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Book Review
Piero della Francesca: The Augustinian Polyptych Reunited
11/2024 | 1460 | 166
Pages: 1164-1166
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Franklin, David (Franklin, David)
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Piero della Francesca: The Augustinian Polyptych Reunited Edited by Machtelt Brüggen Israëls with Nathaniel Silver. 224 pp. incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Dario Cimorelli Editore, Milan, 2024), €32. ISBN 979–12–5561–061–8. | :
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10. St Augustine, by Piero della Francesca. 1468–69. Oil and on panel, 135.5 by 66.5 cm. (Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon; exh. Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan).
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8. Installation view of Piero della Francesca: The Augustinian Polyptych Reunited at the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, 2024. (Courtesy Museo Poldi Pezzoli).
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9. Reconstruction of the polyptych for S. Agostino (now S. Chiara), Sansepolcro, by Piero della Francesca. 1468–69. (Reconstruction by Machtelt Brüggen Israëls, drawing by Andrea Santacesaria and rendering by Giacomo Tenti. 2024).
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Aby Warburg’s Hertziana lecture, 1929
08/2023 | 1445 | 165
Pages: 852–873
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Sears, Elizabeth (Sears, Elizabeth)
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1. The lecture hall in the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Palazzo Zuccari, Rome. Photograph, c.1995. (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome).
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10 and 11. Panel I of the Hertziana lecture, photographs by Pompeo Sansaini. 1929. Hand-numbered, 1–35. (Warburg Institute Archive, London).
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12. Detail of Fig.7, showing a carved relief of the Justice of Trajan.
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13. Detail of The children of Venus, showing a dancing couple, attributed to Baccio Baldini. c.1464. Engraving, 32 by 21.5 cm. (British Museum, London).
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14. Detail of The children of Venus, showing a dancing couple, attributed to Baccio Baldini. c.1465. Engraving, 25.5 by 18 cm. (British Museum, London).
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15. Panel VIb of the Hertziana lecture, photograph by Pompeo Sansaini. 1929. The panel includes two depictions of the Battle of Constantine, by Piero della Francesca (nos.216–17) and Giulio Romano (no.215). (Warburg Institute Archive, London).
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16. Chart sketched by Aby Warburg, 8th February 1929. Media represented in the twelve Hertziana ‘plates’ following the C-sketches consisting of 287 photographs distributed across nine screens before the discarding of Plate VI. (Warburg Institute Archive, London).
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17. The monument to Giordano Bruno, Campo dei Fiori, Rome, by Ettore Ferrari. 1889. Bronze. The statue is on the site of Bruno’s execution on 17th February 1600. (Photograph the author).
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2. Gertrud Bing, Aby Warburg and Franz Alber in their sitting room at the Palace Hotel, April 1929. In the background is a screen constructed for the Hertziana lecture: to the left, the first eight of the twenty photographs by Pompeo Sansaini documenting the image-series; to the right, a scattering of photographs that had been on display. (Warburg Institute Archive, London).
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3 and 4. The evolution of Hertziana Panel 1 (‘Energetic inversion’) in arrangements of photographs sketched by Gertrud Bing. Demonstration evening (5th December 1928) and A-series (January 1929). See also Figs.5 and 6. (Warburg Institute Archive, London).
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5 and 6. The evolution of Hertziana Panel 1 (‘Energetic inversion’) in arrangements of photographs sketched by Gertrud Bing. The B-series and the (final) C-series (January 1929). (Warburg Institute Archive, London).
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7. The first terrace of Purgatory: the marble reliefs and the repentance of the proud: an illustration for Purgatorio, Canto X of Dante’s Divine Comedy, by Sandro Botticelli. c.1488–92. Metalpoint and brown ink on parchment, 32.2 by 47 cm. (Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen, Berlin).
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8. Adoration of the shepherds, by Domenico Ghirlandaio. 1485. Oil on panel, 167 by 167 cm. (S. Trinita Florence; photograph © Raffaello Bencini; Bridgeman Images).
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9. Detail of a relief below the tomb of Francesco Sassetti, showing Sassetti being mourned, attributed to Giuliano da Sangallo. 1485–90. Pietra serena. (S. Trinita, Florence).
