Arcimboldo, Bassano, Bruegel:
Nature’s Time
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
11th March–29th June |
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Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Sleeping
shepherd, by
Jacopo dal Ponte,
called Bassano.
c.1568. Oil on
canvas, 99.5 by
137.5 cm. (Museum
of Fine Arts,
Budapest; exh.
Kunsthistorisches
Museum, Vienna).
Attributed works:
11. Return of the
herd (autumn),
by Pieter Bruegel
the Elder. 1565.
Oil on oak panel,
117 by 159.7 cm.
(Kunsthistorisches
Museum, Vienna).
Attributed works:
12. Four seasons
in one head,
by Giuseppe
Arcimboldo. c.1590.
Oil on poplar
panel, 60.4 by
44.7 cm. (National
Gallery of Art,
Washington; exh.
Kunsthistorisches
Museum, Vienna).
Bruegel: The Complete Graphic Works
By Maarten Bassens, Lieve Watteeuw, Joris
Van Grieken and Jan Van der Stock. 250 pp.
incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Thames and
Hudson, London and New York, 2019), £49.95.
ISBN 978–0–500–23999–5. |
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Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. The rabbit hunt, by Pieter Bruegel the
Elder. 1560. Etching, 22.3 by 29.1 cm. (Royal
Library of Belgium, Brussels; inv. no. S.II
48464 [I/I]).
Article
Reminiscences of the British Museum Print Room, 1954–65
1. ‘Solicitudo rustica’: Alpine landscape with a winding river,
attributed to the Master of the Mountain Landscapes. c.1575–1600.
Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk on paper, 24.4 by 35.1 cm.
(British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
2. The Calumny of Apelles, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. c.1565–69.
Pen and brown ink with brown wash on brown prepared paper,
20.2 by 30.6 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
3. Absalom kneeling before David (?), by Rembrandt. c.1652–55. Reed
pen and brown ink, touched with white, with later brown wash on paper,
16.4 by 21.6 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
4. Studies of three caricature heads, drapery and a dog, by Albrecht
Dürer. 1513. Pen and brown ink on paper, 18.1 by 20.9 cm. (British
Museum, London).
Exhibition Review
Bernard van Orley: Brussels and the Renaissance Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR), Brussels
7. Attack on the
French camp
and the flight of
the civilians, one
of the tapestries
of the Battle of
Pavia series,
designed by
Bernard van
Orley and woven
in the workshop
of Willem
Dermoyen.
1525–31. Wool,
silk and preciousmetal
wrapped
threads, 440
by 818 cm., 7–8
warp threads
per cm. (Museo
e Real Bosco di
Capodimonte,
Naples; exh.
Centre for Fine
Arts, Brussels).
Attributed works:
8. Head of a
dog, fragment
of a tapestry
cartoon, from
the workshop
of Bernard van
Orley. c.1525–31.
Bodycolour
heightened
with white
(partly oxidised)
on paper,
silhouetted,
17.1 by 17.9 cm.
(British Museum,
London).
Attributed works:
9. Execution of St
John the Baptist,
by Bernard van
Orley. c.1510.
Panel, 64.5 by
74.2 cm (Private
collection; exh.
Centre for Fine
Arts, Brussels).
1. Vision, volumes and recession, by Walter Sickert. c.1923, published 1929. Etching, 20 by 11.1 cm. (Courtauld Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
2. The unknown god: Roger Fry preaching the new faith, by Henry Tonks. Exhibited 1923. Canvas, 41.5 by 56 cm. (Private collection; courtesy Pym’s Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
3. Poster for the first Post-Impressionist exhibition, Grafton Galleries, London. 1910. Lettering by Roger Fry. 76.3 by 50.9 cm. (The Courtauld Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
4. The meeting at the Golden Gate from John Ruskin, Giotto and his Works in Padua, Orpington 1900, p.77. (Warburg Institute, London).
Attributed works:
5. Detail of The meeting at the Golden Gate, by Giotto. c.1305. Fresco. (Arena Chapel, Padua; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
6. Some later primitives and Madame Tisceron, by John Currie. 1912. Tempera on canvas, 46 by 127 cm. (The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
7. John Donne arriving in heaven, by Stanley Spencer. 1911. Canvas, 37 by 40.5 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
Book Review
Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life. By Joseph Leo Koerner