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‘The big Italian’: Giambologna and his model Bartolommeo di Lionardo Ginori
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 912-919
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Author:
Avery, Charles (Avery, Charles)
Subjects
art literature:
Baldinucci, Filippo
artists:
Giambologna / Zuccaro, Federico / Santi di Tito / Michelangelo / Pollaiolo, Antonio del
dates:
1550-1599
media:
Sculpture / Marbles / Bronzes / Wax sculpture / Models (representations) / Paintings
museums and institutions:
Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence, Italy
patrons:
Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574 / Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598 / Francesco I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1541-1587 / Christian I, Elector of Saxony, 1560–1591
places:
Italy / Florence
subjects:
Italian sculpture / Models (people) / Sitters / Ginori, Bartolommeo di Lionardo / Ginori family / Biographies / Soldiers / Crucifixes / Portraits / Statuettes / Gifts / Commissions / Rape of the Sabines / Mars / Hercules / Prometheus / Titles of works of art / Identification
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Rape of the Sabines, by Giambologna. 1582. Marble, height (excluding the base) c.410 cm. (Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
10. Prometheus, cast from a model by Giambologna. c.1590. Gilt bronze, height 23 cm. (Private collection; photograph courtesy Tomasso Brothers Fine Art, UK).
Attributed works:
2. Crucified Christ, by Giambologna. 1580s. Bronze, 33.5 by 21.5 cm (Cleveland Museum of Art; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
3. Portrait of Giambologna, with his model for ‘Samson and a Philistine’, by Federigo Zuccaro. 1575. Black and red chalk, 26.1 by 188 cm. (National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh).
Attributed works:
4. Rape of the Sabines, by Giambologna. c.1581. Clay with traces of whitewash, height c.410 cm. (Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence).
Attributed works:
5. Mars, by Giambologna. c.1581–87. Gilt bronze, height 39.4 cm. (Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Dresden; photograph Arrigo Coppitz).
Attributed works:
6. Portrait of Bartolommeo di Lionardo Ginori, by Santi di Tito. c.1583. Canvas, height c.250 cm. (Private collection, Florence; photo Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence).
Attributed works:
7. Portrait of Pietro di Cosimo de’ Medici, by Santi di Tito. c.1583. Canvas, 208 by 113 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).
Attributed works:
8. Mars and Prometheus, cast from models by Giambologna. c.1587 and c.1590 respectively. Bronze, heights 39.4 cm. and 23 cm. (Both private collection; photograph courtesy Tomasso Brothers Fine Art, UK).
Attributed works:
9. Man seen from three angles, by Antonio del Pollaiuolo. Fifteenth century. Stylus, pen and ink and wash on paper, 26.5 by 36 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Exhibition Review
Shadows of Time: Giambologna, Michelangelo and the Medici Chapel. The Sculpture Collection, Dresden
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 854-856
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Reviewer:
Avery, Charles (Avery, Charles)
Subjects
artists:
Michelangelo / Giambologna / Zuccaro, Federico / Bisschop, Jan de / Rubens, Peter Paul / Broecke, Willem van der
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Sculpture / Alabaster carvings / Bronzes / Drawings / Sketches / Prints / Engravings / Reliefs
museums and institutions:
Albertinum, Dresden, Germany
patrons:
Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574 / Christian I, Elector of Saxony, 1560–1591
places:
Germany / Dresden
subjects:
Italian sculpture / Statues / Statuettes / Patronage / Gifts / Medici family / Sarcophagi / Unfinished works / Attribution / Iconography / Time / Mars / Nightmare / Copies / Casts (sculpture) / Carving (processes)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Detail of Day, attributed to Giambologna, after Michelangelo. Before 1574. Alabaster, 44.5 by 48.5 by 14.7 cm. (Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Dresden; photograph Hans-Peter Klut; exh. The Sculpture Collection, Dresden).
Attributed works:
8. Day, attributed to Giambologna, after Michelangelo. Before 1574. Alabaster, 44.5 by 48.5 by 14.7 cm. (Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Dresden; photograph Hans-Peter Klut; exh. The Sculpture Collection, Dresden).
Attributed works:
9. Allegory of Francesco I de’Medici, by Giambologna. c.1560–61. Alabaster, 32 by 45.8 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; exh. The Sculpture Collection, Dresden).
