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Two unpublished portraits by Lavinia Fontana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)
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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).
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2. Carlo Sigonio, by Lavinia Fontana. 1581. Oil on canvas, 87 by 70 cm. (Private collection; photograph Archivio dell’Arte; Luciano and Marco Pedicini).
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3. Federico Pendasio, by Lavinia Fontana. 1581. Oil on canvas, 87 by 70 cm. (Private collection; photograph Archivio dell’Arte; Luciano and Marco Pedicini).
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4. Carlo Sigonio, by Lavinia Fontana. 1578. Oil on canvas, 122 by 95 cm. (Museo Civico, Modena).
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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).
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6. Portrait of a scholar, by Lavinia Fontana. 1581. Oil on canvas, 87 by 72 cm. (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna).
Article
Alonso Cano’s rediscovered ‘Immaculate Conception’ for San Alberto, Seville
12/2023 | 1449 | 165
Pages: 1290–1299
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Author:
Prieto Navarrete, Benito (Prieto Navarrete, Benito)
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1. Immaculate Conception, here attributed to Alonso Cano. c.1628–29. Oil on canvas, 148.7 by 96 cm. (Private collection).
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10. Detail of Fig.6, showing the Immaculate Conception.
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11. Immaculate Conception with Miguel Cid, by Francisco Pacheco. 1619. Oil on canvas, 160 by 110 cm. (Cathedral of St Mary, Seville).
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12 and 13. Details of Fig.1 showing cherubs painted over angels in the top corners.
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14. Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi, by Alonso Cano. c.1628–29. Oil on canvas, 116 by 55 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Seville).
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15. The drawing shown in Fig.6 with the surviving paintings from the altarpiece superimposed.
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2. St Francis of Borja, by Alonso Cano. 1624. Oil on canvas, 186 by 120 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Seville).
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3. The Crucified Christ appears to St Teresa, by Alonso Cano. c.1628–29. Oil on canvas, 99 by 43.5 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
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4. Christ the Saviour appears to St Teresa, by Alonso Cano. c.1628–29. Oil on canvas, 99 by 43.5 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
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5. Christ bearing the Cross (Via Dolorosa), by Alonso Cano. c.1628–29. Oil on canvas, 166.5 by 101 cm. (Worcester Art Museum, Worcester MA).
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6. Preparatory drawing for an altarpiece with Christ bearing the Cross (Via Dolorosa) and the Immaculate Conception, by Alonso Cano. c.1628– 29. Pencil, pen and brown ink on paper, 38.9 by 27.9 cm. (Félix Palacios Remondo collection, Zaragoza).
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7. Detail of Fig.9, showing the upper part of the body and head.
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8. Detail of Fig.1, showing the upper part of the body and head.
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9. Immaculate Conception, by Diego Velázquez. c.1622. Oil on canvas, 142 by 98.2 cm. (Fundación Focus, Seville).
Article
Study for ‘Worn out’: a newly discovered Van Gogh drawing
10/2021 | 1423 | 163
Pages: 926-933
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Author:
Meedendorp, Teio (Meedendorp, Teio)
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1. Worn out, by Vincent van Gogh. Around 24th November 1882. Carpenter’s pencil on watercolour paper, traces of squaring and fixative, 50.4 by 31.6 cm. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Vincent van Gogh Foundation).
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2. Study for ‘Worn out’, by Vincent van Gogh. Around 24th November 1882. Carpenter’s pencil on watercolour paper, traces of squaring and fixative, 48.8 by approx. 30 cm. (Private collection).
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3. Verso of Fig.1, Labourer in a field, by Vincent van Gogh. Pencil.
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4. Sorrow, by Vincent van Gogh. Between 6th and 11th November 1882. Lithograph on wove paper, 38.9 by 29.2 cm. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Vincent van Gogh Foundation).
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5. At eternity’s gate, by Vincent van Gogh. 27th November 1882. Lithograph on wove paper, 50 by 34.2 cm. (Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam; Vincent van Gogh Foundation).
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6. Sorrowful old man, by Vincent van Gogh. November–December 1882. Carpenter’s pencil, black lithographic crayon, wash and white opaque watercolour on watercolour paper, 44.5 by 47.1 cm. (Kröller- Müller Museum, Otterlo).
