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A newly discovered cabinet miniature by Nicholas Hilliard
04/2024 | 1453 | 166
Pages: 340–347
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Goldring, Elizabeth (Goldring, Elizabeth)
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Rutherford, Emma (Rutherford, Emma)
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1. A lady, here identified as Lady Arbella Stuart, by Nicholas Hilliard. 1592. Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum, stuck down on card, 21.1 by 17.6 cm. (Private collection).
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2. Elizabeth I (the Ditchley Portrait), by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger. c.1592. Oil on canvas, 241.3 by 152.4 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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3. Elizabeth I (an example of the ‘mask of youth’), by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1592–1603. Watercolour on vellum, 6.5 by 5.3 cm. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London).
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4. Detail of Fig.1, showing the floral wreath.
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5. Detail of Fig.1, showing the gold armillary spheres decorating the gown.
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6. A girl, said to depict Lady Arbella Stuart at the age of twenty-three months, by an unknown artist. ?1577. Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 75.1 by 61.5 cm. (National Trust; Hardwick New Hall, Derbyshire).
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7. A girl, said to depict Lady Arbella Stuart at the age of thirteen, by an unknown artist. ?1589. Oil on panel, 162.6 by 87.6 cm. (National Trust; Hardwick New Hall, Derbyshire).
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8. Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1595. Watercolour on vellum, 25.7 by 17.3 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
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9. Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, by the Hilliard workshop. c.1595. Watercolour on vellum, 5.2 by 6.4 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
Article
Cross-cultural diplomacy: a Safavid shield in the Medici armoury
10/2022 | 1435 | 164
Pages: 968-975
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Rokhgar, Negar Sarah (Rokhgar, Negar Sarah)
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4. Detail of the painted ceiling in the Sala dell’Armeria (Room 21), Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence, depicting a Persian soldier by Ludovico Buti. 1588–89. (Photograph the author).
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6. Medusa, by Caravaggio. 1595–98. Oil on canvas applied on a wooden shield, 60 by 55 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence).
Non-western art unattributed:
1. Shield. Persia, late 16th century. Gold damascened steel, Indian cane, silk, mother-of-pearl, leather and velvet, diameter 64.5 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Non-western art unattributed:
2. Detail of Fig.1, showing figures serving food to an authority on a higher seat.
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Detail of Fig.1, showing men on horseback and on foot using spears and arrows to hunt lions.
Non-western art unattributed:
5. Silk fragment with a figured motif. Yazd, Persia, late 16th or early 17th century. Silk lampas, 70.5 by 36 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Non-western art unattributed:
7. Shield. Persia, 17th century. Indian cane covered with silk, metal umbo painted in black with golden arabesque engravings and originally embellished with turquoises and other precious stones, 20 by 62 cm. (Palazzo Ducale, Venice).
Non-western art unattributed:
8. Tray with a scene of lovers in a pavilion. Gujarat, late 16th or early 17th century. Mother-of-pearl and lacquer on wood, diameter 43.5 cm. (Aga Khan Museum, Toronto).
Article
A rediscovered drawing by Hendrick Goltzius
05/2022 | 1430 | 164
Pages: 444-449
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Difuria, Arthur J. (Difuria, Arthur J.)
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Silver, Larry (Silver, Larry)
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11. Detail of Fig.1, showing the hatching in the horse’s chin.
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12. Detail of Fig.8, showing the hatching beneath Hercules’ buttocks.
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13. Farnese Hercules, rear view, by Hendrick Goltzius. 1617. Pen and ink on paper, 41.9 by 30.3 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
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14. ‘Opus Praxitelis’: one of the Dioscuri of the Quirinal Hill, Rome, by Hendrick Goltzius. 1591. Red chalk on paper, 37.8 by 32.6 cm. (Teylers Museum, Haarlem).
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15. Detail of Fig.14, showing the vein in the horse’s right flank.
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16. Detail of Fig.13, showing the hatching in the buttocks.
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17. Marcus Aurelius equestrian monument, Rome, by Hendrick Goltzius. 1591. Black and white chalk on blue paper, 36.8 by 30.5 cm. (Teylers Museum, Haarlem).
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18. Detail of Fig.17, showing the reinforced outlines.
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19. Marcus Aurelius equestrian monument, Rome, by Hendrick Goltzius. 1591. Red chalk on paper, 40.9 by 31 cm. (Teylers Museum, Haarlem).
