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Article
The many faces of Mary Magdalene
01/2023 | 1438 | 165
Pages: 50-56
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Author:
Haskins, Susan (Haskins, Susan)
Subjects
media:
Paintings / Sculpture
museums and institutions:
Musei di San Domenico, Forlì, Italy
subjects:
Christian iconography / Mary Magdalene, Saint / Mary of Egypt, Saint / Jesus Christ: Crucifixion / Jesus Christ: Deposition / Eroticism / Nudes / Theology / Prostitution
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Crucifixion, by Masaccio. c.1426. Tempera on panel, 83 by 63 cm. (Museo di Capodimonte, Naples; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
2. St Mary Magdalene with eight scenes from her life, by the Magdalene Master. 14th century. Tempera on panel, 164 by 76 cm. (Galleria dell’Accademia & Museo degli Strumenti Musicali, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
3. Mary Magdalene from the sculptural group Lamentation, by Guido Mazzoni. c.1483–85. Polychrome terracotta. (Chiesa del Gesù, Ferrara; photograph Nicholas Pickwoad).
Attributed works:
4. Noli me tangere, attributed to Jacopo Pontormo. c.1532. Oil on canvas, 175 by 133 cm. (Casa Buonarroti, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
5. Supper in the house of the pharisee, by Moretto da Brescia. 1550–54. Oil on canvas, 207 by 140 cm. (S. Maria in Calchera, Brescia; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
6. Penitent Mary Magdalene, by Antonio Canova. 1808–09. Marble, height 95 cm. (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg).
Attributed works:
7. Penitent Mary Magdalene, by Guido Cagnacci. 1625–27. Oil on canvas, 86 by 72 cm. (Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Rome; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
8. Mary Magdalene crouching, by Venanzo Crocetti. 1956. Bronze, height 63 cm. (Fondazione Venanzo Crocetti, Rome).
Attributed works:
9. Christ appearing to Mary Magdalene (Noli me tangere), by Graham Sutherland. 1961. Oil on canvas, 64 by 55.3 cm. (Pallant House Gallery, Chichester; © Pallant House Gallery / Hussey Bequest, Chichester District Council, 1985; Bridgeman Images).
Exhibition Review
Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism
01/2023 | 1438 | 165
Pages: 79-81
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Reviewer:
Salatino, Kevin (Salatino, Kevin)
Subjects
artists:
Fuseli, Henry
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Women / Fashion / Eroticism / Violence / Models (people) / Prostitution / Paintings / Drawings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism Courtauld Gallery, London 14th October 2022–8th January 2023 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
16. Sophia Fuseli, her hair in large rolls, with pink gloves, in front of a brown curtain, by Henry Fuseli. 1790. Graphite, brush and watercolour, heightened with white opaque watercolour on paper, 31.6 by 19.7 cm. (Kunsthaus Zürich; exh. Courtauld Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
17. Woman in a sculpture gallery, by Henry Fuseli. 1798. Pen and black ink, brush and watercolour on paper, over graphite, heightened with white opaque watercolour, 41 by 24.7 cm. (Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; exh. Courtauld
Attributed works:
18. Kallipyga, by Henry Fuseli. c.1790–92? Pen and brown ink, 16.3 by 9.4 cm. (Private collection; exh. Courtauld Gallery, London).
Exhibition Review
Toulouse-Lautrec: Resolutely Modern. Grand Palais, Paris
01/2020 | 1402 | 162
Pages: 64-67
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Reviewer:
Thomson, Richard (Thomson, Richard)
Subjects
artists:
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Posters / Photographs / Sketches / Drawings / Gouaches / Paintings
museums and institutions:
Grand Palais, Paris, France
places:
Paris
subjects:
French art / Models (people) / Portraits / Dancers / Prostitution / Comedians
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Toulouse-Lautrec: Resolutely Modern Grand Palais, Paris 9th October 2019–27th January | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
16. Yvette Guilbert singing Linger, Longer, Loo, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. 1894. Peinture à l’essence on cardboard, 58 by 44 cm. (Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; exh. Grand Palais, Paris).
Attributed works:
17. In bed, by Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec. c.1892. Oil on cardboard, 53.5 by 70 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris; exh. Grand Palais, Paris).
