
1300-1399 / 1400-1499 / 1500-1599
media:
Carpets / Textiles / Paintings
museums and institutions:
Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Italy
patrons:
Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574 / Ferdinando I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609
places:
Italy / Florence / Siena
subjects:
Italian painting / Oriental rugs / Ornament / Geometric patterns / Influence / Visual sources / Medici family / Archives
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. Marriage of the Virgin, by Niccolo di Buonaccorso. c.1380. Egg tempera on poplar, 50.9 by 33 cm. (National Gallery, London).
Book Review
La Villa Médicis. Le collezioni del cardinale Ferdinando. I dipinti e le sculture. Vol.4
01/2013 | 1318 | 150
Pages: 34-35
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Reviewer:
Robertson, Clare (Robertson, Clare)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Ferdinando I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609
museums and institutions:
Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
subjects:
Architectural history / Italian architecture / Sculpture / Antiquities / Inventories / Transcriptions / Paintings
Short Notice
Alonso Sánchez Coello and Grand Duke Ferdinando I de' Medici
08/1996 | 1121 | 138
Pages: 517-521
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Author:
Mulcahy, Rosemarie (Mulcahy, Rosemarie)
Subjects
artists:
Sánchez Coello, Alonso
dates:
1550-1599
patrons:
Ferdinando I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609
places:
Italy / Florence / Spain
subjects:
Spanish painting / Patronage
Illustrations
Attributed works:
24. Philip II in Black, by Alonso Sánchez Coello. 1587. 178 by 104 cm. (Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence).
Attributed works:
25. Detail of Fig.24. [Philip II in Black, by Alonso Sánchez Coello. 1587. 178 by 104 cm. (Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence).]
Attributed works:
26. Detail of Fig.24. [Philip II in Black, by Alonso Sánchez Coello. 1587. 178 by 104 cm. (Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence).]
Attributed works:
27. Philip IV in Black, by Diego Velázquez. 1623-26. 201 by 102 cm. (Prado, Madrid).
Attributed works:
28. X-Radiograph of Fig.27. [Philip IV in Black, by Diego Velázquez. 1623-26. 201 by 102 cm. (Prado, Madrid).]
Article
A Rediscovered 'Commesso' Portrait
02/1994 | 1091 | 136
Pages: 68-72
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Author:
Fusco, Peter (Fusco, Peter)
Author:
Hess, Catherine (Hess, Catherine)
Subjects
artists:
Ligozzi, Jacopo
artists:
Ferrucci, Romolo di Francesco, del Tadda
dates:
1550-1649
patrons:
Ferdinando I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609
places:
Italy / Florence
subjects:
Italian painting / Inlays / Patronage
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Pope Clement VIII, Designed by Jacopo Ligozzi, Executed by Romolo di Francesco Ferrucci (del Tadda). 1600-1601. Stone Commesso, 97 by 68 cm (101.7 by 75.2 with Frame). (J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu).
Attributed works:
2. Reverse of Fig.1. [Pope Clement VIII, Designed by Jacopo Ligozzi, Executed by Romolo di Francesco Ferrucci (del Tadda). 1600-1601. Stone Commesso, 97 by 68 cm (101.7 by 75.2 with Frame). (J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu).]
Short Notice
Some Gems from the Medici Cabinet of the Cinquecento
08/1979 | 917 | 121
Pages: 509-515
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Author:
McCrory, Martha A. (McCrory, Martha A.; McCrory, Martha)
Subjects
dates:
1500-1599
patrons:
Medici family
patrons:
Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574
patrons:
Eleanor of Toledo, Duchess of Florence, 1522-1562
patrons:
Ferdinando I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609
places:
Italy / Florence
subjects:
Collecting / Collections, Private / Cameos / Gems
subjects:
Documents
Illustrations
Attributed works:
47. Cosimo I de'Medici and His Family. Cameo in Onyx, 16.5 by 18.5 cm. (Museo Degli Argenti, Florence).
Attributed works:
53. Philip II. Cameo in Onyx, 3.55 by 4.2 cm. (Museo degli Argenti, Florence).
Attributed works:
54. Don Carlos. Cameo in Onyx. Reverse of Fig. 53.
Western art unattributed:
48. 'Tre figure e una stella'. Cameo in Onyx, 14.3 cm. (Museo Archeologico, Florence).
