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Exhibition Review
Superbarocco: Arte a Genova da Rubens a Magnasco
06/2022 | 1431 | 164
Pages: 597-600
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Reviewer:
Ferri, Davide (Ferri, Davide)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Scuderie Papali al Quirinale, Rome, Italy / National Gallery of Art, Washington, United States
places:
Genoa
subjects:
Genoese / Baroque / Italian art / Art objects / Paintings / Drawings
subjects:
Flemish art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Superbarocco: Arte a Genova da Rubens a Magnasco Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome 26th March–3rd July | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Elena Grimaldi Cavalleroni Cattaneo, by Anthony van Dyck. 1623. Oil on canvas, 243 by 138.5 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington; exh. Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome).
Attributed works:
8. Sacrifice to Pan, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, called Il Grechetto. c.1640. Oil on canvas, 218 by 316 cm. (Private collection; photograph Luigino Visconti; exh. Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome).
Attributed works:
9. Baptism of Christ, by Anton Maria Maragliano. 1723–25. Painted and gilded wood, 220 by 210 by 135 cm. (Oratorio di S. Giovanni Battista, Pieve di Teco, Imperia; photograph Luigino Visconti; exh. Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome).
Book Review
Treasury, Memory, Nature: Church Objects in the Middle Ages
02/2022 | 1427 | 164
Pages: 213-214
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Reviewer:
Nickson, Tom (Nickson, Tom)
Subjects
subjects:
Medieval / Relics / Art objects / Liturgy / Churches / Cathedrals
subjects:
Reliquaries
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Treasury, Memory, Nature: Church Objects in the Middle Ages By Philippe Cordez. 284 pp. incl. 75 col. ills. (Harvey Miller, London and Turnhout, 2020), £76.50. ISBN 978–1–912554–61–4. | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
2. Ostrich egg reliquary. Probably second half of the 13th century. Gilt silver, precious stones, enamel and ostrich egg, height 33.5 cm. (Domschatz Halberstadt; © Landesamt für Demkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen- Anhalt; photograph Juraj Lipták).
Exhibition Review
A Rothschild Treasury. Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
11/2019 | 1400 | 161
Pages: 952-954
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Reviewer:
Hall, Michael (Hall, Michael)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Waddesdon Manor, Waddesdon, Aylesbury, Great Britain
museums and institutions:
National Trust
patrons:
Rothschild family
subjects:
Silverwork / Jewellery / Antiquities / Glassware / Gem carvings / Gold / Clocks / Enamels / Cameos / Art objects / Ceramics / Coins
Illustrations
Attributed works:
13. Snuff box, by Louis Roucel. 1772–73. Sèvres porcelain plaques with paintings attributed to Louis-Denis Armand l’aîné after Jean-Jacques Bachelier, c.1760. Gold and softpaste porcelain, 35 by 72 by 58 cm. (Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire; photograph Waddesdon Image Library / Mike Fear).
Attributed works:
15. Installation view of the Treasury, Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, 2019. (Photograph Mike Fear).
Western art unattributed:
14. Gaius Caesar. Roman, c.1 BC–AD 4 (cameo), AD 100– 200 (mount). Onyx, gold and bronze, 4.9 by 3.9 cm. (Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire; photograph Waddesdon Image Library / Mike Fear).
