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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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Sandbichler, Veronika (Sandbichler, Veronika)
Subjects
dates:
1550-1649
places:
Munich / Innsbruck / Dresden / Prague / Graz / Stuttgart / Kassel
subjects:
Kunstkammer / Cabinets of curiosities
subjects:
Collecting / Collectors
Reviewed Items
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).
Exhibition Review
Northern Renaissance gallery Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
04/2024 | 1453 | 166
Pages: 395–398
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Reviewer:
Boivin, Katherine (Boivin, Katherine)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
subjects:
Northern Renaissance / Displays / Art museums / Kunstkammer / Sculpture / Decorative arts / Stained glass / Automata
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Northern Renaissance gallery Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York From 3rd October 2023 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Orpheus cup, by Hans Georg Bramer, Johann Wilhelm Baur, Jan Vermeyen and others. 1641– 42. Gold, enamel and ruby, 18.1 by 13 by 8.9 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
6. Installation view of the Northern Renaissance gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 2023. (photograph Anna-Marie Kellen).
Western art unattributed:
7. Kneeling Black woman. Early 17th century. Brazilian rosewood, lapis lazuli, marble and gilded metal, height 11.7 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Book Review
Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance: A Contribution to the History of Collecting
07/2023 | 1444 | 165
Pages: 803–804
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Reviewer:
Koeppe, Wolfram (Koeppe, Wolfram)
Subjects
art literature:
Schlosser, Julius
museums and institutions:
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
subjects:
Cabinets of curiosities / Kunstkammer / Collecting / Collections / Vienna School of Art History
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance: A Contribution to the History of Collecting By Julius von Schlosser, edited by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, translated by Jonathan Blower. 232 pp. incl. 7 col. + 103 b. & w. ills. (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2021), £55. ISBN 978–1–60606–665–21. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. Frontispiece to Ole Worm’s Museum Wormianum (Leiden 1655), by G. Wingendorp. Engraving, 27.8 by 35.8 cm. (Bodleian Library, Oxford).
Exhibition Review
Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe
08/2020 | 1409 | 162
Pages: 697-699
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Reviewer:
Kirchweger, Franz (Kirchweger, Franz)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
subjects:
Kunstkammer / Cabinets of curiosities / Courts (social groups) / Collecting / Science / Automata / Clocks / Goldsmiths
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe Edited by Wolfram Koeppe. 308 pp. incl. 300 col. ills. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2019), £50. ISBN 978–1–58839–677–8. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Writing box, by Wenzel Jamnitzer. c.1560–70. Silver, 6 by 22.7 by 10.2 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
Attributed works:
5. Objects in turned ivory, from C. Plumier: L’art de Tourner, ou De Faire en Perfection Toutes Sortes d’Ouvrages au Tour, Paris 1749. By François Baillieul after Charles Plumier. Engraving, 40.5 by 26.8 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
6. Celestial globe with clockwork, by Gerhard Emmoser. 1579. Silver (partially gilt), brass (gilt) and steel, height 27.3 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Book Review
Ivories and Narwhal Tusks at Rosenborg Castle: Catalogue of Carved and Turned Ivories and Narwhal Tusks in the Royal Danish Collection 1600–1875
06/2020 | 1407 | 162
Pages: 546-547
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Reviewer:
Warren, Jeremy (Warren, Jeremy)
Subjects
media:
Ivories / Sculpture
museums and institutions:
Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen, Denmark
subjects:
Royalty / Kunstkammer / Carvings
subjects:
Danish sculpture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Ivories and Narwhal Tusks at Rosenborg Castle: Catalogue of Carved and Turned Ivories and Narwhal Tusks in the Royal Danish Collection 1600–1875 By J rgen Hein. 2 vols, 780 pp. incl. 758 col. + 6 b. & w. ills. (Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen, 2018),  196.99. ISBN 978–87–635–4593–8. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. Annointment chair of Absolutism, by Bendix I Grodtschilling and workshop. 1662–71, altered in 1684. Silver-gilt figures of the Virtues, by Johan Kohlman. 1685–90. Narwhal tusk ivory, wood and iron, 252 by 117 by 78 cm. (Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen).
Book Review
Elfenbeinkunst im Grünen Gewölbe zu Dresden: Geschichte einer Sammlung. Wissenschaftlicher Bestandskatalog – Statuetten, Figurengruppen, Reliefs, Gefäße, Varia. By Jutta Kappel
03/2019 | 1392 | 161
Pages: 258-259
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Reviewer:
Hein, Jørgen (Hein, Jørgen)
Subjects
art literature:
Catalogues
media:
Ivories
museums and institutions:
Grünes Gewölbe, Dresden, Germany
patrons:
Electors of Saxony, Germany
subjects:
Kunstkammer / Statuettes / Reliefs / Collectors / Saxony
Reviewed Items
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Elfenbeinkunst im Grünen Gewölbe zu Dresden: Geschichte einer Sammlung. Wissenschaftlicher Bestandskatalog – Statuetten, Figurengruppen, Reliefs, Gefäße, Varia. By Jutta Kappel | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Large frigate, by Jacob Zeller. 1620. Ivory, gold and iron, 116.7 by 78.5 by 35 cm. (Green Vault, Dresden).
