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Exhibition Review
Africa & Byzantium
02/2024 | 1451 | 166
Pages: 182–184
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Reviewer:
Barber, Charles (Barber, Charles)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
styles:
Ethiopian School / Coptic art / Syrian / Armenian / Arabian
subjects:
Africa / Byzantine Empire / Visual culture / Manuscripts / Icons / Ceramics / Textiles
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Africa & Byzantium Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 19th November 2023–3rd March 2024 | :
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
5. Pentaglot Psalter. 12th– 14th century, restored and rebound 1636. Ink on parchment, 36.8 by 28 cm. (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City, MS Barberini or.2, fol.3r; Bridgeman Images; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Non-western art unattributed:
6. Textile fragment with Artemis and Actaeon(?). 5th–7th century. Linen and wool, 147.3 by 183 cm. (British Museum, London; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Non-western art unattributed:
7. Diptych with St George and the Virgin Eleousa. c.1500 (left) and c.1480– 90 (right). Tempera and gold on wood, open: 12.2 by 20 cm. (Private collection; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Book Review
The Medieval South Caucasus: Artistic Cultures of Albania, Armenia and Georgia (Convivium Supplementum, 1)
09/2020 | 1410 | 162
Pages: 813-814
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Reviewer:
Kaffenberger, Thomas (Kaffenberger, Thomas)
Subjects
places:
Armenia / Georgia (nation) / Albania
subjects:
Medieval architecture / Medieval art / Medieval sculpture / Paintings / Costume / Stelae / Icons / Art historiography
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Medieval South Caucasus: Artistic Cultures of Albania, Armenia and Georgia (Convivium Supplementum, 1) Edited by Ivan Foletti and Eric Thunø. 227 pp. incl. 143 col. ills. (Brepols, Turnhout, 2016), £90. ISBN 978–80–210–8322–6. | :
Book Review
The Icon and the Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo-Byzantine Revival. By Maria Taroutina
03/2020 | 1404 | 162
Pages: 268-269
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Reviewer:
Spira, Andrew (Spira, Andrew)
Subjects
artists:
Kandinsky, Wassily / Malevich, Kazimir / Tatlin, Vladimir
subjects:
Russian art / Modernism / Byzantine revival / Icons / Nationalism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Icon and the Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo- Byzantine Revival By Maria Taroutina. 288 pp. incl. 51 col. + 65 b. & w. ills. (Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park PA, 2018),  79.95. ISBN 978–0–271–08104–5. | :
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
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
Publication Received
Working Drawings of Icon Painters after the Fall of Constantinople. The Andreas Xyngopoulos Portfolio at the Benaki Museum. By Maria Vassilaki
06/2016 | 1359 | 158
Pages: 467-467
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Reviewer:
Eastmond, Antony (Eastmond, Antony)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
subjects:
Sketches / Cartoons (working drawings) / Icons / Manuals / Collections, Public / Collections, Private
subjects:
Byzantine art
Exhibition Review
Art of Byzantium from Greek collections
05/2014 | 1334 | 156
Pages: 343-344
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Reviewer:
Cormack, Robin (Cormack, Robin)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Getty Villa, Malibu, United States / National Gallery of Art, Washington, United States
places:
United States / Washington DC / Malibu / Los Angeles
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Art / Byzantine art
subjects:
Icons / Sculpture / Textiles / Paintings
Illustrations
Attributed works:
65. Icon with Archangel Michael. Byzantine, Constantinople (Byzantine and Christian Museum, Istanbul; exh. Getty Villa, Los Angeles)
Western art unattributed:
63. Epitaphios. Byzantine, Thessaloniki (Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki; exh. Getty Villa, Los Angeles)
Western art unattributed:
64. Bust of a lady. Byzantine (Chania Archaeological Museum; exh. Getty Villa, Los Angeles)
Article
Rethinking ‘the oldest surviving amber in the West’
11/2013 | 1328 | 155
Pages: 756-762
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Author:
King, Rachel (King, Rachel)
Subjects
art literature:
Rohde, Alfred
dates:
1400-1449
museums and institutions:
Museum August Kestner, Hannover, Germany
patrons:
Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, 1342-1404
subjects:
Amber / Art objects / Sculpture / Lost works / Collections, Public / German / Provenance / Mary, Virgin / Commissions / Icons
subjects:
Gemstone
Illustrations
Attributed works:
12. Der goldener Tafel, illustration in M.S. Hosmann: Fürtreffliches Denck-Mahl, Leipzig 1700
Western art unattributed:
11. Enthroned Virgin. Prussia, c.1400. Amber (Kestner Museum, Hannover)
Western art unattributed:
13. Nativity. Possibly Königsberg or Marienburg. c.1400. Amber (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Sammlungen Schloss Ambras, Vienna/Innsbruck)
Western art unattributed:
14. Chandelier with St Catherine. Possibly Königsberg or Marienburg, c.1400 (Mestké Muzéum, Bratislava)
Western art unattributed:
15. Front and back of mounted Vera icon. Bruges or Königsberg, 1380-1400 (Bayerisches nationalmuseum, Munich)
Western art unattributed:
16. Mounted Vera icon. Bruges or Königsberg, 1380-1400 (Wallace Collection, London)
Western art unattributed:
17. Vera icon. Bruges or Königsberg, 1380-1400. Amber (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Publication Received
Frames in Russian Art
10/2012 | 1315 | 154
Pages: 721
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Reviewer:
Spira, Andrew (Spira, Andrew)
Subjects
dates:
1000-1099 / 1100-1199 / 1200-1499 / 1500-1899 / 1900-1929
subjects:
Russian painting / Frames / Russian / Icons / Art history
Book Review
The Avant-Garde Icon: Russian Avant-Garde Art & The Icon Painting Tradition
12/2009 | 1281 | 151
Pages: 851-852
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Reviewer:
Lodder, Christina (Lodder, Christina; L., C.; Lodder, Christina A.)
Subjects
dates:
1910-1919 / 1920-1929
places:
Russia
print:
Icons
print:
Russian art
subjects:
Russian painting / Icons / Avant-garde / Cultural history / Russian
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Avant-Garde Icon: Russian Avant-Garde Art & The Icon Painting Tradition | author: Spira, Andrew
Illustrations
Attributed works:
34. Design for the stage set for Liturgie, by Natalia Goncharova. Watercolour, pencil, cut and pasted paper and foil on cardboard, 55.2 by 74.6 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; copyright ADAGP, Paris, and DACS, London, 2007).
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