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Book Review
A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature
02/2024 | 1451 | 166
Pages: 208–209
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Evans, Mark (Evans, Mark)
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A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature By Paul Holberton. Two vols, 497 pp. and 468 pp., incl. 322 col. ills (Ad Ilissum, London, 2022), £80. ISBN 978–1–912168–25–5 and 978–1–912168–26–2. | :
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1. Shepherd playing the flute and four shepherdesses, by Gerrit van Honthorst. 1632. Oil on canvas, 92 by 174.5 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
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2. The chamber idyll, by Edward Calvert. 1831. Wood engraving, 4.3 by 7.7 cm. (British Museum, London).
Book Review
Piranesi and the Modern Age
11/2023 | 1448 | 165
Pages: 1239-1241
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Minor, Heather Hyde (Minor, Heather Hyde)
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Piranesi and the Modern Age By Victor Plahte Tschudi. 288 pp. incl. 81 col. + 25 b. & w. ills. (MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 2022), $49.95. ISBN 978–0–262–04717–3. | :
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4. The Gothic arch (pl.XIV from Carceri d’invenzione), by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. c.1749– 50. Etching and engraving, 49.4 by 63.8 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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5. Kerensky ascending the Jordan Staircase, still from October: Ten Days that Shook the World, directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1927.
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6. The drawbridge (pl. VII from Carceri d’invenzione), by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Early 1770s. Etching with engraving, 54.2 by 40.6 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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Stanley Spencer, postcards, small books and old masters
09/2023 | 1446 | 165
Pages: 952–67
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Martineau, Jane (Martineau, Jane; Martineau, Jane; M., J.T.)
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1. Sir Stanley Spencer; Sydney Spencer; Gilbert Spencer; William ‘Pa’ Spencer, by Philip Edward Morrell. 1914. Vintage snapshot print, 6.1 by 10.3 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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10. Postcard of a corbel in Exeter Cathedral sent by Desmond Chute to Stanley Spencer, 21st June 1916. (John Spencer collection; JS 32).
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11. Roger Fry’s glass slide of Masaccio’s St Peter healing with his shadow. (Archive Centre, King’s College, Cambridge; REF 2, box 32).
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12. St George, by Donatello. (Frontispiece of H. Rea: Donatello: Il maestro di chi sanno, London 1900).
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13. Postcard of Gentile Bellini’s Finding of the True Cross sent by Henry Lamb to Stanley Spencer. (John Spencer collection; JS 50).
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14. Postcard of Giotto’s Joachim and the shepherds sent by Jas Wood to Stanley Spencer, 17th October 1927. (UCL Art Museum, University College London; UCL 82).
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15. Reverse of Fig.14.
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16. Postcard of Pieter Bruegel’s Autumn sent by Gilbert Spencer to Stanley Spencer, 1934. (John Spencer collection; JS 82).
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2. Stanley Spencer’s postcard album open to showing a Virgin or saint holding a book, Tonnerre stone, c.1390–1400, Musée national du Moyen Age, Thermes de Cluny, Paris (inv. Cl.18931), and the Court of Pan, by Luca Signorelli, formerly in the collection of the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin. (UCL Art Museum, University College London; UCL 4 and 5).
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3. Letter from Stanley Spencer to the Raverats illustrating the shape of the reliefs on the campanile of Florence Cathedral. 12th April 1913. (Tate Archive, TGA 8116/21).
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4. Roger Fry’s glass slide of Andrea Pisano’s Creation of Eve from the campanile of Florence Cathedral. (Archive Centre, King’s College, Cambridge; REF 2, box 13).
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5. Postcard of the Entombment of Christ, by Donatello, sent from Gwen Darwin to Stanley Spencer, 11th March 1914. (John Spencer collection; JS 6).
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6. Reverse of UCL 51.
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7. Three postcards superimposed to illustrate the west wall of the apse of S. Francesco, Arezzo, by Piero della Francesca, sent by Gwen Raverat to Stanley and Gilbert Spencer, 25th March 1914. (UCL Art Museum, University College London; UCL 53, 50 and 51).
