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A newly discovered Anguissola portrait
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 937-41
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Lugli, Emanuele (Lugli, Emanuele)
Subjects
artists:
Anguissola, Sofonisba
artists:
Anguissola, Lucia
dates:
1550-1559
museums and institutions:
Museo d'Arte della Città di Ravenna, Ravenna, Italy
subjects:
Italian art / Portraits / Sitters / Roundels
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Portrait of a man, here attributed to Sofonisba or Lucia Anguissola, 1550s. Oil on panel, diameter 16 cm. (Museo d’arte, Ravenna).
Attributed works:
10. Portrait of the artist’s sister, Minerva Anguissola, by Sofonisba Anguissola. c.1564. Oil on canvas, 85 by 66 cm. (Milwaukee Art Museum).
Attributed works:
11. Portrait of Pietro Manna, by Lucia Anguissola. 1557. Oil on canvas, 96 by 76 cm. (© Photographic Archive Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
Attributed works:
12. St John the Evangelist, by Monogrammist FVB. c.1480–1500. Tempera on panel, 9.5 by 18 cm. (Courtesy Musei Civici, Pavia).
Attributed works:
2. Reverse of Fig.1.
Attributed works:
3. Self-portrait, by Sofonisba Anguissola. 1556 or 1558. Oil on panel, diameter 13 cm. (Frits Lugt Collection, Paris).
Attributed works:
4. Portrait of Europa Anguissola, by Lucia Anguissola. c.1558. Oil on panel, diameter 14.6 cm. (Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia).
Attributed works:
5. Portrait of a lady, by Sofonisba Anguissola. Oil on walnut panel, diameter 10.2 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; © Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali e per il turismo).
Attributed works:
6. Reverse of Fig.5.
Attributed works:
7. Reverse of Fig.4. (© Archivio Fotografico dei Musei Civici di Brescia – Fotostudio Rapuzzi).
Attributed works:
8. Sestertius of Maximinus. Roman, c.236–37 CE. Brass, diameter 2 cm. (CCØ Paris Musées / Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris).
Attributed works:
9. Reverse of Fig.8.
Exhibition Review
Ingenious Women: Women Artists and their Companions
05/2024 | 1454 | 166
Pages: 501–504
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Reviewer:
Stemp, Richard (Stemp, Richard)
Subjects
artists:
Hemessen, Katharina van / Tintoretto, Marietta / Leyster, Judith / Peeters, Clara / Moillon, Louise / Fontana, Lavinia / Merian, Maria Sibylla / Beale, Mary / Anguissola, Sofonisba / Kauffmann, Angelica / Ruysch, Rachel / Vallayer-Coster, Anne / Therbusch-Lisiewska, Anna Dorothea
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
subjects:
Women artists
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Ingenious Women: Women Artists and their Companions Kunstmuseum Basel 2nd March–30th June | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Temptation of St Anthony, by Roelant Savery. c.1610. Oil on panel, 17.5 by 26.7 cm. (Private collection; exh. Mauritshuis, The Hague).
Attributed works:
8. Christ among the doctors, attributed to Michaelina and Charles Wautier. c.1650. Oil on panel, 166.5 by 259.5 cm. (Private collection; exh. Kunstmuseum Basel).
Attributed works:
9. Clio, the Muse of history, by Angelica Kauffman. c.1770– 75. (Kunstsammlungen und Museen Augsburg; exh. Kunstmuseum Basel).
Exhibition Review
Sofonisba: History’s Forgotten Miracle. Nivaagaards Malerisamling, Nivå
12/2022 | 1437 | 164
Pages: 1272-1275
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Reviewer:
Simon, Robert B. (Simon, Robert B.)
Subjects
artists:
Anguissola, Sofonisba
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Nivaagaards Malerisamling, Nivå, Denmark
museums and institutions:
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands
subjects:
Italian art / Women artists / Portraits
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Sofonisba: History’s Forgotten Miracle Nivaagaards Malerisamling, Nivå 3rd September 2022– 15th January 2023 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
11. Family portrait: the artist’s father Amilcare Anguissola and her siblings Minerva and Asdrubale, by Sofonisba Anguissola. c.1559. Oil on canvas, 157 by 122 cm. (Nivaagaard Collection, Nivå).
