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Newly attributed drawings by Botticelli
04/2023 | 1441 | 165
Pages: 358-365
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Author:
Rinaldi, Furio (Rinaldi, Furio)
Subjects
artists:
Botticelli, Sandro
dates:
1470-1479 / 1480-1489 / 1480-1519
media:
Silverpoints / Gouaches
subjects:
Italian art / Renaissance art / Florentine art / Drawings / Attributions / Figure studies / Studies (visual works) / Life drawings / Workshops (Organisations)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Study for a standing man (St Sebastian), by Sandro Botticelli. c.1473–74. Metalpoint (silver?) and white gouache on ochre prepared paper, 18.4 by 9.3 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
10. Detail of Fig.12, showing the face of the third onlooker on the right.
Attributed works:
11. Head of a man in near profile looking left, here attributed to Sandro Botticelli. c.1468–70. Traces of black chalk, metalpoint (lead?) heightened with white and grey wash, on yellow-ochre prepared paper, 13.2 by 11 cm. (Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford).
Attributed works:
12. Adoration of the Magi, by Sandro Botticelli, showing the face of an onlooker. c.1470–75. Tempera and oil on poplar panel, 68 by 102 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Attributed works:
13. Head of a veiled woman, by Fra Filippo Lippi. c.1452. Silverpoint and white gouache, retouched with pen and brown ink and red chalk, on ochre-prepared paper, 30 by 20.5 cm. (Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence).
Attributed works:
2. Study of two standing figures and a right hand, by Sandro Botticelli. c.1475. Silverpoint and white gouache on mauve-lilac prepared paper, 16.5 by 10 cm. (Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille).
Attributed works:
3. Two partial studies of a profile, here attributed to Sandro Botticelli. c.1475. Metalpoint (lead?) and white gouache on yellowochre prepared paper, 18.9 by 7.1 cm. (Gabinetto dei Disegni e Stampe delle Uffizi, Florence).
Attributed works:
4. Detail of the Cestello Annunciation, by Sandro Botticelli, showing the face of the Archangel Gabriel. 1489. Tempera on panel, 150 by 156 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence).
Attributed works:
5. Standing man turned to the right, here attributed to Sandro Botticelli. c.1475. Metalpoint (lead?) and white gouache on yellow-ochre prepared paper, 18.9 by 7.1 cm. (recto of Fig.3). (Gabinetto dei Disegni e Stampe delle Uffizi, Florence).
Attributed works:
6. Study for a standing draped figure turned to the left, by Sandro Botticelli. Metalpoint (lead?) and white gouache on ochre prepared paper, 18.3 by 8.3 cm. (© RMN-Grand Palais; Musée du Louvre; Stéphane Maréchalle).
Attributed works:
7. Virgin and Child with the young St John the Baptist, by Sandro Botticelli. c.1468–70. Tempera and gold on poplar panel, 90.7 by 67 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Tarker; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
8. Head of a woman looking down to the left, here attributed to Sandro Botticelli. c.1468–70. Metalpoint (lead?) heightened with white and light grey wash on yellow-ochre prepared paper, 13.4 by 10.7 cm. (Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford).
Attributed works:
9. Detail of Fig.7, showing the face of the Virgin.
Book Review
Representing from Life in Seventeenth-Century Italy
05/2022 | 1430 | 164
Pages: 522-524
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Reviewer:
Cappelletti, Francesca (Cappelletti, Francesca)
Subjects
subjects:
Life drawings / Caravaggism / Bamboccianti / Italian painting / Naturalism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Representing from Life in Seventeenth- Century Italy By Sheila McTighe. 256 pp. incl. 90 b. & w. ills. (Amsterdam University Press, 2020), £106. ISBN 978–94–6298–328–1. | :
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Attributed works:
5. Cosimo III de’ Medici sketching the Medici Vase, by Stefano della Bella. 1656. Etching, 28.6 by 27 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Book Review
Looking at Men: Art, Anatomy and the Modern Male Body. By Anthea Callen
08/2019 | 1397 | 161
Pages: 698-699
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Reviewer:
Padiyar, Satish (Padiyar, Satish)
Subjects
dates:
Nineteenth-century art
subjects:
Anatomy / Nudes / Models (people) / Life drawings
subjects:
Gender / Gaze (art theory)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Looking at Men: Art, Anatomy and the Modern Male Body By Anthea Callen. 272 pp. incl. 212 col. + b. & w. ills. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2018), | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Study of a male nude, by Théodore Géricault. Oil on canvas, 64 by 81 cm. (Musée Bonnat, Bayonne).