Western art unattributed:
49. Savanarola. Intaglio in Carnelian, 3.27 by 4.15 cm. (Museo Degli Argenti, Florence).
Western art unattributed:
50. Detail of Fig. 48. ['Tre figure e una stella'. Cameo in Onyx, 14.3 cm. (Museo Archeologico, Florence).]
Western art unattributed:
51. 'Pastore e una vacca'. Intaglio in Amethyst, 2.6 by 1.8 cm. (Museo Archeologico, Florence).
Western art unattributed:
52. The Head of Hercules. Intaglio in Amethyst. 3.5 by 4.15 cm. (Museo Archeologico, Florence).
Western art unattributed:
55. Alessandro de'Medici. Cameo in Agate, 2.5 by 3.2 cm. (Museo degli Argenti, Florence).
Western art unattributed:
56. Henry II of France. Cameo in Agate, 2.96 by 3.64 cm. (Museo degli Argenti, Florence).
Western art unattributed:
57. Alessandro de'Medici. Relief in Gold on a Green Jasper Ground, 3 by 3.7 cm. (Museo degli Argenti, Florence).
Western art unattributed:
58. Charles VI of France (?). Cameo in Agate. 2.51 by 3.1 cm. (Museo degli Argenti, Florence).
Western art unattributed:
59. Reverse of Fig. 58 Showing the Coat-of-Arms of the Duke of Bourbon with the Legend ESPERENCE (sic). Enamelled Gold, 2.51 by 3.1 cm.
Western art unattributed:
60. Pope Leo X. Intaglio in Plasma, 3.58 by 4.52 cm. (Museo degli Argenti, Florence).
Western art unattributed:
61. Pope Leo X. Intaglio in Sapphire, 1 by 1.2 cm. (Museo degli Argenti, Florence).
Short Notice
Cigoli's 'Resurrection' for the Pitti Palace
08/1974 | 857 | 116
Pages: 469-475
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Author:
Chappell, Miles L. (Chappell, Miles L.; Chappell, Miles)
Subjects
artists:
Cigoli
artists:
Santi di Tito
artists:
Correggio
buildings:
Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy
dates:
1550-1649
patrons:
Ferdinando I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609
places:
Italy / Florence
subjects:
Italian painting / Jesus Christ: Resurrection
subjects:
Visual sources
Illustrations
Attributed works:
79. The Ressurrection, by Lodovico Cigoli. Signed and Dated 1591. Panel, 270 by 170 cm. (Pinacoteca Comunale, Arezzo.)
Attributed works:
80. The Resurrection, by Lodovico Cigoli. c.1590. Canvas, 148 by 118 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Inv. 1890, No.5704.)
Attributed works:
81. Figure Study, by Lodovico Cigoli. c.1590. Red Chalk on White Paper, Irregularly Cut, 41.3 by 25.8 cm. (Gabinetto dei disegni, Florence, No.8856 F.)
Attributed works:
82. Figure Study, by Lodovico Cigoli. c.1590. Black and White Chalk on Blue Paper, Irregularly Cut, 40.9 by 25.3 cm. (Gabinetto dei disegni, Florence, No.8855 F Recto.)
Attributed works:
83. The Resurrection, by Lodovico Cigoli. c.1590. Pen and Brown Ink and Brown Wash, 27.3 by 19.1 cm. (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, No.1973.67, Maitland F. Griggs-B. A. 1896 Fund.)
Attributed works:
84. The Resurrection, by Lodovico Cigoli. Verso of Fig. 83.
Attributed works:
85. Madonna and Child with Saints Peter and Michael, by Lodovico Cigoli. 1593. Canvas, 200 by 155 cm. (Parish Church, Pianezzoli.)
Attributed works:
86. Composition and Figure Studies, by Lodovico Cigoli. c.1593. Verso, Pen and Brown Ink, Grey-Blue and Brown Washes, 23.5 by 15.8 cm. (Collection Dr Malcomn Bick, Springfield, Mass.)
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Giovanni Bologna and the Marble Statues of the Grand-Duke Ferdinand I
05/1970 | 806 | 112
Pages: 304-307
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Author:
Pope-Hennessy, John (Pope-Hennessy, John; Hennessy, John Wyndham Pope-; Pope-Hennessy, J.; P.-H., J.)
