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Book Review
Mariano Benlliure y Nueva York
05/2022 | 1430 | 164
Pages: 524-525
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Reviewer:
Ellis, Morlin (Ellis, Morlin)
Subjects
artists:
Benlliure y Gil, Mariano
artists:
Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquín
museums and institutions:
Hispanic Society of America, New York, United States
subjects:
Spanish sculpture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Mariano Benlliure y Nueva York Edited by Lucrecia Enseñat Benlliure and Leticia Azcue Brea. 440 pp. incl. 311 col. ills. (Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica, Madrid, Hispanic Society of America, New York, and Center for Spain in America, New York, 2020), €52.88. ISBN 978–84–15245–91–9. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Bust of Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, by Mariano Benlliure y Gil. 1932. Bronze, height 92 cm. (Hispanic Society of America, New York).
Exhibition Review
Alonso Berruguete: First Sculptor of Renaissance Spain. Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas
04/2020 | 1405 | 162
Pages: 332-334
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Reviewer:
Joannides, Paul (Joannides, Paul; J., P.; Joannides, P. E. A.)
Subjects
artists:
Berruguete, Alonso
dates:
2020-2030
media:
Sculpture / Paintings / Drawings
museums and institutions:
Meadows Museum, Dallas, United States
subjects:
Altarpieces / Spanish art / Spanish sculpture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Alonso Berruguete: First Sculptor of Renaissance Spain Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas 29th March–26th July | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Sacrifice of Isaac, by Alonso Berruguete. 1526–33. Polychromed wood with gilding, height 89 cm. (Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid; exh. Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas; photograph Javier Mu oz and Paz Pastor).
Attributed works:
6. Salomé, here identified as Judith, by Alonso Berruguete. c.1514–17. Oil on panel, 87.5 by 71 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence; exh. Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
7. Ecce Homo, by Alonso Berruguete. c.1524. Polychromed wood with gilding, height 146 cm. (Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid; exh. Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas; photograph Javier Muñoz and Paz Pastor).
Book Review
Art in Spain and Portugal from the Romans to the Early Middle Ages: Routes and Myths, R. Walker
05/2019 | 1394 | 161
Pages: 437-438
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Reviewer:
McNeil, John (McNeil, John)
Subjects
dates:
Early medieval
places:
Iberian peninsula
subjects:
Spanish architecture / Spanish sculpture / Portuguese architecture / Portuguese sculpture / Visigothic / Roman Empire / Antiquity / Andalusia
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. Detail of corn from a fresco in the garden room of the Villa Medici, Rome, by Jacopo Zucchi. c.1585.
Article
The making of Picasso’s ‘Woman in a long dress’
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 920-927
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Subjects
art literature:
Kahnweiler, Daniel-Henry / Spies, Werner / Eluard, Paul / Read, Peter / Leiris, Michel / Cocteau, Jean
artists:
Picasso, Pablo / Brassaï / González, Julio / Rousseau, Henri / Maar, Dora / Duncan, David Douglas
collectors and dealers:
Loeb, Pierre
dates:
1900-1949 / 1930-1939 / 1940-1949
media:
Sculpture / Plaster / Bronzes / Assemblages / Metalwork / Photographs / Art objects
subjects:
Spanish sculpture / World War (1939-1945) / Portraits / Self-portraits / Identification / Modernism / Neo-classicism / Kouroi / Visual sources / Casts (sculpture) / Studios (work spaces)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Woman in a long dress, by Pablo Picasso. Here dated 1941–42. Bronze, 161.3 by 53.7 by 45.7 cm. (Private collection; photograph W.B. Dewey; © DACS London, 2018).
Attributed works:
3. Portrait of the artist’s mother, by Pablo Picasso. 1896. Pastel on paper, 49.8 by 39 cm. (Museu Picasso, Barcelona; Bridgeman Images; © DACS London, 2018).
Attributed works:
4. Portrait of Yadwiga, by Henri Rousseau. 1895. Canvas, 160 by 105 cm. (Musée Picasso, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
5. Picasso and his stove, rue des Grands Augustins, by Brassaï. 1939. (Private collection / Photo © Christie’s Images; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
6. Picasso’s Head of a bull with an arm from Easter Island, by Brassaï. 1943. Gelatin silver print, 17.7 by 24 cm. (Musée National Picasso, Paris; © DACS London, 2018).
Attributed works:
7. Head of a bull, by Pablo Picasso. 1942. Bicycle saddle and handlebars, 33.5 by 43.5 by 19 cm. (Musée National Picasso, Paris; © DACS London, 2018).
Attributed works:
8. ‘L’Aubade’ and ‘Woman in a long dress’ in Picasso’s rue des Grands Augustins studio, Paris, by Brassaï. 1946. Photograph. (Musée National Picasso, Paris; © DACS London, 2018).
Attributed works:
9. Front steps of La Californie with Picasso and the welder at work, by David Douglas Duncan. 1957. (From D.D. Duncan: Goodbye Picasso, New York 1975, p.65).
