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Exhibition Review
Claude Lorrain. Oxford and Frankfurt
01/2012 | 1306 | 154
Pages: 54-55
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Reviewer:
Cavazzini, Patrizia (Cavazzini, Patrizia)
Subjects
artists:
Lorrain, Claude
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain
museums and institutions:
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
places:
Oxford / Germany / Frankfurt / England
print:
Lorrain, Claude
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Claude Lorrain. The Enchanted Landscape | institution: Ashmolean Museum , institution: Städel Museum
Illustrations
Attributed works:
68. Landscape with a country dance, by Claude Lorrain. c.1637. Pen and brown ink with brown wash, touched in green and heightened in white, on tinted white paper, 19.4 by 25.9 cm. (British Museum, London; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
69. Christ and the Magdalene, by Claude Lorrain. c.1679. Black chalk with pen and brown ink, heightened in white on tinted paper, 16.3 by 28.4 cm. (British Museum, London; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
70. Coast view, by Claude Lorrain. 1633. Canvas, 97 by 122 cm. (Trustees of the 9th Duke of Buccleuch’s Chattels Fund; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Exhibition Review
Treasures from Macedon. Oxford
08/2011 | 1301 | 153
Pages: 554-555
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Reviewer:
Elsner, Jas (Elsner, Jas)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019 / 0499-0400 BC / 0399-0300 BC
museums and institutions:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain
places:
Oxford / England
print:
Macedonian
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Macedonian School / Macedonian / Greek (ancient) / Greek (ancient) art / Gold / Hellenistic / Antiquities / Classical / Sculpture / Greek (ancient) sculpture / Ceramics / Funerary art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Heracles to Alexander the Great: Treasures from the Royal Capital of Macedon, a Hellenic Kingdom in the Age of Democracy | institution: Ashmolean Museum
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
31. Lekythoi (oil containers). Athenian, c.430–20 BC. White ground on clay, dimensions variable (tallest, approx. 50 cm. high). (Museum of the Royal Tombs of Aegae, Vergina; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Western art unattributed:
32. Oak-leaf and acorn wreath. Aegae, c.310 BC. Gold, diameter 16.5 cm. (Museum of the Royal Tombs of Aegae, Vergina; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Western art unattributed:
33. Clay bust. Aegae, c.480 BC. Clay, approx. 30 cm. high. (Museum of the Royal Tombs of Aegae, Vergina; exh. Ashmolean Mus­eum, Oxford).
Exhibition Review
The Pre-Raphaelites and Italy. Ravenna and Oxford
12/2010 | 1293 | 152
Pages: 820-821
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Reviewer:
Gauld, Nicola (Gauld, Nicola)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain
places:
Oxford / England
print:
Pre-Raphaelite art
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
subjects:
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Pre-Raphaelites and Italy | institution: Ashmolean Museum , institution: Museo d'Arte della Città di Ravenna
Illustrations
Attributed works:
50. Il dolce far niente, by William Holman Hunt. 1859–66. Canvas, 99 by 82.5 cm. (Schaeffer Collection; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
51. Trees of life, by Edward Burne-Jones. 1888. Watercolour and bodycolour on paper, 181 by 242 cm. (Vic­toria and Albert Museum, London; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
52. Ruins in the Alban Hills, by Giovanni Costa. c.1855. Oil on paper laid down on canvas, 28.5 by 43.5 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Exhibition Review
Leonardo da Vinci. Florence, London, Oxford and Munich
04/2007 | 1249 | 149
Pages: 283-286
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Reviewer:
Waldman, Louis Alexander (Waldman, Louis Alexander; Waldman, Louis; Waldman, Louis A.)
Subjects
artists:
Leonardo da Vinci
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy / Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain / Council of Europe / Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy / Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain / Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany / National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan
places:
Tokyo / Oxford / Munich / London / Italy / Germany / Florence / England / Japan
print:
Leonardo da Vinci
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Imagining Leonardo | institution: Ashmolean Museum
subjects:
La mente di Leonardo. Al tempo della \'Battaglia di Anghiari\' | institution: Galleria degli Uffizi
subjects:
La mente di Leonardo. Nel laboratorio del Genio universale | institution: Galleria degli Uffizi , institution: National Museum of Western Art
subjects:
Leonardo and Milan: Drawings from the Guise Collection | institution: Christ Church Picture Gallery
subjects:
Leonardo da Vinci. Die Madonna mit der Nelke | institution: Alte Pinakothek
subjects:
Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design | institution: Victoria and Albert Museum
Illustrations
Attributed works:
67. Combat of soldiers on horseback, by Giovan Francesco Rustici. c.1508. Terracotta, 44 cm. high. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence; exh. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).
Attributed works:
68. ‘Irrigation Systems’ of the female body: respiratory, vascular and urino-genital, by Leonardo da Vinci. c.1507–08. Pen and ink and wash over black chalk on paper, pricked for transfer, 47 by 32.8 cm. (Royal Collection, Windsor Castle; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
69. Portrait of a young man, traditionally identified as Raphael, by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, called Sodoma (formerly attributed to Leonardo). c.1500–05. Black chalk with white bodycolour, 40.4 by 28.8 cm. (Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford).
Attributed works:
70. Warrior on horseback, after Leonardo da Vinci. Early sixteenth century. Bronze, 24.3 cm. high. (Szépmu´´veszéti Múzeum, Budapest).
