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Exhibition Review
Alabaster
02/2023 | 1439 | 165
Pages: 176-178
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Reviewer:
Frisch, Anja Katharina (Frisch, Anja Katharina)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
M [letter M] Museum, Leuven, Belgium
subjects:
Alabasters / Sculpture / Alabaster carvings / Altarpieces / Reliefs / Effigies
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Alabaster M Leuven 14th October 2022– 26th February 2023 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Charles V and Isabella of Portugal, attributed to Jean Mone. Probably after 1529. Alabaster, 37 by 29 cm. (Gaasbeek Castle, Gaasbeek; exh. M Leuven).
Western art unattributed:
8. The Virgin and Child with St Anne, by Damián Forment. c.1522– 25. Alabaster, 76 by 58 by 36 cm. (Chapel of St Anne, Huesca Cathedral; exh. M Leuven).
Western art unattributed:
9. Allegory of Death (‘La Mort Saint-Innocent’). Île-de-France, c.1530, covered with a wash resembling bronze at the end of the 18th century. Alabaster, 120 by 55 by 27 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; exh. M Leuven).
Book Review
The Wyvern Collection: Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture and Metalwork. By Paul Williamson
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 974-975
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Reviewer:
Dectot, Xavier (Dectot, Xavier)
Subjects
artists:
Buglioni, Benedetto / Ferrucci, Andrea di Piero / Morel, Jacques / Riemenschneider, Tilman
dates:
0200-0299 / 0300-0399 / 0400-0499 / 0500-0599 / 0600-0699 / 0700-0799 / 0800-0899 / 0900-0999 / 1000-1099 / 1100-1199 / 1200-1299 / 1300-1399 / 1400-1499 / 1500-1599
media:
Sculpture / Wood sculpture / Stone / Marbles / Alabaster carvings / Metalwork / Reliefs
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
Europe
subjects:
Collections, Private / Catalogues / Attribution / Dating / Identification / Provenance / Patronage / Commissions / Scientific analysis / Technical analysis / Radiocarbon dating / Art market / Medieval / Early medieval / Late medieval / Byzantine art / Baroque / Rococo / Boxwood / Porphyry / Busts / Sarcophagi / Polychromy / Aquamanilia / Copper
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
1. Head of an apocalyptic elder. Western French (Parthenay), c.1160, with restorations. Limestone, height 31.5 cm. (Wyvern Collection).
Exhibition Review
Shadows of Time: Giambologna, Michelangelo and the Medici Chapel. The Sculpture Collection, Dresden
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 854-856
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Reviewer:
Avery, Charles (Avery, Charles)
Subjects
artists:
Michelangelo / Giambologna / Zuccaro, Federico / Bisschop, Jan de / Rubens, Peter Paul / Broecke, Willem van der
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Sculpture / Alabaster carvings / Bronzes / Drawings / Sketches / Prints / Engravings / Reliefs
museums and institutions:
Albertinum, Dresden, Germany
patrons:
Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574 / Christian I, Elector of Saxony, 1560–1591
places:
Germany / Dresden
subjects:
Italian sculpture / Statues / Statuettes / Patronage / Gifts / Medici family / Sarcophagi / Unfinished works / Attribution / Iconography / Time / Mars / Nightmare / Copies / Casts (sculpture) / Carving (processes)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Detail of Day, attributed to Giambologna, after Michelangelo. Before 1574. Alabaster, 44.5 by 48.5 by 14.7 cm. (Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Dresden; photograph Hans-Peter Klut; exh. The Sculpture Collection, Dresden).
Attributed works:
8. Day, attributed to Giambologna, after Michelangelo. Before 1574. Alabaster, 44.5 by 48.5 by 14.7 cm. (Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Dresden; photograph Hans-Peter Klut; exh. The Sculpture Collection, Dresden).
Attributed works:
9. Allegory of Francesco I de’Medici, by Giambologna. c.1560–61. Alabaster, 32 by 45.8 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; exh. The Sculpture Collection, Dresden).
