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Exhibition Review
Rinascimento in bianco e nero: L’arte dell’incisione a Venezia (1494–1615)
06/2024 | 1455 | 166
Pages: 631–634
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Reviewer:
Dalla Costa, Thomas (Dalla Costa, Thomas)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Museo Civico, Bassano del Grappa, Italy / Ca' Rezzonico, Venice, Italy
subjects:
Italian art / Printmaking / Engravings
subjects:
Venetian art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Rinascimento in bianco e nero. L’arte dell’incisione a Venezia (1495–1615). Edited by Giovanni Maria Fara and David Landau. 347 pp. incl. 342 col. + b. & w. ills. (Scripta Edizioni, Verona, 2024), €38. ISBN 979–12–80581–86–0. | :
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Rinascimento in bianco e nero: L’arte dell’incisione a Venezia (1494–1615) Museo Civico, Bassano del Grappa 2nd March–23rd June Ca’ Rezzonico, Venice 8th March–3rd June | :
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Attributed works:
12. Judith with the head of Holofernes, by Jacopo de’ Barbari. 1496–97. Engraving, 18.7 by 12 cm. (Museo Civico, Bassano del Grappa).
Attributed works:
13. The martyrdom of St Giustina of Padua, by Agostino Carracci, after Paolo Veronese. 1582. Engraving on two sheets, 89.5 by 59 cm. (Museo Civico, Bassano del Grappa).
Attributed works:
14. The abduction of Proserpina, by Giuseppe Scolari. c.1592–1607. Woodcut, 45 by 35 cm. (Museo Civico, Bassano del Grappa).
Book Review
Handbook of the Colour Print in China, 1600–1800
10/2023 | 1447 | 165
Pages: 1150–1152
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Reviewer:
McNeill, Malcolm (McNeill, Malcolm)
Subjects
dates:
1600-1799
subjects:
Chinese art / Prints / Printmaking / Books / Albums / Material culture (genre)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Handbook of the Colour Print in China, 1600–1800 Edited by Anne Farrer and Kevin McLoughlin. 328 pp. incl. 142 col. + b. & w. ills. (Brill, Leiden, 2021), £175. ISBN 978–90–04–47189–4. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Folio 9 from The Story of the Western Wing, by Min Qiji. 1640. Woodblock print, ink and polychrome pigments on paper, 25.5 by 32.2 cm. (Rheinisches Bildarchiv, Cologne; Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Cologne; photograph Sabrina Walz).
Exhibition Review
Vor Dürer: Kupferstich wird Kunst
01/2023 | 1438 | 165
Pages: 69-71
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Reviewer:
Kunz, Armin (Kunz, Armin)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
subjects:
Northern European / Prints / Engravings / Printmaking / German art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Vor Dürer: Kupferstich wird Kunst Städel Museum, Frankfurt 28th September 2022– 22nd January 2023 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Samson and Delilah, by Mair von Landshut. c.1500. Engraving with heightening in various colours on prepared paper, 22.8 by 27.1 cm. (Städel Museum, Frankfurt).
Attributed works:
5. A bishop’s crozier, by Israhel van Meckenem. c.1485–95. Engraving, 78.8 by 23 cm. (Städel Museum, Frankfurt).
Attributed works:
6. Judgement of Solomon, by Master BM. c.1480–1500. Engraving, 29.4 by 42.1 cm. (Städel Museum, Frankfurt).
Exhibition Review
Single-Leaf Woodcuts of the 15th Century. Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
09/2019 | 1398 | 161
Pages: 756-759
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Reviewer:
Hamburger, Jeffrey (Hamburger, Jeffrey)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Drawings / Prints
museums and institutions:
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
subjects:
Woodcuts / Printmaking / Techniques / German art / Christian iconography / Secular / Devotional images / Politics
Illustrations
Attributed works:
9. Christ on a T-cross with the Virgin and John the Evangelist, copy after Master h w. c.1490. Woodcut made from two plates, grey print, colouring, damaged parchment, approx. 28 by 21.5 cm. (Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, inv. no.209349 D).
Western art unattributed:
10. Christ Child within the Sacred Heart, probably Nuremberg. c.1450–65. Woodcut, black print and colouring, 18.5 by 13.1 cm. (Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, inv. no.118290 D).
Western art unattributed:
Opposite 8. Annunciation, Lake Constance or Augsburg. c.1440. Woodcut, with calcite and metal powder, 26.7 by 18.9 cm. (Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, inv. no.118166 D).
Book Review
‘Gold und Bücher lieb ich sehr…’: 480 Jahre Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg. Edited by Karl-Georg Pfändtner
01/2019 | 1390 | 161
Pages: 85-87
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Reviewer:
Michael, Michael (Michael, Michael; Michael, Michael A.; Michael, M. A.)
Subjects
artists:
Burgkmair, Hans, the elder / Schäufelein, Hans, the elder / Beck, Leonhard / Hokusai, Katsushika / Masayoshi / Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1798-1861 / Shunboku, Ōoka / Utagawa Toyokuni, 1769-1825 / Nishikawa Sukenobu
dates:
1500-1599 / 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 / 1800-1899 / 1900-1999 / 2000-2099 / 2010-2019
media:
Books / Manuscripts / Illuminated manuscripts / Miniatures (paintings) / Prints / Calligraphy / Incunabula
museums and institutions:
Staats- und Stadtbibliothek, Augsburg, Germany
patrons:
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1459-1519
places:
Germany / Augsburg
subjects:
Libraries / Collections / Collections, Public / Monasteries / Illuminators / Psalters / Printmaking / Cultural history / Exhibition catalogues / Persian / Ukiyo-e
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
2. Initial D at beginning of psalm 22 Dixit Insipiens, a tavern with men drinking and gaming, from the psalter of Abbot Johannes von Giltlingen. 1495. Parchment, 57.5 by 42 cm. (Augsburg Staats- und Stadtbibliothek; 2° Cod 49a, Cim 63).