Western art unattributed:
66. Bust of the youthful Christ, by an anonymous Lombard sculptor. Late fifteenth century. Terracotta, 35 by 40 by 21 cm. (Heirs of Luigi Gallandt, Rome; exh. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).
Exhibition Review
Alfred William Hunt. New Haven and Oxford
05/2005 | 1226 | 147
Pages: 354-355
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Reviewer:
Wilton, Andrew (Wilton, Andrew)
Subjects
artists:
Hunt, Alfred William
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain
places:
Oxford / England
print:
Hunt, Alfred William
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Poetry of Truth. Alfred William Hunt and the Art of Landscape | institution: Ashmolean Museum , institution: Yale Center for British Art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
64. Tynemouth pier - lighting the lamps at sundown, by Alfred William Hunt. c.1866. Watercolour and bodycolour, 37.1 by 54 cm. (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
65. A November rainbow - Dolwyddelan Valley, by Alfred William Hunt. 1866. Watercolour, 49.5 by 74.9 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
66. Conwy town and castle, by Alfred William Hunt. 1856. Watercolour, 25.4 by 38.1 cm. (Private collection; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Exhibition Review
Oxford college silver. Oxford
10/2004 | 1219 | 146
Pages: 702-704
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Reviewer:
Schroder, Timothy (Schroder, Timothy)
Subjects
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain
places:
England / Oxford
print:
Silverwork
subjects:
Exhibitions / Reviews / Silverwork / Civic plate
Reviewed Items
subjects:
A Treasured Inheritance: 600 Years of Oxford College Silver | institution: Ashmolean Museum
Illustrations
Attributed works:
66. Finger bowl, by Peter Musson. 2002-03. Silver with gilt interior, 7 by 15 cm. (New College, Oxford; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Western art unattributed:
64. Tankard, London, 1678-79. Silver, 27.5 by 30.5 cm. (Oriel College, Oxford; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Western art unattributed:
65. Punch bowl and ladle. London, 1726-27. Silver gilt, 30.5 by 50 cm. diam. (Jesus College, Oxford, exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Western art unattributed:
67. Standing salt. c.1450 with later additions. Silver-gilt with painted crystal lid, 45 by 13.3 cm. (All Souls College, Oxford; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Exhibition Review
Drawing in Florence, c.1600. Oxford, London and Nottingham
05/2004 | 1214 | 146
Pages: 345-347
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Reviewer:
Ekserdjian, David (Ekserdjian, David; E., D.)
Subjects
dates:
1600-1649 / 2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, Great Britain
places:
England / Nottingham
print:
Italian drawing
subjects:
Exhibitions / Italian painting / Drawings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Graceful and True: Drawing in Florence c.1600 | institution: Ashmolean Museum , institution: Colnaghi and Obach Gallery , institution: Djanogly Art Gallery
Illustrations
Attributed works:
68. The punishment of the lustful, by Federico Zuccari. 1576-79. Pen and brown ink over black chalk with brown and pink washes, 50.7 by 75.3 cm. (British Museum, London; exh. Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham).
Attributed works:
69. Dante watching the sunrise in the dark forest, by Jacopo Ligozzi. 1587. Pen and brown ink with brown wash and white heightening on brown-tinted paper, 20.1 by 27.5 cm. (Christ Church, Oxford; exh. Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham).
Attributed works:
70. An artist painting, by Jacopo da Empoli. 1620s or 1630s. Red chalk, 39 by 21.4 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; exh. Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham).
Attributed works:
71. Studies for the flight into Egypt, here attributed to Joseph Heintz. 1590s or 1600s. Black and red chalks with white heightening. 27 by 21.2 cm. (Courtauld Institute Galleries, London; exh. Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham).
Exhibition Review
English embroidery. Oxford
05/2004 | 1214 | 146
Pages: 344-345
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Reviewer:
Harris, Jennifer (Harris, Jennifer)
Subjects
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain
places:
England / Oxford
print:
Embroidery
subjects:
Exhibitions / Reviews / Textiles / Embroidery
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Curious Works: English 16th and 17th century Embroidery | institution: Ashmolean Museum
Illustrations
Attributed works:
66. Casket showing scenes from the life of Abraham, possibly made by Miss Bluitt and later, by Mrs Payne. Seventeenth century. Silk embroidery, detached needle lace, pearls and coiled metal wire on silk satin ground, 29.7 by 26.5 by 18.5 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Western art unattributed:
65. Purse in the form of a frog, English, seventeeth century. Metal and silk thread, 6 by 7.5 by 1.5 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
Western art unattributed:
67. Needlework strawberries. English, seventeeth century. Silk thread, gold and silver wire, 10 by 7 by 2 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Exhibition Review
Bolognese Drawings: Oxford
06/2002 | 1191 | 144
Pages: 366-367
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Reviewer:
Robertson, Clare (Robertson, Clare)
Subjects
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain
places:
England / Oxford
subjects:
Exhibitions / Reviews / Italian painting / Drawings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Drawings from the Age of the Carracci | institution: Ashmolean Museum
Illustrations
Attributed works:
35. The Last Supper, by Agostino Carracci. Pen and Brown Ink on Cream Paper, 19.6 by 25.8 cm. (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm; Exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
36. Landscape with a Horseman, by Agostino Carracci. Pen and Brown Ink on Cream Paper, 10.7 by 15.1 cm. (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm; Exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
37. Landscape with Two Vagabonds, by Annibale Carracci. Pen and Brown Ink on Cream Paper, 20.8 by 13 cm. (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm; Exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).