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8. Roger Fry’s glass slides of Piero della Francesca’s Death of Adam. (Archive Centre, King’s College, Cambridge; REF 2, boxes 19 and 32).
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9. Reproduction of the Lion of St Mark, by Vittore Carpaccio, from The Masterpieces of Carpaccio and Giorgione published by Gowans & Gray, 1911.
Article
Tanguy's titles
09/2023 | 1446 | 165
Pages: 932–45
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Mack, Stephen (Mack, Stephen)
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1. Maman, Papa est blessé, by Yves Tanguy. 1927. Oil on canvas, 92.1 by 73 cm. (© Artists Rights Society, NY and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; Museum of Modern Art, New York).
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2. Dame à l’absence, by Yves Tanguy. 1942. Oil on canvas, 115 by 89.5 cm. (© Artists Rights Society, NY and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; photograph by Walter Klein; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein- Westfalen, Dusseldorf).
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3. Inventions of the monsters, by Salvador Dalí. 1937. Oil on canvas, 51.4 by 78.4 cm. (© Salvador Dali, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí; DACS, London; Art Institute of Chicago).
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4. Poem-object, by André Breton. 1941. Carved wood bust of man, oil lantern, framed photograph, toy boxing gloves and paper mounted on drawing board, 45.8 by 53.2 by 10.9 cm. (© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York).
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5. Le Diaposin de satin, by Yves Tanguy. 1940. Oil on canvas, 99.1 by 81.3 cm. (© Artists Rights Society, NY and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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6. La Grue des sables, by Yves Tanguy. 1945. Gouache on paper, 46.1 by 31 cm. (© Artists Rights Society, NY and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; Art Institute of Chicago).
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7. Terre d’ombre, by Yves Tanguy. 1927. Oil on canvas, 99.1 by 80.3 cm. (© Artists Rights Society, NY and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; |Detroit Institute of Art).
Book Review
Alexander the Great: The Making of a Myth
09/2023 | 1446 | 165
Pages: 1022-25
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Daniotti, Claudia (Daniotti, Claudia)
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Alexander the Great: The Making of a Myth Edited by Richard Stoneman with Ursula Sims-Williams, Adrian S. Edwards and Peter Toth. 304 pp. incl. over 200 col. ills. (British Library Publishing, London, 2022), £40. ISBN 978–0–7123–5476–9. | :
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4. Alexander enters the Land of Darkness from Jami’ al-tawarikh (Compendium of Chronicles), by Rashid al-Din. c.1314. Paper, 45 by 33.1 cm. (Edinburgh University Library, MS Or. 20, f.19r).
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5. Roman copper medallion (contorniate) showing Olympias and the serpent. Rome, late 4th–early 5th century. Copper alloy and silver, diameter 1.1 cm. (British Museum, London).
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6. Alexander explores the ocean depths, from the Roman d’Alexandre en Prose. Paris, 1420–25. Parchment, 28.5 by 19.5 cm. (British Library, London, MS Royal 20 B.XX, f.77v).
Book Review
Loss in French Romantic Art, Literature, and Politics
03/2023 | 1440 | 165
Pages: 344-345
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Bann, Stephen (Bann, Stephen)
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Loss in French Romantic Art, Literature, and Politics By Jonathan P. Ribner. 278 pp. incl. 32 col. + 57 b. & w. ills. (Routledge, New York and London, 2022), £120. ISBN 978–1–03–202703–6. | :
Book Review
A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Siena
01/2023 | 1438 | 165
Pages: 92-93
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Dalvit, Giulio (Dalvit, Giulio)
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A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Siena Edited by Santa Casciani and Heather Richardson Hayton. 356 pp. incl. 19 col. ills. (Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2021), €160. ISBN 978–90–04–38999–1. | :
Book Review
Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe
01/2023 | 1438 | 165
Pages: 92-93
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Bohn, Babette (Bohn, Babette)
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Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe By Mary D. Garrard. 320 pp. incl. 65 col. + 4 b. & w. ills. (Reaktion Books, London, 2020), £15.95. ISBN 978–1–78914–202–0. | :
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2. Self-portrait as a lute player, by Artemisia Gentileschi. c.1615–18. Oil on canvas, 77.5 by 71.8 cm. (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford; Bridgeman Images).
