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Exhibition Review

Timeless Wonder: Painting on Stone in Rome in the Cinquecento and Seicento

02/2023 | 1439 | 165

Pages: 188-191

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Reviewer:

Weston, Giulia Martina (Weston, Giulia Martina)

Subjects

artists:

Sebastiano del Piombo / Raphael / Tempesta, Antonio / Carracci, Agostino / Saraceni, Carlo / Turchi, Alessandro / Ottino, Pasquale / Mignard, Pierre, I, 1612-1695 / Bassano, Francesco, il giovane, 1549-1592

artists:

Salviati, Francesco

artists:

Poelenburgh, Cornelis van / Rosa, Salvator

dates:

2020-2030

media:

Stone / Alabasters / Lapis lazuli / Pietre Dure

museums and institutions:

Museo e Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy

subjects:

Italian art

Reviewed Items

subjects:

Timeless Wonder: Painting on Stone in Rome in the Cinquecento and Seicento Galleria Borghese, Rome 25th October 2022– 29th January 2023 | :

Illustrations

Attributed works:

21. Roberto di Filippo Strozzi, by Francesco de’Rossi known as Francesco Salviati. c.1550. Oil on red and black African marble, diameter 16 cm. (Private collection; exh. Galleria Borghese, Rome).

Attributed works:

22. Installation view of Timeless Wonder: Painting on Stone in Rome in the Cinquecento and Seicento showing on the right the Borghese- Windsor Cabinet. Roman, c.1620. Fir, poplar, ebony and chestnut, ivory, semiprecious hardstones, gilt bronze, silver and gilt silver, 178 by 126 by 54 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; exh. Galleria Borghese, Rome; photograph A. Novelli).

Attributed works:

23. Latona turning the Lycian peasants into frogs, by Cornelis van Poelenburgh. c.1620. Oil on lapis lazuli, 23 by 33 cm. (Museo dell’Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence; exh. Galleria Borghese, Rome).

Book Review

Il Mobile a Roma dal Rinascimento al Barocco

01/2023 | 1438 | 165

Pages: 95-96

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Reviewer:

Jervis, Simon (Jervis, Simon; J., S.; J., S. S.)

Subjects

places:

Rome

subjects:

Furniture makers / Furniture / Renaissance Italy / Baroque / Popes / Cabinets (furniture) / Chairs / Tables (support furniture) / Pietre Dure / Intarsia

Reviewed Items

subjects:

Il Mobile a Roma dal Rinascimento al Barocco By Alvar González-Palacios. 507 pp. incl. 253 col. + 126 b. & w. ills. (Ugo Bozzi Editore, Rome, 2022), €33. ISBN 978–88–7003–067–9. | :

Illustrations

Attributed works:

4. Cabinet by Giacomo Herman. 1669–78, on an early 18th-century giltwood console table. Ebony veneer, mounted with lapis lazuli, jasper, gilt bronze and 14 gouache miniature paintings depicting views of Rome, and incorporating a clock by Giovanni Wenderlino Hessler and a virginal by Giovanni Battista Mambriani, dated 1676, 284 by 172 by 72.5 cm. (Private collection).

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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

Roman Splendour: English Arcadia: The English Taste for Pietre Dure and the Sixtus Cabinet at Stourhead, S. Swynfen Jervis and D. Dodd

10/2015 | 1351 | 157

Pages: 713

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Reviewer:

Murdoch, Tessa (Murdoch, Tessa)

Subjects

museums and institutions:

National Trust / Stourhead, Stourton, Wiltshire, Great Britain

patrons:

Sixtus V, Pope, 1520-1590

subjects:

Furniture / Cabinets (furniture) / Pietre Dure / Roman (post-Classical)

Illustrations

Western art unattributed:

39. Detail of the Sixtus Cabinet, showing the centre of the Ionic first storey. 1742 (Stourhead, Wiltshire, National Trust)

Article

‘Un Buste de Venus d’un Amethiste ancienne’: discovering the Italian origins of an object in the Grünes Gewölbe in Dresden

06/2015 | 1347 | 157

Pages: 388-390

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Reviewer:

Geiger, Maureen Cassidy (Geiger, Maureen Cassidy)

Subjects

artists:

LePlat, Raymond

collectors and dealers:

Gualtieri, Filippo Antonio, Cardinal

dates:

1650-1699

museums and institutions:

Grünes Gewölbe, Dresden, Germany

subjects:

Sculpture / Busts / Pietre Dure / Bronzes / Venus / Provenance / Correspondence / Inventories / Collections, Public

subjects:

Italian sculpture

Illustrations

Attributed works:

6. Letter from Raymond LePlat to Augustus the Strong with a sketch of the Gualtieri bust of Venus. 1728 (Sächsisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Dresden, Loc. 380/4, Lettres du Baron Leplat pendant son voyage pour Rome, concernant l'achât des statues en 1716-1730, et sans date, fol.82v)

Attributed works:

7. Plan of the Gualtieri collection in Palazzo Manfroni, Rome, by Raymond LePlat(?). 1728 (Sächsisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Dresden, Loc. 380/4, Lettres du Baron Leplat pendant son voyage pour Rome, concernant l'achât des statues en 1716-1730, et sans date, fols.154v-155r)

