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Book Review
Great Irish Households: Inventories from the Long Eighteenth Century House and Home in Georgian Ireland: Spaces and Cultures of Domestic Life
09/2023 | 1446 | 165
Pages: 1038-40
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Reviewer:
Rowell, Christopher (Rowell, Christopher)
Subjects
subjects:
Irish architecture / Country houses / Domestic (house related concept) / Interiors / Inventories / Social history / Georgian / Buildings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Great Irish Households: Inventories from the Long Eighteenth Century Edited by Tessa Murdoch. 436 pp. incl. 18 col. + 41 b. & w. ills. (John Adamson, Cambridge, 2022), £75. ISBN 978–1–898565–17–8. | :
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House and Home in Georgian Ireland: Spaces and Cultures of Domestic Life Edited by Conor Lucey. 216 pp. incl. 95 col. ills. (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2022), £45. ISBN 978–1–80151–026–4. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Sir Neil O’Neill, by John Michael Wright. 1680. Oil on canvas, 232.7 by 163.2 cm. (Tate).
Exhibition Review
Museum of the Home
09/2021 | 1422 | 163
Pages: 858-861
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Reviewer:
Harrod, Tanya (Harrod, Tanya)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Museum of the Home (formerly Geffrye Museum), London, Great Britain
subjects:
Museums / Museum extensions / Museology / Museum policy / Displays / Interiors / Restoration (process) / Domestic (house related concept) / Social history / Slavery / Almshouses
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Museum of the Home London from 12th June | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
26. Installation view of A front room in 1976, curated by the playwright Michael McMillan, at the Museum of the Home, London, 2021 (photograph Em Fitzgerald).
Attributed works:
24. All I want is a room somewhere, by Jonathan Donovan. 2016. Digital print, 118.9 by 84.1 cm. (Museum of the Home, London).
Attributed works:
25. Installation view of Museum of the Home, London, showing a parlour in 1745 with evidence of cleaning (photograph Em Fitzgerald).
Book Review
Art and Masculinity in Post-War Britain: Reconstructing Home
08/2021 | 1421 | 163
Pages: 772-773
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Reviewer:
Ram, Rosie (Ram, Rosie)
Subjects
artists:
Bratby, John Randall / Bacon, Francis, 1909-1992 / Vaughan, Keith / Souza, F. N. / Pasmore, Victor / Gilbert & George
subjects:
British art / Queer theory / Gender studies / masculinities / Domestic (house related concept)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Art and Masculinity in Post-War Britain: Reconstructing Home By Gregory Salter. 224 pp. incl. 29 b. & w. ills. (Routledge, Abingdon-on-Thames, 2019), £90. ISBN 978–1–350–05272–7. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Man in Blue IV, by Francis Bacon. 1954. Oil on canvas, 198 by 137 cm. (Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; © Estate of Francis Bacon; DACS / Artimage 2021; photograph Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd).
Article
Battening spalliera paintings: reflections on twenty-five years of research
01/2020 | 1402 | 162
Pages: 37-45
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Author:
Barriault, Anne B. (Barriault, Anne B.)
Subjects
artists:
Botticelli, Sandro / Piero di Cosimo / Ghirlandaio, Domenico
dates:
1490-1519 / 1990-2009 / 2010-2019
subjects:
Spalliere / Cassoni / Tuscany / Panel paintings / Italian art / Domestic (house related concept)
subjects:
Renaissance art / Art historiography / Technical analysis / Furniture / Interiors / Palaces / Inventories
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Story of Virginia, by Sandro Botticelli. c.1500. Oil and tempera on panel, 86 by 165 cm. (Accademia Carrara, Bergamo).
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10. Fight between the Lapiths and centaurs, by Piero di Cosimo. c.1500–15. Oil on panel, 71 by 260 cm. (National Gallery, London).
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2. Story of Lucretia, by Sandro Botticelli. c.1500. Oil and tempera on panel, 83.8 cm by 176.8 cm. (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston).
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3. Episodes from the life of Alexander the Great, by the workshop of Ghirlandaio. 1493–94. Tempera on panel, 76 by 229.5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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4. Julius Caesar and the crossing of the Rubicon, by the workshop of Ghirlandaio. 1493–94. Tempera and gold on panel, 73.5 by 170 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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5. The story of Griselda: Part one, marriage, by the Master of the Story of Griselda. c.1494. Oil and tempera on panel, 61.6 by 154.3 cm. (National Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
6. The back of the panel illustrated in Fig.5, showing vertical battens used to stabilise the panel and/or attach it to its setting. (National Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
7. Alexander the Great, by the Master of the Story of Griselda. c.1500. Tempera on panel, 105.4 by 50.8 cm. (The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham).
