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Paolo Stella’s Belvedere: a Genoese outpost in Prague
11/2022 | 1436 | 164
Pages: 1088-1103
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Author:
Schulz, Anne Markham (Schulz, Anne Markham)
Subjects
artists:
Stella, Paolo / Stella, Giovanni Domenico
buildings:
Belvedere, Prague Castle, Prague, Czech Republic
dates:
1520-1549 / 1550-1599
patrons:
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1503-1564
places:
Prague / Genoa
sources:
Bruto de’ Franchi (Partenopeo) , Paolo / Ovid / Plutarch / Pliny, the Elder, 23-79 AD / Virgil / Diodorus Siculus
styles:
Genoese
subjects:
House of Habsburg / Italian sculpture / Iconography / Classical mythology / Reliefs / Carvings / History / Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558 / Roman history / Humanism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. The west front of the Belvedere, Prague. (Photograph Jan Bazant).
Attributed works:
10. Charles V liberating Christian captives, by Giovanni Domenico Stella(?). Plaster cast after sandstone original, 70 by 134 cm. (Belvedere, Prague, east side [11E]; photograph Prague Castle).
Attributed works:
11. Meeting of King Mulay Hassan and Charles V, by Giovanni Domenico Stella(?). Plaster cast after sandstone original, 70 by 134 cm. (Belvedere, Prague, east side [13E]; photograph Prague Castle).
Attributed works:
12. King Ferdinand and Queen Anna, by an assistant of Paolo Stella. Plaster cast after sandstone original, 70 by 134 cm. (Belvedere, Prague, west side [3W]; photograph Prague Castle).
Attributed works:
13. Plexippos and Toxeus, sons of Thestius, carrying the head of the Caledonian Boar, by Paolo Stella. Plaster cast after sandstone original, 70 by 134 cm. (Belvedere, Prague, south side [5S]; photograph Prague Castle).
Attributed works:
14. Perseus and Atlas, by Paolo Stella. Plaster cast after sandstone original, 70 by 134 cm. (Belvedere, Prague, north side [4N]; photograph Prague Castle).
Attributed works:
15. Hermes and Battus, by Paolo Stella. Plaster cast after sandstone original, 70 by 134 cm. (Belvedere, Prague, west side [7W]; photograph Prague Castle).
Attributed works:
16. Cadmus and the dragon, by Paolo Stella. Plaster cast after sandstone original, 70 by 134 cm. (Belvedere, Prague, west side [13W]; photograph Prague Castle).
Attributed works:
17. Jason and the Golden Fleece, by Paolo Stella. Plaster cast after sandstone original, 70 by 134 cm. (Belvedere, Prague, west side [2W]; photograph Prague Castle).
Attributed works:
18. Zeus and Ganymede, by an assistant of Paolo Stella. Plaster cast after sandstone original, 70 by 134 cm. (Belvedere, Prague, west side [8W]; photograph Prague Castle).
Attributed works:
19. Hannibal and Scipio Africanus, by an assistant of Paolo Stella. Plaster cast after sandstone original, 70 by 134 cm. (Belvedere, Prague, north side [2N]; photograph Prague Castle).
Attributed works:
2. Detail from Miracle of the Goblet, by Giammaria Mosca and Paolo Stella. 1520–29. (Cappella del Santo, Basilica di S. Antonio, Padua; photograph Mauro Magliani).
Attributed works:
20. Mago the Carthaginian reaping grain, by an assistant of Paolo Stella. Plaster cast after sandstone original, 70 by 134 cm. (Belvedere, Prague, west side [6W]; photograph Prague Castle).
Attributed works:
21. Leda and the swan, by Paolo Stella. Plaster cast after sandstone original, 70 by 134 cm. (Belvedere, Prague, west side [11W]; photograph Prague Castle).
Attributed works:
22. Perseus and Andromeda, by Paolo Stella. Plaster cast after sandstone original, 70 by 134 cm. (Belvedere, Prague, north side [3N]; photograph Prague Castle).