Article
A newly discovered Delacroix after Rubens
03/2011 | 1296 | 153
Pages: 172-173
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Author:
Verdi, Richard (Verdi, Richard)
Subjects
artists:
Delacroix, Eugène / Rubens, Peter Paul
dates:
1820-1829
museums and institutions:
National Gallery, London, Great Britain
places:
London
places:
England
print:
Delacroix, Eugène
print:
Rubens, Peter Paul
subjects:
Watercolours / Gouaches / French / Copies / Collections, Private
subjects:
Mars
Illustrations
Attributed works:
52. Study after Rubens’s ‘Allegory of Peace and War’, here attributed to Eugène Delacroix. c.1825. Watercolour and gouache, 33.5 by 26 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
53. Allegory of Peace and War, by Peter Paul Rubens. 1629–30. Canvas, 203.5 by 298 cm. (National Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
54. St Barnabas healing a sick man (after Veronese), by Eugène Delacroix. 1834. Water­colour and pencil, 25.4 by 19.2 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen).
Attributed works:
55. Seated old woman, by Eugène Delacroix. c.1824. Watercolour and pencil, 25.2 by 33.3 cm. (Kupferstichkabinett, Kunsthalle, Bremen).
Attributed works:
56. The miracle of the speaking babe (after Titian), by Eugène Delacroix. c.1825. Watercolour and pencil, 23.5 by 33.3 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon).
Short Notice
An Unknown 'Mars and Venus' by Maarten van Heemskerck
03/1996 | 1116 | 138
Pages: 182-185
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Author:
Stadnichuk, Nina (Stadnichuk, Nina)
Subjects
artists:
Heemskerck, Maarten van
dates:
1500-1599
places:
Netherlands
subjects:
Netherlandish painting / Attributions
subjects:
Mars / Venus
Illustrations
Attributed works:
36. Mars and Venus Trapped by Vulcan, by Maarten van Heemskerck. 1561. Canvas, Transferred from Panel, 62 by 98.5 cm. (Pavlovsk Palace-Museum).
Attributed works:
37. Momus Censuring the Gods' Creations, by Maarten van Heemskerck. 1561. Panel, 120 by 174 cm. (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin).
Attributed works:
38. Venus and Cupid, by Maarten van Heemskerck. 1545. Panel, 108 by 157.5 cm. (Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne).
Attributed works:
40. Mars and Venus Trapped by Vulcan, by Maarten van Heemskerck. c. 1540. Panel, 96.5 by 99 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
Attributed works:
41. Ruins, by Maarten van Heemskerck. 1538. Pen and Brown Ink with Brown Wash and White Heightening on Grey Prepared Paper, 39.5 by 43.5 cm. (British Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
39. Mars and Venus, Italian, Sixteenth Century Engraving.
Short Notice
Three New Mythological Paintings by Giambattista Pittoni
02/1981 | 935 | 123
Pages: 94+96-97+99
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Author:
Binion, Alice (Binion, Alice)
Subjects
artists:
Pittoni, Giovanni Battista, the younger, 1687-1767
dates:
1700-1749
museums and institutions:
Muzeum Narodowe (National Museum), Warsaw, Poland
places:
Italy / Poland / Warsaw
subjects:
Classical mythology / Italian painting
subjects:
Bacchus / Diana / Mars / Venus / Ariadne
Illustrations
Attributed works:
43. Mars and Venus, by Giovanni Battista Pittoni. 171 by 130 cm. (Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw).
Attributed works:
44. Bacchus and Ariadne, by Giovanni Battista Pittoni. 171 by 130 cm. (Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw).