Book Review
Interactive and Sculptural Printmaking in the Renaissance (Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 270/21). By Suzanne Karr Schmidt
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 980-981
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Reviewer:
Savage, Elizabeth (Savage, Elizabeth)
Subjects
dates:
1400-1499 / 1500-1599
media:
Books / Book illustrations / Prints / Ivories / Furniture
places:
Europe / Germany
subjects:
Printmaking / Printmakers / Cultural history / Social history / Iconography / Religious ceremonies / Reformation / Counter Reformation / Luther, Martin, 1483-1546 / Propaganda / Cabinets of curiosities / Science / Art market / Electronic publishing
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
4. Diser Bapst Alexander der Sechst. German, after 1555. Hand-coloured woodcut and letter- press, shown both closed, 33.5 by 17 cm., and open. (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Einbl. VII,23 a; photograph Creative Commons).
Exhibition Review
The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy. National Gallery of Art, Washington
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 953-955
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Reviewer:
Wilson, Bronwen (Wilson, Bronwen)
Subjects
art literature:
Vasari, Giorgio / Oberhuber, Konrad / Gnann, Achim
artists:
Ugo da Carpi / Titian / Andreani, Andrea / Beccafumi, Domenico / Raphael / Parmigianino
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Prints / Woodcuts
museums and institutions:
National Gallery of Art, Washington, United States / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, United States
places:
United States / Los Angeles / Washington DC
subjects:
Printmaking / Chiaroscuro / Chiaroscuro woodcuts / Albums / Workshops (Organisations) / Colour / Scientific analysis / Technical analysis / Techniques / Collections / Collections, Public / Collections, Private
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Diogenes, by Ugo da Carpi, after Parmigianino. c.1527–30. Woodcut, 48.4 by 34.8 cm. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art; exh. National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Attributed works:
5. St Philip, by Domenico Beccafumi. c.1540. Woodcut, 28.2 by 17 cm. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington; exh. National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Attributed works:
6. A skull, by Andrea Andreani, after Giovanni Fortuna (?). c.1588. Woodcut, 28.1 by 33.7 cm. (The British Museum, London; exh. National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Publication Received
Louise Bourgeois, An Unfolding Portrait: Prints, Books and the Creative Process. By Deborah Wye
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 987
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Reviewer:
Parton, John (Parton, John)
Subjects
artists:
Bourgeois, Louise
dates:
1900-1999 / 1950-1999 / 2000-2099
media:
Prints
museums and institutions:
Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States
places:
United States / New York
subjects:
Exhibition catalogues / Artists' writings / Printmaking
Book Review
The Enchanted World of German Romantic Prints, 1770–1850. Edited by John Ittmann
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 881-882
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Reviewer:
Godfrey, Daniel (Godfrey, Daniel)
Subjects
artists:
Quaglio, Domenico II, 1787-1837 / Raphael / Klein, Johann Adam, / Amsler, Samuel / Tischbein, Wilhelm, 1751-1829 / Lips, Johann Heinrich / Olivier, Ferdinand, 1785-1841 / Koch, Joseph Anton / Kolbe, Carl Wilhelm / Neureuther, Eugen Napoleon / Ramboux, Johann Anton
artists:
Hübner, Julius / Kirchner, Johann Jakob / Müller, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm / Schulze, Christian Gottfried / Reinhart, Johann Christian / Kölbl, Anton / Grimm, Ludwig Emil / Sonderland, Johann Baptist / Müller, Johann Gotthard / Klengel, Johann Christian
dates:
1750-1799 / 1800-1849
media:
Prints / Etchings / Engravings / Aquatints
museums and institutions:
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States
places:
United States / Philadelphia / Germany
subjects:
Romanticism / Collecting / Collections / Landscapes (visual works) / Portraits / Self-portraits / Visual sources / Animals / Children / Christian iconography / Printmaking / Printmakers / Nazarene (style) / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Fallen Germania, by Julius Hübner. 1850. Etching in black and gold with white heightening over lithograph in olive green, 21 by 30 cm. (The Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Book Review
The Cotman Collection: John Sell Cotman at Leeds Art Gallery. By David Hill and Theodore Wilkins
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 882-883
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Reviewer:
Wilcox, Timothy (Wilcox, Timothy; Wilcox, Tim)
Subjects
art literature:
Kitson, Sydney D.
artists:
Cotman, John Sell
dates:
1800-1899 / 1900-1949 / 1920-1929 / 1930-1939
media:
Drawings / Etchings / Prints / Watercolours
media:
Documents
museums and institutions:
City Art Gallery, Leeds, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / Leeds
subjects:
British painting / Collections / Collecting / Figure paintings / Landscapes (visual works) / Printmaking / Digital technology / Databases / Correspondence / Notebooks / Biographies / Archives / Dating / Attribution / Attributions
subjects:
Electronic publishing
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Portrait of ?Mrs Parr, sister of Mrs John Sell Cotman, Called ‘Portrait of Mrs J S Cotman’, by John Sell Cotman. c.1815. Graphite and white chalk on wove paper, 30.4 by 23 cm. (Leeds Art Gallery; Bridgeman Images).
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