Book Review
A Rothschild Renaissance: Treasures from the Waddesdon Bequest, by D. Thornton
06/2016 | 1359 | 158
Pages: 464-465
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Reviewer:
Schroder, Timothy (Schroder, Timothy)
Subjects
buildings:
Waddesdon Manor, Waddesdon, Aylesbury, Great Britain
collectors and dealers:
Rothschild family
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Collections, Public / Kunstkammer / Art objects / Jewellery / Bequests
subjects:
Renaissance
Illustrations
Attributed works:
45. The Lyte Jewel. London, 1610-11. Enamelled gold and diamonds with pendant pearl, containing a miniature of James I by Nicholas Hilliard (Waddesdon Bequest, British Museum, London)
Article
The Este and the East: unpublished Chinese and Mughal objects from the Wunderkammer in Modena
12/2014 | 1341 | 156
Pages: 792-796
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Author:
Morena, Francesco (Morena, Francesco)
Subjects
dates:
1400-1599
patrons:
Este family
subjects:
Patronage / Collections, Private / Porcelain / Ceramics / Chinese / Mughal / Art objects / Lost works / Inventories / Jades / Kunstkammer
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Detail of a Chinese bowl from The feast of the gods, by Giovanni Bellini (National Gallery of Art, Washington)
Attributed works:
2. Detail of two Chinese bowls from The feast of the gods, by Giovanni Bellini (National Gallery of Art, Washington)
Non-western art unattributed:
4. Water container. Chinese. Twelfth to fourteenth centuries (Galleria Estense, Modena)
Non-western art unattributed:
5. Belt buckle. Chinese. Yuan dynasty (1279-1368). (Galleria Estense, Modena)
Non-western art unattributed:
6. Cup with silver handle. The cup, Mughal, late sixteenth-early seventeenth century; the handle, European, first half of the seventeenth century (Galleria Estense, Modena)
Non-western art unattributed:
7. Lacquer box with lid. Chinese. Ming dynasty, sixteenth-seventeenth centuries (Galleria Estense, Modena)
Western art unattributed:
3. The Cantino world map. Portuguese, 1502 (Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, Modena)
Article
The new Kunstkammer, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
06/2013 | 1323 | 155
Pages: 402-407
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Reviewer:
Fox, Celina (Fox, Celina)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
subjects:
Collections, Public / Art museums / Art galleries / Museums / Decorative arts / Kunstkammer / Displays
Illustrations
Attributed works:
53. Aquamanile in the form of a griffin. Lower Saxony, c.1120-30 (workshop of Roger von Helmarshausen?) (Kunstkammer, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
Attributed works:
54. Automaton clock with Diana riding on a centaur, by Hans Jakob I Bachmann (Kunstkammer, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
Attributed works:
55. Three conjoined figures representing the transition from youth to old age, by Jörg Syrlin the Elder or Michel Erhart. Ulm. (Kunstkammer, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
Attributed works:
56. Marble bust of a woman often identified as 'Laura' by Francesco Laurana (Kunstkammer, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
Attributed works:
57. Bowl in the form of a dragon, by Gasparo Miseroni (Kunstkammer, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
Attributed works:
58. The new installation of the salt cellar, by Benvenuto Cellini (Kunstkammer, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
Attributed works:
59. Leopold I on horseback over a fallen Turkish warrier, by Matthias Steinl (Kunstkammer, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
Attributed works:
60. Goblet topped with a lid in the shape of a beast sprouting African warthog tusks, attributed to Nikolaus Pfaff (Kunstkammer, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
Book Review
The Treasury Collection at Rosenborg Castle: The Inventories of 1696 and 1718: Royal Heritage and Collecting in Denmark–Norway 1500–1900
07/2011 | 1300 | 153
Pages: 484-485
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Reviewer:
Knothe, Florian (Knothe, Florian)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen, Denmark
patrons:
Christian IV, King of Denmark and Norway, 1577-1648 / Frederick IV, King of Denmark and Norway, 1671-1730
places:
Denmark / Norway / Copenhagen
print:
Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen, Denmark
subjects:
Inventories / Collections, Private / Royalty / Collecting
subjects:
Kunstkammer
subjects:
Regalia
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Treasury Collection at Rosenborg Castle: The Inventories of 1696 and 1718: Royal Heritage and Collecting in Denmark–Norway 1500–1900 | author: Hein, Jørgen
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