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Book Review
Building Santa Maria Novella: Materials, Tradition and Invention in Late Medieval Florence
04/2024 | 1453 | 166
Pages: 421–423
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Howard, Deborah (Howard, Deborah)
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Building Santa Maria Novella: Materials, Tradition and Invention in Late Medieval Florence By Elizabeth Bradford Smith. 222 pp. incl. 116 col. + b. & w. ills. (L’Erma di Bretschneider, Rome, 2022), €170. ISBN 978–88–913–2609–6. | :
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3. Ground-plan of the nave of S. Maria Novella, Florence (after E.B. Smith: Building Santa Maria Novella, Rome 2022).
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4. Nave of S. Maria Novella, Florence. 1279–1355.
Book Review
Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence: Screens and Choir Spaces, from the Middle Ages to Tridentine Reform
11/2022 | 1436 | 164
Pages: 1162-1163
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Young, Michela (Young, Michela)
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Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence: Screens and Choir Spaces, from the Middle Ages to Tridentine Reform By Joanne Allen. 366 pp. incl. 180 col. ills. (Cambridge University Press, 2022), £90. ISBN 978–1–108–83359–2. | :
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2. Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (?), by Fra Carnevale, also known as Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini. c.1467. Oil and tempera on panel, 146.4 by 96.5 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
Exhibition Review
Florence and its Painters: From Giotto to Leonardo da Vinci. Alte Pinakothek, Munich
01/2019 | 1390 | 161
Pages: 63-65
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Joustra, Joost (Joustra, Joost)
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7. Seated boy wearing a cap, by Maso Finiguerra. Pen and brown ink and wash over traces of underdrawing in black chalk on paper, 18 by 33 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; exh. Alte Pinakothek, Munich).
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8. Sts Cosmas and Damian and their brothers surviving the stake, by Fra Angelico. Tempera on panel, 37.8 by 46.4 cm. (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin; exh. Alte Pinakothek, Munich).
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9. Annunciation, from Lucrezia de’ Medici’s Book of Hours, by Francesco Rosselli and Gherardo di Giovanni. c.1485. Illuminated manuscript on parchment, 19.7 by 10.9 cm. (fol.13v; Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich; exh. Alte Pinakothek, Munich).
Book Review
Mochi’s Edge and Bernini’s Baroque. By Estelle Lingo
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 981-982
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Kämpf, Tobias (Kämpf, Tobias)
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5. Virgin Annunciate, by Francesco Mochi. 1608–09. Marble, height 210 cm. (Museo dell’Opera, Orvieto; Bridgeman Images)
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The Lisbon Bible and the Throne of Portugal
01/2017 | 1366 | 159
Pages: 14-24
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Sedgwick Wohl, Alice (Sedgwick Wohl, Alice )
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11. Opening page of Peter Lombard's Book of Sentences, illuminated by Attavante degli Attavanti. 1494 (Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon, MS 161, vol.VIII, fol.6r)
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12. Frontispiece illuminated by Attavante degli Attavanti. From the Lisbon Bible with commentary by Nicholas of Lyra. 1495-96 (Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon, MS 161, vol.IV, fol.Iv)
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13. Left, coat of arms of Dom Manuel as duke of Beja, by the workshop of Attavante degli Attavanti. From Peter Lombard's Book of Sentences. 1494 (Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon, MS 161, vol.VIII, fol.6r). Right, coat of arms of Dom Manuel as king, by the workshop of Attavante degli Attavanti, with corrections by an unknown illuminator. From the Lisbon Bible with commentary by Nicholas of Lyra. c.1496 (Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon, MS 161, vol.II, fol.81)
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14. Frontispiece illuminated by Monte di Giovanni del Fora. From the Lisbon Bible with commentary by Nicholas of Lyra. 1496(?) (Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon, MS 161, vol.VI, fol.Iv)
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16. Detail of Matthias Corvinus with Charles VIII and an unknown figure, by Gherardo di Giovanni del Fora. From King David in prayer in the Bible of Matthias Corvinus. 1490 (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MS Plut. 15, 17, fol.2v)
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17. Detail of Matthias Corvinus, by Monte di Giovanni del Fora. From De spiritu sancto, and eleven other texts by Didymus Alexandrinus. 1488 (Morgan Library, New York, MS M.496, fol.2r)
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18. Detail of St Jerome in his study with monks, by Attavante degli Attavanti. From the Lisbon Bible with commentary by Nicholas of Lyra. 1495 (Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon, MS 161, vol.V, fol.3r)
