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Article
Canova’s copper head of Medusa
11/2019 | 1400 | 161
Pages: 916-923
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Author:
Gustin, Melissa L. (Gustin, Melissa L.)
Subjects
art literature:
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim / Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
artists:
Canova, Antonio
buildings:
Villa dei Papiri, Herculaneum, Italy
dates:
1790-1799
media:
Marbles / Copper / Bronzes
museums and institutions:
Museo Civico, Bassano del Grappa, Italy / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States / Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy / Musei Vaticani, Rome, Italy
styles:
Italian sculpture
subjects:
Medusa / Perseus / Antiquity / Roman art / Conservation
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Triumphant Perseus, by Antonio Canova. Second version, 1804–06. Marble, 242.6 by 191.8 by 102.9 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
2. Head of Medusa, by Antonio Canova. c.1797–1800. Embossed copper with bronze additions, 31 by 40.5 by 29.8 cm. (Museo Biblioteca Archivio, Bassano del Grappa).
Attributed works:
3. Detail of Fig.1, showing the head of Medusa.
Attributed works:
4. Head of Medusa, cast after Antonio Canova. 1806–07. Plaster, height 31.1 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
6. Detail of Perseus and Medusa, by Antonio Canova. c.1798–99. Oil on canvas, 24 by 73 cm. (Museo Correr, Venice).
Attributed works:
7. Fig.2 during restoration. (Courtesy Museo Archivio Biblioteca Bassano del Grappa).
Attributed works:
8. Five dancers with garlands of flowers, by Antonio Canova. 1799. Mixed media on canvas, 72 by 178 cm. (© Museo e Gipsoteca Antonio Canova, Possagno).
Attributed works:
9. Fig.2 prior to restoration. (Courtesy Museo Archivio Biblioteca Bassano del Grappa).
Western art unattributed:
10. Archaising bust of a youth (bust of Apollo). Roman. Bronze, height 25 cm. (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples).
Western art unattributed:
10. Ptolemy Apion. Roman. Bronze, height 29 cm. (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples; photograph the author).
Western art unattributed:
5. The Rondanini Medusa. Roman copy after a bronze original of c.170 BC. Marble, height 29 cm. (Glypthotek, Munich; photograph © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro).
Western art unattributed:
9. Ptolemy Apion, from De’ bronzi di Ercolano e contorni incisi con qualche spiegazione: Tomo Primi: Busti, Naples 1767. Table LIX, p.203.
Exhibition Review
Bramante at Milan
05/2015 | 1346 | 157
Pages: 373-374
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Reviewer:
Gritti, Jessica (Gritti, Jessica)
Subjects
artists:
Bramante, Donato
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy
places:
Milan / Italy
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
88. Chilon of Sparta, by Donato Bramante (Accademia Carrara, Bergamo; exh. Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)
Attributed works:
89. Fragment of a Nativity, by Giovanni Antonio Amadeo (Galleria Civica San Zenone, Campione d'Italia; exh. Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)
Attributed works:
92. Christ at the column, by Donato Bramante (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)
Western art unattributed:
90. Bust of a man, by an anonymous Lombard sculptor (Civiche Raccolte d'Arte Antica del Castello Sforzesco, Milan; exh. Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)
Article
A new drawing by Andrea Mantegna
03/2015 | 1344 | 157
Pages: 155-157
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Author:
Marini, Francesca (Marini, Francesca)
Subjects
artists:
Mantegna, Andrea / Bellini, Giovanni
dates:
1460-1469
museums and institutions:
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy / British Museum, London, Great Britain / Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia, Italy
subjects:
Drawings / Studies (visual works) / Italian painting / Collections, Private / Jesus Christ: Lamentation / Christian iconography / Attributions, former / Composition (artistic arrangement)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Studies for the dead Christ and the Lamentation over the dead Christ, by Andrea Mantegna (Private collection)
Attributed works:
2. Pietà, by Andrea Mantegna. Verso of Fig.1
Attributed works:
3. Three studies for the dead Christ, by Andrea Mantegna (British Museum, London)
Attributed works:
4. Two mourning women, by Andrea Mantegna. Verso of Fig.3
Attributed works:
5. Entombment of Christ, by Andrea Mantegna (Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia)
Book Review
Giovanni Bellini. La nascita della pittura devozionale ­umanistica, Gli studi, E. Daffra, ed.
12/2014 | 1341 | 156
Pages: 819-820
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Reviewer:
Barcham, William L. (Barcham, William L.)
Subjects
artists:
Bellini, Giovanni
dates:
2010-2019 / 1460-1469 / 1470-1479
museums and institutions:
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy
subjects:
Italian painting / Devotional images / Exhibitions / Mary, Virgin: Pietà
Illustrations
Attributed works:
29. Pietà, or Dead Christ with the Virgin Mary and St John, by Giovanni Bellini (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)
Attributed works:
30. Pietà with Sts Mark and Nicholas, by Giovanni Bellini (Palazzo Ducale, Venice)
Exhibition Review
The Sola Busca tarocchi. Milan
04/2013 | 1321 | 155
Pages: 283-284
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Reviewer:
Rowley, Neville (Rowley, Neville)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy
places:
Milan / Italy
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Tarot / Playing cards
Illustrations
Attributed works:
83. St Bartholomew, by Nicola di maestro Antonio da Ancona. c.1480. Tempera on wood, 68 by 40.2 cm. (Museo Civico Amedeo Lia, La Spezia; exh. Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan).
Attributed works:
84. Six of coins from the Sola Busca tarocchi, design attributed to Nicola di maestro Antonio da Ancona, c.1475-80. Coloured by an anonymous miniaturist in 1491. Hand-coloured engraving, 14.4.by 7.8 cm. (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan).
