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Editorial
Attacks on art
12/2022 | 1437 | 164
Pages: 1175
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Subjects
subjects:
Iconoclasm / Politics / Destruction / Art museums / Works of art / Ecology
Book Review
Toppling Statues: Papers from the 2020 PSSA Webinar Co-hosted by The Burlington Magazine
10/2022 | 1435 | 164
Pages: 1044-1045
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Reviewer:
Akinsha, Konstantin (Akinsha, Konstantin)
Subjects
patrons:
The Public Statues and Sculpture Association (PSSA) / The Burlington Magazine
sources:
Webinar
subjects:
Statues / Commemorative monuments / Destruction / Iconoclasm / Politics / History
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Toppling Statues: Papers from the 2020 PSSA Webinar Co-hosted by The Burlington Magazine Edited by Marjorie Trusted and Joanna Barnes. 160 pp. incl. numerous b. & w. ills. (Public Statues and Sculpture Association, Watford, 2021), £16. ISBN 978–1–83839–760–9. | :
Book Review
Iconoclasm and the Museum
02/2022 | 1427 | 164
Pages: 222
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Reviewer:
Stammers, Thomas E. (Stammers, Thomas E.)
Subjects
subjects:
Iconoclasm / Museums / Statues / Collections, Public
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Iconoclasm and the Museum By Stacey Boldrick. 212 pp. incl. 60 b. & w. ills. (Routledge, London and New York, 2020), £34.99. ISBN 978–1–138–36968–9. | :
Book Review
Iconophilia: Politics, Religion, Preaching, and the Use of Images in Rome, c.680–880
01/2022 | 1426 | 164
Pages: 84-85
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Reviewer:
Hamburger, Jeffrey (Hamburger, Jeffrey)
Subjects
places:
Rome
subjects:
Religious art / Byzantine art / Iconoclasm / Catholicism / Liturgy / Mary, Virgin / Popes
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Iconophilia: Politics, Religion, Preaching, and the Use of Images in Rome, c.680–880 By Francesca Dell’Acqua. 444 pp. incl. 32 col. + 103 b. & w. ills. (Routledge, London and New York, 2020), £130. ISBN 978–0–415–79372–8. | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
2. Theotokos and Pope Paschal I, detail from the apse, S. Maria in Domnica, Rome. 818–19. Mosaic. (Photograph Francesca Dell’Acqua).
Article
The Art of Conservation XV. The conservation history of the Ghent Altarpiece
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 754-765
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Author:
Dubois, Hélène (Dubois, Hélène)
Subjects
art literature:
Friedländer, Max J. / Coremans, Paul B. / Schryver, Antoine de / Marijnissen, R.-H. / Heere, Lucas de / Mander, Karel van, I, 1548-1606 / Waagen, Gustav Friedrich, 1794-1868 / Bode, Wilhelm von / Puyvelde, Leo van / Hulin de Loo, Georges / Vanderveken, Jef / Gettens, R. J. / Stout, George L. / Asperen de Boer, J. R. J. van / Spronk, Ron
art literature:
Vaernewijck, Marcus van / Hauser, Aloïs, the younger / Grevenstein, Anne van
artists:
Eyck, Jan van / Eyck, Hubert van / Blondeel, Lancelot / Scorel, Jan van / Coxie, Michiel, I, 1499-1592 / Coxie, Raphael / Bruyn, Jan Baptist de / Heuvel, Anton van den / Schlesinger, Johann / Schinkel, Karl Friedrich / Lagye, Victor / Bouts, Dieric
collectors and dealers:
Nieuwenhuys, L.J. / Solly, Edward
dates:
1400-1499 / 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 / 1800-1899 / 1900-1999 / 2000-2009 / 2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Displays / Radiographs / Infrared photography
museums and institutions:
Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA), Brussels, Belgium / Musée du Louvre, Paris, France / Altes Museum, Berlin, Germany / Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium / Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, Belgium / International Council of Museums (ICOM)
museums and institutions:
Getty Foundation, Los Angeles, United States
patrons:
Vijd, Joos / Borluut, Elisabeth / Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598
places:
Netherlands / Belgium / Brussels / Ghent / France / Paris / Germany / Berlin
subjects:
Netherlandish painting / Conservation / Restoration (process) / Scientific analysis / Technical analysis / Provenance / Iconoclasm / Damage to works of art / Stolen works of art / Alterations / Altarpieces / Panel paintings / Polyptychs / Collecting / Patronage / Retables / Feasts / Religious ceremonies / Glazes / Varnish / Pigments / Colour / Commissions / Archives / Style / Council of Trent (1545-1563) / Calvinism / Revolution (France: 1789-1799) / Restitution / Repatriation / Polychromy / Copies / World War (1914-1918) / World War (1939-1945) / Nazism / Exhibitions / Curators / Art historians / Conservators / Restorers / Science
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. The adoration of the Mystic Lamb, by Hubert and Jan van Eyck. Completed by 1432. Panel, shown open, 375 by 514 cm. Before restora- tion. (Cathedral of St Bavo, Ghent; © lukasweb.be – Art in Flanders vzw).
Attributed works:
2. Diagram showing the extent of mid-sixteenth century overpaint on the outside wings of the polyptych. (©KIK-IRPA, Brussels).