Subjects
artists:
Giambologna
artists:
Francavilla, Pietro
dates:
1550-1599
patrons:
Ferdinando I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609
patrons:
Medici family
places:
Arezzo / Italy
places:
Pisa
subjects:
Italian sculpture / Attribution
subjects:
Attributions
subjects:
Patronage
Illustrations
Attributed works:
35. Ferdinand I de' Medici, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, by Pietro Francavilla [design by Giambologna]. Marble. (Piazza Carrara, Pisa.)
Attributed works:
36. Ferdinand I de' Medici, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, by Pietro Francavilla after Giovanni Bologna. Marble. (Piazza del Duomo, Arezzo.)
Attributed works:
37. Ferdinand I de' Medici, Grand-Duke of Tuscany. Sketch-Model by Giovanni Bologna. Red Wax; Height, 18.4 cm. (Collection Brinsley Ford.)
Attributed works:
38. Another View of the Sketch-Model in Red Wax Reproduced in Fig.37. [Ferdinand I de' Medici, Grand-Duke of Tuscany. Sketch-Model by Giovanni Bologna. Red Wax; Height, 18.4 cm. (Collection Brinsley Ford.)]
Attributed works:
39. Another View of the Sketch-Model in Red Wax Reproduced in Fig.37. [Ferdinand I de' Medici, Grand-Duke of Tuscany. Sketch-Model by Giovanni Bologna. Red Wax; Height, 18.4 cm. (Collection Brinsley Ford.)]
Attributed works:
40. Another View of the Sketch-Model in Red Wax Reproduced in Fig.37. [Ferdinand I de' Medici, Grand-Duke of Tuscany. Sketch-Model by Giovanni Bologna. Red Wax; Height, 18.4 cm. (Collection Brinsley Ford.)]
Article
Stage Designs for the Florentine Intermezzi of 1589
06/1932 | 351 | 60
Pages: 294-295+298-300
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Author:
Laver, James (Laver, James; Laver, J.; L., J.)
Subjects
artists:
Carracci, Agostino
artists:
Buontalenti, Bernardo
artists:
Alfiano, Epifanio de
dates:
1550-1599
patrons:
Ferdinando I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609
places:
Italy / Florence
subjects:
Italian painting / Theatre design / Pageants
subjects:
Art museums / Acquisitions
subjects:
Temporary architecture
works:
Intermezzi
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Plate I. A-The Harmony of the Spheres, by Agostino Caracci. Engraving, 22.6 by 30 cm. (British Museum). Stage Designs for the Florentine Intermezzi of 1589
Attributed works:
Plate I. B-The Harmony of the Spheres, Here Attributed to Bernardo Buontalenti. Drawing, 38.1 by 55.6 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum). Stage Designs for the Florentine Intermezzi of 1589
Attributed works:
Plate I. C-The Contest of the Muses and the Pierides, by Epifanio d'Alfiano. Engraving, 33 by 23.3 cm. (British Museum). Stage Designs for the Florentine Intermezzi of 1589
Attributed works:
Plate I. D-The Contest of the Muses and the Pierides, Here Attributed to Bernardo Buontalenti. Drawing, 38.1 by 56.3 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum). Stage Designs for the Florentine Intermezzi of 1589
Attributed works:
Plate II. E-Apollo and the Python, by Agostino Caracci. Engraving, 22.6 by 30 cm. (British Museum). Stage Designs for the Florentine Intermezzi of 1589
Attributed works:
Plate II. F-Apollo and the Python, Here Attributed to Bernardo Buontalenti. Drawing, 37.5 by 56.8 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum). Stage Designs for the Florentine Intermezzi of 1589
Attributed works:
Plate II. G-The Region of the Demons, by Epifanio d'Alfiano. Engraving, 36.2 by 25.6 cm. (British Museum). Stage Designs for the Florentine Intermezzi of 1589
Attributed works:
Plate II. H-The Descent of Apollo and Bacchus, Together with Rhythm and Harmony, Here Attributed to Bernardo Buontalenti. Drawing, 41.9 by 54.7 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum). Stage Designs for the Florentine Intermezzi of 1589
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