Attributed works:
85. Profile busts of two women in fantastic headdress, attributed to Nicola di maestro Antonio da Ancona. c.1480. Engraving, 16 by 8.4 cm. (Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen, Berlin; exh. Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan).
Exhibition Review
Italy’s 150th anniversary in painting. Milan (Hayez nella Milano di Manzoni e Verdi)
12/2011 | 1305 | 153
Pages: 843-846
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Reviewer:
Lyttelton, Adrian (Lyttelton, Adrian)
Subjects
artists:
Hayez, Francesco
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy
places:
Italy / Milan
print:
Italy
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Anniversaries / Italian Risorgimento (Italy: 1820-1880) / Patronage / Nationalism / Italian
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Hayez nella Milano di Manzoni e Verdi | institution: Pinacoteca di Brera
Book Review
Crivelli e l’arte tessile: i tappeti e i tessuti di Carlo Crivelli
03/2011 | 1296 | 153
Pages: 183
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Reviewer:
Monnas, Lisa (Monnas, Lisa)
Subjects
artists:
Crivelli, Carlo
dates:
1400-1499
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy
places:
Milan / Italy
print:
Crivelli, Carlo
subjects:
Exhibition catalogues / Carpets / Textiles / Italian painting
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Crivelli e l’arte tessile: i tappeti e i tessuti di Carlo Crivelli | editor: Marchesi, Tiziana , editor: Piccoli, Elena , editor: Tabibnia, Moshe
Illustrations
Attributed works:
72. Detail of the Annunciation with St Emidius, by Carlo Crivelli. 1486. Canvas, 207 by 146.7 cm. (National Gallery, London)
Publication Received
Brera La Pinacoteca: Storia e capolavori
10/2010 | 1291 | 152
Pages: 689
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Reviewer:
Martineau, Jane (Martineau, Jane; Martineau, Jane; M., J.T.)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy
print:
Collections, Public / Milan / Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy
subjects:
Collections, Public / Museum history
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Brera La Pinacoteca: Storia e capolavori | contributor: Arrigoni, Luisa , contributor: Bandera, Sandrina , editor: Bandera, Sandrina
Article
The fate of Mary Shelley’s ‘Titian’
03/2008 | 1260 | 150
Pages: 173-181
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Author:
Brown, Beverly Louise (Brown, Beverly Louise)
Subjects
artists:
Titian / Bonifacio de'Pitati
artists:
Anderloni, Pietro
collectors and dealers:
Shelley, Mary
museums and institutions:
National Gallery, London, Great Britain / Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy / Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Great Britain / Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
print:
Titian
print:
Shelley, Mary
subjects:
Jesus Christ: and the woman taken in adultery / Acquisitions / Collections, Public / Identification / Correspondence / Museum policy
subjects:
Provenance
Illustrations
Attributed works:
21. Woman taken in adultery, by Titian. c.1508–10. Canvas, 139.2 by 181.7 cm. (Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow)
Attributed works:
22. Woman taken in adultery, by Pietro Anderloni after a painting attributed to Titian. 1821. Engraving, 51.2 by 69.1 cm. (British Museum, London)
Attributed works:
23. Moses and the daughters of Jethro, by Pietro Anderloni after a painting attributed to Nicolas Poussin. 1819. Engraving, 51.4 by 68.5 cm. (British Museum, London)
Attributed works:
24. Moses and the daughters of Jethro, by Nicolas Colombel?. c.1680. Canvas, 248 by 356 cm. (Raccolte Civiche Milanesi, Milan). From an old photograph
Attributed works:
25. Woman taken in adultery, by Bonifacio de’ Pitati. c.1538–40. Canvas, 175 by 340 cm. (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)
Attributed works:
26. Woman taken in adultery, by Luigi Bridi after a painting attributed to Palma Vecchio. 1812. Engraving, 14.3 by 25.4 cm. From R. Gironi: Pinacoteca del Palazzo Reale delle Scienze e delle Arti di Milano. (British Library, London)
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27. Woman taken in adultery, by Polidoro da Lanciano. c.1545–50. Canvas, 163 by 202 cm. (Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest)
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28. Woman taken in adultery, by Antonio Palma. c.1550–60. Canvas, 102 by 198 cm. (Location unknown, sold Christie’s, London, 11th February 1966)
Attributed works:
29. Woman taken in adultery, here attributed to Antonio Palma. c.1550–60. Canvas, 181 by 335 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
Exhibition Review
Fra Carnevale. Milan and New York
02/2005 | 1223 | 147
Pages: 135-138
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Reviewer:
Syson, Luke (Syson, Luke)
Subjects
artists:
Carnevale, Fra
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States / Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy
places:
United States / New York / Milan / Italy
print:
Carnevale, Fra
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Fra Carnevale: un artista rinascimentale da Filippo Lippi a Piero della Francesca | institution: Metropolitan Museum of Art , institution: Pinacoteca di Brera
Illustrations
Attributed works:
73. The presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (?), by Fra Carnevale. 1466-67. Tempera and (?) oil on panel, 144.8 by 96.2 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
74. Annunciation, by Fra Carnevale. c.1448. Tempera and (?) oil on panel, 87.6 by 62.8 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
75. Annunciation, perhaps by Piero di Lorenzo di Pratese. c.1448. Tempera on panel, 69.9 by 78 cm. (Alte Pinakothek, Munich; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
76. Crucifixion, by Fra Carnevale or an anonymous Marchigian painter. 1470. Tempera and oil on panel, 102.5 by 66.8 cm. (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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