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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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Reviewer:
Kunz, Armin (Kunz, Armin)
Subjects
artists:
Dürer, Albrecht
patrons:
Heller, Jakob / Fugger, Hans, 1531-1626
subjects:
Taste (aesthetics) / Material culture (genre) / Patronage / German art
Reviewed Items
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
Louis XV: passions d’un roi
05/2024 | 1454 | 166
Pages: 508–510
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Reviewer:
Vogtherr, Christoph Martin (Vogtherr, Christoph Martin)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
dates:
1720-1729 / 1730-1739 / 1740-1749 / 1750-1759 / 1750-1779
museums and institutions:
Château de Versailles, Versailles, France
subjects:
French art / French decorative art / Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774 / Palaces / Taste (aesthetics) / Biographies / Libraries / Science / Theatre (discipline) / Architectural history / Furniture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Louis XV: passions d’un roi Edited by Yves Carlier and Hélène Delalex. 496 pp. incl. 458 col. + b. & w. ills. (In Fine Éditions d’Art, Paris, 2022), €49. ISBN 978–2–38203–076–9. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Floorplan of the telescope pavilion, château de la Muette. 1756. Pen, ink and red wash on paper. (Archives nationales, Paris).
Attributed works:
2. Louis XV, by Arnaud Vincent de Montpetit. 1774. Oil on canvas, 74 by 61.2 cm. (Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, Versailles).
Attributed works:
3. Project for the throne of Louis XV, by Sébastien- Antoine Slodtz and Paul-Ambroise Slodtz. 1752. Pen, ink and wash highlights over black pencil, 67.1 by 47.2 cm. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
Book Review
Eleonora di Toledo e l’invenzione della corte dei Medici a Firenze
05/2024 | 1454 | 166
Pages: 510–512
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Reviewer:
Sterpetti, Lunarita (Sterpetti, Lunarita)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
dates:
1520-1549 / 1550-1559
museums and institutions:
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
patrons:
Eleanor of Toledo, Duchess of Florence, 1522-1562
places:
Florence
subjects:
Italian art / Patronage / Commissions / Taste (aesthetics)
subjects:
Collecting / Collections
subjects:
Medici family
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Eleonora di Toledo e l’invenzione della corte dei Medici a Firenze Edited by Bruce Edelstein and Valentina Conticelli. 432 pp. incl. 390 col. + b. & w. ills. (Sillabe, Livorno, 2023), €35. ISBN 978–88–3340–347–2. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Deposition, by Gérard David. 1515–20. Oil on panel, 20 by 14 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence).
Attributed works:
5. Deity mask. Mexico, late 15th–early 16th century. Wood, resin, turquoise and motherof- pearl, 24 by 14.5 by 1.35 cm. (Museo delle Civiltà, Rome).
Book Review
The Tastemakers: British Dealers and the Anglo-Gallic Interior, 1785–1865
07/2021 | 1420 | 163
Pages: 640-642
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Reviewer:
Bird, Rufus (Bird, Rufus)
Subjects
places:
France / England
subjects:
Interiors / Furniture / Collecting / Art dealers / Decorative arts
subjects:
Taste (aesthetics)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Tastemakers: British Dealers and the Anglo-Gallic Interior, 1785–1865 By Diana Davis. 320 pp. incl. 60 col. + 64 b. & w. ills. (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2020), £50. ISBN 978–1–60606–641–6. | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
6. The Elizabeth Saloon, Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire. (Bridgeman Images).
Book Review
A Rare Treatise on Interior Decoration and Architecture: Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz’s ‘Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leading Nations’
08/2020 | 1409 | 162
Pages: 718-719
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Reviewer:
Koot, Geert-Jan (Koot, Geert-Jan)
Subjects
artists:
Racknitz, Joseph Friedrich zu
patrons:
Friedrich August III, Elector of Saxony
places:
Dresden
subjects:
Interiors / German architecture / Taste (aesthetics)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
A Rare Treatise on Interior Decoration and Architecture: Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz’s ‘Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leading Nations’ Edited and translated by Simon Swynfen Jervis. 368 pp. incl. 59 col. + 58 b. & w. ills. (Getty Publications, Los Angeles, 2020), £65. ISBN 978–1–60606–624–9. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Arabesque taste, from J.F. zu Racknitz: Darstellung und Geschichte des Geschmacks der vorzüglichsten Völker , Leipzig 1796–99. Coloured engraving, 34 by 45 cm.