Attributed works:
23. Garden façade of the Villa Doria, Genoa. (Photograph Alinari).
Attributed works:
3. Detail of Fig.2, showing the central kneeling woman. (Photograph Mauro Magliani).
Attributed works:
4. Hope, from the tomb of Lodovico Euffreducci, S. Francesco, Fermo, by Paolo Stella. (Diocesan Museum, Fermo; photograph Mauro Magliani).
Attributed works:
5. St Thomas Aquinas, by Paolo Stella. c.1525. Marble, height 161 cm. (SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice; photograph Anne Markham Schulz).
Attributed works:
6. Tomb of Giovanni Battista Bonzio. 1525–26. (SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice).
Attributed works:
7. Tomb of Lodovico Euffreducci. c.1528–29. (S. Francesco, Fermo; photograph Mauro Magliani).
Attributed works:
8. Pursuit of fleeing Tunisians by imperial forces, by Giovanni Domenico Stella(?). Plaster cast after sandstone original, 70 by 134 cm. (Belvedere, Prague, east side [9E]; photograph Prague Castle).
Attributed works:
9. Danaë, by Paolo Stella. Plaster cast after sandstone original, 70 by 134 cm. (Belvedere, Prague, west side [10W]; photograph Prague Castle).
Article
A modello by Louis Laguerre and the programme of the Painted Hall at Chatsworth
08/2022 | 1433 | 164
Pages: 760-767
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Author:
Marandet, François (Marandet, François)
Subjects
artists:
Laguerre, Louis / Chéron, Louis / Maratti, Carlo
artists:
Boullogne, Bon / Boullogne, Louis, the younger, 1654-1733
buildings:
Chatsworth, Derbyshire, Great Britain / Boughton House, Northamptonshire, Great Britain
dates:
1660-1719
subjects:
Modelli / Iconography / Politics / and / Allegory / Roman history / William III, King of England, 1650–1702
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Ruth and Boaz, here attributed to Louis Laguerre. c.1716. Oil on canvas, 38 by 63 cm. (Location unknown).
Attributed works:
10. The assassination of Julius Caesar, with the soul of Caesar transformed into a comet, by Antonio Tempesta. 1606. Engraving, 10.7 by 12 cm.
Attributed works:
11. The assassination of Julius Caesar, by Louis Laguerre. 1695–97. Oil on plaster. (Painted Hall, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire; (© The Devonshire Collections, Chatsworth; reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees; photograph Paul Barker, 2014).
Attributed works:
12. The apotheosis of the Duke of Buckingham, by Peter Paul Rubens. Before 1625. Oil on panel, 64 by 64 cm. (National Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
13. The apotheosis of Julius Caesar, by Louis Laguerre. 1695–97. Oil on plaster. (Painted Hall, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire; © The Devonshire Collections, Chatsworth; reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees; photograph Paul Barker, 2014).
Attributed works:
2. Ruth and Boaz, by Louis Duguernier, after Louis Laguerre. 1717. Engraving, 10 by 15 cm. (From the Vinegar Bible, Oxford 1717).
Attributed works:
3. The Painted Hall, Chatsworth, Derbyshire, decorated by Louis Laguerre. 1695–97. (© The Devonshire Collections, Chatsworth; reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees; photograph Paul Barker, 2014).
Attributed works:
4. Augustus ordering the closing of the doors of the Temple of Janus, here attributed to Louis Laguerre. c.1695. Oil on canvas, 54 by 126 cm. (Location unknown).
Attributed works:
5. Augustus ordering the closing of the doors of the Temple of Janus, by Carlo Maratta. c.1657. Oil on canvas, 280 by 275 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille).
Attributed works:
6. Augustus ordering the closing of the doors of the Temple of Janus, by Louis Laguerre. 1695–97. Oil on plaster. (Painted Hall, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire; © The Devonshire Collections, Chatsworth; reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees; photograph Paul Barker, 2014).