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2. Horse’s head, Marcus Aurelius equestrian monument, Rome, here attributed to Hendrick Goltzius. After 1591. Red chalk on paper, 44.5 by 28.7 cm. (excluding border). (Private collection).
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20 and 21. Details of Fig.19, showing passages of unblended hatching.
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3. Goltzius’s right hand, by Hendrick Goltzius. 1591. Red chalk on paper, 36.9 by 18.6 cm. (Teylers Museum, Haarlem).
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4. Detail of Fig.1, showing the horse’s vein and eyeball.
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5. Farnese Hercules, rear view, by Hendrick Goltzius. 1591. Black and white chalk on blue paper, 36.2 by 21 cm. (Teylers Museum, Haarlem).
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6 and 7. Details of Fig.5, showing Hercules’ left thigh and calf.
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8. Farnese Hercules, rear view, by Hendrick Goltzius. 1591. Red chalk, 38.9 by 21.3 cm. (Teylers Museum, Haarlem).
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9 and 10. Details of Fig.8, showing the hatching in Hercules’ shoulder blades and back.
Western art unattributed:
1. Detail of the horse’s head, Marcus Aurelius equestrian monument. Rome, AD 161. Bronze, height 424 cm. (Musei Capitolini, Rome).
Article
Adam Elsheimer’s ‘The martyrdom of St Lawrence’ rediscovered
02/2021 | 1415 | 163
Pages: 108-118
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Seifert, Tico (Seifert, Tico )
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1. The martyrdom of St Lawrence, by Adam Elsheimer. c.1599. Oil on copper, 31.5 by 24 cm. (Private collection).
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10. Jacob’s dream, by Adam Elsheimer. c.1598–99. Oil on copper, 19.5 by 26.1 cm. (Städel Museum, Frankfurt).
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10. Jacob’s dream, by Adam Elsheimer. c.1598–99. Oil on copper, 19.5 by 26.1 cm. (Städel Museum, Frankfurt).
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11. The conversion of Saul, by Adam Elsheimer. c.1598–99. Oil on copper, 19.7 by 25.1 cm. (Städel Museum, Frankfurt).
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12. The Flood, by Adam Elsheimer. c.1599. Oil on copper, 26.5 by 34.8 cm. (Städel Museum, Frankfurt).
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13 and 14. Details of Figs.1 and 9, showing foliage. 15 and 16. Details of Figs.11 and 10, showing foliage. 17. Detail of Fig.1, showing a man’s head lit by embers. 18 and 19. Details from Fig.1, showing figures in the background.
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2. The martyrdom of St Lawrence, by Titian. c.1548–57. Oil on canvas, transferred from panel, 493 by 277 cm. (S. Maria Assunta dei Gesuiti, Venice).
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20. Detail of Fig.2, showing figures on the stairs in the background.
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21. Detail of The exaltation of the Cross, by Adam Elsheimer, showing figures in the clouds. c.1603–05. Oil on copper, 48.5 by 35 cm. (Städel Museum, Frankfurt).
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22. Detail of Fig.1, showing marks in the underpaint, probably from the heel of the artist’s hand.
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23. Detail of Fig.1, showing the reserve at the top of the painting.
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24. Detail of Fig.11, showing the light breaking through clouds.
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25. The witch, by Adam Elsheimer, after Albrecht Dürer. c.1596–97. Oil on copper, 13.6 by 9.9 cm. (Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2021).
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26. The witch, by Albrecht Dürer. c.1500. Engraving, 11.6 by 7.2 cm. (British Museum, London).
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3. The martyrdom of St Lawrence, by Cornelis Cort, after Titian. 1571. Engraving, 48.5 by 34 cm. (British Museum, London).
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4. Detail of Fig.1, showing pentimenti around the figure of St Lawrence.
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5. Detail of Fig.1, showing the boy with a dog.
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6. Detail of Heraclius carrying the Cross, by Adam Elsheimer, showing a mother with her children. c.1603–05. Oil on copper, 22.6 by 15 cm. (Städel Museum, Frankfurt).
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7. The baptism of Christ, by Adam Elsheimer. c.1599. Oil on copper, 28.1 by 21 cm. (National Gallery, London).
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8. St Lawrence prepared for martyrdom, by Adam Elsheimer. c.1600–01. Oil on copper, 26.7 by 20.6 cm. (National Gallery, London; Bridgeman Images).