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7. Worn out, by Vincent van Gogh. September–October 1881. Pen and ink and watercolour on laid paper, 23.5 by 31 cm. (P. and N. de Boer Foundation, Amsterdam).
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8. London sketches – Sunday afternoon, 1 p.m. waiting for the public house to open, by E.G. Dalziel. Wood engraving, 22.4 by 30.1 cm. (From the Graphic, 10th January 1874; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Vincent van Gogh Foundation).
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9. Sorrowing old man (‘At eternity’s gate’), by Vincent van Gogh. May 1890. Oil on canvas, 81.8 by 65.5 cm. (Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo).
Exhibition Review
Renaissance Invention: Stradanus’s ‘Nova Reperta’
02/2021 | 1415 | 163
Pages: 165-167
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Reviewer:
Silver, Larry (Silver, Larry)
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Renaissance Invention: Stradanus’s ‘Nova Reperta’ Edited by Lia Markey. 280 pp. incl. 126 b. & w. ills. (Newberry Library, Chicago, and Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 2020), $49.95. ISBN 978–0–8101–4202–2. | :
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10. America, plate 1 from Nova Reperta, by Johannes Stradanus. c.1588. Engraving by Philips Galle, 20.4 by 27 cm. (Newberry Library, Chicago).
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11. Book printing, plate 4 from Nova Reperta, by Johannes Stradanus. c.1588. Engraving by Philips Galle, 20.4 by 27 cm. (Newberry Library, Chicago).
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12. Frontispiece of Nova Reperta, by Johannes Stradanus. c.1588. Engraving by Philips Galle, 20.4 by 27 cm. (Newberry Library, Chicago).
Editorial
The National Trust at 125
02/2020 | 1403 | 162
Pages: 87
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Article
The 1584 purchase contract for the Medici group of Niobe sculptures
01/2020 | 1402 | 162
Pages: 26-31
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Author:
Nicolai, Fausto (Nicolai, Fausto)
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Western art unattributed:
1. The Niobid Room in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. (Courtesy Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi).
Western art unattributed:
2. Fleeing Niobid. Roman copy of a Greek original of the second half of the fourth century BC. Pentelic marble, height 228 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; courtesy Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi).
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3. Niobe and her youngest daughter. Roman copy of a Greek original of the second half of the fourth century BC. Pentelic marble, height 228 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
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4. The Niobids’ tutor, by Giovan Battista de’ Cavalieri. Engraving, 27 by 21.3 cm. (From G.B. De’ Cavalieri: Antiquarum Statuarum Urbis Romae, Rome 1594, pl.10).
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5. The Niobids’ tutor (‘Amphion’). Roman. Pentelic marble, height 181 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; courtesy Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi).
Article
An unfinished mid-thirteenth-century ‘Virgin and Child’ from Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris
11/2019 | 1400 | 161
Pages: 896-903
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Author:
Dectot, Xavier (Dectot, Xavier)
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1. Virgin and Child. Here dated 1245–47. Limestone, 150 by 73 by 40 cm. (Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris; Photo Jennifer Vatelot).
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10. St John from the upper chapel of the Sainte-Chapelle, Paris. 1239–48. Photograph taken before conservation. (Musée de Cluny, Paris, © RMN-Grand Palais; photograph Jean-Gilles Berizzi).
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11. Virgin and Child ('Gilded Virgin') from the south transept portal of Amiens Cathedral. c.1250. Limestone, height 230 cm. (Centre des Monuments Nationaux; photograph Philippe Berthé).
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12. Virgin and Child from the north transept portal of Notre-Dame, Paris. Before 1258. Limestone, height 200 cm. (Centre des Monuments Nationaux; photograph Pascal Lemaître).
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2. Detail of Fig.1, showing the line of fracture. (Photograph Jennifer Vatelot).
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3. Detail of Fig.1, showing the use of fine, flat chisels on the righthand side of the Virgin's veil. (Photograph Jennifer Vatelot).
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4. Detail of Fig.1, showing the use of a flat chisel. (Photograph Jennifer Vatelot).
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5. Detail of Fig.1, showing the use of a large tooth chisel. (Photograph Jennifer Vatelot).
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6. Demolition of the Lady Chapel of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris. c.1802. Pen and ink and watercolour and gouache, 9.4 by 16.2 cm. (Bibliothèque national de France, Paris, Destailleur 310).
