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Exhibition Review
Corvey und das Erbe der Antike: Kaiser, Klöster und Kulturtransfer im Mittelalter
12/2024 | 1461 | 166
Pages: 1241–3
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Schwarzer, Isabella (Schwarzer, Isabella)
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Corvey und das Erbe der Antike: Kaiser, Klöster und Kulturtransfer im Mittelalter Diözesanmuseum, Paderborn 21st September 2024–26th January 2025 | :
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Attributed works:
6. She-bear. Roman with 19th-century additions. Bronze, 85 by 75 by 95 cm. (Domschatzkammer, Aachen; exh. Diözesanmuseum, Paderborn).
Western art unattributed:
4. Bursa. Second half of the 8th century. Gold and silver, fire gilt, cloisonné, glass and garnet inlay, gems, pearls, wooden core, 16 by 14 by 5.3 cm. (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; exh. Diözesanmuseum, Paderborn).
Western art unattributed:
5. Stone plate with inscription from westwork of Corvey Abbey, 815–85. Sandstone, approx. 173 by 87 cm. (Corvey Abbey; exh. Diözesanmuseum, Paderborn).
Article
Avignon as 'nova Roma'
01/2024 | 1450 | 166
Pages: 5–15
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Bolgia, Claudia (Bolgia, Claudia)
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1. Chamber of the Stag, Papal Palace, Avignon. 1343. (Photograph Domenico Ventura).
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11. Detail of the Stefaneschi polyptych, showing the Crucifixion of St Peter, by Giotto. c.1320. Tempera on panel. (Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican City; Bridgeman Images).
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13. Crucifixion of St Peter, copy of a detail in the lost fresco cycle in the atrium of Old St Peter’s, Rome (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS A64ter (Grimaldi Album), fol. 39).
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14. Duke Stephen in Rome, imploring St Peter to absolve his sins, by Matteo Giovannetti. 1344–45. Fresco. (Scene M, south wall, chapel of St Martial, Papal Palace, Avignon; photograph Domenico Ventura).
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15. Detail of Fig.14, showing Stephen, Duke of south-west France, receiving absolution from St Peter.
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16. Vault of the chapel of St John, Papal Palace, Avignon, by Matteo Giovannetti. 1346–48. (Photograph Domenico Ventura).
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17. Alpinianus cures the sick by imposing on them the sudarium of St Martial, by Matteo Giovannetti. 1344–45. Fresco. (Scene U, south wall, chapel of St Martial, Papal Palace, Avignon; photograph Domenico Ventura).
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18. Detail of Fig.17, showing the imposition of the sudarium.
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2. Detail of the ceiling of the Chamber of the Stag, showing the she-wolf with her twins and the hen with her chicks. 1343. (Papal Palace, Avignon; photograph Fabrice Lepeltier).
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4. Section of the Tower of the Pope and Garderobe Tower, Papal Palace, Avignon.
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5. Ground plan of the Papal Palace, Avignon.
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6. Christ ordering St Peter to send St Martial to preach in Gaul and St Peter communicating Christ’s will to Martial and his disciples, by Matteo Giovannetti. 1344–45. Fresco. (Scene D, vault, chapel of St Martial, Papal Palace, Avignon; photograph Domenico Ventura).
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7. Martial receives the staff from St Peter and Resurrection of Austriclianus, by Matteo Giovannetti. 1344–45. Fresco. (Scene C, vault, chapel of St Martial, Papal Palace, Avignon; photograph Domenico Ventura).
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8. Chapel of St Martial, Papal Palace, Avignon, by Matteo Giovannetti. 1344–45. (Photograph Domenico Ventura).
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9. Christ showing to St Martial in a vision the martyrdom of St Peter and St Paul in Rome, by Matteo Giovannetti. 1344–45. Fresco. (Scene P, lunette, west wall, chapel of St Martial, Papal Palace, Avignon; photograph Domenico Ventura).