Exhibition Review
Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill: Masterpieces from Horace Walpole’s Collection. Strawberry Hill, Twickenham
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 148-151
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Reviewer:
Aldrich, Megan (Aldrich, Megan)
Subjects
artists:
Clouet, François / Batoni, Pompeo / Müntz, Johann Heinrich / Holbein, Hans the Younger, ca. 1497-1543 / Vertue, George / Dyck, Anthony van / Kneller, Godfrey / Boulle, André-Charles, I, 1642-1732 / Langlois, Pierre Eloy
artists:
Reynolds, Joshua
collectors and dealers:
Walpole, Horace, Fourth Earl of Orford, 1717-1797
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Interiors / Paintings / Watercolours / Sculpture / Bronzes / Ceramics / Miniatures (paintings) / Art objects / Furniture
museums and institutions:
Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
Collecting / Collections / Collections, Private / Collectors / Taste (aesthetics) / Country houses / Decorative arts / Antiquities / Style / Gothic Revival / Tudor Revival / Baroque / Copies / Coffers / Vases / Attributions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
11. Horace Walpole, by Joshua Reynolds. c.1756–57. Canvas, 127 by 110 cm. (Ragley Hall, Warwickshire; exh. Strawberry Hill, Twickenham).
Attributed works:
12. Catherine de Medici and her children, by the studio of François Clouet. 1561. Canvas, 198 by 137.2 cm. (Private collection; exh. Strawberry Hill, Twickenham).
Attributed works:
13. Installation view of Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill in the Library, Strawberry Hill (Photograph Kilian O’Sullivan).
Exhibition Review
Luigi Valadier: Splendor in Eighteenth-Century Rome. The Frick Collection, New York
01/2019 | 1390 | 161
Pages: 70-72
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Reviewer:
Baarsen, Reinier (Baarsen, Reinier)
Subjects
artists:
Valadier, Luigi / Valadier, Andrea / Valadier, Giuseppe
collectors and dealers:
Gustav III, King of Sweden, 1746-1792
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Silverwork / Gold / Bronzes / Enamels / Marbles / Stone / Woodwork / Sculpture / Furniture / Drawings / Art objects
museums and institutions:
Frick Collection, New York, United States
places:
United States / New York
subjects:
Goldsmiths / Workshops (Organisations) / Rococo / Neo-classicism / Decorative arts / Design / Identification / Attribution / Patronage / Commissions / Lamps / Dinner services / Candelabras (candleholders) / Tables (support furniture) / Statues / Busts / Religious art / Monographs
Illustrations
Attributed works:
16. Caddinet with the coat of arms of Henry, Cardinal Duke of York, by Luigi Valadier. c.1785. Silvergilt, 10 by 37.7 by 30.3 cm. (The Royal Collection, © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II; exh. The Frick Collection, New York).
Attributed works:
17. Detail of a deser, by Luigi Valadier. c.1778. Marbles, hardstones, glass, enamel, gilt bronze and other materials, the stand: 12.5 by 280 by 83 cm. (Royal Palace and Archaeological Museum, Madrid; exh. The Frick Collection, New York).
Attributed works:
18. Altar service for Cardinal Orsini, by Luigi Valadier. 1768. Silver-gilt. (Cathedral of San Nicola, Muro Lucano; exh. The Frick Collection, New York).
Book Review
Die Zisterzienser: das Europa der Klöster. Edited by by Gabriele Uelsberg, Lothar Altringer, Georg Mölich, Norbert Nussbaum and Harald Wolter-von dem Knesebeck
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 1067-1068
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Reviewer:
Stöber, Karen (Stöber, Karen)
Subjects
dates:
1100-1199 / 1200-1299 / 1300-1399 / 1400-1499
media:
Architecture / Art objects / Manuscripts / Paintings / Reliquaries
museums and institutions:
LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
places:
Germany / Bonn
subjects:
Cistercian / Monks / Monasteries / Religion / Religious art / Religious architecture / Liturgy / Panel paintings / Altars / Crosses / Chalices / Churches / Patronage / Cultural history / Exhibition catalogues
Exhibition Review
Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done. Museum of Modern Art, New York
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 1058-1060
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Reviewer:
Bradnock, Lucy (Bradnock, Lucy)
Subjects
artists:
Forti, Simone / Rainer, Yvonne / Brown, Trisha / Halprin, Anna / Waring, James / Dunn, Robert Ellis / Dunn, Judith / Cunningham, Merce / Cage, John / Hay, Deborah / Gordon, David / Childs, Lucinda / Paxton, Steve
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Performance art / Photographs / Videos / Sketches / Documents / Music scores / Art objects
museums and institutions:
Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States
places:
United States / New York
subjects:
choreography / Dance / Film (cinema) / Music / Dancers / Musicians / Artists / Artists' groups and associations / Collaborators / Poetry / Happenings / Interviews / Archives
Illustrations
Attributed works:
24. See-saw, by Simone Forti. 1960. Performed by Yvonne Rainer and Robert Morris at Reuben Gallery, New York, 16th–18th December 1960. (Photograph Robert R. McElroy Photographs of Happenings and Early Performance Art; Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles).
