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The Funeral Achievements of Henry V at Westminster Abbey: The Arms and Armour of Death

10/2024 | 1459 | 166

Pages: 1083–5

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Reviewer:

Marcoux, Robert (Marcoux, Robert)

Subjects

art literature:

Conferences

buildings:

Westminster Abbey, London, Great Britain

subjects:

Henry V, King of England, 1387-1422 / Funerary chapels / Armour / Saddles / Shields (Armour) / Swords / Architecture

Reviewed Items

subjects:

The Funeral Achievements of Henry V at Westminster Abbey: The Arms and Armour of Death Edited by Anne Curry and Susan Jenkins. 294 pp. incl. 175 col. and 33 b. & w. ills. (Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2022), £80. ISBN 978–17–8327–717–9. | :

Illustrations

Attributed works:

3. Henry V’s funeral achievements. (Westminster Abbey, London).

Book Review

Giulio Romano: La forza delle cose

04/2023 | 1441 | 165

Pages: 459-460

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Reviewer:

Pietrabissa, Camilla (Pietrabissa, Camilla )

Subjects

art literature:

Exhibition catalogues

artists:

Giulio Romano

museums and institutions:

Palazzo Te, Mantua, Italy

patrons:

Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, 1500-1540

subjects:

Decorative arts / Design / Vessels / Shields (Armour) / Drawings

Reviewed Items

subjects:

Giulio Romano: La forza delle cose Edited by Barbara Furlotti and Guido Rebecchini with Antonio Geremicca. 208 pp. incl. numerous col. ills. (Marsilio Editori, Venice), €35. ISBN 979–12–5463–049–5. | :

Illustrations

Attributed works:

4. Banquet scene, detail of a fresco in the Sala di Amore e Psiche, Palazzo Te, Manuta, by Giulio Romano and workshop. c.1526–28. (Palazzo Te, Mantua; photograph Gianmaria Pontiroli).

Attributed works:

5. Project for a saltcellar, by Giulio Romano. c.1537–46. Pen and brown ink, watercolour, black chalk and stylus, 18.1 by 21.9 cm. (Courtauld Gallery, London).

Attributed works:

6. Design for a shield called the Plus Ultra, by Giulio Romano. c.1535–40. Pen and brown ink, watercolour, black chalk and white lead highlights on prepared blue paper, diameter 40.8–41.1 cm. (Teylers Museum, Haarlem).

Article

Cross-cultural diplomacy: a Safavid shield in the Medici armoury

10/2022 | 1435 | 164

Pages: 968-975

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Author:

Rokhgar, Negar Sarah (Rokhgar, Negar Sarah)

Subjects

artists:

Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da

dates:

1590-1609

media:

Mother of pearl / Gilding

museums and institutions:

Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy

patrons:

Shah Abbas, 1571-1629

places:

Persia / Tuscany

sources:

Archives / Correspondence

styles:

Safavid / Mughal

styles:

Indo-Persian School

subjects:

Shields (Armour) / Gifts / Ottomans (people) / Crusades / East-West trade / Diplomacy / Military art and science / Medici family / Ferdinando I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609

Illustrations

Attributed works:

4. Detail of the painted ceiling in the Sala dell’Armeria (Room 21), Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence, depicting a Persian soldier by Ludovico Buti. 1588–89. (Photograph the author).

Attributed works:

6. Medusa, by Caravaggio. 1595–98. Oil on canvas applied on a wooden shield, 60 by 55 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence).

Non-western art unattributed:

1. Shield. Persia, late 16th century. Gold damascened steel, Indian cane, silk, mother-of-pearl, leather and velvet, diameter 64.5 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).

Non-western art unattributed:

2. Detail of Fig.1, showing figures serving food to an authority on a higher seat.

Non-western art unattributed:

3. Detail of Fig.1, showing men on horseback and on foot using spears and arrows to hunt lions.

Non-western art unattributed:

5. Silk fragment with a figured motif. Yazd, Persia, late 16th or early 17th century. Silk lampas, 70.5 by 36 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).

Non-western art unattributed:

7. Shield. Persia, 17th century. Indian cane covered with silk, metal umbo painted in black with golden arabesque engravings and originally embellished with turquoises and other precious stones, 20 by 62 cm. (Palazzo Ducale, Venice).

Non-western art unattributed:

8. Tray with a scene of lovers in a pavilion. Gujarat, late 16th or early 17th century. Mother-of-pearl and lacquer on wood, diameter 43.5 cm. (Aga Khan Museum, Toronto).

