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Book Review
I disegni di Antonio e Piero del Pollaiolo (Corpus der italienischen Zeichnungen 1300–1550, I, Toscana, 16)
03/2024 | 1452 | 166
Pages: 322–324
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Reviewer:
Wright, Alison (Wright, Alison)
Subjects
artists:
Pollaiolo, Antonio del / Pollaiolo, Piero del / Pollaiolo, Salvestro del / Finiguerra, Maso
dates:
1450-1499
subjects:
Italian drawings / Attributions / Provenance
Reviewed Items
subjects:
I disegni di Antonio e Piero del Pollaiolo (Corpus der italienischen Zeichnungen 1300–1550, I, Toscana, 16) By Lorenza Melli. 455 pp. incl. 728 col. ills. (Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg, 2023), €99. ISBN 978–3–7319–1237–8. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Studies of horsemen and foot soldiers for the ‘Martyrdom of St. Sebastian’, by Antonio and Piero del Pollaiuolo. c.1470–75. Pen and brown ink and wash with traces of black chalk on brown tinted paper, 16.4 by 28.6 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence).
Attributed works:
2. Blind Cupid, detail of central fragment from a larger sheet, by Antonio del Pollaiuolo. c.1460–65. Pen and brown ink with wash and traces of black chalk on paper, 14.8 by 4.2 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence)
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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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Author:
Monnas, Lisa (Monnas, Lisa)
Subjects
artists:
Huguet, Jaume / Piero della Francesca
dates:
1450-1499
subjects:
Spanish painting / Italian painting / Altarpieces / Textiles / Velvets / Brocade / Ecclesiastical vestments
subjects:
Thistles (motifs) / Carda, Ottaviano Ubaldini della (1423–98)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
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).
Attributed works:
10. Detail from Meeting between the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon, by Piero della Francesca. 1452–56. Fresco. (S. Francesco, Arezzo; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
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).
Attributed works:
5. Detail of Fig.4, showing the figure in the right foreground dressed in blue.
Attributed works:
6. Detail of Fig.1, showing the figure in the right foreground wearing a green cope.
Attributed works:
9. Detail of Fig.1, showing the same sprig motif as in Fig.8.
Western art unattributed:
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).
Western art unattributed:
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).
Western art unattributed:
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).
Western art unattributed:
8. Detail of Fig.3, showing the sprig motif.
Book Review
Albrecht Dürer: Documentary Biography. By Jeffrey Ashcroft
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 169-170
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Reviewer:
Kunz, Armin (Kunz, Armin)
Subjects
artists:
Dürer, Albrecht
dates:
1450-1499 / 1500-1549
media:
Documents / Inscriptions / Paintings / Woodcuts / Prints
places:
Germany / Nuremberg
subjects:
German painting / Artists' writings / Art theory / Biographies / Poetry / Correspondence / Translations / Language / Historical context
Article
The problematic ‘Baptist’: Benedetto da Maiano’s Sala dei Gigli doorway
08/2018 | 1385 | 160
Pages: 624-629
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Author:
Dillon, Sarah M. (Dillon, Sarah M. )
Subjects
art literature:
Poggi, Giovanni, 1880-1961 / Vasari, Giorgio
artists:
Benedetto da Maiano / Verrocchio, Andrea del / Ghirlandaio, Domenico / Rossellino, Bernardo / Rossellino, Antonio / Mino da Fiesole
dates:
1450-1499
media:
Sculpture / Reliefs / Doorways / Marbles / Bronzes
museums and institutions:
Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy / Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy
patrons:
Medici, Lorenzo de', il Magnifico, 1449–1492
places:
Italy / Florence
subjects:
Italian sculpture / Italian architecture / Medici family / Patronage / Politics / Iconography / John the Baptist, Saint / Flowers / Putti / David / Archives / Inventories / Supports / Influence / Commissions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Door of the Sala dei Gigli, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, by Benedetto da Maiano. c.1475–78. Marble. (Photograph Raffaello Bencini; Alinari Archives, Florence)
Attributed works:
2. Door of the Sala dei Gigli, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, by Benedetto da Maiano. Photograph by Fratelli Alinari c.1890, 16 by 21 cm. (Alinari Archives, Florence).