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A sartorial portrait of Ottaviano Ubaldini della Carda by Piero della Francesca
07/2023 | 1444 | 165
Pages: 720–737
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Brüggen Israëls, Machtelt (Brüggen Israëls, Machtelt)
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1. Flagellation of Christ with figures here identified as Joseph of Arimathea and an assistant asking Pilate for the body of Christ, by Piero della Francesca. c.1456–57. Egg tempera and oil on panel, 67.5 by 91 cm. (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino; Bridgeman Images).
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10. Detail of the Communion of the Apostles, by Justus of Ghent, showing the donor figures. 1473–74. Oil on panel. (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino; Scala Archives; courtesy the Ministero Beni e Attività Culturali e del Turismo).
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11. Horsewoman of Coins, by the workshop of Bonifacio Bembo. Before 1447. Paint and tooled gold on paper, 18.9 by 9 cm. (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University Library, New Haven CT).
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12. Detail from St Gregory the Great and St Matthias, by Masolino, showing the cope of St Gregory the Great. c.1428–29. Tempera and oil on panel, transferred to fibreboard. (National Gallery, London; Bridgeman Images).
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2. Ottaviano Ubaldini della Carda and Federico di Montefeltro, by Ambrogio Barocci. 1470s. Cesane stone, 50 by 110 cm. (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino).
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3. Detail of Fig.4, showing the donor figures, Guidubaldo di Montefeltro, Count Federico di Montefeltro and Ottaviano Ubaldini della Carda.
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4. The Lamentation of Christ, by Francesco di Giorgio. c.1473. Bronze, 85 by 58 cm. (S. Maria del Carmelo, Venice; Scala Archives).
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5. Medal of Duke Filippo Maria Visconti (obverse), by Pisanello. c.1441. Bronze, diameter 10.3 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
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6. Detail of an altar frontal with the Visconti device of the dove and motto ‘à bon droit’. Italy, c.1450–60. Red velvet with a single-height pile with a design in gold pattern wefts and silver brocaded wefts, 98 by 241 cm. (Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan; Scala Archive).
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7. Federico di Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, and his son Guidubaldo, by Pedro Berruguete. c.1476. Oil on panel, 138 by 82.5 cm. (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino).
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8. Luca Pacioli and Guidubaldo di Montefeltro, attributed to Jacopo de’ Barbari. 1495. Oil on panel, 99 by 120 cm. (Museo di Capodimonte, Naples; Photo Scala, Florence).
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9. Detail of Fig.1, showing the figures here identified as Joseph of Arimathea and an assistant asking Pilate for the body of Christ.
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13. Detail of a cope with the Medici coat of arms and devices. Italy, 1470s or 1480s. Red velvet with single-height cut pile with a design in gold bouclé pattern wefts and allucciolato effect, 278 by 152 cm. (Museo d’arte sacra dell’Abbazia di Vallombrosa).
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14. Detail of the cope shown in Fig.13 with the motif of the Medici coat of arms covered by a roundel of St Giovanni Gualberto embroidered in silk and gold. Italy, c.1494.
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A tale of two velvets in works by Jaume Huguet and Piero della Francesca
07/2023 | 1444 | 165
Pages: 713–719
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Monnas, Lisa (Monnas, Lisa)
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1. Consecration of St Augustine, by Jaume Huguet. c.1463–75. Tempera on panel, 250 by 193 cm. (Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona).
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10. Detail from Meeting between the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon, by Piero della Francesca. 1452–56. Fresco. (S. Francesco, Arezzo; Bridgeman Images).
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4. Flagellation of Christ, by Piero della Francesca. c.1456–57. Egg tempera and oil on panel, 67.5 by 91 cm. (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino; Bridgeman Images).
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5. Detail of Fig.4, showing the figure in the right foreground dressed in blue.
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6. Detail of Fig.1, showing the figure in the right foreground wearing a green cope.
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9. Detail of Fig.1, showing the same sprig motif as in Fig.8.
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2. Blue velvet cloth of gold of tissue. Italy, 1450–75. 126 by 57 cm. (repeat 84.5 by 57 cm.). (Abegg-Stiftung, Riggisberg; photograph Christoph von Viràg).
