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Editorial
Cataloguing
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 79
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Subjects
subjects:
Catalogues / Catalogues raisonnés / Collections, Public / scholars / Curators / Art museums / Museums
Obituary
David Anfam (1955–2024)
01/2025 | 1462 | 167
Pages: 75-6
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Author:
James, Merlin (James, Merlin; James, Merlin Ingli; Ingli James, Merlin; J., M.)
Subjects
artists:
Still, Clyfford / Rothko, Mark / Pollock, Jackson
subjects:
Anfam, David, London, Great Britain / Art historians / scholars / Abstract Expressionism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Still from Of First and Last, by Ron and Merial Kenley. 2020. Video, duration 1 hour 32 minutes. (Courtesy Ron Kenley).
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Two unpublished portraits by Lavinia Fontana
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 893-99
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Author:
Denunzio, Antonio Ernesto (Denunzio, Antonio Ernesto)
Subjects
artists:
Fontana, Lavinia / Fontana, Prospero
dates:
1550-1599
patrons:
Sigonio, Carlo / Pendasio, Federico
places:
Bologna / Naples
subjects:
Italian art / Portraits / scholars / Sitters / discoveries
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Self-portrait in the studio, by Lavinia Fontana. 1579. Oil on canvas, diameter 15.7 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence; photo Scala, Florence; courtesy Ministero della Cultura).
Attributed works:
2. Carlo Sigonio, by Lavinia Fontana. 1581. Oil on canvas, 87 by 70 cm. (Private collection; photograph Archivio dell’Arte; Luciano and Marco Pedicini).
Attributed works:
3. Federico Pendasio, by Lavinia Fontana. 1581. Oil on canvas, 87 by 70 cm. (Private collection; photograph Archivio dell’Arte; Luciano and Marco Pedicini).
Attributed works:
4. Carlo Sigonio, by Lavinia Fontana. 1578. Oil on canvas, 122 by 95 cm. (Museo Civico, Modena).
Attributed works:
5. Federico Pendasio, copy after Lavinia Fontana. First quarter of the 17th century. Oil on canvas, 65 by 51cm. (Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
6. Portrait of a scholar, by Lavinia Fontana. 1581. Oil on canvas, 87 by 72 cm. (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna).
Article
Introduction
01/2024 | 1450 | 166
Pages: 4
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Author:
Gajewski, Alexandra (Gajewski, Alexandra)
Subjects
places:
Avignon
subjects:
scholars / Art history / Papacy / Patronage
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Avignon, seen from the west, dominated by the Papal Palace. (Bridgeman Images).
Editorial
History of art after Brexit
11/2023 | 1448 | 165
Pages: 1171
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Subjects
subjects:
Art history / Art historians / Universities / scholars / Students / Europeans / Brexit
Book Review
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club
10/2023 | 1447 | 165
Pages: 1160–1162
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Reviewer:
Watson, Rowan (Watson, Rowan)
Subjects
subjects:
Illuminated manuscripts / Manuscripts / Collectors / Collections, Private / Collections, Public / scholars
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club By Christopher de Hamel. 624 pp. incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Allen Lane, London 2022). £40. ISBN 978–0–241–30437–2. | :
Obituary
Paolo Portoghesi (1931–2023)
10/2023 | 1447 | 165
Pages: 1165–1166
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Author:
Hopkins, Andrew (Hopkins, Andrew)
Subjects
artists:
Portoghesi, Paolo
subjects:
Architects / Architectural historians / scholars / Baroque / Post-Modern
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Paolo Portoghesi, photographed in 2012. (dpa picture alliance; Alamy Stock Photo).
Attributed works:
2. A colonnade in the Rome Mosque and Cultural Islamic Centre, by Paolo Portoghesi, Vittorio Gigliotti and Sami Mousawi, designed from 1974 and built in 1984–95. (© Andrea Jemolo; Bridgeman Images).
Obituary
John Newman (1936–2023)
10/2023 | 1447 | 165
Pages: 1167–1168
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Author:
Bradley, Simon (Bradley, Simon)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Newman, John (1936–2023) / Architectural historians / Architectural history / scholars / British architecture
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. John Newman, photographed at St Luke’s church, Sevenoaks, Kent, in 1996. (Photo Geoffrey Gilbert).
Obituary
Duncan Robinson (1943–2022)
05/2023 | 1442 | 165
Pages: 578-580
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Author:
Pergam, Elizabeth (Pergam, Elizabeth)
Subjects
art literature:
The Burlington Magazine
museums and institutions:
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States / Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Great Britain
museums and institutions:
Magdalene College, Cambridge, Great Britain
subjects:
Robinson, Duncan, Cambridge, Great Britain / Art historians / Museum directors / scholars / British art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Duncan Robinson, by Peter Mennim. 2011. Oil on canvas, 81.3 by 61 cm. (Magdalene College, Cambridge).
Attributed works:
2. Nude in an interior, by Harold Gilman. c.1911. Oil on canvas, 50.5 by 35.4 cm. (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
3. A folio from the Macclesfield Psalter, showing a historiated initial containing the Annunciation to the Shepherds. England, c.1330–40. Tempera and gold on vellum, 17 by 6.2 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, MS 1-2005, fol.139v; Bridgeman Images).
Obituary
Richard Verdi (1941–2022)
03/2023 | 1440 | 165
Pages: 351-352
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Author:
Spencer-Longhurst, Paul (Spencer-Longhurst, Paul)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, Great Britain
subjects:
Verdi, Richard, Birmingham, Great Britain
subjects:
Art historians / Museum directors / scholars / Curators / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Richard Verdi, photographed at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts in 2004. (Photograph Edward Moss).
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