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7. Plan of the church and monastery of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The Lady Chapel is north-east of the church. 1764. Pen and ink and watercolour, 72 by 58.3 cm. (Bibliothèque national de France, Paris, Destailleur Paris, t.2,306).
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8. Portal of the Lady Chapel of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris. c.1245– 47. Limestone, 630 by 530 cm. (Musée de Cluny, Paris; © RMN-Grand Palais; photograph Gérard Blot).
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9. Childebert from the trumeau of the portal of the refectory of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris. c.1240. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; © RMN-Grand Palais; photograph Tony Querrec).
Article
Caravaggio’s other ‘Judith and Holofernes’
09/2019 | 1398 | 161
Pages: 716-731
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Author:
Gash, John (Gash, John)
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1. Detail of Fig.3, showing the heads of Abra, Judith and Holofernes.
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14. X-radiograph showing the head of Goliath in David with the head of Goliath, by Caravaggio, 1601/03. Oil on canvas, 110.4 by 91.3 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
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15. Detail of Fig.3, showing the pommel of Judith’s sword. 16. Detail of Beheading of St John the Baptist, by Caravaggio, showing the executioner’s face. 1608. Oil on canvas, 520 by 360 cm. (Oratory of Saint John’s co-cathedral, Valletta; Bridgeman Images). 17. Detail of St Francis in meditation, by Caravaggio. c.1607–09. Oil on canvas, 128 by 90 cm. (Museo Civico Ala Ponzone, Cremona; Bridgeman Images).
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18. Detail of Fig.3, showing the sheet. 19. Detail of Fig.3, showing Abra’s tassel and hand. 20. Detail of Fig.4, showing Christ’s loincloth.
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2. Judith beheading Holofernes, after Caravaggio. c.1607. Oil on canvas, 140 by 161 cm. (Collezione Banca Intesa Sanpaolo, Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, Naples).
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21. Grand Master Alof de Wignacourt with his page, by Caravaggio. Probably 1607. Oil on canvas, 194 by 134 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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22. Detail of Fig.3, showing the arms and upper body of Holofernes. 23. Detail of Flagellation of Christ, by Caravaggio. 1607. Oil on canvas, 286 by 213 cm. (S. Domenico Maggiore, Naples, on loan to the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples). 24. X-radiograph of the face of Holofernes in the painting illustrated in Fig.1, realigned vertically. 25. David with the head of Goliath, by Caravaggio. c.1606–07. Oil on poplar wood, 90.5 by 116.5 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; Bridgeman Images).
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26. Right Detail of Fig.3, showing Judith’s cuff. 27. Detail of Seven works of mercy, by Caravaggio, showing Samson drinking from the jawbone of an ass and, far right, St Martin. 1606–07. Oil on canvas, 390 by 260 cm. (Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples; Bridgeman Images). 28. Detail of Seven works of mercy, by Caravaggio, showing Pero suckling her father. 1606–07. Oil on canvas, 390 by 260 cm. (Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples; Bridgeman Images).
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29. Salome with the head of St John the Baptist, by Caravaggio. c.1607. Oil on canvas, 116 by 140 cm. (Palacio Real, Madrid; © Patrimonio Nacional).
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3. Judith beheading Holofernes, here attributed to Caravaggio and dated 1607. Oil on canvas, 144 by 173.5 cm. (Private collection).
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4. Flagellation of Christ, by Caravaggio. c.1607. Oil on canvas, 134 by 175 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen).
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5. Judith beheading Holofernes, by Caravaggio. c.1602 or 1598/1600. Canvas, 145 by 195 cm. (Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica; Palazzo Barberini, Rome).
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6. Detail of Fig.3, showing the bedcurtain.
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7. The toothpuller, by Caravaggio. 1608–10. Oil on canvas, 140 by 195 cm. (Palazzo Pitti, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
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8. Detail of Fig.3, showing Holofernes’s head.
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9. Detail of Fig.3, showing the faces of Abra and Judith. 10. X-radiograph of Fig.3, showing the faces of Abra and Judith. 11. Infra-red reflectogram of Fig.3, showing the faces of Abra and Judith. 12. X-radiograph of Fig.3. 13. Infra-red reflectogram of Fig.3.
Editorial
Out of the attic
09/2019 | 1398 | 161
Pages: 707