Article
‘Qualis vita, finis ita’: The life and death of Margaret Lemon, mistress of Van Dyck
02/2018 | 1379 | 160
Pages: 92-100
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Author:
Maddicott, Hilary (Maddicott, Hilary)
Subjects
artists:
Dyck, Anthony van / Hollar, Wenceslaus
dates:
1600-1649
media:
Paintings / Drawings / Engravings
patrons:
Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649
places:
Flanders / Great Britain
subjects:
Flemish painting / Prostitution / Biographies / Flora
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Marguerite Lemon Angloise, by Wenceslas Hollar after Anthony Van Dyck. 1646. Etching and engraving, 26.1 by 18.1 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
2. Margaret Lemon, by Anthony van Dyck. c.1636. Canvas, 59.5 by 49.5 cm. (Private collection, New York).
Attributed works:
3. Margaret Lemon, attributed to Peter Lely after Anthony van Dyck. Brush and grey ink on paper, 24.8 by 14.5 cm. (Fondation Custodia, Paris).
Attributed works:
4. Margaret Lemon, by Anthony van Dyck. c.1638. Canvas, 93.3. by 77.8 cm. (Royal Collection Trust / © H.M. Queen Elizabeth II 2018).
Attributed works:
5. Margaret Lemon as Erminia, by Anthony van Dyck. Late 1630s. Canvas, 109.2 by 129.5 cm. (Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire).
Attributed works:
6. Margaret Lemon, by Samuel Cooper. ?1635–37. Watercolour on vellum, height 12.1 cm. (Fondation Custodia, Paris).
Exhibition Review
Images of prostitution
01/2016 | 1354 | 158
Pages: 058
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Reviewer:
Garlake, Margaret (Garlake, Margaret)
Subjects
dates:
1850-1919 / 2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France / Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
places:
Paris / Netherlands / France / Amsterdam
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Prostitution / Women / French
Illustrations
Attributed works:
74. Madame Valtesse de la Bigne, by Henri Gervex. 1879 (Musée du Luxembourg, Paris; exh. Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
Attributed works:
75. The client, by Jean-Louis Forain. 1878 (Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis TN; exh.Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
Publication Received
Painted Love. Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era.
04/2004 | 1213 | 146
Pages: 271
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Reviewer:
Beechey, James (Beechey, James)
Subjects
print:
Impressionism
subjects:
Prostitution / French painting
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Painted Love. Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era. | author: Clayson, Hollis
Book Review
Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era
09/1992 | 1074 | 134
Pages: 607-608
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Reviewer:
Adler, Kathleen (Adler, Kathleen)
Subjects
dates:
1850-1899
places:
France
subjects:
French painting / Impressionism
subjects:
Social history / Prostitution
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era | author: Clayson, Hollis
Short Notice
Louis-Léopold Boilly's 'The Galleries of the Palais-Royal'
05/1984 | 974 | 126
Pages: 269-270+275-276+279
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Author:
Eliel, Carol S. (Eliel, Carol S.)
Subjects
artists:
Boilly, Louis-Léopold
buildings:
Palais-Royal, Paris, France
dates:
1800-1849
places:
France / Paris
subjects:
French painting / Social history
subjects:
Prostitution
Illustrations
Attributed works:
16. The Galleries of the Palais-Royal, by Louis-Léopold Boilly. 50 by 63 cm. (Musée Carnavalet, Paris).
Attributed works:
17. The Palais-Royal Gallery's Walk, by Philibert-Louis Debucourt. Colour Engraving, 28.5 by 55.2 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
18. A Café in the Gardens of the Palais-Royal, by François Huot, after Antoine Borel. Engraving, 25.6 by 32.7 cm. (Cabinet Rothschild, Musée du Louvre).
Attributed works:
19. Transport of Women of the Night to the Salpêtrière, by Etienne Jeaurat. 66 by 83 cm. (Musée Carnavalet, Paris).
Attributed works:
20. The Palais-Royal c.1810, by Antoine-Charles-Horace (Called Carle) Vernet. Ink, Wash and Pencil, 30.7 by 26.2 cm. (Musée Carnavalet, Paris).
Western art unattributed:
21. The Thirty-Two Girls in the 'Allée des Soupirs'. Frontispiece from Le Palais-Royal by Rétif de la Bretonne. Vol. I. 1790. Engraving.
Short Notice
Degas Monotypes
05/1958 | 662 | 100
Pages: 172-173+175
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Author:
Nicolson, Benedict (B. N) (Nicolson, Benedict (B. N); N., B.)
Subjects
artists:
Degas, Edgar
dates:
1870-1879 / 1880-1889
places:
France / Paris
subjects:
French painting / Prints / Monotypes
subjects:
Social history / Brothels / Prostitution
Illustrations
Attributed works:
35. Le Client, by Edgar Degas. 1879-80. Monotype, 21.6 by 16 cm. (Lefevre Galleries, London.)