Attributed works:
45. Mars and Venus, by Giovanni Battista Pittoni. 62 by 46 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
46. Detail from Diana at Her Bath, by Giovanni Battista Pittoni. (Museo Civico, Vicenza).
Attributed works:
47. Hercules, by Giovanni Battista Pittoni. 120 by 140 cm. (Private Collection, Mantua).
Attributed works:
48. Omphale, by Giovanni Battista Pittoni. 120 by 138 cm. (Pardo Collection, Paris).
Article
Naming the Unnameable: An Iconographical Problem in Rubens's 'Peace and War'
03/1980 | 924 | 122
Pages: 157-163+165
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Author:
Hughes, Anthony (Hughes, Anthony)
Subjects
artists:
Rubens, Peter Paul
dates:
1600-1649
museums and institutions:
National Gallery, London, Great Britain
places:
England / Netherlands / Flanders / London
sources:
Pausanias, act. ca. 150-175
subjects:
Flemish painting / Iconography
subjects:
Peace / War
subjects:
Mars / Venus / Europe
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. Peace and War, by Peter Paul Rubens. 203 by 298 cm. (National Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
3. The Horrors of War, by Peter Paul Rubens. 206 by 342 cm. (Palazzo Pitti, Florence).
Attributed works:
4. Diagram of the Canvas Support of Fig. 2.
Attributed works:
5. Typus Inconsulte Iuventutis, by Otto Van Veen. Panel, 146 by 212 cm. (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).
Attributed works:
6. Venus, Mars and Cupid, by Peter Paul Rubens. 193 by 131 cm. (Dulwich College Picture Gallery).
Attributed works:
7. The Penance of St John Chrysostomos, by Albrecht Dürer.
Letter
Botticelli and Raphael
03/1979 | 912 | 121
Pages: 178
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Author:
Smith, Graham (Smith, Graham)
Subjects
artists:
Botticelli, Sandro
artists:
Raphael
dates:
1450-1499 / 1500-1519
places:
Italy / Florence
subjects:
Italian painting / Visual sources
subjects:
Mars
Short Notice
The Source of the Mars in Mantegna's 'Parnassus'
03/1978 | 900 | 120
Pages: 151-153
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Author:
Vickers, Michael (Vickers, Michael; Vickers, M. J.; Vickers, Mr.)
Subjects
artists:
Mantegna, Andrea
buildings:
Palazzo Santacroce, Rome, Italy
dates:
1400-1499
places:
Italy / Rome
subjects:
Italian painting / Visual sources
subjects:
Parnassus / Mars
subjects:
Roman (ancient) sculpture
Illustrations
Attributed works:
26. Parnassus (Detail), by Andrea Mantegna. 1497. Canvas. (Musée du Louvre).
Western art unattributed:
25. 'Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus', Census frieze (Detail). (Musée du Louvre).
Short Notice
A Note on Terbrugghen's 'Sleeping Mars'
01/1974 | 850 | 116
Pages: 35-38
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Author:
Harbison, Craig (Harbison, Craig)
Subjects
artists:
Brugghen, Hendrick ter
dates:
1600-1649
museums and institutions:
Centraal Museum Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
places:
Netherlands
subjects:
Dutch painting
subjects:
Mars
subjects:
Late works
subjects:
Iconography
Illustrations
Attributed works:
53. Sleeping Mars, by Hendrick Terbrugghen. 1629 (?). (Centraal Museum, Utrecht.)
Attributed works:
55. Backgammon Players, by Hendrick Terbrugghen. Signed and Dated 1627. (Sale Christie's, 8th December 1972.)
Attributed works:
56. Sleeping Mars, by Jacques de Gheyn III (The Younger). Engraving, c.1625 (Hollstein 22).
Attributed works:
57. Detail from Sleeping Mars, by Terbrugghen.
Attributed works:
58. Leo Belgicus. Anonymous, Dutch, 1636. Engraving Published by Rombout van den Hoeye, Amsterdam.
Attributed works:
60. Leo Belgicus. Anonymous, Dutch, 1617. Engraving Published by Pieter van den Keere, Amsterdam.
Western art unattributed:
54. Suit of Milanese-Style Armour. c.1580. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; from the Amsterdam City Armoury.)
Western art unattributed:
59. Silver Lion Dollars. Anonymous, Dutch. Overijssel, 1688; Gelderland, 1589; Deventer, 1640, Top to Bottom.
Short Notice
The Glasgow Rembrandt
02/1953 | 599 | 95
Pages: 52+55
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Author:
Palmer, Eric C. (Palmer, Eric C.)
Subjects
artists:
Rembrandt van Rijn
artists:
Fabritius, Carel
dates:
1600-1699
places:
Netherlands
subjects:
Dutch painting / Classical mythology / Iconography
subjects:
Mars / Erechtheus
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