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Book Review
The Language of Architectural Classicism: From Looking to Seeing
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 299–300
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Reviewer:
Powers, Alan (Powers, Alan)
Subjects
subjects:
Architecture / Classicism / Classical
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Language of Architectural Classicism: From Looking to Seeing By Edward McParland. 288 pp. incl. 253 col. + 48 b. & w. ills. (Lund Humphries, London, 2024), £35. ISBN 978–1–84822–659–3. | :
Book Review
The Presence of the Past in French Art, 1870–1905: Modernity and Continuity
08/2022 | 1433 | 164
Pages: 822-823
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Reviewer:
Bann, Stephen (Bann, Stephen)
Subjects
dates:
1870-1879 / 1880-1889 / 1890-1899 / 1900-1909
subjects:
French art / Nineteenth-century French art / Influence / of / Classicism / Renaissance art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Presence of the Past in French Art, 1870–1905: Modernity and Continuity By Richard Thomson. 288 pp. incl. 257 col. + b. & w. ills. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2021), $70. ISBN 978–0–300– 25710–6. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Golden age, by Emile-René Ménard. 1908. Oil on canvas, 352 by 287 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris; © RMN-Grand Palais; photograph Michel Urtado and Mathieu Rabeau).
Exhibition Review
Maurice Denis: Love
06/2021 | 1419 | 163
Pages: 544-546
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Reviewer:
Deltour, Louis (Deltour, Louis)
Subjects
artists:
Denis, Maurice
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
subjects:
French art / Nabis (movement) / Symbolist movement / Decorative arts / Classicism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Maurice Denis: Love Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne 12th February–16th May | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Sunlight on the terrace, by Maurice Denis. 1890. Oil on cardboard, 23.5 by 20.5 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris; photograph RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt; exh. Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne).
Attributed works:
11. Bathers, beach with a small temple, by Maurice Denis. 1906. Oil on canvas, 114 by 196 cm. (Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne).
Attributed works:
12. April, decoration for a ceiling, by Maurice Denis. 1894. Oil on canvas, diameter 182 cm. (Private collection; exh. Musée cantonal des beaux-arts de Lausanne).
Article
Architectural history after Summerson
08/2020 | 1409 | 162
Pages: 686-693
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Author:
Brindle, Steven (Brindle, Steven)
Subjects
art literature:
Summerson, John / Colvin, Howard / Pevsner, Nikolaus / Soane, John
museums and institutions:
Royal Commission on Historical Monuments
museums and institutions:
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, Great Britain / Yale University Press, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Architectural historians / Architectural history / Conservation / Classicism / Gothic architecture
subjects:
Aesthetics / Style / British architecture / Social history / Patrons / scholars / Surveys / Dating
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. John Summerson in Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photograph by Stephen Hyde, 1984. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
4. Design for the Banqueting House, Whitehall, by Inigo Jones. c.1619. Pen and ink with wash over graphite, 36.6 by 43.7 cm. (Chatsworth House, Derbyshire; photograph © The Devonshire Collections.)
Attributed works:
5. The Midland Grand Hotel, St Pancras Station, London, by George Gilbert Scott. 1867–76. Photograph by Bedford Lemere, 1881. (Bridgeman Images).
Western art unattributed:
2. The Great Hall, Hampton Court Palace, London. c.1532–35. (Historic Royal Palaces).
Western art unattributed:
3. Swakeleys, Hillingdon, London. 1638. (Wikimedia Commons).
Article
Philip and Peter Paul Rubens in Rome: newly discovered documents concerning their early careers
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 120-127
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Author:
Paolini, Cecilia (Paolini, Cecilia)
Subjects
art literature:
Justus Lipsius, 1547-1606 / Seneca, Lucius Annaeus / Rubens, Philip
artists:
Rubens, Peter Paul / Veen, Otto van
dates:
1600-1699 / 1600-1649
media:
Paintings / Documents / Drawings / Engravings / Books
patrons:
Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, 1559–1621 / Vincenzo II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, 1594-1627 / Richardot, Jean, the younger
places:
Italy / Rome
subjects:
Flemish painting / Travel / Patronage / Commissions / Archives / Correspondence / Study and teaching / Courts (social groups) / Catholicism / Classicism / Classical / Counter-Reformation / Laocoön (Vatican Museums, Rome) / Belvedere Torso / Copies / Jesuits / Politics
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Philip Rubens, by Peter Paul Rubens. c.1610–11. Panel, 68.6 by 52.7 cm. (Detroit Institute of Arts).
