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Book Review
The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France
12/2021 | 1425 | 163
Pages: 1215
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Thomson, Richard (Thomson, Richard)
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The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France By James McAuley. 302 pp. incl. 30 col. + 47 b.& w. ills. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2021), £25. ISBN 978–0–300–23337–7. | :
Exhibition Review
A Rothschild Treasury. Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
11/2019 | 1400 | 161
Pages: 952-954
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Hall, Michael (Hall, Michael)
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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).
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15. Installation view of the Treasury, Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, 2019. (Photograph Mike Fear).
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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).
Book Review
A Rothschild Renaissance: A New Look at the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum. Edited by Pippa Shirley and Dora Thornton
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 878-879
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Kirchweger, Franz (Kirchweger, Franz)
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2. Miniature tabernacle, by workshop of Adam Dircksz. 1500–30, base 1562. Boxwood, 22.2 by 14.7 by 13 cm. (British Museum, London).
Exhibition Review
The Silver Caesars: A Renaissance Mystery. Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
07/2018 | 1384 | 160
Pages: 580-582
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Warren, Jeremy (Warren, Jeremy)
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5. Tazza with a figure of the Emperor Galba. Netherlands, c.1587–99. Gilded silver, height 43 cm. (Casa- Museu Medeiros e Almeida, Lisbon; exh. Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire).
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6. The dish from a tazza representing the Emperor Domitian. Netherlands, c.1587–99. Gilded silver, diameter 18 cm. (Minneapolis Institute of Art; exh. Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire).
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7. The Breda Cup, by Elias Marcus and Jeremias Maes. 1600. Gilded silver, height 61.5 cm. (Hohenlohe Museum, Schloss Neuenstein; exh. Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire).
Book Review
Les Rothschild: une dynastie de mécènes en France, 1873–2016. Edited by Pauline Prévost-Marcilhacy
08/2017 | 1373 | 159
Pages: 644-646
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Hall, Michael (Hall, Michael)
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50. Detail of mirror depicting Leda and the Swan, from the Boscoreale Treasure. Roman, 1st century AD (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
Book Review
A Rothschild Renaissance: Treasures from the Waddesdon Bequest, by D. Thornton
06/2016 | 1359 | 158
Pages: 464-465
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Schroder, Timothy (Schroder, Timothy)
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45. The Lyte Jewel. London, 1610-11. Enamelled gold and diamonds with pendant pearl, containing a miniature of James I by Nicholas Hilliard (Waddesdon Bequest, British Museum, London)
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‘The most perfect taste’: the Rothschild acquisitions at the Hamilton Palace sale of 1882
10/2015 | 1351 | 157
Pages: 691-699
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Maxwell, Christopher L. (Maxwell, Christopher L.)
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18. The approach to the north front of Hamilton Palace. Photograph by Thomas Annan, before 1882 (National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh)
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19. The new State drawing-room, Hamilton Palace. Photograph by Thomas Annan, before 1883 (National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh)
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20. Writing table, by Jean-Henri Riesener, Paris, c.1782 (The Rothschild Collection, Waddesdon Manor, National Trust)
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22. Drop-front secrétaire, by Jean-Henri Riesener, Paris, c.1777 (The Rothschild Collection, Waddesdon Manor, National Trust)
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23. Nautilus shell, carved by Cornelius van Bellekin. Amsterdam, before 1711. The gilt-bronze triton, probably England, c.1810-30 (The Rothschild Collection, Waddesdon Manor, National Trust)
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24. Commode, by Jean-Henri Riesener, Paris, c.1776 (The Rothschild Collection, Waddesdon Manor, National Trust)
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25. Lady Mary Villiers, later Duchess of Richmond and Lennox, with Charles Hamilton, Lord Annan, by Anthony van Dyck. c.1637 (North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh)
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27. Commode, one of a pair, from designs by André-Charles Boulle. Paris, c.1715 (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
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28. Commode, by Charles Cressent. Paris, c.1730 (The Rothschild Collection, Waddesdon Manor, National Trust)
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29. Ewer, the mounts after designs by François Boucher, with the mark of the Controller H. Louvet. France, 1734 (Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon)
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21. Lean-to secrétaire, Paris, c.1730-35 (The Rothschild Collection, Waddesdon Manor, National Trust)
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26. Tazza, carved in Byzantium in about tenth century, the mounts probably Spanish, sixteenth century, with English nineteenth-century additions (National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh)
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30. Standing cup and cover. Probably German, c.1882-1900 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
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Rediscovered photographs of two terracotta modelli by Verrocchio
11/2012 | 1316 | 154
Pages: 762-767
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Neilson, Christina (Neilson, Christina)
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10. Photograph of the modelli for the Youth with the salver and the Captain with the mace, by Andrea del Verrocchio, with an unidentified Bust of a woman in the centre. From Collection d'objets d'art du Baron Adolphe de Rothschild. Pregny, Geneva c.1910.
