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Exhibition Review
Faire parler les pierres: Sculptures médiévales de Notre-Dame
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 268–70
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Williamson, Paul (Williamson, Paul)
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Faire parler les pierres: Sculptures médiévales de Notre-Dame Musée de Cluny – Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris 19th November 2024–16th March 2025 | :
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4. Bearded head. c.1230. Painted limestone, 21 by 20 by 18 cm. (Inrap, Paris; exh. Musée de Cluny, Paris).
Western art unattributed:
5. Corner block with Aaron(?). c.1230. Painted limestone, 80 by 56 by 40 cm. (Inrap, Paris; exh. Musée de Cluny, Paris).
Western art unattributed:
6. Jamb figure of St Paul. c.1145. Limestone, 135 by 45 by 36 cm. (Musée de Cluny, Paris).
Book Review
Imperial Colors: The Roman Portrait Busts of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna
12/2023 | 1449 | 165
Pages: 1365–1366
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Gardner-Dseagu, Christine (Gardner-Dseagu, Christine)
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Imperial Colors: The Roman Portrait Busts of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna By Julie Van Voorhis and Mark Abbe, with Juliet Graver Istrabadi. 216 pp. incl. 136 col. ills. (D. Giles Ltd, Lewes, 2023), £50. ISBN 978–1–913875–27–5. | :
Exhibition Review
Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color
03/2023 | 1440 | 165
Pages: 312-315
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Rumora, Roko (Rumora, Roko)
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Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 5th July 2022–26th March 2023 | :
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6. Reconstruction of the so-called ‘Cuirass-Torso’ from the Athenian Acropolis, Variant B, by Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch- Brinkmann. 2005. Plaster cast, natural pigments in egg tempera and gold foil, 60 by 44 by 25 cm. (Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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8. Reconstruction of a marble finial in the form of a sphinx, by Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch- Brinkmann. 2022. Cast from polymethyl metacrylate, natural pigments in egg tempera, gold foil and copper, 85 by 28 by 57 cm. (Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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9. Installation view of Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023, showing the reconstruction of the funerary stele of Phrasikleia, by Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch- Brinkmann. 2010, updated 2019. Polymethyl metacrylate, 200 by 68 by 69 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Western art unattributed:
7. Marble finial in the form of a sphinx. Archaic Greek, c.530 BC. Marble, height (with akroterion) 142.6 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Article
The Ludovisi Tondo: a rediscovered sculpture by Jacopo della Quercia
01/2021 | 1414 | 163
Pages: 5-14
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Cova, Paolo (Cova, Paolo)
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1. The central courtyard of Rocchetta Mattei. 2019. The Ludovisi Tondo is above the doorway on the right. (Photograph G. Castellani).
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10. Detail of Original sin, by Jacopo della Quercia. 1425–28. Candoglia marble, 91 by 89 cm. (Porta Magna, S. Petronio, Bologna; photograph A. Ventura).
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11. Detail of Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, by Jacopo della Quercia. 1425–28. Candoglia marble, 91 by 89 cm. (Porta Magna, S. Petronio, Bologna; photograph A. Ventura).
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12. Detail of the Drunkenness of Noah, by Jacopo della Quercia. 1425–28. Candoglia marble, 91 by 89 cm. (Porta Magna, S. Petronio, Bologna; photograph A. Ventura).
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13. Detail of the Sacrifice of Isaac, by Jacopo della Quercia, showing Abraham and the angel. 1425–28. Candoglia marble, 91 by 97 cm. (Porta Magna, S. Petronio, Bologna; photograph A. Ventura).
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14. Detail of Fig.5, showing the horse’s legs.
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15. Detail of The flight into Egypt, by Jacopo della Quercia, showing the donkey’s legs. 1432–34. Candoglia marble, 71 by 100 cm. (Porta Magna, S. Petronio, Bologna; photograph A. Ventura).
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16. Detail of Fig.5, showing the horse’s muzzle.
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17–19. Detail of Fig.5, showing traces of polychromy on the armour; detail of Fig.19, showing painted decoration on the border of the Virgin’s cloak; and Virgin and Child, by Jacopo della Quercia. c.1430. Polychromed wood, height 178 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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2. Corbels from the tomb of Giovanni da Legnano, by Jacobello and Pierpaolo Dalle Masegne. 1383. Istrian stone, left corbel 75 by 30 by 76 cm.; right corbel 75 by 30 by 76.5 cm. (Rocchetta Mattei; photograph G. Castellani).
