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Article
An Islamic tent in S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 80–95
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Gigante, Federica (Gigante, Federica)
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17. Detail of the Birth of the Virgin, by Pietro Lorenzetti. c.1342. Fresco. (Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Siena).
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26. Madonna in Majesty (Rucellai Madonna), by Duccio di Buoninsegna. c.1285. Tempera on wood, 450 by 290 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; Photo Scala, Florence; courtesy of the Ministero Beni e Att. Culturali e del Turismo).
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3. Right wall of the apse, S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara. (Photograph the author).
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4. Vision of Pope Gregory IX, by Giotto. c.1297–99. Fresco, 270 by 230 cm. (Upper Basilica, St Francis, Assisi; Bridgeman Images).
Non-western art unattributed:
21. Top of an Ottoman period tent. (From N. Atasoy: Otağ-ı Hümayun: The Ottoman Imperial Tent Complex, Istanbul 2000, p.156).
Non-western art unattributed:
22. Detail of the Camp of Baybars I al-Bunduqdārī, from the Cantigas de Santa Maria. Spain. c.1280–84. Ink and colour on parchment. (El Escorial, MS T-1-1, fol.222r).
Non-western art unattributed:
23. Detail of the mantle of Roger II. Sicily, 12th century. Silk, gold, pearl and enamel. (Imperial Treasury, Vienna).
Non-western art unattributed:
24. The Persian ambassador presenting Sultan Murad III a tent as a gift. 16th century. Illumination on parchment. (Istanbul University Library, MS FY 1404 Istanbul, fol.43b).
Western art unattributed:
1. Interior of S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara. (© Gabriele Croppi; Scala, Florence).
Western art unattributed:
10. Detail of the apse fresco showing the painted bejewelled border of the tent roof and two birds, S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara. (Photograph the author).
Western art unattributed:
11. Detail of the apse fresco showing the roundel decoration and interstices of the painted textile, S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara. (Photograph the author).
Western art unattributed:
12. Detail of the apse fresco showing the fringe at the top of the painted textile, S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara. (Photograph the author).
Western art unattributed:
13. Vault of the right-hand chapel showing a portion of the original starry sky, S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara. (Photograph the author).
Western art unattributed:
14. Detail of the apse fresco showing a section of blue ceiling with stars, S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara. (Photograph the author).
Western art unattributed:
15. Apse mosaic, S. Maria in Trastevere, Rome. (Bridgeman Images).
Western art unattributed:
16. Reconstruction of the apse decoration of S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara. (Drawing by Federico Botana).
Western art unattributed:
18. Pillow cover of María de Almenar. c.1200. Silk and gold thread, 37 by 66 cm. (Museo de Telas Medievales, Monasterio de Santa María la Real de Huelgas, Burgos).
Western art unattributed:
19. Detail of the top border of the hanging textile fresco with pseudo-Naskh calligraphy, Upper Basilica, St Francis, Assisi. (Photograph the author).
Western art unattributed:
2. Left wall of the apse, S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara. (Photograph the author).
Western art unattributed:
20. Detail of the hanging textile fresco showing the roundel decoration of the painted textile, Upper Basilica, St Francis, Assisi. (Photograph the author).
Western art unattributed:
25. Detail of the Assumption of the Virgin, apse of S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara. (Photograph the author).
Western art unattributed:
27. Textile pattern decoration of the Bardi Chapel, S. Maria Novella, Florence. c.1285. Fresco. (Photograph the author).
Western art unattributed:
5. Fragment of the burial tunic of Don Felipe. Spain, 2nd half of the 13th century. Silk, linen and metal-wrapped thread. (Villalcazar de Sirga, Palencia).
Western art unattributed:
6. Fresco from the first decorative phase of S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara, showing a painted textile in the left chapel. (Photograph the author).
Western art unattributed:
7. Upper Basilica, St Francis, Assisi. Early 14th century. (Mondadori Portfolio; Electa; Antonio Quattrone; Bridgeman Images).
Western art unattributed:
8. Detail of the apse fresco showing the lower part of painted textile, S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara. (Photograph the author).
Western art unattributed:
9. Detail of the apse fresco showing the top part of painted textile, S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara. (Photograph the author).
Book Review
The Embedded Portrait: Giotto, Giottino, Angelico
12/2024 | 1461 | 166
Pages: 1278–9
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Bokody, Péter (Bokody, Péter)
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The Embedded Portrait: Giotto, Giottino, Angelico By Christopher S. Wood. 376 pp. incl. 125 col. ills. (Princeton University Press, 2023), £55. ISBN 978–0–691–24426–6. | :
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2. Lamentation over the body of Christ, by Giottino. After 1363. Tempera on panel, 135 by 195 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
Exhibition Review
L’enigma del Maestro di San Francesco: Lo ‘stil novo’ del Duecento umbro
06/2024 | 1455 | 166
Pages: 623–626
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Renner, John (Renner, John )
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L’enigma del Maestro di San Francesco: Lo ‘stil novo’ del Duecento umbro Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, Perugia 10th March–9th June | :
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4. Crucifix, by the Master of St Francis. 1272. Tempera and gold leaf on wood, 488.5 by 355 cm. (Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, Perugia).