Attributed works:
7. Detail of the east wall of the Painted Hall, Chatsworth House, showing the right-hand edge of the painting in Fig.6 and part of the painted frame and pilasters. (© The Devonshire Collections, Chatsworth; reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees; photograph Paul Barker, 2014).
Attributed works:
8. Augustus ordering the closing of the doors of the Temple of Janus, by Louis de Boullogne. 1681. Oil on canvas, 176 by 215 cm. (Musée de Picardie, Amiens).
Attributed works:
9. St Ambrose forbidding the emperor Theodosius to enter Milan Cathedral, by Simon Thomassin, after Bon Boullogne. 1686. Engraving, 34 by 23 cm. (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris).
Exhibition Review
Nero: The Man Behind the Myth
10/2021 | 1423 | 163
Pages: 937-939
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Reviewer:
Gardner-Dseagu, Christine (Gardner-Dseagu, Christine)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
media:
Sculpture / Film (cinema) / Videos / Frescoes / Mosaics
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Nero, Emperor of Rome, 37-68 / Roman history / Historiography
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Nero: The Man Behind the Myth British Museum, London 27th May–24th October | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
4. Nero. Roman, 50–100, with later additions. Marble, height 45 cm. (Musei Capitolini, Rome; exh. British Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
5. Agrippina the Younger. Roman, 37–39. Chalcedony, height 9 cm. (British Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
6. Fragments of a gilded stucco panel from the Domus Aurea, Rome, showing a pair of sphinxes among acanthus plants. Roman, 64–68. Plaster and paint, height 16.5 cm. (British Museum, London).
Book Review
Herculaneum Past and Present
03/2012 | 1308 | 154
Pages: 203
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Reviewer:
Cormack, Robin (Cormack, Robin)
Subjects
places:
Herculaneum / Italy
print:
Herculaneum
subjects:
Conservation / Archaeology / Roman history / Roman (ancient) School / Roman (ancient) architecture / Roman (ancient) sculpture / Roman (ancient) painting / Excavations
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Herculaneum Past and Present | author: Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
30. Head of a statue of an Amazon. From Herculaneum, before 79 AD. Painted marble.
Article
A Silver Basin Designed by Strozzi
01/1971 | 814 | 113
Pages: 2+4-11+13
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Author:
MacAndrew, Hugh (MacAndrew, Hugh; Magandrew, Hugh)
Subjects
artists:
Strozzi, Bernardo
artists:
Tempesta, Antonio
dates:
1600-1649
museums and institutions:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain
patrons:
Giustiniani family
places:
Italy
places:
Rome
places:
Genoa
sources:
Plutarch
subjects:
Italian painting / Drawings
subjects:
Silverwork
subjects:
Metalwork / Design
subjects:
Battles / Iconography
subjects:
Roman history
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Design for a Silver Basin, by Bernardo Strozzi. Canvas, 74.3 cm. in diam. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.)
Attributed works:
10. Detail from An Allegory of Vanity, by Bernardo Strozzi. Canvas. (Formerly Modiano Collection, Bologna.)
Attributed works:
11. Detail from The Cook, by Bernardo Strozzi. Canvas. (Palazzo Rosso, Genoa.)
Attributed works:
12. Detail from St Lawrence Distributing the Treasures of the Church, by Bernardo Strozzi. Canvas. (Portland Art Museum, Samuel H. Kress Collection.)
Attributed works:
13. Detail from St Lawrence Distributing the Treasures of the Church, by Bernardo Strozzi. Canvas. (City Art Museum of St Louis.)
Attributed works:
14. Design for the Bowl of a Tazza, by Antonio Tempesta. Pen and Brown Wash over Black Chalk, 50 cm. in diam. (Gabinetto dei disegni degli Uffizi, Florence - Inv.940 E.)
Attributed works:
15. Adoration of the Shepherds (? After a Lost Jacopo Bassano Altar-Piece), by Bernardo Strozzi. Copper, 79 by 42 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.)