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3. Panel of green velvet cloth of gold of tissue (three loom widths sewn together). Italy, third quarter of the fifteenth century, 110 by 239 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
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7. Blue velvet cloth with two heights of cut-silk pile, voided and brocaded with gold. Italy, c.1450–70. 96.8 by 41.8 cm. (repeat, 65.5 by 28.5 cm.). (Abegg-Stiftung, Riggisberg; photograph Christoph von Viràg).
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8. Detail of Fig.3, showing the sprig motif.
Book Review
Piero della Francesca and the Invention of the Artist
09/2021 | 1422 | 163
Pages: 867-869
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Dalvit, Giulio (Dalvit, Giulio)
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Piero della Francesca and the Invention of the Artist By Machtelt Brüggen Israëls. 368 pp. incl. 94 col. ills. (Reaktion Books, London, 2021), £15.95. ISBN 978–1–78914–321–8. | :
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4. Nativity, by Piero della Francesca. Mid- 1480s. Oil on panel, 124.4 by 122.6 cm. (National Gallery, London).
Short Notice
The first known record of Piero della Francesca’s ‘Flagellation of Christ’ and the question of its inscription
06/2019 | 1395 | 161
Pages: 488-491
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Brüggen Israëls, Machtelt (Brüggen Israëls, Machtelt)
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1. Flagellation of Christ, by Piero della Francesca. c.1456–57. Panel, 67.5 by 91.0 cm. (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino; photograph courtesy Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo; Archivio fotografico).
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2. Tracing of the three foregroud figures in Fig.1 by Johann Anton Ramboux. c.1833–43. Pencil on oiled vellum, 57.3 by 36.5 cm. (© Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main; inv. no.Bib. 2472 VII, Sammlung von Umrissen und Durchzeichnungen, dienend zur Geschichte der bildenden Künste des Mittelalters in Italien, VII, fol.49r).
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3. Detail of Fig.2, showing the inscription.
Exhibition Review
Piero della Francesca: Monarch of Painting. State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
03/2019 | 1392 | 161
Pages: 233-235
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Nethersole, Scott (Nethersole, Scott)
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4. Portrait of a boy, attributed to Piero della Francesca. c.1480. Tempera on panel, 41 by 27.5 cm. (Museo Nacional Thyssen- Bornemisza, Madrid; exh. State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg). 5. Sigismondo
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5. Sigismondo Malatesta, by Piero della Francesca. 1450s. Oil and tempera on panel, 44 by 34 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; exh. State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg).
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6. The Annunciation, by Piero della Francesca. 1459–68. Oil and tempera on panel, 338 by 230 cm. (Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, Perugia; exh. State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg).
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From Giotto to the Bushmen: Roger Fry at the Slade 1909–13
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 727-733
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Elam, Caroline (Elam, Caroline; E., C.; E., C. M.)
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1. Vision, volumes and recession, by Walter Sickert. c.1923, published 1929. Etching, 20 by 11.1 cm. (Courtauld Gallery, London).
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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).
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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).
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4. The meeting at the Golden Gate from John Ruskin, Giotto and his Works in Padua, Orpington 1900, p.77. (Warburg Institute, London).
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5. Detail of The meeting at the Golden Gate, by Giotto. c.1305. Fresco. (Arena Chapel, Padua; Bridgeman Images).
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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).
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7. John Donne arriving in heaven, by Stanley Spencer. 1911. Canvas, 37 by 40.5 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
Exhibition Review
After Piero. Forli
06/2016 | 1359 | 158
Pages: 487-489
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Strehlke, Carl Brandon (Strehlke, Carl Brandon; S., C. B.; Strehlke, C. B.; Strehlke, Carl Brandos)
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79. Women sewing, by Massimo Campigli. 1925 (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg; exh. Musei San Domenico, Forlì)
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80. Urban view with a bridge, by Cristoforo Canozi da Lendinara. 1488 (Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Guinigi, Lucca; exh. Musei San Domenico, Forlì)
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81. Perspectival vase, by Gio Ponti. 1925 (Museo Ricard-Ginori, Sesto Fiorentino; exh. Musei San Domenico, Forlì)
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