Attributed works:
3. Detail of Fig.4, showing Joos Vijd’s right eye after varnish removal. The pink scumbles around the eyes, which cover the original eyelashes, are typical of the mid-sixteenth-century overpainting campaign. (©KIKIRPA, Brussels).
Attributed works:
4. The adoration of the Mystic Lamb, by Hubert and Jan van Eyck. Completed by 1432. Panel, shown closed, 375 by 257 cm. Photographed after restoration. (Cathedral of St Bavo, Ghent; © lukasweb.be – Art in Flanders vzw).
Attributed works:
5. Detail of Fig.4, showing Elisabeth Borluut’s drapery before the removal of varnish and overpaint. (Cathedral of St Bavo, Ghent).
Attributed works:
6. Fig.5 after the removal of overpaint and restoration. (Cathedral of St Bavo, Ghent; © lukasweb.be – Art in Flanders vzw).
Attributed works:
7. The Virgin Annunciate and Angel musicians (recto and verso of the same panel), by Hubert and Jan van Eyck. Photographs taken in Berlin before the restoration of 1894. Original hinges are present on the left side of the frame of the Virgin’s panel. Metal reinforcements were added to the extremities of the crossbar. Later, wrought metal hinged braces were attached by large screws fitted through the frame and visible on the front of the Angels panel. (Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte – Bildarchiv Foto Marburg).
Attributed works:
8. The prophet Micah, detail of Fig.4, shown in the frame designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel with a hatch covering the inscription beneath the prophet. Photograph, before 1878. (RKD, Netherlands Institute for Art History, M.J. Friedländer Archive, The Hague).
Attributed works:
9. The Ghent Altarpiece as installed in the Vijd chapel between 1865 and 1920. It comprises Eyckian central panels, Lagye’s fur-clothed Adam and Eve and Coxcie’s copies of the other shutters. Photograph, c.1910–13. (© Stadsarchief, Ghent).
Western art unattributed:
10. Jef Van der Veken in his studio in Brussels. Photograph, before 1929. (RKD, Netherlands Institute for Art History, Jef Van der Veken Archive, The Hague).
Western art unattributed:
11. Albert Philipott applies wax to the surface of Eve in order to consolidate the paint layers. Photograph, 1951. (© KIK-IRPA, Brussels).
Western art unattributed:
12. Albert Philipott removes the overpainted clouds around the dove in The Adoration of the Lamb. Photograph, 1951. (© KIK-IRPA, Brussels).
Publication Received
Immagini ed eresie nell’Italia del Cinquecento. By Massimo Firpo and Fabrizio Biferali
08/2018 | 1385 | 160
Pages: 708-709
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Reviewer:
Quiviger, François (Quiviger, François; Q., F.)
Subjects
artists:
Veronese, Paolo / Michelangelo / Lotto, Lorenzo
dates:
1500-1599
media:
Paintings / Icons
places:
Italy
subjects:
Italian painting / Censorship / Iconoclasm / Reformation / Counter Reformation / Patronage / Iconography / Christian iconography / Archives
Book Review
Unlocking the Church: The Lost Secrets of Victorian Sacred Space. By William Whyte
06/2018 | 1383 | 160
Pages: 523
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Reviewer:
Saint, Andrew (Saint, Andrew)
Subjects
art literature:
Crook, J. Mordaunt
artists:
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore / Bodley, George Frederick
dates:
1800-1899
media:
Architecture
places:
Great Britain
subjects:
British architecture / Churches / Religious architecture / Victorian / Catholicism / Protestantism / Religion / Theology / Destruction / Iconoclasm
Book Review
The Dawn of Christian Art in Panel Paintings and Icons. By Thomas F. Mathews with Norman E. Muller
05/2018 | 1382 | 160
Pages: 430-431
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Reviewer:
James, Liz (James, Liz)
Subjects
artists:
Cimabue / Leighton, Frederic, First Baron Leighton of Stretton
dates:
0600-0699 / 0700-0799 / 0880-0889 / 0900-0999 / 1000-1099 / 1100-1199 / 1200-1299 / 1300-1399 / 1400-1499 / 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 / 1800-1899
media:
Paintings / Icons
places:
Egypt / Europe
subjects:
Panel paintings / Iconography / Christian iconography / Iconoclasm / Tempera / Technical analysis
Book Review
A Magnificent Faith: Art and Identity in Lutheran Germany. By Bridget Heal
03/2018 | 1380 | 160
Pages: 256
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Reviewer:
Kaufmann, Thomas Dacosta (Kaufmann, Thomas Dacosta)
Subjects
dates:
1500-1699
media:
Paintings / Sculpture
places:
Germany
subjects:
Reformation / Luther, Martin, 1483-1546 / Protestantism / Iconoclasm / Rhetoric / German painting / German sculpture / Netherlandish sculpture / Religious art
Book Review
Lyon Renaissance. Arts et humanisme, L. Virassamynaïken, ed.
04/2016 | 1357 | 158
Pages: 292-293
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Reviewer:
Massing, Jean Michel (Massing, Jean Michel; Massing, J. M.; Massing, Jean-Michel)
Subjects
dates:
1500-1599
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France
places:
Lyon / France
subjects:
Exhibition catalogues / Humanism / Renaissance / Cultural history / Portraits
subjects:
Iconoclasm
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
60. Man shearing a lion. Lyon artist (?), c.1540-50 (Bibliothèque du Palais des Arts, Lyon; Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon; Musée des Beaux-Arts, by exchange)
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