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5. Lamentation over the dead Christ, by the Master of St Francis. c.1272. Tempera and gold leaf on wood, with coloured glass, 54 by 48.5 cm. (Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, Perugia).
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6. St Francis with two angels, by the Master of St Francis. c.1255. Tempera and gold leaf on wood, with coloured glass, 108 by 58.5 cm. (Museo della Porziuncola, S. Maria degli Angeli, Assisi; exh. Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, Perugia).
Article
Stanley Spencer, postcards, small books and old masters
09/2023 | 1446 | 165
Pages: 952–67
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Martineau, Jane (Martineau, Jane; Martineau, Jane; M., J.T.)
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1. Sir Stanley Spencer; Sydney Spencer; Gilbert Spencer; William ‘Pa’ Spencer, by Philip Edward Morrell. 1914. Vintage snapshot print, 6.1 by 10.3 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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10. Postcard of a corbel in Exeter Cathedral sent by Desmond Chute to Stanley Spencer, 21st June 1916. (John Spencer collection; JS 32).
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11. Roger Fry’s glass slide of Masaccio’s St Peter healing with his shadow. (Archive Centre, King’s College, Cambridge; REF 2, box 32).
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12. St George, by Donatello. (Frontispiece of H. Rea: Donatello: Il maestro di chi sanno, London 1900).
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13. Postcard of Gentile Bellini’s Finding of the True Cross sent by Henry Lamb to Stanley Spencer. (John Spencer collection; JS 50).
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14. Postcard of Giotto’s Joachim and the shepherds sent by Jas Wood to Stanley Spencer, 17th October 1927. (UCL Art Museum, University College London; UCL 82).
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15. Reverse of Fig.14.
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16. Postcard of Pieter Bruegel’s Autumn sent by Gilbert Spencer to Stanley Spencer, 1934. (John Spencer collection; JS 82).
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2. Stanley Spencer’s postcard album open to showing a Virgin or saint holding a book, Tonnerre stone, c.1390–1400, Musée national du Moyen Age, Thermes de Cluny, Paris (inv. Cl.18931), and the Court of Pan, by Luca Signorelli, formerly in the collection of the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin. (UCL Art Museum, University College London; UCL 4 and 5).
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3. Letter from Stanley Spencer to the Raverats illustrating the shape of the reliefs on the campanile of Florence Cathedral. 12th April 1913. (Tate Archive, TGA 8116/21).
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4. Roger Fry’s glass slide of Andrea Pisano’s Creation of Eve from the campanile of Florence Cathedral. (Archive Centre, King’s College, Cambridge; REF 2, box 13).
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5. Postcard of the Entombment of Christ, by Donatello, sent from Gwen Darwin to Stanley Spencer, 11th March 1914. (John Spencer collection; JS 6).
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6. Reverse of UCL 51.
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7. Three postcards superimposed to illustrate the west wall of the apse of S. Francesco, Arezzo, by Piero della Francesca, sent by Gwen Raverat to Stanley and Gilbert Spencer, 25th March 1914. (UCL Art Museum, University College London; UCL 53, 50 and 51).
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8. Roger Fry’s glass slides of Piero della Francesca’s Death of Adam. (Archive Centre, King’s College, Cambridge; REF 2, boxes 19 and 32).
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9. Reproduction of the Lion of St Mark, by Vittore Carpaccio, from The Masterpieces of Carpaccio and Giorgione published by Gowans & Gray, 1911.
Book Review
Reliquary Tabernacles in Fourteenth-Century Italy: Image, Relic and Material Culture
05/2022 | 1430 | 164
Pages: 520-521
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Reviewer:
Renner, John (Renner, John )
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Reliquary Tabernacles in Fourteenth- Century Italy: Image, Relic and Material Culture By Beth Williamson. 264 pp. incl. 12 col. + 64 b. & w. ills. (Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2020), £75. ISBN 978–1–78327–476–5. | :
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3. Reliquary tabernacle with the Virgin and Child, by Naddo Ceccarelli. c.1350. Tempera and gold leaf on wood panel with glass, paper and relics, 62.1 by 43.2 by 9.4 cm. (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore).
Exhibition Review
Medioevo a Pistoia: Crocevia di artisti fra Romanico e Gotico
05/2022 | 1430 | 164
Pages: 495-497
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Palozzi, Luca (Palozzi, Luca)
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Medioevo a Pistoia: Crocevia di artisti fra Romanico e Gotico Antico Palazzo dei Vescovi and Museo Civico, Pistoia 27th November 2021–8th May 2022 | :
Illustrations
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4. Fragments of fresco painting in the chapel of St Nicholas in Antico Palazzo dei Vescovi, Pistoia. 14th century.