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19. Detail of Penitent St Jerome, by Attavante degli Attavanti. From the Lisbon Bible with commentary by Nicholas of Lyra. 1495 (Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon, MS 161, vol.II, fol.3r)
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20. Detail of St Jerome presenting his translation of the Bible to Pope Damasus, by Gherardo di Giovanni del Fora. From the Lisbon Bible with commentary by Nicholas of Lyra. 1496? (Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon, MS 161, vol.VI, fol.2r)
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21. View of the beach and monastery in Belém, by Filipe Lobo. 1657 (Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon)
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22. Jerónimos Monastery, Belém, south portal, by João de Castilho. 1517 (Photograph by Ralph Lieberman)
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23. Infante Dom Henrique (Henry the Navigator), detail of Fig.22, c.1517. Jerónimos Monastery, Belém, south portal (Photograph by Ralph Lieberman)
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15. Detail of Jean Courtois, herald of Sicily, in the service of Alfonso V of Aragon. From the Traité du noble office d'armes. 15th century (Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, MS français 387, fol.4)
Exhibition Review
Polychrome wooden sculpture of Renaissance Florence
11/2016 | 1364 | 158
Pages: 925-926
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Gasparotto, Davide (Gasparotto, Davide)
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70. Crucifix, by Michelozzo. c.1435 (S. Niccolò Oltrano, Florence; exh. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)
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71. St Peter Martyr, attributed to Donatello. c.1440-50 (S. Domenico, Fabriano; exh. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)
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72. Crucifix, by Benedetto da Maiano. c.1490 (Musei Civici, San Gimignano; exh. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)
Exhibition Review
Florentine portraits
01/2016 | 1354 | 158
Pages: 056–057
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Wivel, Matthias (Wivel, Matthias)
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71. Veiled woman, attributed to Ridolfo Ghirlandaio. c.1510-15 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; exh. Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris)
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72. Portrait of Cosimo I de'Medici at the age of forty, by Agnolo Bronzino. 1560 (The Alana Collection, Newark DE; exh. Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris)
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73. Portrait of a young lute player, by Jacopo Pontormo. c.1529-30 (Private collection, courtesy of Eckhart Lingenauber; exh. Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris)
Publication Received
The Hours of Night and Day. A rediscovered Cycle of Bronze Reliefs by Giovanni Casini and Pietro Cipriani. By Eike D. Schmidt, with essays by Rita Balleri and David Ekserdjian.
12/2015 | 1353 | 157
Pages: 863
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Warren, Jeremy (Warren, Jeremy)
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‘Una Pieta chon molte figure’: Sandro Botticelli’s altarpiece for the Florentine church of S. Paolino
08/2015 | 1349 | 157
Pages: 521-529
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Röstel, Alexander (Röstel, Alexander )
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1. Pietà, by Sandro Botticelli. c.1489-94 (Alte Pinakothek, Munich)
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3. Triptych of The Crucifixion with the Virgin and St Francis; St John the Baptist and St Mary Magdalene (the Valori altarpiece), by Filippino Lippi. c.1497-1500 (Main panel formerly Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Berlin, destroyed; wings Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence)
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4. Hypothetical reconstruction of the high altarpiece of S. Paolino based on the interpretation of Giovanni di Domenico's inventory and comparative examples (Reconstruction by the author; illustration by Matilde Grimaldi)
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5. Triptych of The Sudarium borne by angels; Christ and the woman of Samaria; Noli me tangere, by the Master of the St Ursula Legend (central panel) and Filippino Lippi (wings). c.1490 (Seminario Patriarcale, Pinacoteca Manfrediana, Venice)
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6. Pair of altarpiece wings of the Archangel Gabriel and Virgin Annunciate, by Sandro Botticelli, c.1490-1500 (Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow)
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7. Pietà, by Sandro Botticelli. c.1495-1500 (Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan)
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2. Masini coat of arms, from Raccolta Ceramelli Papiani, fasc.3075 (Archivio di Stato, Florence)
Book Review
The Miraculous Image in Renaissance Florence, M. Holmes
07/2015 | 1348 | 157
Pages: 482
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Cannon, Joanna (Cannon, Joanna)
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