Article
From Giotto to the Bushmen: Roger Fry at the Slade 1909–13
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 727-733
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Author:
Elam, Caroline (Elam, Caroline; E., C.; E., C. M.)
Subjects
art literature:
Fry, Roger (R. F.; R. E. F.) / Brockwell, Maurice W. / Brown, Frederick / MacColl, D. S. / Tonks, Henry / Ruskin, John / Berenson, Bernard / Bell, Clive
artists:
Giotto / Cézanne, Paul / Gogh, Vincent van / Gauguin, Paul / Piero della Francesca / Nash, Paul / Bomberg, David / Spencer, Stanley / Gertler, Mark / Wadsworth, Edward / Nevinson, C. R. W. / Roberts, William, 1895-1980 / Carrington, Dora / Raverat, Gwen / Sickert, Walter / Steer, Philip Wilson / Chassériau, Théodore / Hunt, William Morris / Watts, George Frederic / Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre / John, Augustus Edwin / Gozzoli, Benozzo / Pinturicchio, Bernardino / Ghirlandaio, Domenico / Masaccio / Uccello, Paolo / Andrea del Castagno / Grant, Duncan / Etchells, Frederick / Holbein, Hans the Younger, ca. 1497-1543 / Bruegel, Pieter, the Elder / Lorrain, Claude / Blake, William / Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon / Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de / Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique / Currie, John / Bell, Vanessa
artists:
Donatello / Bate, Francis
dates:
1900-1919 / 1900-1909 / 1910-1919
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
Slade School of Fine Art, London, Great Britain / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States / Grafton Galleries, London, Great Britain / Omega Workshops / Academie Julian, Paris, France / New English Art Club (NEAC)
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
Italian painting / Old-master paintings / French painting / Post-Impressionism / Modernism / Study and teaching / Art schools / Art critics / Art historians / Curators / Burlington Magazine / Portraits / Life drawings / Lectures / Surveys / Formal analysis / Primitivism (Cultural anthropology related concept) / Cave paintings / Children's art / Influence
subjects:
British painting
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Vision, volumes and recession, by Walter Sickert. c.1923, published 1929. Etching, 20 by 11.1 cm. (Courtauld Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
2. The unknown god: Roger Fry preaching the new faith, by Henry Tonks. Exhibited 1923. Canvas, 41.5 by 56 cm. (Private collection; courtesy Pym’s Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
3. Poster for the first Post-Impressionist exhibition, Grafton Galleries, London. 1910. Lettering by Roger Fry. 76.3 by 50.9 cm. (The Courtauld Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
4. The meeting at the Golden Gate from John Ruskin, Giotto and his Works in Padua, Orpington 1900, p.77. (Warburg Institute, London).
Attributed works:
5. Detail of The meeting at the Golden Gate, by Giotto. c.1305. Fresco. (Arena Chapel, Padua; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
6. Some later primitives and Madame Tisceron, by John Currie. 1912. Tempera on canvas, 46 by 127 cm. (The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
7. John Donne arriving in heaven, by Stanley Spencer. 1911. Canvas, 37 by 40.5 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
Exhibition Review
A century of figurative British painting
05/2018 | 1382 | 160
Pages: 423-425
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Reviewer:
Cahill, James (Cahill, James; Cahill, J.)
Subjects
artists:
Bacon, Francis, 1909-1992 / Freud, Lucian / Kitaj, R. B. / Auerbach, Frank / Bomberg, David / Sickert, Walter / Soutine, Chaim / Giacometti, Alberto / Spencer, Stanley / Coldstream, William Menzies / Uglow, Euan / Andrews, Michael / Brown, Cecily / Paul, Celia / Saville, Jenny / Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette, b. 1977 / Mead, Dorothy
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
Tate Britain, London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
British painting / Portraits / Figure studies / Human figure / Figure paintings / Figurative art / Life drawings / Realism / Existentialism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
26. Black nude, by Francis Newton Souza. 1961. Canvas, 181.5 by 121 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; exh. Tate Britain, London).