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8. Claudia Quinta, by Neroccio de’ Landi and the Master of the Story of Griselda. c.1493–94. Tempera on panel, 104 by 46 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Attributed works:
9. Detail of Fig.10, showing Hylonome and Cylarus.
Book Review
The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy. By Abigail Brundin, Deborah Howard and Mary Laven
06/2019 | 1395 | 161
Pages: 522-523
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Reviewer:
Thornton, Dora (Thornton, Dora)
Subjects
subjects:
Ex-votos / Amulets / Devotional images / Domestic (house related concept) / Renaissance Italy
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy By Abigail Brundin, Deborah Howard and Mary Laven. 400 pp. incl. over 200 b. & w. ills. (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2018), | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. Woman at her devotions, by Leandro Bassano. c.1590–1600. Canvas, 105 by 88.5 cm. (Private collection).
Exhibition Review
Piety at home in Renaissance Italy. Cambridge
06/2017 | 1371 | 159
Pages: 495-497
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Reviewer:
Stemp, Richard (Stemp, Richard)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Great Britain
places:
Cambridge / England
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Devotional images / Art objects / Decorative arts / Domestic (house related concept) / Renaissance
Illustrations
Attributed works:
52. Annunciation to the shepherds and the adoration of the magi, attributed to Giovanni di Nicola di Manzoni dal Colle. c.1509-15 (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
Western art unattributed:
53. Knife inscribed with musical notation. France (possibly) for use in Italy. Sixteenth century (Musée National de la Renaissance, Château d'Ecouen; exh. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
Western art unattributed:
54. Virgin and Child. Umbria, possibly Orvieto. c.1350-1450 (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
Western art unattributed:
55. Comb with The Annunciation. Italy, France or Flanders? c.1450-1500 (Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin; exh. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
Book Review
Touching Objects: Intimate Experiences of Italian Fifteenth-Century Art, by Adrian W.B. Randolph
09/2016 | 1362 | 158
Pages: 738
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Reviewer:
Johnson, Geraldine A. (Johnson, Geraldine A.)
Subjects
dates:
1400-1499
subjects:
Art objects / Boxes / Birth-plates / Cassoni / Domestic (house related concept) / Renaissance / Iconography / Italian painting / Women / Social history
Illustrations
Attributed works:
38. Portrait of a Lady known as Smeralda Bandinelli, by Sandro Botticelli. 1470-80 (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Book Review
Il Sole in Casa. La vita quotidiana nella ceramica popolare ­italiana dal XVI al XXI secolo, E. Borsook, R.C. Proto Pisani and B. Teodori, eds.
01/2016 | 1354 | 158
Pages: 040
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Reviewer:
Sani, Elisa Paola (Sani, Elisa Paola)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Museo di Palazzo Davanzati, Florence, Italy
subjects:
Exhibition catalogues / Ceramics / Italian / Domestic (house related concept) / Tuscan
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
50. Salt cellar in the shape of a woman. From San Quirico d'Orcia, Tuscany. Eighteenth century (Private collection, Florence)
Article
Power and plate: Sir Robert Walpole’s silver
05/2015 | 1346 | 157
Pages: 318-324
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Author:
Murdoch, Tessa (Murdoch, Tessa)
Subjects
artists:
Lamerie, Paul de / Wickes, George / Lukin, William
buildings:
Houghton Hall, nr. Kings Lynn, Great Britain
collectors and dealers:
Walpole, Robert, First Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
dates:
1700-1749
subjects:
Silverwork / Estate inventories / Dinner services / Candelabras (candleholders) / Salvers / Domestic (house related concept) / Art dealers / Goldsmiths / Account books
subjects:
Tureens / Silver plate / Candleholders / Candlesticks / Decorative arts
Illustrations
Attributed works:
18. Wine cooler. Britannia standard, one of a pair, marked for the London goldsmith William Lukin (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
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19. Candelabra. One of a pair supplied by Paul de Lamerie (The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
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20. Soup tureen. Supplied as a matching pair to that made by Paul Crespin by George Wickes (Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery)
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21. Bread basket. Supplied by Paul de Lamerie (The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
Attributed works:
22. Exchequer seal salver. Britannia standard, marked by Paul de Lamerie (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
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23. The Stature of a Great Man, or the English Colossus, by George Bickham the Younger (British Museum, London)
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24. Scale drawing for a silver chandelier, possibly from the workshop of Paul de Lamerie (The Marquess of Cholmondeley, Houghton Hall)
Attributed works:
25. Two alternate designs for a silver chandelier crowned with an Earl's coronet and incorporating the Walpole family crest, a Saracen's head, ducally crowned, supplied by George Wickes
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26. A pull of the engraving of the circular Exchequer seal salver, supplied by William Lukin, engraved by Joseph Sympson (British Museum, London)
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27. 'Treasury' inkstand. Britannia standard, supplied by Paul de Lamerie
Book Review
Citizen Portrait: Portrait Painting and the Urban Elite of Tudor and Jacobean England and Wales
01/2013 | 1318 | 150
Pages: 33-34
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Reviewer:
Goldring, Elizabeth (Goldring, Elizabeth)
Subjects
dates:
1550-1649
places:
Scotland / England
subjects:
British painting / Portraits / English / Sitters / Commissions / Domestic (house related concept)
subjects:
Tudor / Jacobean
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
41. Serjeant William Lovelace, by an unknown English artist (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)
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