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Editorial
Turner 250
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 891
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Subjects
artists:
Turner, Joseph Mallord William / Constable, John
subjects:
Anniversaries / Exhibitions
Editorial
The National Gallery
03/2024 | 1452 | 166
Pages: 223
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Subjects
art literature:
The Burlington Magazine
museums and institutions:
National Gallery, London, Great Britain
patrons:
Angerstein, John Julius
subjects:
Anniversaries
Editorial
The Picasso anniversary
12/2023 | 1449 | 165
Pages: 1271
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Subjects
artists:
Picasso, Pablo
subjects:
Anniversaries / Exhibitions / Spanish art / French art / Archives / Documentaries
Editorial
Wren 300
02/2023 | 1439 | 165
Pages: 107
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Subjects
artists:
Wren, Christopher
subjects:
Anniversaries / Conferences / Lectures / British architecture / Architects
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. | :
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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) | :
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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). | :
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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).
Editorial
Banishing the blues
02/2021 | 1415 | 163
Pages: 107
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Subjects
subjects:
Anniversaries / Collections, Corporate / Collections, Public / Exhibitions / Museums
Editorial
The Tate Archive at fifty
11/2020 | 1412 | 162
Pages: 917
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Subjects
museums and institutions:
The Tate Archive, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Anniversaries / British art / Digital technology
Article
The Leonardo anniversary: a retrospective
06/2020 | 1407 | 162
Pages: 512-519
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Author:
Cole, Michael (Cole, Michael)
Subjects
art literature:
Monographs / Biographies / Catalogues / Exhibition catalogues
art literature:
Bambach, Carmen C., New York, United States / Quiviger, François, (F. Q.) / Joost, Keizer
art literature:
Roeck, Bernd
artists:
Leonardo da Vinci / Boltraffio, Giovanni Antonio / Oggiono, Marco d'
artists:
Romano, Giovanni Cristoforo
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
subjects:
Anniversaries / Exhibition reviews / Exhibitions / Infrared photography / Underdrawings / Paintings / Drawings / Studies (visual works) / Dating / Techniques / Manuscripts
subjects:
Italian art / Renaissance art / Renaissance Italy
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered. By Carmen C. Bambach. Four vols, 2,350 pp. incl. 1,319 col. + b. & w. ills. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2019),  400. ISBN 978–03–00–19195– | :
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Leonardo da Vinci: Self, Art and Nature. By François Quiviger. 224 pp. incl. 60 col. + 10 b. & w. ills. (Reaktion, London, 2019),  15.95. ISBN 978–17–89– 14070–5 | :
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Leonardo: Der Mann, der alles wissen wollte. By Bernd Roeck, 429 pp. incl. 72 col. + 32 b. & w. ills. (Verlag C.H. Beck, Munich, 2019), €28. ISBN 978–3–406–73509–7. | :
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Leonardo’s Paradox: Word and Image in the Making of Renaissance Culture. By Joost Keizer. 232 pp. incl. 40 col. + 25 b. & w. ills. (Reaktion, London, 2019),  25 | :
subjects:
Leonardo da Vinci, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 24th October 2019–24th February 2020. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. The nude Mona Lisa, by a follower of Leonardo da Vinci. Early sixteenth century. Charcoal, black chalk, and white heightening on paper, with later reworking in brown gouache or tempera, pricked for transfer, 74.8 by 54 cm. (Musée Cond , Chantilly; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
2. Installation view of ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ at the Musée du Louvre, Paris. 2019. (Courtesy Musée du Louvre, Paris; photograph Antoine Mongodin).
Attributed works:
3. Reconstruction of the model used by Leonardo to produce the drawing in Fig.4, by Leticia Leratti. 2019. Clay and linen sheet, 75 by 70 by 25 cm. (Courtesy Musée du Louvre, Paris; photograph Antoine Mongodin; exh. Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
4. Drapery study for a seated figure, by Leonardo da Vinci. c.1475–82. Tempera on linen, 19.6 by 15.3 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
5 and 6. Installation views of ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ at the Mus e du Louvre, Paris. 2019. (Courtesy Musée du Louvre, Paris; photograph Antoine Mongodin).
Attributed works:
7. Studies of blood vessels and staircases, by Leonardo da Vinci. c.1506– 10. Pen with different shades of brown ink and red chalk on paper, 29.5 by 19.8 cm. (Royal Collection Trust /   Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2020).
Attributed works:
8. A reconstruction of the face of the young Leonardo, from Bernd Roeck’s Leonardo: Der Mann, der alles wissen wollte (Verlag C.H. Beck, Munich).
Editorial
Raphael and his cult
05/2020 | 1406 | 162
Pages: 371
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Subjects
artists:
Raphael
museums and institutions:
Scuderie Papali al Quirinale, Rome, Italy / Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany / Windsor Castle, Windsor, Great Britain
subjects:
Exhibitions / Anniversaries / Digital technology
Editorial
The National Trust at 125
02/2020 | 1403 | 162
Pages: 87
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Subjects
museums and institutions:
National Trust
places:
Great Britain
subjects:
Catalogues / Research / Curators / Furniture / Sculpture / discoveries
subjects:
Anniversaries
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