Attributed works:
3. Door of the Sala dell’Udienza, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, by Benedetto da Maiano. c.1475–78. Marble. (Photograph Raffaello Bencini; Alinari Archives, Florence).
Attributed works:
4. Above Detail of the door of the Sala dei Gigli, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, showing the base of the figure. (Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
5. Opposite St John the Baptist, by Benedetto da Maiano. Marble, height 125 cm. Photograph by Fratelli Alinari c.1900, 15 by 21 cm. (Alinari Archives, Florence).
Book Review
Ghirlandaria: Un manoscritto di ricordi della famiglia Ghirlandaio. Edited by Lisa Venturini
07/2018 | 1384 | 160
Pages: 604-605
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Reviewer:
Cadogan, Jean K. (Cadogan, Jean K.)
Subjects
art literature:
Vasari, Giorgio / Condivi, Ascanio
artists:
Ghirlandaio, Domenico / Ghirlandaio, Davide / Ghirlandaio, Ridolfo, 1483-1561 / Michelangelo / Baldovinetti, Alesso / Verrocchio, Andrea del
artists:
Bartolomeo di Stefano / Bernardo di Guccio
dates:
1450-1499 / 1500-1599 / 1600-1649
media:
Documents / Paintings / Metalwork / Gold / Manuscripts
places:
Italy / Florence
subjects:
Ghirlandaio family / Vital records / Estate records / Estate inventories / Inventories / Biographies / Patronage / Provenance / Dating / Lost works / Guilds / Artisans / Italian painting
Letter
The Kimbell’s Torment of St Anthony
04/2018 | 1381 | 160
Pages: 276
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Author:
Bonsanti, Giorgio (Bonsanti, Giorgio)
Subjects
art literature:
Condivi, Ascanio / Vasari, Giorgio
artists:
Michelangelo / Granacci, Francesco
dates:
1450-1499
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings
subjects:
Italian painting / Attributions / Exhibition reviews
subjects:
Correspondence
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. Detail of Torment of St Anthony, attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti. 1487–88. Tempera on panel, 47 by 34.9 cm. (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth).
Book Review
Mona Lisa: The People and the Painting. By Martin Kemp and Giuseppe Pallanti
03/2018 | 1380 | 160
Pages: 257-258
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Reviewer:
Marani, Pietro C. (Marani, Pietro C.; Marani, Pietro)
Subjects
artists:
Leonardo da Vinci
media:
Paintings
places:
Italy / Florence
places:
1450-1499 / 1500-1549
subjects:
Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo / Italian painting / Portraits / Identification / Sitters / Iconography / Infrared reflectography
Book Review
The Monster in the Garden: The Grotesque and the Gigantic in Renaissance Landscape Design, by Luke Morgan
11/2016 | 1364 | 158
Pages: 905-906
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Reviewer:
Longstaffe-Gowan, Todd (Longstaffe-Gowan, Todd; Gowan, Todd Longstaffe-)
Subjects
dates:
1450-1499
subjects:
Landscape architecture / Renaissance / Italian / Monsters / Grotesques / Gardens
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
42. The Orcus at the Sacro Bosco, Bomarzo
Book Review
La Pala d’Altare a Bologna nel Rinascimento, opere, artisti e città, 1450–1500, C. Cavalea
10/2015 | 1351 | 157
Pages: 709-710
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Reviewer:
Russell, Francis (Russell, Francis; Russell, F.)
Subjects
dates:
1450-1499
places:
Bologna
subjects:
Altarpieces / Italian painting / Bolognese / Polyptychs / Reconstructions / Renaissance
Illustrations
Attributed works:
36. The Annunciation, by Francesco del Cossa. 1470-72 (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden)
Book Review
De erfenis van Rogier van der Weyden. Schilderkunst in Brussel, 1450–1520, V. Bücken and G. Steyaert
02/2015 | 1343 | 157
Pages: 100-101
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Reviewer:
Filedt Kok, Jan Piet (Filedt Kok, Jan Piet; Kok, J. P. Filedt)
Subjects
artists:
Weyden, Rogier van der
dates:
2010-2019 / 1450-1499 / 1500-1519
museums and institutions:
Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
places:
Brussels
subjects:
Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
45. Parade shield, by the Master of the Princely Portraits (British Museum, London)
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