Book Review
Au prisme du manuscrit: Regards sur la littérature française du Moyen Âge (1300–1550). Edited by Sandra Hindman and Elliot Adam
12/2022 | 1437 | 164
Pages: 1294-1295
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Yvard, Catherine (Yvard, Catherine)
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Au prisme du manuscrit: Regards sur la littérature française du Moyen Âge (1300–1550) Edited by Sandra Hindman and Elliot Adam. 301 pp. incl. 112 col. + 3 b. & w. ills. (Brepols, Turnhout, 2019), £210. ISBN 978–2–503–56635–1. | :
Article
Dante 1321–2021
03/2022 | 1428 | 164
Pages: 270-275
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Ekserdjian, David (Ekserdjian, David; E., D.)
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John Dickson Batten: Illustrations for Dante’s ‘Inferno’. By Peter Hainsworth. 124 pp. incl. 48 col. ills (Panarc Publishing, Ringwood, Hampshire, 2021) £20, ISBN 978–19–161–5666–1. | :
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Scaramuzza: Le tavole per la Divina Commedia, with a preface by Carlo Ossola and texts by Vittorio Sgarbi, Lina Bolzoni and Simone Verde. 316 pp. incl. 283 col. + b. & w. ills. (Allemandi, Turin, 2021), €50. ISBN 978–88–422–2544–7. | :
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Visions of Heaven: Dante and the Art of Divine Light, by Martin Kemp. 240 pp. incl. 122 col. ills. (Lund Humphries, London, 2021), £45. ISBN 978–18–482–2467–4. | :
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Dante: The Invention of Celebrity, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. (17th September 2021– 9th January 2022) | :
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An Ancient and Honourable Citizen of Florence: The Bargello and Dante, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence (21st April–31st July 2021). | :
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Dante a Verona, Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona and elsewhere (2020-21) | :
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Dante e la cultura del Trecento a Mantova, Museo di Palazzo Ducale, Mantua (15th October 2021–9th January 2022), | :
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Dante: La visione dell’arte, Musei San Domenico, Forlì (30th April–11th July 2021) | :
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Inferno, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome (15th October 2021–9th January 2022). | :
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Un splendor mi squarciò il velo: Dante illustrato: dal codice 3285 a Scaramuzza, Complesso Monumentale della Pilotta, Parma (20th November 2021–13th February 2022). | :
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1. Virgil, by the Master of Campionese. c.1220. Red Verona marble, 124 by 73 by 40 cm. (Musei Civici, Mantua; Bridgeman Images; exh. Musei San Domenico, Forlì).
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2. Frontispiece of Purgatory, from the Divine Comedy by Dante, copied by Francesco di ser Nardo da Barberino, illuminated by the Master of the Dominican Effigies. 1337. (Codex Trivulsiano 1080, fol.36r; Archivio Storico Civico e Biblioteca Trivulziana, Milan; exh. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
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3. Dante Alighieri, by Andrea del Castagno. c.1450. Fresco transferred to canvas, 247 by 153 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; exh. Musei san Domenico, Forlì).
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4. That is the man who went to Hell and came back, by Francesco Saverio Altamura. 1860–65. Oil on canvas, 88 by 203 cm. (Museo dell’ Ottocento, Pescara; exh. Galleria d’Arte Moderna ‘Achille Forti’, Verona).
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5. Cope of Pope Boniface VIII. Opus cyprense, second half of the 13th century. Red silk and gold thread, 140 by 325 cm. (Chapter of the Cathedral Basilica, Anagni; exh. Musei San Domenico, Forlì).
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6. Tree of Life, by Pacino di Buonaguida. 1310–15. Tempera on panel, 248 by 170 cm. (Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence; exh. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
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7. Dante in Oxford, from The Poet’s Corner, by Max Beerbohm, London 1904. Lithograph, 37 by 28 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
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8. Antaeus, by John Dickson Batten. 1897–1900. Pen-and-ink on paper, 18.4 by 27.7 cm. (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford; courtesy the Principal and Fellows of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford).
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