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20. The murder of Buondelmonte Buondelmonti at Ponte Vecchio, by Pacino di Buonaguida. c.1340. Tempera on parchment. (From Nuova Cronica by Giovanni Villani, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome, MS L VIII 296).
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21. Detail of Fig.5, showing the armour.
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22. Detail of Virgin and Child with saints, by Jacopo della Quercia, showing St George. 1435–37. Marble, 102 by 98 cm. (Museo Civico Medievale, Bologna; photograph M. Berardi).
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23. Detail of the Horses of St Mark. 2nd or 3rd century AD. Gilt copper, 238 by 252 cm. (St Mark’s, Venice).
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24. Detail of Fig.5, showing the horse’s head.
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3. The central courtyard of Rocchetta Mattei. Photograph, c.1865. (Archivio A. Rapparini, Camugnano; photograph P. Poppi).
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4. The memorial to Niccolò and Giovanni Ludovisi, by Marcello Oretti. Pen and ink on paper. (Biblioteca Comunale dell’Archiginnasio, Bologna; MS B.114, c.261, fol.261).
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5. The Ludovisi Tondo, here attributed to Jacopo della Quercia. Here dated c.1428–32. Istrian stone, diameter 85 cm. (Rocchetta Mattei; photograph G. Castellani).
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6 and 7. Details of Fig.5 and Fig.9, showing the heads of Niccolò Ludovisi and Adam.
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8. Creation of Eve, by Jacopo della Quercia. 1425–28. Candoglia marble, 91 by 89 cm. (Porta Magna, S. Petronio, Bologna; photograph A. Ventura).
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9. Creation of Adam, by Jacopo della Quercia. 1425–28. Candoglia marble, 91 by 97 cm. (Porta Magna, S. Petronio, Bologna; photograph A. Ventura).
Article
The ‘fortuna critica’ of the ‘Maiden of Lille’
05/2020 | 1406 | 162
Pages: 404-411
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Riviale, Laurence (Riviale, Laurence)
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1. Study of a bust at Lille, by John Singer Sargent. c.1877. Oil on mahogany panel, 30.7 by 20.6 cm. (Private collection).
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10. The Maiden of Lille, by Arthur Mayeur. Drawing reproduced on the cover of Lille et la région du nord en 1909, Lille 1909.
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2. The ‘Maiden of Lille’ in the Wicar galleries at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, c.1892. (Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille).
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4. The Maiden of Lille, by Aurelio Micheli. c.1909. Plaster, wax and polychromy. (Letter Stiftung, Cologne).
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5. Jean-Jacques Henner’s studio in Paris, with a plaster cast of the ‘Maiden of Lille’ from the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin. Detail of a photograph, c.1900. (Courtesy Henner Museum, Paris).
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6. Wolfgang Gurlitt’s music room at 113 Potsdamer Strasse, Berlin. Photograph, c.1920. (Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur, Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte, Bildarchiv Foto Marburg). 
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7. The display of old-master drawings in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle. Photograph by James Russell and Sons, 1910. (Manley family collection). 
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8. The plaster-cast room at the Museum of Fine Arts, Copley Square, Boston. Photograph, 1902. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
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9. The Maiden of Lille, in the Musée Wicar, Lille. Photograph by Robert Jefferson Bingham, 1864. (Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille).
Western art unattributed:
3. The Maiden of Lille. Possibly seventeenth or eighteenth century. Beeswax, terracotta and glass, 44.5 by 30.3 by 19.5 cm. (Palais des Beaux- Arts, Lille; photograph the author).
Article
Royal wooden funeral effigies at Westminster Abbey
01/2019 | 1390 | 161
Pages: 26-35
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Blessley, Krista (Blessley, Krista)
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Jenkins, Susan (Jenkins, Susan)
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10. Detail of Fig.8, showing the hip joint. (© The Dean and Chapter of Westminster).
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11. Axonometric diagram showing the jointing of the effigy in Fig.8, by Krista Blessley. (© The Dean and Chapter of Westminster).
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12. Effigy head and bust of Anne of Denmark, by Maximilian Colt. 1619. Probably pine, 47 by 45 by 25 cm. (Westminster Abbey, London; WA 0893; © The Dean and Chapter of Westminster)
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13. Detail of Fig.12, showing the blue vein painted on the left temple. (© The Dean and Chapter of Westminster).
