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A portrait of an unknown woman by Titian
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 212–17
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Humfrey, Peter (Humfrey, Peter)
Author:
Joannides, Paul (Joannides, Paul; J., P.; Joannides, P. E. A.)
Subjects
artists:
Titian / Veronese, Paolo
dates:
1550-1559
museums and institutions:
Hamilton Kerr Institute, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Great Britain
subjects:
Attributions / Attributions, former / Portraits / Dating / Costume / Conservation / Pentimenti / Venetian art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Portrait of a woman in a green dress, by Titian. c.1550–55(?). Oil on canvas, 86 by 70.4 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
2. Detail of the back of the canvas of Fig.1.
Attributed works:
3. X-radiograph of Fig.1.
Attributed works:
4. Portrait of a woman, by Paolo Veronese. c.1555. Oil on canvas, 106 by 87 cm. (Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai; photograph Hugo Maertens).
Attributed works:
5. Portrait of a woman. Venice. c.1555(?). Oil on canvas, 101 by 77 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Béziers).
Short Notice
The Patron and early provenance of Titian's 'Three ages of man'
11/2003 | 1208 | 145
Pages: 787-791
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Author:
Humfrey, Peter (Humfrey, Peter)
Subjects
artists:
Titian
dates:
1500-1529
museums and institutions:
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, Great Britain
patrons:
Truchsess von Waldburg, Otto, Cardinal, 1514-1573
places:
Italy
subjects:
Italian painting / Patronage
subjects:
Ages of man
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Cardinal Truchsess von Waldburg, by Lambert Sustris. 1553. (Fürst con Waldburg-Zeil collection, Schloss Zeil).
Attributed works:
The three ages of man, by Titian. c.1513. 90 by 150.7 cm. (Duke of Sutherland collection, on loan to the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh).
Attributed works:
The three ages of man, etching by Valentin Lefèvre after a lost painting by Titian. (from V. Lefèvre: Opera selectiora . . ., 1680-82).
Attributed works:
X-radiograph of Fig.29.
Western art unattributed:
Bathers, by an anonymous Ferrarese painter. c.1520-30. 108.5 by 163 cm. (Castel S. Angelo, Rome).
Western art unattributed:
The tree ages of man, copy after lost painting by Titian. 90 by 154 cm. (Doria Pamphilj collection, Rome).
Book Review
The Art of Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone
07/1997 | 1132 | 139
Pages: 486-487
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Author:
Humfrey, Peter (Humfrey, Peter)
Subjects
artists:
Pordenone (Giovanni Antonio Licinio)
dates:
1500-1549
places:
Italy
subjects:
Italian painting / Renaissance
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Art of Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone | author: Cohen, Charles E.
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A 'Dead Christ with Angels' by Alvise Vivarini
09/1993 | 1086 | 135
Pages: 627-629
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Author:
Humfrey, Peter (Humfrey, Peter)
Subjects
artists:
Vivarini, Alvise
dates:
1400-1499
places:
Italy / Venice
subjects:
Italian painting / Attributions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
26. Dead Christ with Angels, Here Attributed to Alvise Vivarini. Panel, 51 by 122 cm. (Museo Diocesano di Arte Sacra, Bologna).
Attributed works:
27. Assumption of the Virgin, by Alvise Vivarini. Panel, 225 by 114 cm. (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan).
Attributed works:
28. Pentecost Polyptych, by Alvise Vivarini. Centre Panel, 200 by 125 cm. (Staatliche Museen, Berlin).
Article
Fra Bartolommeo, Venice and St Catherine of Siena
07/1990 | 1048 | 132
Pages: 476-483
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Author:
Humfrey, Peter (Humfrey, Peter)
Subjects
artists:
Bartolommeo, Fra
dates:
1500-1549
places:
Italy / Florence / Venice
subjects:
Italian painting / Iconography
subjects:
Catherine of Siena, Saint
subjects:
Documents
Illustrations
Attributed works:
25. God the Father with Sts Mary Magdalen and Catherine of Siena, by Fra Bartolommeo. 1508, 365 by 232 cm. (Museo Nazionale di Villa Guinigi, Lucca).
Attributed works:
26. St Thomas Aquinas Enthroned with Saints, by Vittore Carpaccio. 1507. Panel, 264 by 171 cm. (Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart).
Attributed works:
27. The Coronation of St Catherine of Siena, by Francesco Bissolo. 1513, 365 by 235 cm. (Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice).
Attributed works:
29. The Coronation of the Virgin, by Tullio Lombardo. 1501. Marble, c.400 cm. High. (S. Giovanni Crisostomo, Venice).
Attributed works:
32. St Catherine of Siena, by Fra Bartolommeo. Black Chalk with white Heightening, 158 by 113 cm. (Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence).
Western art unattributed:
28. View of the Exterior of S. Pietro Martire, Murano.
Western art unattributed:
30. St Catherine of Siena, Illuminated Initial from the Legenda Maior. Italian, Early-Fifteenth Century. (Biblioteca Braidense, Milan, MS AD, IX, 38, fol.52r).