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11. Beheading of St John the Baptist, by Andrea del Verrocchio. 1477-78. Silver, 30.8 by 41.9 cm. (Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence).
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12. Detail of Fig.11, showing the Youth with the salver.
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13. Photograph of the Youth with the salver, by Andrea del Verocchio. 1477-78. Terracotta, 17 cm high. From the same publication as Fig. 10.
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14. Detail of Fig.11, showing the Captain with the mace.
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15. Photograph of the Captain with the mace, by Andrea del Verrocchio. 1477-78. Terracotta, 17 cm. high. From the same publication as Fig.10.
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16. Angel, by Andrea del Verrocchio or assistant. Terracotta, 37 by 34 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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17. Modello for the Executioner, by Andrea del Verrocchio. 1477-83. Terracotta, 23.7 cm. high. (Private collection).
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18. Detail of Fig.11, showing the Executioner.
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19. The silver altar for the Florentine Baptistry. 1366-1483. Silver, 115 by 263 cm.; side panels, 115 by 53 cm. (Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence).
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20. Detail of Fig.11, showing the head of the Captain with the mace.
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21. Modello for the Forteguerri cenotaph, by Andrea del Verrocchio. 1476. Terracotta with repairs in stucco and wax, 39.4 by 26.7 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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Two works by Chardin in the collection of Count Heinrich von Brühl
08/2008 | 1265 | 150
Pages: 529-533
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Burg, Tobias (Burg, Tobias)
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15. Count Heinrich von Brühl, by Jean-Jacques Balechou after Louis de Silvestre. 1750. Engraving, 53.5 by 39 cm. (Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden).
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16. Jakob von Stählin, by Daniel Berger. Engraving, 16.7 by 10.4 cm. (Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden).
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17. Girl with shuttlecock, by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin. 1737. Canvas, 81 by 65 cm. (Rothschild collection, Paris).
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18. The house of cards, by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin. c.1735. Canvas, 82 by 66 cm. (Andrew W. Mellon Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington).
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‘Others see it yet otherwise’: <i>disegno</i> and <i>pictura</i> in a Flemish gallery interior
02/2007 | 1247 | 149
Pages: 85-91
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Gorman, Michael John (Gorman, Michael John)
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Marr, Alexander (Marr, Alexander)
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19. The interior of a picture gallery with allegorical figures, by Adriaen van Stalbemt. Panel, 72.9 by 104.1 cm. (Whereabouts unknown).
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20. Detail from frontispiece of Tabulae Rudolphinae showing a portrait of Johannes Kepler, by Georg Celer. 1627. Engraving. (Courtesy of the Bundy Library, Cambridge, MA; now relocated to the Huntington Library, Pasadena).
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23. Portrait of Mutio Oddi, by Johannes Troschel. 1624. Engraving, from M. Oddi: Degli horologi solari, Milan 1614.
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24. Portrait of Mutio Oddi and Peter Linder, by Daniele Crespi. c.1625. Canvas. (Private collection, Milan).
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13.The interior of a picture gallery with personifications of Pictura and Disegno, by an anonymous Flemish painter. Late 1620s. Copper, 56.5 by 82.2 cm. (Private collection, New York).
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14. Detail of Fig.13 showing the Linder coat of arms.
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15. The Linder coat of arms. (From O. Neubecker: Grosses Wappen-Bilder-Lexikon der bürgerlichen Geschlechter Deutschlands, Österreichs und der Schweiz, Augsburg 1992, p.518).
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16. Portrait medal of Mutio Oddi. 1627. (From P.A. Gaetani: Museum Mazzuchellianum, seu numismata virorum doctrina praestantium, Venice 1761–63).
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17. Detail of Fig.13 showing portrait medal (top right) bearing the faint inscription ‘MUTUIS ODD . . . URB’.
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18. Detail of Fig.13 showing central octagonal table.
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21. Interior of a picture gallery, by an anonymous Flemish artist. Pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite, 39.7 by 60.6 cm. (Royal Collection, Windsor).
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22. Detail of Fig.13 showing double-portrait.
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