Attributed works:
12. Installation view of Sofonisba: History’s Forgotten Miracle at Nivaagaards Malerisamling, Nivå, 2022. (Photograph David Kahr).
Attributed works:
13. Self-portrait, by Sofonisba Anguissola. c.1556. Oil on panel, diameter 13.2 cm. (Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris; exh. Nivaagaards Malerisamling, Nivå).
Attributed works:
14. Installation view of Sofonisba: History’s Forgotten Miracle at Nivaagaards Malerisamling, Nivå, 2022, showing, on the left, Bernardino Campi painting Sofonisba Anguissola and, on the right, Self-portrait at the easel. (Photograph David Kahr).
Exhibition Review
Paintings on Stone: Science and the Sacred 1530–1800
04/2022 | 1429 | 164
Pages: 396-399
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Reviewer:
Zafran, Eric (Zafran, Eric)
Subjects
artists:
Anguissola, Sofonisba / Cesari, Giuseppe, called Il Cavaliere d'Arpino / Heere, Lucas de / Bassano, Jacopo, il vecchio, 1510-1592 / Stella, Jacques
dates:
2020-2030
media:
Stone / Marbles
museums and institutions:
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, United States
Reviewed Items
museums and institutions:
Paintings on Stone: Science and the Sacred 1530–1800 Saint Louis Art Museum 20th February–15th May | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
14. Perseus rescuing Andromeda, by Giuseppe Cesari, called Cavaliere D’Arpino. c.1593– 94. Oil on lapis lazuli backed with slate, 20.2 by 15.6 cm. (Saint Louis Art Museum).
Attributed works:
16. Adoration of the Magi, after Jacopo Bassano. Early 17th century. Oil on Verona ‘marble’ backed with slate, 24.8 by 25.4 cm. (Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago; exh. Saint Louis Art Museum).
Western art unattributed:
15. Triple profile portrait, by School of Fontainebleau. 1570s. Oil on slate, 22.5 by 22.5 cm. (Milwaukee Art Museum; exh. Saint Louis Art Museum).
Exhibition Review
By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800
01/2022 | 1426 | 164
Pages: 64-66
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Reviewer:
Cropper, Elizabeth (Cropper, Elizabeth; Cropper, E.)
Subjects
artists:
Gentileschi, Artemisia / Gentileschi, Orazio / Anguissola, Sofonisba / Fontana, Lavinia / Garzoni, Giovanna / Sirani, Elisabetta / Parasole, Elisabetta Catanea / Vaiani, Anna Maria / Carriera, Rosalba / Scultori, Diana
artists:
Cantofoli, Ginevra / Stern Telli, Veronica
artists:
Julianis, Caterina de
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, United States
subjects:
Women artists / Italian art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800 Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford 30th September 2021– 9th January 2022 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
11. Judith and her maidservant with the head of Holofernes, by Artemisia Gentileschi. c.1623–25. Oil on canvas, 184 by 141.6 cm. (Detroit Institute of Arts; exh. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford).
Attributed works:
12. A hedgehog in a landscape, by Giovanna Garzoni. c.1643– 51(?). Tempera with graphite on parchment, 23.5 by 38 cm. (Private collection; exh. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
13. Bouquet of flowers, by Anna Maria Vaiani. 1633. Engraving on paper, 25 by 17 cm. (From G.B. Ferrari, De Florum Culturam, Rome 1633; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; courtesy Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington; exh. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford).
Exhibition Review
The Women of Art: Stories of Women Between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
10/2021 | 1423 | 163
Pages: 934-937
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Reviewer:
Zutter, Jörg (Zutter, Jörg)
Subjects
artists:
Anguissola, Sofonisba / Rossi, Properzia de' / Fontana, Lavinia / Sirani, Elisabetta / Galizia, Fede / Garzoni, Giovanna / Gentileschi, Artemisia / Caccia, Orsola Maddalene
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy / Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento, Italy
subjects:
Italian art / Baroque / Women artists
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Fede Galizia: Admirable Paintress Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trent 3rd July–24th October | :
subjects:
The Women of Art: Stories of Women Between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Palazzo Reale, Milan 2nd March–22nd August | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Game of chess, by Sofonisba Anguissola. 1555. Oil on canvas, 70 by 94 cm. (Fundacja im. Raczyńskich przy Muzeum Narodowym w Poznaniu, Poznan; exh. Palazzo Reale, Milan).