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14. Effigy body of James I, by Maximilian Colt. 1625. Probably pine, 178 by 50 by 29cm. (Westminster Abbey, London; WA 1016; © The Dean and Chapter of Westminster).
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15. Some of the royal funeral effigies at Westminster Abbey in 1949, showing their condition after the Second World War. From R.P. Howgrave-Graham: ‘Royal effigies at Westminster Abbey: modern treatment leads to valuable discoveries’, Country Life, 11th January 1952, pp.82–84.
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2. Installation view of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries, Westminster Abbey, London, showing the medieval funeral effigies. (© The Dean and Chapter of Westminster)
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3. The funeral of Anne of Bohemia, a detail from Chroniques, by Jean Froissart. South Netherlands, c.1480. Illumination on parchment. (British Library, London; MS Royal 18 E II, vol.IV, fol.227).
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7. Effigy head and bust of Elizabeth of York, probably by Richard Gibson. 1503. Probably pearwood, 65 by 40 by 39 cm. (Westminster Abbey, London; WA 0889; © The Dean and Chapter of Westminster).
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8. Articulated effigy body of Henry, Prince of Wales, by Richard Norris. 1612. Pine or fir wood with iron nails, loops and screws, 161 by 42.5 by 19 cm. Photograph c.1950. (Westminster Abbey, London; WA 1017; © The Dean and Chapter of Westminster).
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9. Detail of Fig.8, showing carpenters’ marks at joints. (© The Dean and Chapter of Westminster).
Western art unattributed:
1. Front, side and back views of the effigy of Edward III. 1377. Walnut, 176 by 42.8 by 27 cm. (Westminster Abbey, London; WA 0886; © The Dean and Chapter of Westminster).
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4. Detail of Fig.1, showing plaster underlayer on head. Photograph c.1950s. (© The Dean and Chapter of Westminster).
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5. X-radiograph detail of Fig.1, showing plaster underlayer on head. (© The Dean and Chapter of Westminster).
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6. Front, side and back views of the effigy of Catherine de Valois. 1437. Oak, 165 by 42 by 21 cm. (Westminster Abbey, London; WA 0888; © The Dean and Chapter of Westminster).
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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Dectot, Xavier (Dectot, Xavier)
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1. Head of an apocalyptic elder. Western French (Parthenay), c.1160, with restorations. Limestone, height 31.5 cm. (Wyvern Collection).
Exhibition Review
Georg Baselitz at eighty
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 766-771
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Weikop, Christian (Weikop, Christian)
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1. Man in the moon – Franz Pforr, by Georg Baselitz. 1965. Canvas, 161.9 by 129.9 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington; exh. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington).
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2. Opposite The naked man, by Georg Baselitz. 1962. Canvas, 114 by 146 cm. (Private collection, Seattle; exh. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington).
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3. Meissen woodsmen, by Georg Baselitz. 1969. Canvas, 250 by 200 cm. (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington).
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4. Orange eater IX, by Georg Baselitz. 1981. Oil and tempera on canvas, 146 by 114 cm. (Skarstedt, New York; exh. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington).
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5. Below The Brücke chorus, by Georg Baselitz. 1983. Canvas, 280 by 450 cm. (Private collection; exh. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington).
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6. My new hat, by Georg Baselitz. 2003. Cedarwood and oil paint, 310.5 by 83.5 by 107 cm. (Pinault Collection, Venice; exh. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington).
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8. Dystopian couple, by Georg Baselitz. 2015. Canvas, 400 by 600 cm. (Courtesy the artist and White Cube; exh. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington).
Western art unattributed:
7. Georg Baselitz’s studio, Ammersee. (Photograph courtesy Georg Baselitz Archive, Munich).
Exhibition Review
Joan Miró: Sculptures 1928–1982. Centro Botín, Santander
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 786-788
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Watkins, Nicholas (Watkins, Nicholas)
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19. The Centro Botín, Santander, photographed from the Pareda Gardens, June 2017. (Photograph Belen de Beneto).
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20. Souvenir de la Tour Eiffel, by Joan Miró, cast by Fundicío Parellada, Barcelona. Bronze, 334 by 54 by 80 cm. (Private collection; exh. Centro Botín, Santander).
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21. Personnage et oiseau, by Joan Miró, cast by Fundicío Parellada, Barcelona. Bronze, 104 by 63 by 20 cm. (Private collection; exh. Centro Botín, Santander).
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