Attributed works:
25. The branch, by Anna Halprin. 1957. Performed by A.A. Leath, Anna Halprin ad Simone Forti on the Halprin’s family Dance Deck, Kentfield CA, 1957. Photograph Warner Jepson (Courtesy the Estate of Warner Jepson).
Attributed works:
26. We shall run, by Yvonne Rainer. 1963. Performed by Robert Rauschenberg, Joseph Schlichter (hidden), Sally Gross, Tony Holder, Deborah Hay, Yvonne Rainer, Alex Hay, Robert Morris (behind) and Lucinda Childs at Two Evenings of Dances by Yvonne Rainer at Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford CT, 7th March 1965. Photograph by Peter Moore (© Barbara Moore; courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York).
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).
Book Review
Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages. By Jack Hartnell
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 976-977
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Reviewer:
Bhalla, Niamh (Bhalla, Niamh)
Subjects
dates:
0200-0299 / 0300-0399 / 0400-0499 / 0500-0599 / 0600-0699 / 0700-0799 / 0800-0899 / 0900-0999 / 1000-1099 / 1100-1199 / 1200-1299 / 1300-1399 / 1400-1499 / 1500-1599
media:
Manuscripts / Drawings / Book illustrations / Art objects
places:
Europe
subjects:
Visual culture / Medicine / Philosophy / Theology / Art theory / Disease / Science / Relics / Treatises
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
2. Surgical instruments in use in an operation for an anal fistula. English, c.1475–1500. Pen and ink and tempera on vellum, 25.4 by 17.8 cm. (Glasgow University Library, MS Hunter 251 fol.43v; Bridgeman Images.)
Exhibition Review
Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art. Dallas Museum of Art
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 963-965
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Reviewer:
Silberman, Robert (Silberman, Robert; Silberman, Robert B.)
Subjects
art literature:
Friedman, Martin
artists:
Sheeler, Charles / O'Keeffe, Georgia / Demuth, Charles / Murphy, Gerald / Duchamp, Marcel / Schamberg, Morton Livingston / Picabia, Francis / Ault, George / Frankl, Paul / Carter, Clarence Holbrook / Gursky, Andreas / Struth, Thomas / Bourke-White, Margaret
artists:
Driggs, Elsie / Storrs, John Bradley
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Drawings / Prints / Photographs / Videos / Industrial design / Furniture / Art objects
museums and institutions:
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, United States / Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, United States
places:
United States / Dallas / Minneapolis
subjects:
American painting (United States of America) / Precisionism / Machine aesthetic / Digital technology / Cities / Popular culture / Abstract art / Modernism / Surrealism / Landscapes (visual works) / Geometry / Automobiles / Design / Workers
Illustrations
Attributed works:
16. Watch, by Gerald Murphy. 1925. Canvas, 199.4 by 200.4 cm. (Dallas Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
17. American landscape, by Charles Sheeler. 1930. Canvas, 61 by 78.8 cm. (Museum of Modern Art, New York; exh. Dallas Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
18. ‘Skyscraper’ bookcase, by Paul T. Frankl. c.1926. Lacquered wood and brass, 242.6 by 109.2 by 33 cm. (Minneapolis Institute of Art; exh. Dallas Museum of Art).
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