Western art unattributed:
10. Crucifixion of St Peter. c.1277–80. Fresco. (Sancta Sanctorum, Rome).
Western art unattributed:
12. Rooster. Italian, 9th–12th century. Gilded bronze. (Museo Storico- Artistico del Tesoro di S. Pietro, Vatican City).
Western art unattributed:
3. Stone relief of the she-wolf with her twins, Maria Saal Cathedral. (Wikimedia Commons).
Letter
Jan van Eyck’s ‘Crucifixion’ and ‘Last Judgment’
11/2023 | 1448 | 165
Pages: 1172
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Author:
Ainsworth, Maryan W. (Ainsworth, Maryan W.; Ainsworth, Maryan)
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Book Review
Cryptes médiévales et culte des saints en Île-de-France et en Picardie. Edited by Paul Gillon and Christian Sapin.
12/2022 | 1437 | 164
Pages: 1291-1293
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Gem, Richard (Gem, Richard)
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Cryptes médiévales et culte des saints en Île-de-France et en Picardie Edited by Paul Gillon and Christian Sapin. 528 pp. incl. 485 col. + b. & w. ills. (Presses universitaires du Septentrion, Villeneuve d’Ascq, 2019), €35. ISBN 978–2–7574–2852–8. | :
Illustrations
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2. Reconstruction of the east end of the abbey of Saint-Denis; on the left in the Carolingian period, and on the right as rebuilt 1140–44. (M. Wyss and J.-P. Marie, Unité archéologie de Saint-Denis).
Book Review
Objects, Relics, and Migrants: The Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio in Milan and the Cult of its Saints (386–972)
04/2022 | 1429 | 164
Pages: 419-421
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Quadri, Irene (Quadri, Irene)
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Objects, Relics, and Migrants: The Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio in Milan and the Cult of its Saints (386–972) By Ivan Foletti. 250 pp. incl. 106 col. + 38 b. & w. ills. (Viella, Rome, 2020), €45. ISBN 978–88– 6728–950–9. | :
Illustrations
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2. Detail of the reverse of the Golden Altar, S. Ambrogio, Milan. 824–59. (Photograph Domenico Ventura).
Book Review
Treasury, Memory, Nature: Church Objects in the Middle Ages
02/2022 | 1427 | 164
Pages: 213-214
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Reviewer:
Nickson, Tom (Nickson, Tom)
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Treasury, Memory, Nature: Church Objects in the Middle Ages By Philippe Cordez. 284 pp. incl. 75 col. ills. (Harvey Miller, London and Turnhout, 2020), £76.50. ISBN 978–1–912554–61–4. | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
2. Ostrich egg reliquary. Probably second half of the 13th century. Gilt silver, precious stones, enamel and ostrich egg, height 33.5 cm. (Domschatz Halberstadt; © Landesamt für Demkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen- Anhalt; photograph Juraj Lipták).
Article
Gilded glass and English saints: a medieval reliquary at Douai Abbey
04/2021 | 1417 | 163
Pages: 314-323
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Campbell, Marian (Campbell, Marian; C., M.)
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Zöschg, Michaela (Zöschg, Michaela)
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Illustrations
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10. Diagram of the ‘Wheel of Twenty Opposites’, from the Howard Psalter and Hours. England, c.1310–20. Pigments and gold on parchment, sheet 36 by 23.5 cm. (British Library, London, Arundel MS 83 I, fol.4r; Bridgeman Images).
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12. Crucifixion and the Adoration of the Magi, from the Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux, by Jean Pucelle. Paris, c.1324–28. Grisaille, tempera and ink on vellum, single folio 9.2 by 6.2 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; accession number 54.1.2).
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14. Crucifixion, from the De Lisle Psalter. England, c.1308–40. (British Library, London, Arundel MS 83 II, fol.132r; Bridgeman Images).
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15. Crucifixion, from the Queen Mary Psalter. England, c.1310–20. (British Library, London, Royal 2B VII, fol.256v; Bridgeman Images).