Exhibition Review
Their Majesties’ Retiring Room. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; and A Painting for a Nation: The Execution of Torrijos. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
08/2019 | 1397 | 161
Pages: 673-676
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Reviewer:
Lee, Simon (Lee, Simon)
Subjects
artists:
Gisbert, Antonio
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain
patrons:
Ferdinand VII, King of Spain
subjects:
House of Bourbon / Royalty / Politics / Interiors / Taste (aesthetics) / Spanish art
subjects:
Torrijos, General José María
Illustrations
Attributed works:
11. Installation view of Their Majesties’ Retiring Room at the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, showing on the left wall The family of Philip V, by Louis- Michel van Loo. (Photograph Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
Attributed works:
12. The execution of Torrijos and his companions on the beach at Málaga, by Antonio Gisbert. 1888. Oil on canvas, 390 by 601 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
Attributed works:
13. Study for The execution of Torrijos and his companions on the beach at Málaga, by Antonio Gisbert. 1886–87. Charcoal, white chalk and pencil on paper, 82 by 133 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
Book Review
Wallpapers at Temple Newsam 1635 to the Present, A. Wells-Cole and B. Walker
05/2019 | 1394 | 161
Pages: 442-443
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Reviewer:
Hoskins, Lesley (Hoskins, Lesley)
Subjects
dates:
1630-1669 / 1660-1719 / 1700-1799 / 1800-1899 / 1900-1999 / 2000-2009 / 2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Temple Newsam House, Leeds, Great Britain
subjects:
Wallpaper / Taste (aesthetics)
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
5. Wallpaper fragment. c.1720. Coarse handmade paper grounded in yellow, stencilled in pale pink and block-printed in deep pink, 18.4 by 59.7 cm. (Temple Newsam, Leeds).
Book Review
William Morris and his Palace of Art: Architecture, Interiors and Design at Red House
04/2019 | 1393 | 161
Pages: 353-354
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Reviewer:
Cooper, Nicholas (Cooper, Nicholas)
Subjects
artists:
Morris, William / Webb, Philip, 1831-1915
buildings:
Red House, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Architectural history / Interior design / Decorative arts / Taste (aesthetics) / Culture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
William Morris and his Palace of Art: Architecture, Interiors and Design at Red House By Tessa Wild. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. A digital reconstruction of the original decoration in the drawing room at Red House, London. (Image John Tredinnick).
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
The Orléans Collection. New Orleans Museum of Art
01/2019 | 1390 | 161
Pages: 67-69
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Reviewer:
Zafran, Eric (Zafran, Eric)
Subjects
art literature:
Haskell, Francis / Dante Alighieri / Cervantes, Miguel de
artists:
Dieu, Antoine / Santerre, Jean-Baptiste / Coypel, Antoine / Coypel, Noël-Nicolas / Poussin, Nicolas / Le Sueur, Eustache / Sebastiano del Piombo / Veronese, Paolo / Andrea del Sarto / Giulio Romano / Vasari, Giorgio / Carracci, Lodovico / Domenichino / Albani, Francesco / Reni, Guido / Holbein, Hans the Younger, ca. 1497-1543 / Dürer, Albrecht / Rubens, Peter Paul / Dyck, Anthony van / Rembrandt van Rijn / Schalcken, Godfried / Dou, Gerrit
collectors and dealers:
Crozat, Pierre, 1661–1740
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Sculpture / Drawings / Sketches
museums and institutions:
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, United States
patrons:
Philippe II, duc d'Orléans, 1674–1723 / Christina, Queen of Sweden
places:
United States / New Orleans
subjects:
Collections / Collecting / Collections, Private / Patronage / Commissions / Exhibition catalogues / Inventories / Portraits / Allegories / Taste (aesthetics) / Connoisseurship / Religious art / Iconography / Christian iconography / Classical mythology / Classical literature / Aeneid / Eroticism / Baroque / Renaissance / Northern European / Eclecticism / Study and teaching
Illustrations
Attributed works:
13. The Meeting of David and Abigail, by Guido Reni. c.1615–20, Canvas, 155.5 by 163.8 cm. (Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk VA; exh. New Orleans Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
14. Allegory of Philippe II, duc d’Orléans, Regent of the Realm, by Antoine Dieu. 1718. Canvas, 106 by 77 cm. (Musée National du Château de Versailles; exh. New Orleans Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
15. Preciosa recognised, by Godfried Schalcken. Late 1660s. Panel, 44.2 by 31.2 cm. (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin; exh. New Orleans Museum of Art).
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