Attributed works:
16. Adoration of the Shepherds (? After a Lost Jacopo Bassano Altar-Piece), by a Veronese Artist, c.1600-10 (Most Probably Alessandro Turchi). Copper, 47.4 by 23.4 cm. (Private Collection.)
Attributed works:
6. Detail of Painting Reproduced in Fig.1. [Design for a Silver Basin, by Bernardo Strozzi]
Attributed works:
7. A Battle. Engraving by Antonio Tempesta. (British Museum.)
Attributed works:
8. Scene from 'Historia Septem infantium de Lara' (Antwerp 1612). Engraving by Antonio Tempesta, after Otto van Veen. (British Museum.)
Attributed works:
9. Scene from 'Historia Septem Infantium de Lara' (Antwerp 1612). Engraving by Antonio Tempesta, after Otto van Veen. (British Museum.)
Western art unattributed:
2. Basin, Here Attributed to a Northern, Perhaps Flemish, Goldsmith, c.1625. Silver, 75.5 cm. in diam. (Italian Private Collection.)
Western art unattributed:
3. Detail of Silver Basin Reproduced in Fig.2. [Basin, Here Attributed to a Northern, Perhaps Flemish, Goldsmith, c.1625]
Western art unattributed:
4. Detail of Silver Basin Reproduced in Fig.2. [Basin, Here Attributed to a Northern, Perhaps Flemish, Goldsmith, c.1625]
Western art unattributed:
5. Detail of Silver Basin Reproduced in Fig.2. [Basin, Here Attributed to a Northern, Perhaps Flemish, Goldsmith, c.1625]
Article
A Source for David's 'Horatii'
05/1970 | 806 | 112
Pages: 269-271+273
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Author:
Rosenblum, Robert (Rosenblum, Robert; Rosenblum, Mr.)
Subjects
artists:
David, Jacques-Louis
artists:
Hamilton, David
artists:
Beaufort, Jacques Antoine
dates:
1750-1799
museums and institutions:
Musée Municipal, Nevers, France
places:
Paris / France
subjects:
French painting / Iconography / Formal analysis
subjects:
Art criticism / Visual sources
subjects:
Oath of the Horatii
subjects:
Roman iconography
subjects:
Roman history
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Brutus, Here Attributed to Jacques-Antoine Beaufort. Salon of 1771. Canvas, 129 by 167 cm. (Musée Municipal, Nevers).
Attributed works:
2. Copy after Gavin Hamilton's Brutus, by Jacques-Louis David. Sketch-Book for Tennis Court Oath, p.58. (Musée, Versailles).
Attributed works:
3. Brutus. Engraving by Domenico Cunego after Gavin Hamilton, 1768.
Attributed works:
4. Copy after Beaufort's Brutus, by Jacques-Louis David. Sketchbook for Tennis Court Oath, p.57. (Musée, Versailles).
Attributed works:
5. Oath of the Horatii, by Jacques-Louis David. 1784. Canvas, 330 by 425 cm. (Musée du Louvre).
Western art unattributed:
6. Brutus. French School, c.1771. Canvas, 65.4 by 80 cm. (Collection Barnett Hollander, London).
Article
An Unpublished Early Work by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
03/1939 | 432 | 74
Pages: 115-117
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Author:
Moschetti, Andrea (Moschetti, Andrea)
Subjects
artists:
Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista
dates:
1700-1749
places:
Italy / Venice
subjects:
Italian painting / Early works / Studies (visual works) / Oil sketches
subjects:
Roman history / Roman iconography / Porsenna / Mucius Scaevola
Illustrations
Attributed works:
A-Mucius Scaevola before Porsenna, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Canvas. Present Whereabouts Unknown. An Unpublished Early Work by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.
Attributed works:
B-Mucius Scaevola before Porsenna, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Study For a Canvas. 44.5 by 28.5 cm. (Museo Civico, Padua). An Unpublished Early Work by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.
Attributed works:
C-Actaeon. Detail from Diana Bathing, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Canvas (Accademia, Venice). An Unpublished Early Work by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.