Article

The 'Stemme' on Bernini's Baldacchino in St Peter's: A Forgotten Compliment

07/1976 | 880 | 118

Pages: 482+484-491

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Author:

Fehl, Philipp (Fehl, Philipp)

Subjects

artists:

Bernini, Gian Lorenzo

buildings:

Basilica di San Pietro, Rome, Italy

dates:

1600-1649

patrons:

Urban VIII, Pope, 1568-1644

patrons:

Barberini family

places:

Italy / Rome

subjects:

Italian sculpture / Iconography

subjects:

Shields (Armour) / Heraldry

Illustrations

Attributed works:

33. Baldacchino, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. (St Peter's, Rome). Photo Alinari.

Attributed works:

34. Ceiling Painting, by Pietro da Cortona. (Palazzo Barberini, Rome). Photo. G. F. N.

Attributed works:

35. Baldacchino, Stemma, by Bernini. Photo Alinari.

Attributed works:

36. Baldacchino, Stemma, by Bernini. Photo. Gallerie Musei Vaticani.

Attributed works:

37. Baldacchino, Stemma, by Bernini. Photo. Gallerie Musei Vaticani.

Attributed works:

38. Baldacchino, Stemma, by Bernini. Photo. Gallerie Musei Vaticani.

Attributed works:

39. Baldacchino, Stemma, by Bernini. Photo. Alinari.

Attributed works:

40. Baldacchino, Stemma, by Bernini. Photo. Gallerie Musei Vaticani.

Attributed works:

43. Detail of Fig.35. Photo. Gallerie Musei Vaticani.

Attributed works:

44. Detail of Fig.37.

Attributed works:

45. Detail of Stemma, Bernini's Baldacchino. Photo. Gallerie Musei Vaticani.

Attributed works:

46. Detail of Stemma, Bernini's Baldacchino. Photo. Gallerie Musei Vaticani.

Attributed works:

47. Detail of Fig.38. Photo. Gallerie Musei Vaticani.

Attributed works:

48. Detail of Fig.39. Photo. Gallerie Musei Vaticani.

Attributed works:

51. Tomb of Urban VIII, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. (St Peter's, Rome).

Attributed works:

52. Engraving of Tomb of Urban VIII, Illustrated in Fig.51.

Western art unattributed:

41. Barberini Stemma. (Formerly Convent of S. Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi, Florence). Photo. Alinari.

Western art unattributed:

42. Borghese Stemma. (Vatican).

Western art unattributed:

49. L'elettione di Urbano Papa VIII, by Francesco Bracciolini Dell'Api. Title Page (Engraving). Photo. Biblioteca Hertziana, Rome.

Western art unattributed:

50. Stemma of Cardinal Borghese. (Ceiling, Oratorio of Santa Silvia at San Gregorio Magno, Rome). Photo. Eugene Dwyer.

Article

An Early Work of Lucio Picinino

07/1917 | 172 | 31

Pages: 26+29-31

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Author:

Laking, Guy Francis (Laking, Guy Francis; Laking, Guy)

Subjects

artists:

Piccinino, Lucio

dates:

1500-1549

museums and institutions:

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain

places:

Italy / England / Oxford

subjects:

Sculpture / Metalwork / Shields (Armour)

subjects:

Classical mythology / Iconography / Medusa

subjects:

Early works

subjects:

Italian sculpture

Illustrations

Attributed works:

Pageant Shield; Here Ascribed to Lucio Picinino (Ashmolean Museum, Drury Fortnum Bequest). (A) Front. (B) Back. An Early Work of Lucio Picinino

Short Notice

Two Historic Armour Sales

07/1917 | 172 | 31

Pages: 38-39+41-42

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Author:

Ffoulkes, Charles (Ffoulkes, Charles; Ff., C.; F., C.)

Subjects

artists:

Giulio Romano

artists:

Piccinino, Lucio

artists:

Penni, Luca

collectors and dealers:

Herbert, Reginald, Fifteenth Earl of Pembroke, 1880-1960

dates:

1500-1699

places:

England / Italy

subjects:

Sales catalogues / Armour

subjects:

Renaissance / Design

subjects:

Sculpture / Classical mythology / Shields (Armour)

subjects:

Italian sculpture

Illustrations

Attributed works:

Pageant Shield, Attributed to Luca Penni and Giulio Romano

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