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9. St Christopher, by Adam Elsheimer. c.1599. Oil on copper, 22.5 by 17.5 cm. (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg).
Article
Caravaggio’s other ‘Judith and Holofernes’
09/2019 | 1398 | 161
Pages: 716-731
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Gash, John (Gash, John)
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1. Detail of Fig.3, showing the heads of Abra, Judith and Holofernes.
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14. X-radiograph showing the head of Goliath in David with the head of Goliath, by Caravaggio, 1601/03. Oil on canvas, 110.4 by 91.3 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
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15. Detail of Fig.3, showing the pommel of Judith’s sword. 16. Detail of Beheading of St John the Baptist, by Caravaggio, showing the executioner’s face. 1608. Oil on canvas, 520 by 360 cm. (Oratory of Saint John’s co-cathedral, Valletta; Bridgeman Images). 17. Detail of St Francis in meditation, by Caravaggio. c.1607–09. Oil on canvas, 128 by 90 cm. (Museo Civico Ala Ponzone, Cremona; Bridgeman Images).
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18. Detail of Fig.3, showing the sheet. 19. Detail of Fig.3, showing Abra’s tassel and hand. 20. Detail of Fig.4, showing Christ’s loincloth.
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2. Judith beheading Holofernes, after Caravaggio. c.1607. Oil on canvas, 140 by 161 cm. (Collezione Banca Intesa Sanpaolo, Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, Naples).
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21. Grand Master Alof de Wignacourt with his page, by Caravaggio. Probably 1607. Oil on canvas, 194 by 134 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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22. Detail of Fig.3, showing the arms and upper body of Holofernes. 23. Detail of Flagellation of Christ, by Caravaggio. 1607. Oil on canvas, 286 by 213 cm. (S. Domenico Maggiore, Naples, on loan to the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples). 24. X-radiograph of the face of Holofernes in the painting illustrated in Fig.1, realigned vertically. 25. David with the head of Goliath, by Caravaggio. c.1606–07. Oil on poplar wood, 90.5 by 116.5 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; Bridgeman Images).
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26. Right Detail of Fig.3, showing Judith’s cuff. 27. Detail of Seven works of mercy, by Caravaggio, showing Samson drinking from the jawbone of an ass and, far right, St Martin. 1606–07. Oil on canvas, 390 by 260 cm. (Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples; Bridgeman Images). 28. Detail of Seven works of mercy, by Caravaggio, showing Pero suckling her father. 1606–07. Oil on canvas, 390 by 260 cm. (Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples; Bridgeman Images).
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29. Salome with the head of St John the Baptist, by Caravaggio. c.1607. Oil on canvas, 116 by 140 cm. (Palacio Real, Madrid; © Patrimonio Nacional).
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3. Judith beheading Holofernes, here attributed to Caravaggio and dated 1607. Oil on canvas, 144 by 173.5 cm. (Private collection).
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4. Flagellation of Christ, by Caravaggio. c.1607. Oil on canvas, 134 by 175 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen).
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5. Judith beheading Holofernes, by Caravaggio. c.1602 or 1598/1600. Canvas, 145 by 195 cm. (Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica; Palazzo Barberini, Rome).
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6. Detail of Fig.3, showing the bedcurtain.
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7. The toothpuller, by Caravaggio. 1608–10. Oil on canvas, 140 by 195 cm. (Palazzo Pitti, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
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8. Detail of Fig.3, showing Holofernes’s head.
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9. Detail of Fig.3, showing the faces of Abra and Judith. 10. X-radiograph of Fig.3, showing the faces of Abra and Judith. 11. Infra-red reflectogram of Fig.3, showing the faces of Abra and Judith. 12. X-radiograph of Fig.3. 13. Infra-red reflectogram of Fig.3.
Article
Caravaggio’s ‘Crucifixion of St Andrew’ and the problem of autograph replicas
06/2018 | 1383 | 160
Pages: 454-461
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Spear, Richard E. (Spear, Richard E.)
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1. Detail of Fig.3, showing the soldier’s armour.
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2. Detail of Fig.4, showing the soldier’s armour.
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3. Crucifixion of St Andrew, by Caravaggio. 1606–07. Canvas, 202.5 by 152.7 cm. (Cleveland Museum of Art; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1976.2).
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4. Crucifixion of St Andrew, here identified as a copy after Caravaggio. Canvas, 198 by 148.5 cm. (Spier Collection, London).