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17. Scenes from the Passion of Christ, from the De Lisle Psalter. England, c.1308–40. (British Library, London, Arundel MS 83 II, fol.125r; Bridgeman Images).
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18. Detail from The Swinburne Pyx, showing the face of Christ. England, c.1310–25. Silver and silver gilt, diameter 5.7 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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5. Historiated initial ‘B’ with the Jesse Tree from the Howard Psalter and Hours. England, c.1310–20. Pigments and gold on parchment, 36 by 23.5 cm. (British Library, London, Arundel MS 83 I, fol.14r; Bridgeman Images).
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6–9 (clockwise from top left). Details of Fig.5, showing: the arms of England; France; Ely; and Bury St Edmunds.
Attributed works:
Opposite 4. Crucifixion, detail of Fig.1, showing the gilded glass panel.
Western art unattributed:
1. Reliquary. England (?), c.1320–30. Wood, gesso, gilding, textile and gilded glass, 31 by 20 by 2.5 cm. (Douai Abbey Library).
Western art unattributed:
11. Wing of a reliquary diptych with the Crucifixion and saints. Umbria, c.1350. Wood, gesso, gilding and gilded glass, 22.5 by 15.6 by 1.4 cm. (Thyssen–Bornemisza Collections, Madrid).
Western art unattributed:
13. Detail from the Westminster Retable, showing the Feeding of the Five Thousand. English (?), c.1270. Oil on oak panel with decorated elements, 333.5 by 95.8 cm. (Westminster Abbey, London; Bridgeman Images).
Western art unattributed:
16. Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and St John the Evangelist. c.1320. Wall painting. St Mary’s Church, Brent Eleigh (Bridgeman Images).
Western art unattributed:
2. The back of Fig.1.
Western art unattributed:
3. Detail of Fig.1, showing the relic of Robert of Bury.
Book Review
Migrating Art Historians on the Sacred Ways: Reconsidering Medieval French Art through the Pilgrim’s Body
04/2021 | 1417 | 163
Pages: 383-384
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Reviewer:
Walker, Rose (Walker, Rose)
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Migrating Art Historians on the Sacred Ways: Reconsidering Medieval French Art through the Pilgrim’s Body Edited by Ivan Foletti, Katar na Kravč kov , Adrien Palladino and Sabina Rosenbergov . 468 pp. incl. 179 col. + 24 b. & w. ills. (Masaryk University, Brno, and Viella, Rome, 2018), €70. ISBN 978–88–331–3105–4. | :
Book Review
Die erneuernde Kraft der Tradition: Spätmittelalterliche Schatz- und Ausstattungsobjekte des Halberstädter Doms. By Patricia Strohmaier
02/2020 | 1403 | 162
Pages: 165-166
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Westermann-Angerhausen, Hiltrud (Westermann-Angerhausen, Hiltrud; Angerhausen, Hiltrud Westermann-)
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Die erneuernde Kraft der Tradition: Spätmittelalterliche Schatz- und Ausstattungsobjekte des Halberstädter Doms By Patricia Strohmaier. 192 pp. incl. 57 col. + 43 b. & w. ills. (Deutscher Verlag für Kunstgeschichte, Berlin, 2019), £80. ISBN 978–3–87157–250–0. | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
2. Skull-reliquary of Charlemagne, known as the Karlspokal. Cut-glass cup, 9th–10th century, silver-gilt mounting with niello and enamel, including a miniature bust of Charlemagne, c.1343. Overall height 42.9 cm. (Halberstadt Cathedral Treasury).
Book Review
Trésors des Cathédrales. Edited by Judith Kagan and Marie-Anne Sire
01/2020 | 1402 | 162
Pages: 75-76
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Reviewer:
Milner, Lesley (Milner, Lesley)
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Trésors des Cathédrales Edited by Judith Kagan and Marie-Anne Sire. 320 pp. incl. 350 ills. (Éditions du Patrimoine, Centre des Monuments Nationaux, 2019), £72. ISBN 978–2–7577–0618–3. | :
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