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Book Review
Kunstkammer: Early Modern Art and Curiosity Cabinets in the Holy Roman Empire
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 976-7
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Reviewer:
Sandbichler, Veronika (Sandbichler, Veronika)
Subjects
dates:
1550-1649
places:
Munich / Innsbruck / Dresden / Prague / Graz / Stuttgart / Kassel
subjects:
Kunstkammer / Cabinets of curiosities
subjects:
Collecting / Collectors
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subjects:
Kunstkammer: Early Modern Art and Curiosity Cabinets in the Holy Roman Empire By Jeffrey Chipps Smith. 319 pp. incl. 179 col. + 10 b. & w. ills. (Reaktion Books, London, 2022), £35. ISBN 978–1–78914–612–7. | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
3. Cabinet of Archduke Ferdinand II. Nuremberg or Mantua, c.1582. Ebony, maple, walnut and silver, 75 by 62 by 45 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
Book Review
Tudor Liveliness: Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England
03/2024 | 1452 | 166
Pages: 326–327
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Reviewer:
Goldring, Elizabeth (Goldring, Elizabeth)
Subjects
dates:
1520-1549 / 1550-1649
subjects:
English art / Tudor / Stuart
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Tudor Liveliness: Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England By Christina J. Faraday. 198 pp. incl. 120 col. + 4 b. & w. ills. (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, 2023), £45. ISBN 978–1–913107–37–6. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Unknown man clasping a hand from a cloud, by Nicholas Hilliard. 1588. Watercolour on vellum mounted on brown card, height 6 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Bridgeman Images).
Book Review
A Companion to Early Modern Rome 1492–1692. Edited by Pamela M. Jones, Barbara Wisch and Simon Ditchfield
01/2020 | 1402 | 162
Pages: 76-77
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Reviewer:
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
Subjects
dates:
1490-1549 / 1550-1649 / 1650-1699
places:
Rome / Rome (historical region)
subjects:
Art / Architectural history / Music / Urban planning / Italian Renaissance architecture / Renaissance Italy / Baroque / Churches / Palaces / Villas / Collecting / Art market
subjects:
Popes
Reviewed Items
subjects:
A Companion to Early Modern Rome 1492–1692 Edited by Pamela M. Jones, Barbara Wisch and Simon Ditchfield. 653 pp. incl. 29 col. + 90 b. & w. ills. (Brill, Leiden, 2019), £155. ISBN 978–90–04–39195–6. | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
3. Corpus Christi procession in St Peter’s Square at the time of Pope Innocent X. c.1646. Oil on canvas, 101.5 by 86.5 cm. (Palazzo Braschi, Rome).
Book Review
Mughal Occidentalism: Artistic Encounters between Europe and Asia at the Courts of India, 1580–1630. By Mika Natif
12/2019 | 1401 | 161
Pages: 1065-1066
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Reviewer:
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
Subjects
dates:
1550-1649
subjects:
Mughal School / Europe / Paintings / Miniatures (paintings) / Western painting / Indo-Persian School
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subjects:
Mughal Occidentalism: Artistic Encounters between Europe and Asia at the Courts of India, 1580–1630 By Mika Natif. 310 pp. incl. 100 ills. (Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2018), £99. ISBN 978–90–04–37499–7. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Seated European nude man, attributed to Ruqaya Banu, after an engraving by Jan Sadeler. Early 17th century or c.1630, Mughal India. Opaque watercolour and gold on paper, 16.9 by 9 cm. (Chester Beatty Library, Dublin).
Letter
The Grimani tables
10/2019 | 1399 | 161
Pages: 801
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Author:
Jervis, Simon (Jervis, Simon; J., S.; J., S. S.)
Subjects
dates:
1550-1649
patrons:
Palazzo Grimani, Venice / Warwick Castle, Warwick, Great Britain
patrons:
Grimani family
subjects:
Pietre Dure / Tables (support furniture)
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
3. Pietre dure table, Rome, probably acquired by Giovanni Grimani. c.1580–85. 116.5 by 165 cm. (Private collection).
Western art unattributed:
4. Pietre dure table, Florence, inlaid with the arms of the Grimani family, commissioned by Antonio Grimani. c.1605–16. 115.5 by 150 cm. (Private collection).
Book Review
Il disegno veneziano, 1580–1650: Ricostruzioni storico-artistiche, B.W. Meijer
05/2019 | 1394 | 161
Pages: 440-442
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Reviewer:
Whistler, Catherine (Whistler, Catherine; Whistler, Caroline)
Subjects
art literature:
Ridolfi, Carlo, 1594-1658
dates:
1550-1649
subjects:
Venetian art / Drawings / Academies / Connoisseurship / Attributions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Assumption of the Virgin with St Francis, attributed by Bert W. Meijer to Fra Santo da Venezia. c.1609. Pen, brown ink and wash, squared in black chalk, 39.8 by 21.8 cm. (British Museum, London).
Book Review
The New World in Early Modern Italy, 1492–1750, E. Horodowich and L. Markey, eds.
05/2019 | 1394 | 161
Pages: 438-439
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Reviewer:
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
Subjects
dates:
1490-1549 / 1550-1649 / 1650-1749
subjects:
Renaissance Italy / South America / Aztec / Exoticism / Collecting / New World Exploration
Book Review
The Age of Rubens: Diplomacy, Dynastic Politics and the Visual Arts in Early Seventeenth-century Europe. Edited by Luc Duerloo and Malcolm Smuts
02/2018 | 1379 | 160
Pages: 163-164
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Reviewer:
Martin, Gregory (Martin, Gregory)
Subjects
artists:
Rubens, Peter Paul
dates:
1550-1649
media:
Paintings
patrons:
Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649
places:
Flanders
subjects:
Proceedings / Flemish painting / Diplomacy
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Minerva protects Pax from Mars, by Peter Paul Rubens. 1629–30. Canvas, 203.5 by 298 cm. (National Gallery, London).
Book Review
Rubens. Mythological Subjects: Achilles to the Graces (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XI). By Elizabeth McGrath, Gregory Martin, Fiona Healy, Bert Schepers, Carl Van de Velde and Karolien De Clippel
02/2018 | 1379 | 160
Pages: 162-163
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Reviewer:
Rosenthal, Lisa (Rosenthal, Lisa)
Subjects
artists:
Rubens, Peter Paul
dates:
1550-1649
media:
Paintings
places:
Flanders
subjects:
Catalogues raisonnés / Flemish painting / Mythology / Corpus Rubenianum
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. Andromeda liberated by Perseus, by Peter Paul Rubens. 1620–22. Canvas, 99.7 by 139.6 cm. (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin).
Book Review
Jan Brueghel and the Senses of Scale. By Elizabeth Alice Honig
02/2018 | 1379 | 160
Pages: 161
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Reviewer:
Buchanan, Iain (Buchanan, Iain)
Subjects
artists:
Brueghel, Jan, the Elder
dates:
1550-1649
media:
Paintings
places:
Flanders
subjects:
Flemish painting / Monographs
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