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5. Fragment from the staircase parapet of the pulpit in S. Giovanni Fuorcivitas, by Fra’ Guglielmo and assistants. c.1270. Marble and verre églomisé, 102 by 80 by 5.5 cm. (Museo Diocesano, Pistoia; photograph Lorenzo Gori).
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6. St Francis receiving the stigmata, by Nicola Pisano. Marble, 59.8 by 62.7 by approx. 6 cm. (Museo Civico, Pistoia).
Article
The Italian Renaissance altarpiece
04/2022 | 1429 | 164
Pages: 380-385
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Penny, Nicholas (Penny, Nicholas)
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1. Mystic winepress, by Mainardi, called Il Chiaveghino. 1594. Oil on canvas, approx. 500 by 300 cm. (S. Agostino, Cremona; Bridgeman Images).
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2. Vision of St Thomas Aquinas, by Santi di Tito. 1593. Oil on panel. (S. Marco, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
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3. Marriage of the Virgin, by Rosso Fiorentino. 1538. Oil on panel, 325 by 250 cm. (S. Michele Visdomini, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
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4. Detail of Crucifixion, by Lorenzo Lotto. 1534. Oil on panel. (S. Maria della Pietà in Telusiano, Monte San Giusto, Macerata; Scala Archives).
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5. Madonna della Misericordia, by Fra Bartolommeo. 1515. Oil on panel, 407.5 by 262 cm. (Museo Nazionale di Villa Guinigi, Lucca; Bridgeman Images).
Article
Obituary: John White (1924–2021)
03/2022 | 1428 | 164
Pages: 326-328
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Gardner, Julian (Gardner, Julian)
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The Presentation of the Virgin, by Taddeo Gaddi. c.1328–38. Fresco. (Baroncelli Chapel, S. Croce, Florence; Bridgeman Images). The painting is discussed in John White’s The Birth and Rebirth of Pictorial Space, published in 1957.
Exhibition Review
Allegretto Nuzi e il ’300 a Fabriano: Oro e colore nel cuore dell’Appennino
01/2022 | 1426 | 164
Pages: 59-62
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Christiansen, Keith (Christiansen, Keith; Christiansen, K.)
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Allegretto Nuzi e il ’300 a Fabriano: Oro e colore nel cuore dell’Appennino Pinacoteca Civica Bruno Molajoli, Fabriano 14th Ocober 2021–30th January 2022 | :
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Ottaviano Nelli e il ’400 a Gubbio: Oro e colore nel cuore dell’Appennino Palazzo Ducale and Palazzo Consoli, Gubbio 23rd September 2021– 9th January 2022 | :
Illustrations
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4. Virgin and Child with St Michael and St Ursula, by Allegretto Nuzi. 1365. Tempera on panel, 124 by 150.5 cm. (Vatican Museums, Rome; exh. Pinacoteca Civica Bruno Molajoli, Fabriano).
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5. Virgin and Child, by Allegretto Nuzi. Tempera on panel, 92 by 47 cm. (Private collection; exh. Pinacoteca Civica Bruno Molajoli, Fabriano).
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6. Madonna of Humility with St John Evangelist and St Anthony Abbot (Madonna del Belvedere), by Ottaviano di Martino Nelli. Fresco. (S. Maria Nuova, Gubbio).
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7. Adoration of the Magi, by Ottaviano di Martino Nelli. Tempera on panel, 81 by 46 cm. (Worcester Art Museum, Worcester MA; exh. Palazzo Ducale and Palazzo Consoli, Gubbio).
Exhibition Review
Ottaviano Nelli e il ’400 a Gubbio: Oro e colore nel cuore dell’Appennino
01/2022 | 1426 | 164
Pages: 59-62
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Reviewer:
Christiansen, Keith (Christiansen, Keith; Christiansen, K.)
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Allegretto Nuzi e il ’300 a Fabriano: Oro e colore nel cuore dell’Appennino Pinacoteca Civica Bruno Molajoli, Fabriano 14th Ocober 2021–30th January 2022 | :
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Ottaviano Nelli e il ’400 a Gubbio: Oro e colore nel cuore dell’Appennino Palazzo Ducale and Palazzo Consoli, Gubbio 23rd September 2021– 9th January 2022 | :
Illustrations
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4. Virgin and Child with St Michael and St Ursula, by Allegretto Nuzi. 1365. Tempera on panel, 124 by 150.5 cm. (Vatican Museums, Rome; exh. Pinacoteca Civica Bruno Molajoli, Fabriano).
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5. Virgin and Child, by Allegretto Nuzi. Tempera on panel, 92 by 47 cm. (Private collection; exh. Pinacoteca Civica Bruno Molajoli, Fabriano).
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6. Madonna of Humility with St John Evangelist and St Anthony Abbot (Madonna del Belvedere), by Ottaviano di Martino Nelli. Fresco. (S. Maria Nuova, Gubbio).
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7. Adoration of the Magi, by Ottaviano di Martino Nelli. Tempera on panel, 81 by 46 cm. (Worcester Art Museum, Worcester MA; exh. Palazzo Ducale and Palazzo Consoli, Gubbio).
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