Article
A Renaissance Spanish knight in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
11/2016 | 1364 | 158
Pages: 864-869
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Author:
Pérez-Martin, Sergio (Pérez-Martin, Sergio)
Author:
Vasallo-Toranzo, Luis (Vasallo-Toranzo, Luis)
Subjects
artists:
Montejo Villardiga, Juan de
dates:
1590-1609
museums and institutions:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States
subjects:
Spanish sculpture / Collections, Public / Alabaster carvings / Funerary art / Funerary structures / Attributions / Attribution / Portraits / Statues / Commissions / Provenance
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Funerary statue of Alonso de Mera, by Juan de Montejo. 1594 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Attributed works:
3. Reconstruction of the monument to Alonso de Mera, by Antonio Falcote and Juan de Montejo (Drawing by M.A.M. Bailón)
Attributed works:
4. Detail from the tomb of Simón de Galarza and Antonia Rodríguez, by Juan de Montejo. c.1583 (Convent of Discalced Carmelites, Alba de Tormes)
Attributed works:
5. Detail of St Joseph from the Nativity of Christ, by Juan de Montejo. c.1598 (Chapel of Cardinal Mella, Zamora Cathedral)
Attributed works:
6. Detail of Fig.1
Attributed works:
7. Pediment of the tomb with two cherubs holding an oval shield bearing the arms of Alonso de Mera, by Juan de Montejo. 1594 (Whereabouts unknown; photograph courtesy of J. Navarro)
Western art unattributed:
2. Collection card N4831 for the funerary statue of Alonso de Mera, from the records of the Brummer Gallery, New York. Before 28th November 1940 (Digital copy in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Thomas J. Watson Library)
Article
Maria Faydherbe: a seventeenth-century sculptor in Mechelen
02/2014 | 1331 | 156
Pages: 104-106
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Author:
Trusted, Marjorie (Trusted, Marjorie)
Subjects
artists:
Faydherbe, Maria
dates:
1600-1649
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
Mechelen (Malines) / Belgium
subjects:
Flemish sculpture / Women artists / Collections, Public / Alabaster carvings / Wood sculpture / Mary, Virgin: and Child
Illustrations
Attributed works:
45. Virgin and Child, by Maria Faydherbe (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
Attributed works:
46. Virgin and Child, by Maria Faydherbe (Present whereabouts unknown)
Attributed works:
47. Virgin and Child, by Maria Faydherbe (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
Attributed works:
48. Virgin and Child, by Maria Faydherbe (Private collection, Belgium)
Attributed works:
49. Detail of monogram on Fig. 45
Attributed works:
50. Detail of signature and date on Fig. 48
Publication Received
Matter of Light and Flesh. Alabaster in the Netherlandish sculpture of the 16th and 17th centuries
09/2012 | 1314 | 154
Pages: 648
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Reviewer:
Skibinski, Franciszek (Skibinski, Franciszek)
Subjects
dates:
1500-1699
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Muzeum Narodowe w Gdańsku, Gdansk, Poland
print:
Alabaster carvings
subjects:
Alabaster carvings / Netherlandish sculpture / Dutch sculpture / Flemish sculpture
subjects:
Dutch / Flemish / Netherlandish / Exhibitions / Exhibition catalogues
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Matter of Light and Flesh. Alabaster in the Netherlandish sculpture of the 16th and 17th centuries | editor: Kriegseisen, Jacek , editor: Lipinska, Aleksandra
Short Notice
A fifteenth-century English alabaster altarpiece in the church of Saint-Martin, Gondreville, Picardie
06/2007 | 1251 | 149
Pages: 407-410
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Author:
Isnard, Isabelle (Isnard, Isabelle)
Subjects
dates:
1450-1499
places:
Picardie / France
print:
Alabaster carvings
print:
Saint-Martin, Picardie, France
subjects:
Alabaster carvings / Altarpieces / Sculpture / Religious art / Religious architecture / English / Christian iconography
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
39. Altarpiece. English, second half of the fifteenth century. Alabaster (in modern stone structure), 90 by 220 cm. (Gondreville, Picardie).
Western art unattributed:
40. Detail of the Holy Trinity in Fig.39; 51.5 by 28.5 cm.
Western art unattributed:
41. Detail of St Christopher (38 by 13.5 cm.) in Fig.39.
Western art unattributed:
42. Detail of St James the Great (39 by 14 cm.) in Fig.39.
Western art unattributed:
43. Detail of the Martyrdom of St Lawrence and the Martyrdom of St Thomas of Canterbury in Fig.39; 40 by 26 cm. and 49 by 27 cm. respectively.
Western art unattributed:
44. Detail of the Martyrdom of St Erasmus and Stoning of St Stephen in Fig.39; each 40 by 26 cm.
Publication Received
Alabaster Images of Medieval England [and: Die Kunst der Renaissance].
08/2005 | 1229 | 147
Pages: 565
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Reviewer:
Röll, Johannes (Röll, Johannes)
Reviewer:
Townsend, Eleanor (Townsend, Eleanor)
Subjects
art literature:
Schweikhart, Gunter
places:
England
print:
Medieval art
subjects:
British sculpture / Alabaster carvings / English / Medieval
subjects:
Carvings
subjects:
Articles / Renaissance / Art history
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Alabaster Images of Medieval England. | author: Cheetham, Francis
Short Notice
Gaudier-Brzeska's 'Weeping Woman'
04/1987 | 1009 | 129
Pages: 243-245
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Author:
Lewison, Jeremy (Lewison, Jeremy)
Subjects
artists:
Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri
dates:
1910-1919
places:
France / England
subjects:
French sculpture / Alabaster carvings / Lost works
Illustrations
Attributed works:
25. Weeping Woman, by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. 1913. Alabaster, Height Possibly Similar to Fig.26. (Location Unknown; Photograph Tate Gallery Archives, London).
Attributed works:
26. Amour, by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. 1913. Alabaster and Gilding, Height 45.7 cm. (Location Unknown; Photograph Tate Gallery Archive, London).
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