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Book Review
Dürer’s Lost Masterpiece: Art and Society at the Dawn of a Global World
10/2024 | 1459 | 166
Pages: 1084–5
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Kunz, Armin (Kunz, Armin)
Subjects
artists:
Dürer, Albrecht
patrons:
Heller, Jakob / Fugger, Hans, 1531-1626
subjects:
Taste (aesthetics) / Material culture (genre) / Patronage / German art
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subjects:
Dürer’s Lost Masterpiece: Art and Society at the Dawn of a Global World By Ulinka Rublack. 448 pp. incl. 70 col. ills. (Oxford University Press, 2023), £30. ISBN 978–01–9887–310–5. | :
Book Review
Luxury after the Terror
11/2023 | 1448 | 165
Pages: 1254-1256
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Reviewer:
Coquery, Natacha (Coquery, Natacha)
Subjects
artists:
Auguste, Henry / Dugourc, Jean Démosthène / Parent, Aubert / Brongniart, Alexandrine Emilie
subjects:
French decorative art / Goldsmiths / Sculptors / Porcelain / Material culture (genre) / Historical context
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subjects:
Luxury after the Terror By Iris Moon. 272 pp. incl. 30 col. + 65 b. & w. ills. (Penn State University Press, University Park PA, 2022), $104.95. ISBN 978–0–271–09161–7. | :
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Attributed works:
2. Advertisement for Nouvelle Cartes de la République Française, by Jean- Démosthène Dugourc and Urbaine Jaume. 1793–94. Wood engraving with hand colouring on paper, 38.5 by 24.4 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Book Review
Handbook of the Colour Print in China, 1600–1800
10/2023 | 1447 | 165
Pages: 1150–1152
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Reviewer:
McNeill, Malcolm (McNeill, Malcolm)
Subjects
dates:
1600-1799
subjects:
Chinese art / Prints / Printmaking / Books / Albums / Material culture (genre)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Handbook of the Colour Print in China, 1600–1800 Edited by Anne Farrer and Kevin McLoughlin. 328 pp. incl. 142 col. + b. & w. ills. (Brill, Leiden, 2021), £175. ISBN 978–90–04–47189–4. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Folio 9 from The Story of the Western Wing, by Min Qiji. 1640. Woodblock print, ink and polychrome pigments on paper, 25.5 by 32.2 cm. (Rheinisches Bildarchiv, Cologne; Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Cologne; photograph Sabrina Walz).
Exhibition Review
Normands: Migrants, conquérants, innovateurs
08/2023 | 1445 | 165
Pages: 898–900
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Reviewer:
McNeill, John (McNeill, John)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Rouen, France / Musée des Antiquités, Rouen, France
places:
Normandy / England / Sicily
subjects:
Normans / Vikings / Material culture (genre) / Anglo-Norman / Archaeology / Buildings / Illuminated manuscripts / Stained glass
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Normands: Migrants, conquérants, innovateurs Musée des Beaux-Arts and Musée des Antiquités, Rouen 14th April–13th August | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
12. Stained glass from Jumièges Abbey. Late 11th century (?). Painted glass, 7 by 5 cm. (Musées départementaux de Seine- Maritime).
Western art unattributed:
10. Carved standing stone. Smiss, Gotland, c.750–1000. Limestone, 125 by 61 by 7–15 cm. (Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm; exh. Musée des Antiquités, Rouen).
Western art unattributed:
11. Pavement from Rouen Cathedral. Antique (?) and 12th century. Grey and black marble, 86 by 74 cm. (Musée des Antiquités, Rouen).
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)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
Greece / Persia
styles:
Achaemenid / Parthian / Sassanian / Hellenistic / Greek (ancient) School
subjects:
Antiquity / Material culture (genre)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
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)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Great Britain
places:
Mediterranean / Cyprus / Crete / Sardinia
subjects:
Antiquity / Greek (ancient) School / Material culture (genre) / Neolithic / Roman (ancient)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
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).
Book Review
The Art of Armenia: An Introduction
09/2021 | 1422 | 163
Pages: 864-865
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Reviewer:
Greenwood, Tim (Greenwood, Tim)
Subjects
places:
Armenia
subjects:
Armenian School / Material culture (genre) / Art history
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Art of Armenia: An Introduction By Christina Maranci. 272 pp. incl. 114 col. + b. & w. ills. (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2018), £25.99. ISBN 978–0–19–026900–5. | :
Book Review
Designing Norman Sicily: Material Culture and Society
08/2021 | 1421 | 163
Pages: 763-764
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Reviewer:
Vernon, Clare (Vernon, Clare)
Subjects
places:
Sicily
styles:
Norman
subjects:
Medieval architecture / Medieval art / Material culture (genre)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Designing Norman Sicily: Material Culture and Society Edited by Emily A. Winkler, Liam Fitzgerald and Andrew Small. 256 pp. incl. 60 col. + 9 b. & w. ills. (Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2020), £60. ISBN 978–1–78327–489–5. | :
Exhibition Review
Armenia! Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
01/2019 | 1390 | 161
Pages: 60-63
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Reviewer:
Jones, Lynn (Jones, Lynn)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Sculpture / Stone / Textiles / Manuscripts / Books / Architecture / Reliquaries / Reliefs / Maps / Costume
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
places:
United States / New York
subjects:
Armenian / Culture / Cultural history / Material culture (genre) / Visual culture / Popular culture / Religious art / Religious architecture / Iconography / Christian iconography / Jesus Christ / Churches / Cathedrals / Patronage / Commissions / Travel / Dress / Portraits / Saints
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
4. Altar frontal. 1741. Gold, silver and silk threads on silk, 67.5 by 97.5 cm. (Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, Armenia; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Non-western art unattributed:
5. Alexander Romance. Rome, 1538–44 and unknown location, sixteenth century. Tempera and ink on parchment, 24 by 17.8 cm. (‘Matenadaran’ Mesrop Mashtots’ Institute-Museum of Ancient Manuscripts, Yerevan, MS 5472; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Non-western art unattributed:
6. Khachkar. Lori Berd, twelfth to thirteenth century. Basalt, 182.9 by 98.4 by 22.9 cm. (History Museum of Armenia, Yerevan; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Book Review
Objects of Virtue: Art in Renaissance Italy
10/2002 | 1195 | 144
Pages: 630-631
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Reviewer:
Musacchio, Jacqueline Marie (Musacchio, Jacqueline Marie)
Subjects
dates:
1400-1599
places:
Italy
subjects:
Material culture (genre) / Renaissance / Italian painting / Sculpture / Social history
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Objects of Virtue: Art in Renaissance Italy | author: Syson, Luke , author: Thornton, Dora
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