Attributed works:
2. Judith with the head of Holofernes and her maidservant Abra, by Fede Galizia. c.1600–05. Oil on canvas, 120 by 89 cm. (Palacio Real de la Granja de San Ildefonso; exh. Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento).
Attributed works:
3. Paolo Morigia, by Fede Galizia. 1592–95. Oil on canvas, 88 by 79 cm. (Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Pinacoteca, Milan; exh. Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento).
Book Review
Sofonisba’s Lesson: A Renaissance Artist and Her Work
12/2020 | 1413 | 162
Pages: 1109-1110
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Reviewer:
Cavazzini, Patrizia (Cavazzini, Patrizia)
Subjects
artists:
Anguissola, Sofonisba
subjects:
Italian art / Renaissance art / Women artists
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Sofonisba’s Lesson: A Renaissance Artist and Her Work By Michael W. Cole. 312 pp. incl. 256 col. + 25 b. & w. ills (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2020), £47. ISBN 978–0–691–19832–3. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Sofonisba’s Lesson: A Renaissance Artist and Her Work By Michael W. Cole. 312 pp. incl. 256 col. + 25 b. & w. ills (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2020), £47. ISBN 978–0–691–19832–3.
Exhibition Review
A Tale of Two Women Painters: Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
01/2020 | 1402 | 162
Pages: 59-61
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Reviewer:
Barker, Sheila (Barker, Sheila)
Subjects
artists:
Anguissola, Sofonisba / Fontana, Lavinia
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain
patrons:
House of Habsburg
places:
Italy / Spain
subjects:
Italian art / Renaissance art / Portraits / Self-portraits / Religious art / Mythology / Women artists
Reviewed Items
subjects:
A Tale of Two Women Painters: Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid 22nd October 2019–2nd February | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Bernardino Campi painting Sofonisba Anguissola, by Sofonisba Anguissola. c.1559. Oil on canvas, 111 by 109.5 cm. (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena; exh. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; Photo Scala, Florence).
Attributed works:
11. Mars and Venus, by Lavinia Fontana. c.1595. Oil on canvas, 140 by 116 cm. (Fundación Casa de Alba, Madrid; exh. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
Exhibition Review
Sofonisba Anguissola and Her Sisters. Cremona, Vienna and Washington
03/1995 | 1104 | 137
Pages: 201-202
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Reviewer:
Bayer, Andrea (Bayer, Andrea)
Subjects
artists:
Anguissola, Lucia
artists:
Anguissola, Sofonisba
dates:
1990-1999
museums and institutions:
Centro Culturale 'Città di Cremona', Cremona, Italy
museums and institutions:
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
museums and institutions:
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, United States
places:
Austria / Cremona / Italy / Vienna / United States / Washington DC
subjects:
Exhibitions / Reviews
Illustrations
Attributed works:
70. The Chess Game, by Sofonisba Anguissola. 72 by 97 cm. (Muzeum Narodowe, Poz'nan; Exh. Centro Culturale, Cremona).
Attributed works:
71. Self-Portrait at an Easel, by Sofonisba Anguissola. 66 by 57 cm. (Muzeum Zamek, Lancut; Exh. Centro Culturale, Cremona).
Attributed works:
72. Boy Bitten by a Crayfish, by Sofonisba Anguissola. Black Chalk, 32.2 by 37.5 cm. (Museo di Capodimonte, Naples; Exh. Centro Culturale, Cremona).
Attributed works:
73. Portrait of a Woman, by Lucia Anguissola. 28 by 20 cm. (Galleria Borghese, Rome; Exh. Centro Culturale, Cremona).
Attributed works:
74. Isabella de Valois, by Sofonisba Anguissola. 205 by 123 cm. (Museo del Prado, Madrid; Exh. Centro Culturale, Cremona).
Book Review
Sofonisba Anguissola, The First Great Woman Artist of the Renaissance
09/1993 | 1086 | 135
Pages: 640-641
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Reviewer:
Kusche, Maria (Kusche, Maria)
Subjects
artists:
Anguissola, Sofonisba
dates:
1500-1599
places:
Italy
subjects:
Italian painting / Women artists
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Sofonisba Anguissola, The First Great Woman Artist of the Renaissance | author: Perlingieri, Ilja Sandra
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