Attributed works:
27. The deer park, by Michael Andrews. 1962. Oil on board, 214 by 244.5 cm. (Tate Britain, London; exh. Tate Britain, London).
Attributed works:
28. Reclining figure, by Dorothy Mead. c.1954. Canvas, 92 by 122 cm. (The Sarah Rose Collection; exh. Tate Britain, London).
Article
Seurat and the ‘cours de M.Yvon’
03/2011 | 1296 | 153
Pages: 174-180
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Author:
Ireson, Nancy (Ireson, Nancy)
Subjects
artists:
Seurat, Georges
artists:
Lehmann, Henri / Yvon, Adolphe
dates:
1870-1879 / 1880-1889
museums and institutions:
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
print:
Seurat, Georges
subjects:
Drawings / Life drawings / French / Studios (organisations) / Art schools / Art education / Biographies
Illustrations
Attributed works:
58. Drawing of a figure from the life, by Georges Seurat. c.1877. Pencil on paper, 63 by 48 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
59. Drawing of a figure from the life, by Jules Giradet. 1874. Graphite and stumping on paper with charcoal highlights, 61.7 by 47.5 cm. (Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris).
Attributed works:
60. The model ‘Gélon’, photographed by Edouard Cuyer. 1890. Photograph, 17.5 by 12.5 cm. (Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris).
Attributed works:
61. Drawing of a figure from the life, by G. Charpentier. 1877. Conté and stumping on paper, 62 by 47.7 cm. (Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris).
Attributed works:
62. Drawing of a figure from the life, by Georges Seurat. c.1877. Graphite on paper, 33 by 47.5 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
63. Antique statue, satyr with goat, by Georges Seurat. 1877–79. Charcoal on paper, 63.5 by 48.3 cm. (Dian Woodner collection).
Attributed works:
64. Drawing from the cast, by Félix-Jules Lacaille. 1877. Black chalk on paper, 62.5 by 48.4 cm. (Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris).
Attributed works:
65. Drawing from the cast, by Laurent Gsell. 1879. Black chalk on paper, 62 by 47.3 cm. (Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris).
Attributed works:
66. Seated figure, by Georges Seurat. c.1881. Conté crayon on paper, 17.5 by 11 cm. From sale cat., Sotheby’s, Paris, Impressionist and Modern Sale, 28th May 2009, lot 9.
Attributed works:
67. The orange seller, by Georges Seurat. 1881. Conté crayon and gouache on paper, 31 by 24 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
68. Female nude, by Georges Seurat. 1881–82. Graphite and crayon on paper, 63.2 by 48.2 cm. (Courtauld Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
71. Soldier, seen from behind, by Adolphe Yvon. c.1859. Pencil on paper (sketchbook sheet), 10.3 by 18.5 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Western art unattributed:
57. Students of Henri Lehmann at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Georges Seurat sixth from the left. c.1878. Photograph. (Formerly Yolande Osbert collection).
Western art unattributed:
69. Placement of the figure, by means of summary lines. Plate from A. Yvon: Méthode de dessin à l’usage des écoles et des lycées, Paris 1867, n.p. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
Western art unattributed:
70. Placement and blocking out of a head viewed in profile. Plate from A. Yvon: Méthode de dessin à l’usage des écoles et des lycées, Paris 1867, n.p. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
Book Review
Eighteenth-Century French Life-Drawing
04/1979 | 913 | 121
Pages: 265-266
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Reviewer:
Conisbee, Philip (Conisbee, Philip)
Subjects
dates:
1700-1799
places:
France
subjects:
French painting / Drawings
subjects:
Life drawings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Eighteenth-Century French Life-Drawing | author: Levine, David , author: Rubin, James Henry
Book Review
From Naked to Nude. Life Drawing in the Twentieth Century
10/1977 | 895 | 119
Pages: 720
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Reviewer:
Hodin, J. P. (Hodin, J. P.; Hodin, Josef Paul; Hodin, P. J.)
Subjects
dates:
1900-1999
subjects:
Human figure / Nudes / Drawings / Avant-garde
subjects:
Life drawings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
From Naked to Nude. Life Drawing in the Twentieth Century | author: Eisler, Georg