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5. Detail of Fig.3, showing St Andrew’s head.
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6. Detail of Fig.4, showing St Andrew’s head.
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7. Detail of Fig.3, showing St Andrew’s right foot (Photograph author).
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8. Detail of Fig.4, showing St Andrew’s right foot (Photograph author)
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9. Overlay of the contours of Flagellation, by Caravaggio (Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples) in green, onto a copy of Flagellation in S. Domenico Maggiore, Naples, in red. From G.S. Ghia and C. Strinati, eds.: Caravaggio nel patrimonio del Fondo Edifici di Culto. Il Doppio e la Copia, Rome 2017.
Article
Montemezzano in Lancashire
01/2017 | 1366 | 159
Pages: 25-28
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Pozzolo, Enrico Maria dal (Pozzolo, Enrico Maria dal)
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24. Lamentation with three donors, by Francesco Montemezzano. c.1590s (Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)
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25. Lamentation, by Francesco Montemezzano. c.1590s (Private collection, Padua)
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26. Lamentation, by Francesco Montemezzano. c.1590s (Tambov Regional Art Gallery)
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27. Lamentation over the dead Christ, decent from the Cross, by Francesco Montemezzano (St John the Baptist, Tunstall; photograph Simon Gillespie Studio, London)
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28. Giacomo Regazzoni receives the privilege of adding the Tudor rose to his coat of arms from Mary Tudor, by Francesco Montemezzano. 1583 (Palazzo Regazzoni-Flangini-Billia, Sacile)
Article
Giovanni Bandini's bronze Crucifix and candlesticks made for Urbino Cathedral
11/2016 | 1364 | 158
Pages: 870-878
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Principi, Lorenzo (Principi, Lorenzo)
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10. Detail of a candlestick illustrated in Fig.8
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11. Detail of a candlestick illustrated in Fig.8
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12. Detail of a candlestick illustrated in Fig.8
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13. Detail of Fig.9
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14. Detail of Fig.17
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15. Detail of Fig.9
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16. Detail of Fig.17
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17. Detail of the Pietà, by Giovanni Bandini. 1585-88 (Oratorio della Grotta, Urbino)
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18. Crucifix, by Giovanni Bandini. 1579-89 (S. Marco, Florence)
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19. Detail of The Last Supper, by Federico Barocci. 1590-99 (Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta, Urbino)
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8. Crucifix and a set of six candlesticks, by Giovanni Bandini. 1589-92 (Museo Diocesano Albani, Urbino)
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9. Detail of the Crucifix illustrated in Fig.8
Article
A Renaissance Spanish knight in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
11/2016 | 1364 | 158
Pages: 864-869
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Pérez-Martin, Sergio (Pérez-Martin, Sergio)
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Vasallo-Toranzo, Luis (Vasallo-Toranzo, Luis)
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1. Funerary statue of Alonso de Mera, by Juan de Montejo. 1594 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
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3. Reconstruction of the monument to Alonso de Mera, by Antonio Falcote and Juan de Montejo (Drawing by M.A.M. Bailón)
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4. Detail from the tomb of Simón de Galarza and Antonia Rodríguez, by Juan de Montejo. c.1583 (Convent of Discalced Carmelites, Alba de Tormes)
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5. Detail of St Joseph from the Nativity of Christ, by Juan de Montejo. c.1598 (Chapel of Cardinal Mella, Zamora Cathedral)
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6. Detail of Fig.1
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7. Pediment of the tomb with two cherubs holding an oval shield bearing the arms of Alonso de Mera, by Juan de Montejo. 1594 (Whereabouts unknown; photograph courtesy of J. Navarro)
Western art unattributed:
2. Collection card N4831 for the funerary statue of Alonso de Mera, from the records of the Brummer Gallery, New York. Before 28th November 1940 (Digital copy in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Thomas J. Watson Library)
Article
A rediscovered ‘St Jerome’ on copper by Guido Reni and its early provenance
08/2016 | 1361 | 158
Pages: 610-615
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Biffis, Mattia (Biffis, Mattia)
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12. St Jerome with two angels in a landscape, by Guido Reni. c.1600 (Private collection, New York)
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13. Assumption of the Virgin, by Guido Reni. 1600 (Parish church, Pieve di Cento)
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14. St Francis consoled by the musician angel, by Guido Reni (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna)
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15. Assumption of the Virgin, by Guido Reni. c.1596-97 (Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main)
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