Western art unattributed:

5. Bust of Venus. Florence, late 17th century(?). (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Grünes Gewölbe, inv. no. V 592)

Western art unattributed:

8. Memoire de ce qui est contenu dans chaque Cabinet du Palais du defunt Cardinal Gualtieri. 1728. (Sächsisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Dresden, Loc. 380/4, Lettres du Baron Leplat pendant son voyage pour Rome, concernant l'achât des statues en 1716-1730, et sans date, fols.178v-179r)

Article

Two coral cabinets made for Claude Lamoral I, Prince de Ligne and Viceroy of Sicily

07/2014 | 1336 | 156

Pages: 428-439

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Author:

Tavella, Mario (Tavella, Mario)

Subjects

artists:

Sansone, Michele, 17th c Sicilian furniture maker / Soli, Andrea, 17th c Sicilian furniture maker / Piscaturi, Giovanni, 17th c Sicilian furniture maker

dates:

1660-1719

museums and institutions:

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States

patrons:

Lamoral, Claude, I, Third Prince de Ligne et du Saint Empire, Viceroy of Sicily, 1618-1679

places:

Palermo / Sicily / Trapani

subjects:

Cabinets (furniture) / Furniture / Coral / Sicilian / Commissions / Silverwork / Pietre Dure / Payments / Collections, Private

subjects:

Iconography / Allegorical figures / Allegory

Illustrations

Attributed works:

13. Cappella del Crocifisso, by Angelo Italia (Monreale Cathedral)

Attributed works:

18. (Centre). Inlaid table top. Florence, 1550-1600 (Istituto di Mineralogia, Florence)

Attributed works:

20. Detail of Tabernacle, altar of the Holy Sacrament, by Pompeo Targone (S. Giovanni Laterano, Rome)

Attributed works:

7. Claire-Marie de Nassau-Siegen, Princess de Ligne, by Mademoiselle de Nassau (Château de Beloeil)

Attributed works:

8. Project for the east side of the park of château de Beloeil, by La Marcade (Château de Beloeil)

Western art unattributed:

1. Cabinet I, viewed from the side, and Cabinet II (Figs. 2 and 3)

Western art unattributed:

10. Detail of an altar frontal. Sicilian (S. Giuseppi dei Teatini, Palermo)

Western art unattributed:

11. Detail of the de Ligne coat of arms on Cabinet II (Fig. 3)

Western art unattributed:

12. Detail of the main portal of the Chiesa dell'Annunziata, Palazzolo Acreide, Syracuse

Western art unattributed:

14. Project for a chapel. Anonymous, seventeenth century (Galleria regionale della Sicilia di Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo)

Western art unattributed:

15. Detail of the Solomonic columns in coral and stones on Cabinet II (Fig. 3)

Western art unattributed:

16. Detail of Cabinet I (Fig. 2)

Western art unattributed:

17. (Left). Inlaid panel. Messina, seventeenth century (With the kind permission of Regione Siciliana, Ass. e Dip. dei Beni Culturali e della Identita' siciliana, Museo interdisciplinare regionale, Messina)

Western art unattributed:

19. (Right). Detail of the Chapel of St Philip Neri (S. Ignazio dell'Olivella, Palermo)

Western art unattributed:

2. Cabinet I, viewed from the front. Palermo and Tapani, 1670-73. (Private collection; on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; photography copyright of Sotheby's)

Western art unattributed:

21. Embossed silver band of running flower and foliage ornament on Cabinet II (Fig. 3)

Western art unattributed:

22. Silver marks RVP (Regis Urbs Panorami) and DDNC (Consul Domenico di Napoli) on Cabinet II (Fig. 3)

Western art unattributed:

3. Cabinet II, viewed from the front. Palermo and Tapani, 1670-73. (Private collection; on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; photography copyright of Sotheby's)

Western art unattributed:

4. Agates on the left side of Cabinet II (Fig. 3)

Western art unattributed:

5. Coral works of art previously in the collection of the Princes de Ligne (Private collections)

Western art unattributed:

6. Claude Lamoral I, Prince de Ligne. Belgian school (Château de Beloeil)

Western art unattributed:

9. Cabinet. Palermo and Trapani (Formerly in the Princes de Ligne collection; present whereabouts unknown)

Short Notice

A portrait of the king of Naples in ‘pietre dure’

06/2008 | 1263 | 150

Pages: 397-400

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Author:

González-Palacios, Alvar (González-Palacios, Alvar; Palacios, Alvar González-)

Subjects

dates:

1700-1749

print:

Italian art

print:

Ghinghi, Francesco

subjects:

Portraits / Mosaics / Frames / Italian / Charles III, King of Spain, 1716-1788

subjects:

Portrait miniatures

subjects:

Pietre Dure

Illustrations

Attributed works:

34. Charles of Bourbon, King of Naples, by Francesco Ghinghi. c.1740. Pietre dure mosaic relief with a gilt-bronze frame, 32 by 22.5 cm. (frame). (Private collection, Paris).

