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Book Review
Venice: City of Pictures
06/2024 | 1455 | 166
Pages: 653
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Reviewer:
Barcham, William L. (Barcham, William L.)
Subjects
places:
Venice
subjects:
Venetian art / Architecture / Culture
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subjects:
Venice: City of Pictures By Martin Gayford. 464 pp. incl. 186 col. + b. & w. ills. (Thames & Hudson, London, 2023), £30. ISBN 978–0–500–02266–5. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Bombardment of Marghera on the night of 24th May 1849, by Ippolito Caffi. 1849. Oil on canvas, 25 by 43 cm. (Museo Correr, Venice).
Book Review
Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art, and Neocapitalism
01/2023 | 1438 | 165
Pages: 101-102
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Reviewer:
Silberman, Robert (Silberman, Robert; Silberman, Robert B.)
Subjects
artists:
Pasolini, Pier Paolo (1922–1975)
subjects:
Poetry / Films (motion pictures) / Art critics / Art theory / Criticism / Culture / Capitalism / Politics / Italian art
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subjects:
Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art, and Neocapitalism By Ara H. Merjian. 304 pp. incl. 175 col. + b. & w. ills. (University of Chicago Press, 2020), £36. ISBN 978–0–226–65527–7. | :
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Attributed works:
8. Intellettuale: ‘Il Vangelo secondo Matteo’ di/ su Pier Paolo Pasolini, by Fabio Mauri. 1975. Performed at Galleria Comunale, Bologna, 31st May 1975. (Courtesy Stefano Masotti, Estate of Fabio Mauri and Hauser & Wirth; photograph Antonio Masotti).
Book Review
London’s New Scene: Art and Culture in the 1960s
02/2021 | 1415 | 163
Pages: 191
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Reviewer:
Massey, Anne (Massey, Anne)
Subjects
dates:
1960-1969
places:
London
subjects:
British art / Art market / Culture / Pop art / Exhibitions
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subjects:
London’s New Scene: Art and Culture in the 1960s By Lisa Tickner. 416 pp. incl. 80 col. + 120 b. & w. ills. (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, 2020), £35. ISBN 978–1–913107–10–9. | :
Book Review
The Painter’s Touch: Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard. By Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
05/2020 | 1406 | 162
Pages: 454-456
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Reviewer:
Bailey, Colin B. (Bailey, Colin B.; Bailey, Colin)
Subjects
artists:
Boucher, François / Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon / Fragonard, Jean-Honoré
subjects:
French art / Enlightenment / Visual culture / Culture / Philosophy / Art market
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subjects:
The Painter’s Touch: Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard By Ewa Lajer-Burcharth. 312 pp. incl. 154 col. + 104 b. & w. ills. (Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 2018),  54. ISBN 978–0–691–17012–1. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Dead hare with powder flask and game bag, by Jean Baptiste Sim on Chardin. c.1726–30. Oil on canvas, 98 by 77 cm. (Mus e du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
Exhibition Review
Pietro Aretino and the Art of the Renaissance. Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence
02/2020 | 1403 | 162
Pages: 139-141
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Reviewer:
Salomon, Xavier F. (Salomon, Xavier F.)
Subjects
art literature:
Aretino, Pietro
artists:
Titian / Vasari, Giorgio / Sebastiano del Piombo
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Books / Paintings / Medals
museums and institutions:
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
subjects:
Italian art / Culture / Cultural history / Art history / House of Gonzaga / Medici family / Literature
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Pietro Aretino and the Art of the Renaissance Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence 27th November 2019–1st March | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Pietro Aretino, by Titian. 1545. Oil on canvas, 96.7 by 77.6 cm. (Palazzo Pitti, Florence; exh. Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence).
Attributed works:
5. Thetis, Nereus, Adria and Glaucus (from La Talanta), by Giorgio Vasari. Black chalk, pen and ink and wash on blue paper, 25 by 33.8 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; exh. Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence).
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6. Sonetti lussuriosi (Opuscolo Toscanini), by Pietro Aretino. c.1550. Woodcuts on paper, 15.6 by 9.8 cm. (Private collection; exh. Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence).
Book Review
Architects and Intellectual Culture in Post-Restoration England. By Matthew Walker
08/2019 | 1397 | 161
Pages: 688-689
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Reviewer:
Bold, John (Bold, John)
Subjects
dates:
1660-1719
subjects:
Wren, Christopher / Evelyn, John, 1620-1706 / British architecture / Culture / Collecting
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Architects and Intellectual Culture in Post-Restoration England By Matthew Walker. 256 pp. incl. 30 b. & w. ills. (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017), | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. The anatomy theatre, Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London, by David Loggan. 1677. Engraving, 16.9 by 10.4 cm.
Book Review
Fray: Art and Textile Politics, J. Bryan-Wilson
05/2019 | 1394 | 161
Pages: 446-446
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Reviewer:
Richmond, Susan (Richmond, Susan)
Subjects
places:
Chile / United States
subjects:
Textiles / Needlework / Politics / Feminism / Culture / Criticism / LGBT
Book Review
Uri Korea: Kunsthistorische und ethnografische Beiträge zur Ausstellung S. Knödel and B. Schmelz, eds.
05/2019 | 1394 | 161
Pages: 445-446
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Reviewer:
Jungmann, Burglind (Jungmann, Burglind)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Museum of Ethnology, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany / National Folk Museum of Korea, Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
subjects:
Korean art / Culture / Ethnology
subjects:
Exhibition catalogues
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
6. One hundred fans. Korean, c.1900. Sixpart screen, pigment and ink on paper, wood, silk and textile, 139.5 by 327 cm. (Museum of Ethnology, Hamburg).
Book Review
William Morris and his Palace of Art: Architecture, Interiors and Design at Red House
04/2019 | 1393 | 161
Pages: 353-354
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Reviewer:
Cooper, Nicholas (Cooper, Nicholas)
Subjects
artists:
Morris, William / Webb, Philip, 1831-1915
buildings:
Red House, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Architectural history / Interior design / Decorative arts / Taste (aesthetics) / Culture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
William Morris and his Palace of Art: Architecture, Interiors and Design at Red House By Tessa Wild. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. A digital reconstruction of the original decoration in the drawing room at Red House, London. (Image John Tredinnick).
Exhibition Review
Armenia! Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
01/2019 | 1390 | 161
Pages: 60-63
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Reviewer:
Jones, Lynn (Jones, Lynn)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Sculpture / Stone / Textiles / Manuscripts / Books / Architecture / Reliquaries / Reliefs / Maps / Costume
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
places:
United States / New York
subjects:
Armenian / Culture / Cultural history / Material culture (genre) / Visual culture / Popular culture / Religious art / Religious architecture / Iconography / Christian iconography / Jesus Christ / Churches / Cathedrals / Patronage / Commissions / Travel / Dress / Portraits / Saints
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
4. Altar frontal. 1741. Gold, silver and silk threads on silk, 67.5 by 97.5 cm. (Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, Armenia; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Non-western art unattributed:
5. Alexander Romance. Rome, 1538–44 and unknown location, sixteenth century. Tempera and ink on parchment, 24 by 17.8 cm. (‘Matenadaran’ Mesrop Mashtots’ Institute-Museum of Ancient Manuscripts, Yerevan, MS 5472; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Non-western art unattributed:
6. Khachkar. Lori Berd, twelfth to thirteenth century. Basalt, 182.9 by 98.4 by 22.9 cm. (History Museum of Armenia, Yerevan; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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