Western art unattributed:
2. Female statue, known as the Woman of Auxerre, c.640–630 BC. Limestone, height 75 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
Exhibition Review
Joan Miró: Sculptures 1928–1982. Centro Botín, Santander
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 786-788
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Reviewer:
Watkins, Nicholas (Watkins, Nicholas)
Subjects
artists:
Miró, Joan / Piano, Renzo / luis vidal + architects / Llorens Artigas, Josep / Gardy-Artigas, Joan
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Architecture / Sculpture / Bronzes
museums and institutions:
Centro Botín, Santander, Spain
places:
Spain / Santander
subjects:
Spanish sculpture / Spanish architecture / Art museums / Neo-classicism / Fascism / Figurative art / Primitivism (Cultural anthropology related concept) / Cave paintings / Paleolithic / Casts (sculpture) / Patina / Polychromy
Illustrations
Attributed works:
19. The Centro Botín, Santander, photographed from the Pareda Gardens, June 2017. (Photograph Belen de Beneto).
Attributed works:
20. Souvenir de la Tour Eiffel, by Joan Miró, cast by Fundicío Parellada, Barcelona. Bronze, 334 by 54 by 80 cm. (Private collection; exh. Centro Botín, Santander).
Attributed works:
21. Personnage et oiseau, by Joan Miró, cast by Fundicío Parellada, Barcelona. Bronze, 104 by 63 by 20 cm. (Private collection; exh. Centro Botín, Santander).
Book Review
Romanesque and the Mediterranean. Edited by Rosa Bacile and John McNeill
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 798-799
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Reviewer:
Vernon, Clare (Vernon, Clare)
Subjects
buildings:
Cattedrale di San Sabino, Canosa di Puglia, Italy / Angoulême Cathedral, Angoulême, France
dates:
0900-0999 / 1000-1099 / 1100-1199
media:
Paintings / Sculpture / Stone / Ivories / Architecture / Illuminated manuscripts
places:
Italy / Spain / France / Hungary / Palermo
subjects:
Romanesque / Churches / Cathedrals / Byzantine Empire / Fatimid School / Crusades / Franciscans / French architecture / French sculpture / Italian architecture / Italian sculpture / Spanish architecture / Spanish sculpture / Patronage / Oliphants / Conferences / Essays
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
2. Oliphant, Italy. Eleventh to twelfth century. Ivory, length 66 cm. (National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh).
Book Review
The End Again: Degeneration and Visual Culture in Modern Spain. By Oscar E. Vázquez
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 804-805
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Reviewer:
Brauer, Fae (Brauer, Fae)
Subjects
art literature:
Darwin, Charles / Baudelaire, Charles / Engels, Friedrich
artists:
Fortuny y Carbó, Mariano José María Bernardo, 1838-1874 / Mani, Carles / Cabello Izarra, Segundo / Santa María Sedano, Marceliano / Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquín / Rusiñol, Santiago / Regoyos, Dario de / Garnelo y Alda, José / García Sampedro, Luis / Picasso, Pablo / Gargallo, Pablo / Nonell, Isidre
dates:
1850-1899 / 1900-1949
media:
Paintings / Drawings / Gouaches / Photographs
places:
Spain
subjects:
Spanish painting / Spanish sculpture / Nationalism / Disease / Death / History paintings / Gender / Psychology / Race / Capitalism / Catholicism / Cultural history / Ethnology / Occult sciences / Science / Politics / Visual culture / Historiography / Criticism / Critical Reception / Modernism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Degenerates, by Carles Mani. 1891–1904. Plaster, 20.5 by 37 by 22 cm. (Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona).
Book Review
Ceán Bermúdez: Historiador del arte y coleccionista ilustrado. Edited by Elena M. Santiago Páez.
06/2018 | 1383 | 160
Pages: 521
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Reviewer:
Brown, Jonathan (Brown, Jonathan; Brown, Jonathan M.)
Subjects
art literature:
Ceán Bermúdez, Juan Agustín / Jovellanos, Gaspar Melchor de, 1744-1811
artists:
Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de / Mengs, Anton Raphael / Rubens, Peter Paul / Cambiaso, Luca / Leoni, Pompeo
dates:
1750-1799 / 1800-1829
media:
Books / Documents / Prints / Drawings
museums and institutions:
Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain / Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, Spain
places:
Spain / Madrid
subjects:
Spanish painting / Spanish sculpture / Art literature / Art history / Surveys / Histories / Exhibition catalogues / Collecting / Archives / Libraries
Exhibition Review
Julio González. The Hague
03/2018 | 1380 | 160
Pages: 249-251
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Reviewer:
Vernon, Jonathan (Vernon, Jonathan ; V., J.)
Subjects
artists:
González, Julio / Picasso, Pablo / Smith, David, 1906-1965 / Brancusi, Constantin / Gargallo, Pablo / Hartung, Hans
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Sculpture
museums and institutions:
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands / IVAM Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain / Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
places:
Netherlands / Hague
subjects:
Spanish sculpture / French sculpture / Modernism / Iron / Casts (sculpture) / Avant-garde / Civil War (Spain:1936-1939)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
23. Strange head, by Julio González. 1932. Pencil, ink, pen and coloured pencil on paper, 19.3 by 11.7 cm. (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; exh. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag).
Attributed works:
24. Head called ‘The Apostle’, by Julio González. 1933–34. Wood and iron wire, 24 by 13.8 by 4.2 cm. (Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Generalitat; exh. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag).
Attributed works:
25. Woman in the garden, by Pablo Picasso. 1930–32 (possibly started in November 1929). Bronze, welded, 209.6 by 116.8 by 81.3 cm. (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; exh. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag).
Book Review
The ‘Cristos yacente’ of Gregorio Fernández. Polychrome sculpture of the Supine Christ in Seventeenth-Century Spain. By Ilenia Colon Mendoza
08/2017 | 1373 | 159
Pages: 642
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Reviewer:
Brooke, Xanthe (Brooke, Xanthe)
Subjects
artists:
Fernández, Gregorio
dates:
1600-1699
subjects:
Polychromy / Spanish sculpture / Jesus Christ / Christian iconography
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