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July 2023

Vol. 165 | No. 1444

Italian art

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Editorial

At Tate Britain

It is now nearly a quarter of a century since Tate made the division of its displays between British art on Millbank and modern and contemporary art at Bankside. In that time, the permanent collection shown at Tate Britain has been comprehensively redisplayed four times. An Editorial in this Magazine in 2000 on Tate Britain’s inaugural hang criticised the decision to abandon chronology in favour of thematic groupings (such as ‘landscape’, ‘the nude’ and ‘city life’) in imitation of Tate Modern, and concluded, ‘the opportunity must be seized to present a comprehensive, well-paced, beautifully hung, chronologically based and intellectually coherent conspectus of the development of British art’

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Urban VIII and the Barberini

By Joseph Connors

On the 400th anniversary of the election of Maffeo Barberini as Pope Urban VIII, an exhibition at Palazzo Barberini, Rome, has brought together examples of the spectacular patronage of the arts for which he and his three nephews were responsible.

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A sartorial portrait of Ottaviano Ubaldini della Carda by Piero della Francesca

By Machtelt Brüggen Israëls

The identification of the figures in the foreground of Piero della Francesca’s ‘Flagellation’ can be elucidated by an unpublished Wardrobe list of Palazzo Ducale, Urbino. Compiled in 1488–92, it sheds light on the court’s use of dress and reveals that the pattern of the right-hand figure’s gown was worn by only one man, Ottaviano Ubaldini della Carda, the brother of Duke Federico di Montefeltro.

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  • Vision of the Blessed Sorore

    Castiglione Olona: a new chronology for the frescos of the Collegiata

    By Giulio Dalvit
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  •  Panel of green velvet cloth of gold of tissue (three loom widths sewn together).

    A tale of two velvets in works by Jaume Huguet and Piero della Francesca

    By Lisa Monnas
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  • 1. Flagellation of Christ with figures here identified as Joseph of Arimathea and an assistant asking Pilate for the body of Christ

    A sartorial portrait of Ottaviano Ubaldini della Carda by Piero della Francesca

    By Machtelt Brüggen Israëls
  • Lucrezia

    Painting on stone in Rome in the sixteenth century

    By Andrea Gianluca Donati
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  • Madonna and Child with Sts Sebastian, Roch, Hilary and Blaise

    discoveries in the parma baptismal registers: ii Michelangelo Anselmi and Francesco Maria Rondani

    By Mary Vaccaro
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  • The feast of Herod

    Donatello in Florence, Berlin and London

    By Alexander Röstel
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  • 1. Maffeo Barberini

    Urban VIII and the Barberini

    By Joseph Connors
  • Imago, imagines: Výtvarné dílo a proměny jeho funkcí v českých zemích od 10. do první třetiny 16. století

    By Romuald Kaczmarek,Agnieszka Patała
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  • Imago, imagines: Výtvarné dílo a proměny jeho funkcí v českých zemích od 10. do první třetiny 16. století

    By Romuald Kaczmarek
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  • Imago, imagines: Výtvarné dílo a proměny jeho funkcí v českých zemích od 10. do první třetiny 16. století

    By Romuald Kaczmarek,Agnieska Patala
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  • Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance: A Contribution to the History of Collecting

    By Wolfram Koeppe
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  • Jan van Eyck’s ‘Crucifixion’ and ‘Last Judgment’: Solving a Conundrum

    By Larry Silver
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  • Disegni, argenti e argentieri dall’Archivio Barberini (Studi e Testi, 542–543)

    By Jennifer Montagu
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  • In Italien Karriere machen: Der flämische Maler Michele Desubleo zwischen Rom, Bologna und Venedig (ca.1624–1664)

    By Marije Osnabrugge
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  • Jo van Gogh-Bonger: The Woman Who Made Vincent Famous

    By Cornelia Homburg
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  • Radical Picasso: The Use Value of Genius

    By Jonathan Ribner
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  • Medieval Bridges of Southern England: 100 bridges, 1000 years

    By David Harrison
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  • Bernini, der Papst und der Tod

    By Charles Avery
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  • Bernini, der Papst und der Tod

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  • Federico Zeri, Roberto Longhi: Lettere (1946–1965)

    By Gianluca Forgione
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  • Giuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome

    By Timo Strauch
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  • Hugo van der Goes: Between Bliss and Pain

    By Susan Jones
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  • Raffaello: Nato Architetto

    By David Hemsoll
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  • Antoine Caron (1521–1599): Le théâtre de l’histoire

    By Ketty Gottardo
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  • The Rossettis

    By Julian Treuherz
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  • Pastels: From Millet to Redon

    By Kimberly A. Jones
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  • Charmion von Wiegand

    By Simon Grant
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  • Norman Foster

    By Catherine Croft
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  • The Farrell Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne

    By Ewan Harrison
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