Attributed works:

35. Charles of Bourbon, King of Naples, by Antonio Sebastiani. 1736. Canvas, 100 by 75 cm. (Reales Alcázares, Seville).

Attributed works:

36. Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici, Electress Palatine, here attributed to Giuseppe Antonio Torricelli. 1705? Pietre dure mosaic in relief, fixed to an ebony, gilt-bronze and pietra dura clock of Florentine manufacture; at the base a commesso relief of an angel also attributed to Torricelli. (Residenz, Munich).

Attributed works:

37. The Annunciation, by Francesco Ghinghi and the Real Laboratorio delle pietre dure di Napoli. c.1739–42. Pietre dure, 85 by 75 cm., with an ebony and gilt-bronze frame, the bronzes attributed to Giacomo Ceci and his son. (Palacio Real, Madrid).

Attributed works:

38. A gilt-bronze embellishment from one of the tables made for Charles of Bourbon, King of Naples, c.1738–49. The bronzes are attributed to Giacomo Ceci. (Palacio Real, Madrid).

Article

Kunstkammer objects in the age of the World Fairs: Charles Duron in 1867

06/2007 | 1251 | 149

Pages: 393-399

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Author:

Gabet, Olivier (Gabet, Olivier)

Subjects

artists:

Duron, Charles

dates:

1860-1869 / 1870-1879

museums and institutions:

Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin, Germany / Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia / British Museum, London, Great Britain / Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

print:

Duron, Charles

subjects:

Kunstkammer / Art objects

subjects:

Gemstone / Gem carvings / Pietre Dure / Vases / Exposition Universelle de Paris (1867)

subjects:

Collecting / Critical Reception / Collections, Public

Illustrations

Attributed works:

23. Ewer, by Charles Duron. 1867. Lapis lazuli and enamelled gold, 22.6 cm. high. (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg).

Attributed works:

25. Small amphora, by Charles Duron. 1867. Onyx and enamelled gold, 15.5 cm. high. (Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin).

Attributed works:

26. Ewer, by Charles Duron. 1864. Agate and enamelled gold, 29.3 cm. high. (British Museum, London).

Attributed works:

27. Fruit bowl, by Charles Duron. 1867. Lapis lazuli, enamelled gold and rubies, 21 cm. high. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris).

Attributed works:

29. Objects from the Exposition universelle of 1867, probably workshop of Charles Duron, c.1867. Watercolour, heightened in gouache and pencil, 45 by 39 cm. (Courtesy of Hill–Stone Inc., New York).

Attributed works:

30. Nef, probably workshop of Charles Duron. c.1868. Watercolour, heightened in gouache and pencil, 45 by 39 cm. (Courtesy of Hill–Stone Inc., New York).

Western art unattributed:

24. Works exhibited by Charles Duron, in F.A. Brockhaus: Illustrierter Katalog des Pariser Industrie-Austellung von 1867, Leipzig 1868, p.230. (Copyright Sophie Boegly, Musée d’Orsay, Paris).

Western art unattributed:

28. Works exhibited by Alfred Beurdeley, in F.A. Brockhaus: Illustrierter Katalog des Pariser Industrie-Austellung von 1867, Leipzig 1868, p.208 (Copyright Sophie Boegly, Musée d’Orsay, Paris).

Western art unattributed:

31. Nef. Lapis lazuli cut in Italy, sixteenth century; mount, Paris, c.1670. Lapis lazuli, silvergilt and enamelled gold, 41.5 by 37.5 by 18.5 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).

Exhibition Review

Art at the Rockface. Norwich and Sheffield

12/2006 | 1245 | 148

Pages: 867-869

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Reviewer:

Anfam, David (Anfam, David)

Subjects

dates:

2000-2009

museums and institutions:

Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich, Great Britain

museums and institutions:

Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, Great Britain

places:

Sheffield / Norwich / England

print:

Sculpture

print:

Stone

subjects:

Reviews / Exhibitions / Sculpture / Stone / Pietre Dure

Reviewed Items

subjects:

Art at the Rockface: The Fascination of Stone | institution: Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery , institution: Ruskin Gallery

Illustrations

Attributed works:

71. Delabole spiral, by Richard Long. 1981. Slate, 28 stones, 34.5 by 240.5 by 228.5 cm. (Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust; exh. Millennium Galleries, Sheffield).

Attributed works:

72. Collector’s cabinet, by the Castrucci workshop. c.1620. Pietre dure, ebonised and gilded wood, 48.5 by 48.6 by 25.4 cm. (Gilbert Collection, London; exh. Millennium Galleries, Sheffield).

Attributed works:

73. Mother and child, by Henry Moore. 1936. Ancaster stone, 51 cm. high. (British Council Collection, London; exh. Millennium Galleries, Sheffield).

Attributed works:

74. Installation showing E.W. Cooke’s Steeple Rock, Kynance Cove, Lizard, Cornwall, low water (1873; private collection) and Untitled (Chair with fabric and rock), by Jannis Kounellis (2006; private collection; both exh. Schachter Rove Gallery, London) at Schachter Rove Gallery, London, 2006.

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