Western art unattributed:
31. St Catherine of Siena, from the Frontispiece of Epistole devotissime de Sancta Catharina da Siena (Venice, 1500). Woodcut. (Schiede Collection, Princeton).
Article
The Venetian Trade Guilds as Patrons of Art in the Renaissance
05/1986 | 998 | 128
Pages: 317-327+329-330
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Author:
Humfrey, Peter (Humfrey, Peter)
Author:
MacKenney, Richard (MacKenney, Richard)
Subjects
artists:
Tintoretto, Jacopo
artists:
Bellini, Gentile
artists:
Palma, Jacopo, il giovane, ca. 1548 - 1628
artists:
Veronese, Paolo
dates:
1400-1599
places:
Italy / Venice
subjects:
Italian painting / Renaissance / Patronage
subjects:
Guilds
subjects:
Confraternities
subjects:
Inventories / Documents
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Calling of St Matthew, by Girolamo da Santacroce. 242 by 165 cm. (Museo Civico, Bassano del Grappa.)
Attributed works:
11. Assumption, by Palma Giovane. 280 by 150 cm. (S. Zulian, Venice). Cf. Fig.13.
Attributed works:
12. Altar of the Orefici, with Sculpture by Girolamo Campagna. Bronze Figure of St Anthony Abbot: 189 cm. High. (S. Giacomo di Rialto, Venice).
Attributed works:
13. Altar of the Marzeri, with Marble Sculpture by Vittoria. (S. Zulian, Venice).
Attributed works:
2. Annunciation, by Cima da Conegliano. Canvas (Transferred from Panel), 143 by 113 cm. (Hermitage, Leningrad.)
Attributed works:
3. St Lanfranc and Saints, by Cima da Conegliano. Panel, 145 by 130 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.)
Attributed works:
4. Baptism of Christ, by Tintoretto. 283 by 162 cm. (S. Silvestro, Venice).
Attributed works:
5. Decollation of St John the Baptist, by Palma Giovane. 300 by 220 cm. (Gesuiti, Venice).
Attributed works:
6. St Barbara and Saints, by Palma Vecchio (In Eighteenth Century Frame). Main Panel: 214 by 85 cm. (S. Maria Formosa, Venice).
Attributed works:
8. Virgin and Child with Saints, by Bonifazio Veronese. 130 by 149 cm. (Accademia, Venice).
Western art unattributed:
7. Reception of Officials of the Scuola dei Calegheri by the Doge, by Anonymous Venetian Painter (Mid-Sixteenth Century). 181 by 167 cm. (Museo Correr, Venice.)
Western art unattributed:
9. Stone Relief Detail from Altar of the Barcaiuoli, (S. Giobbe, Venice).
Short Notice
Two Fragments from a Theseus Cassone by Cima
08/1981 | 941 | 123
Pages: 470+477-478
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Author:
Humfrey, Peter (Humfrey, Peter)
Subjects
artists:
Cima da Conegliano, Giovan Battista
dates:
1500-1519
museums and institutions:
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy
places:
Italy / Venice
subjects:
Italian painting / Attributions
subjects:
Classical mythology / Theseus
subjects:
Cassoni
Illustrations
Attributed works:
17. Theseus and the Minotaur, by Cima da Conegliano. 38.5 by 31 cm. (Brera, Milan; On Loan to the Museo Poldi Pezzoli).
Attributed works:
18. Mythological Scene, Here Entitled Theseus at the Court of Minos, by Cima da Conegliano. 88.7 by 33 cm. (Private Collection, Zürich).
Letter
A Non-Bellini from the Carità in Venice
04/1979 | 913 | 121
Pages: 253+256
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Author:
Humfrey, Peter (Humfrey, Peter)
Subjects
artists:
Bellini, Giovanni
artists:
Diana, Benedetto
buildings:
Santa Maria della Carità, Venice, Italy
dates:
1500-1549
places:
Italy / Venice
subjects:
Italian painting / Attributions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
89. Baptism of Christ, by Benedetto Diana (?). Panel, 137 by 168 cm. (Parish Church, Caresana, Vercelli).
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A Non-Bellini from the Carità in Venice
01/1977 | 886 | 119
Pages: 36-37+39
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Author:
Humfrey, Peter (Humfrey, Peter)
Subjects
art literature:
Ridolfi, Carlo, 1594-1658
art literature:
Boschini, Marco
artists:
Bellini, Giovanni
artists:
Cima da Conegliano, Giovan Battista
artists:
Busati, Andrea
buildings:
Santa Maria della Carità, Venice, Italy
dates:
1450-1549
patrons:
Mula, Paolo da
places:
Italy / Venice
sources:
Ridolfi, Carlo, 1594-1658
subjects:
Italian painting / Engravings
subjects:
Attributions
subjects:
Lost works
Illustrations
Attributed works:
37. Lamentation, by Andrea Busati. (National Gallery, London).
Western art unattributed:
36. Engraving of the Baptism Once in S. Maria della Carità, Venice.