Attributed works:
2. Laocoön and his sons, by Peter Paul Rubens. Black chalk and bistre on paper, 47.5 by 47.5 cm. (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan).
Attributed works:
3. Bust of Seneca, by Cornelis Galle after Peter Paul Rubens. Engraving, 30.9 by 19 cm. From L. Annaei Senecae philosophi opera by Justus Lipsius, 2nd ed., Antwerp 1615. (The British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
4. The crowning with thorns, by Peter Paul Rubens. 1602. Panel, 224 by 180 cm. (Cathedral of Notre-Dame-du-Puy, Grasse, Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
5. Archduke Albert VII of Austria, by Peter Paul Rubens. c.1618. Canvas, 105 by 74 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
Attributed works:
6. Opposite Peter Paul Rubens, Philip Rubens, Justus Lipsius and Joannes Woverius (‘The Four Philosophers’), by Peter Paul Rubens. c.1611–12. Panel, 164 by 139 cm. (Palazzo Pitti, Florence).
Exhibition Review
Romanticism in the North
04/2018 | 1381 | 160
Pages: 329-331
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Reviewer:
van der Meij, Lorenz (van der Meij, Lorenz)
Subjects
artists:
Turner, Joseph Mallord William / Teerlink, Abraham / Nerly, Friedrich, 1807-1878 / Blechen, Carl / Wright of Derby, Joseph, painter, 1734-1797 / Juel, Jens / Friedrich, Caspar David / Rørbye, Martinus / Fearnley, Thomas / Gurlitt, Louis / Skovgaard, P.C. / Wolf, Caspar / Achenbach, Andreas / Dahl, Johan Christian / Danby, Francis / Cappelen, Herman August / Martin, John, 1789-1854 / Koekkoek, Barend Cornelis / Weissenbruch, Jan, 1822-1880 / Constable, John
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings
places:
Netherlands / Groningen
subjects:
Romanticism / Sublime / Landscapes (visual works) / Classicism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. A cottage on fire, by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1793. Canvas, 63.5 by 76.2 cm. (Derby Museums; exh. Groninger Museum, Groningen).
Attributed works:
8. Winter landscape, by Caspar David Friedrich. 1811. Canvas, 33 by 46 cm. (Staatliches Museum, Schwerin; exh. Groninger Museum, Groningen).
Attributed works:
9. View of the Roman Campagna, by Martinus Rørbye. 1835. Oil on paper, 32 by 41 cm. (Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg; exh. Groninger Museum, Groningen).
Exhibition Review
Classicism in British art, 1920–1950. Chichester
01/2017 | 1366 | 159
Pages: 58-59
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Reviewer:
Cahill, James (Cahill, James; Cahill, J.)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019 / 1920-1929 / 1930-1939 / 1940-1949
museums and institutions:
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, Great Britain
places:
Chichester / England
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Classicism / British painting
Illustrations
Attributed works:
53. The Labyrinth, by John Armstrong. 1927 (Private collection, USA; exh. Pallant House Gallery, Chichester)
Attributed works:
54. Still life, by Meredith Frampton. 1932 (Royal Academy of Arts, London; exh. Pallant House Gallery, Chichester)
Attributed works:
55. Eight studies for murals at John Maynard Keynes's Rooms, Webb's Court, King's College, Cambridge; The Muses of Arts and Sciences, by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell. 1920 (Private collection; exh. Pallant House Gallery, Chichester)
Publication Received
Modern Antiquity: Picasso, de Chirico, Léger, Picabia.
04/2012 | 1309 | 154
Pages: 283
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Reviewer:
Radford, Robert (Radford, Robert)
Subjects
artists:
Picasso, Pablo / Chirico, Giorgio de / Léger, Fernand / Picabia, Francis
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Getty Villa, Malibu, United States / Musée Picasso, Antibes, France
print:
Classicism
subjects:
Classicism / Exhibitions / Exhibition catalogues / Collections, Public / Paintings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Modern Antiquity: Picasso, de Chirico, Léger, Picabia. | author: Daehner, Jens , author: Green, Christopher
Book Review
How to create beauty. De Lairesse on the theory and practice of making art
02/2012 | 1307 | 154
Pages: 129-130
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Reviewer:
Eck, Xander van (Eck, Xander van; Van Eck, Xander)
Subjects
artists:
Lairesse, Gerard de
dates:
1700-1709
print:
Lairesse, Gerard de
subjects:
Treatises / Artists' writings / Art theory / Dutch painting / Manuals / Classicism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
How to create beauty. De Lairesse on the theory and practice of making art | author: Vries, Lyckle de
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