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Article
A portrait of an unknown woman by Titian
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 212–17
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Humfrey, Peter (Humfrey, Peter)
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Joannides, Paul (Joannides, Paul; J., P.; Joannides, P. E. A.)
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1. Portrait of a woman in a green dress, by Titian. c.1550–55(?). Oil on canvas, 86 by 70.4 cm. (Private collection).
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2. Detail of the back of the canvas of Fig.1.
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3. X-radiograph of Fig.1.
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4. Portrait of a woman, by Paolo Veronese. c.1555. Oil on canvas, 106 by 87 cm. (Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai; photograph Hugo Maertens).
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5. Portrait of a woman. Venice. c.1555(?). Oil on canvas, 101 by 77 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Béziers).
Article
A newly discovered cabinet miniature by Nicholas Hilliard
04/2024 | 1453 | 166
Pages: 340–347
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Goldring, Elizabeth (Goldring, Elizabeth)
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Rutherford, Emma (Rutherford, Emma)
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1. A lady, here identified as Lady Arbella Stuart, by Nicholas Hilliard. 1592. Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum, stuck down on card, 21.1 by 17.6 cm. (Private collection).
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2. Elizabeth I (the Ditchley Portrait), by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger. c.1592. Oil on canvas, 241.3 by 152.4 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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3. Elizabeth I (an example of the ‘mask of youth’), by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1592–1603. Watercolour on vellum, 6.5 by 5.3 cm. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London).
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4. Detail of Fig.1, showing the floral wreath.
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5. Detail of Fig.1, showing the gold armillary spheres decorating the gown.
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6. A girl, said to depict Lady Arbella Stuart at the age of twenty-three months, by an unknown artist. ?1577. Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 75.1 by 61.5 cm. (National Trust; Hardwick New Hall, Derbyshire).
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7. A girl, said to depict Lady Arbella Stuart at the age of thirteen, by an unknown artist. ?1589. Oil on panel, 162.6 by 87.6 cm. (National Trust; Hardwick New Hall, Derbyshire).
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8. Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1595. Watercolour on vellum, 25.7 by 17.3 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
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9. Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, by the Hilliard workshop. c.1595. Watercolour on vellum, 5.2 by 6.4 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
Article
Liotard and Boucher: a question of precedence
06/2023 | 1443 | 165
Pages: 612-619
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Stein, Perrin (Stein, Perrin)
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1. A woman in Turkish dress, reading, by Jean-Étienne Liotard. c.1738–41. Red and black chalk with graphite on paper, 17.2 by 23 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Carcassonne).
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10. The Chénier family, by Pierre-Michel Cazes. c.1773. Oil on canvas, 97 by 131 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Carcassonne).
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11. Sultana reading in the harem, by François Boucher. c.1746. Graphite on vellum, 6 by 12.5 cm. (Location unknown; photograph Sotheby’s).
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2. A woman in Turkish dress, reading, by François Boucher. c.1741–42. Black and red crayon with opaque white and touches of blue on paper, 25.4 by 33.2 cm. (Morgan Library and Museum, New York).
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3. A woman in Turkish dress, reading, by Jean-Étienne Liotard. c.1748–52. Oil on canvas, 50 by 60 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence).
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4. A woman in Turkish dress, reading, by Jean-Étienne Liotard. c.1738–41. Black and red chalk on paper, 17.6 by 22.8 cm. (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne).
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5. Sultana reading in the harem, by Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, after François Boucher. c.1746. Etching and engraving, 6.6 by 13.1 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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6. The Chinese gallant, by François Boucher. 1742. Oil on canvas, 104 by 145 cm. (Davids Samling, Copenhagen).
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7. Detail of Fig.6, showing the reclining woman.
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8. Detail of Fig.2, showing the reclining woman.
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9. Monsieur Levett and Mademoiselle Hélène Glavani in Turkish costume, by Jean-Étienne Liotard. c.1740. Oil on board, 35.5 by 36 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Short Notice
The new museum in the Bibliothèque nationale, Paris
06/2023 | 1443 | 165
Pages: 630-637
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Gajewski, Alexandra (Gajewski, Alexandra)
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1. Aerial view of the Palais Mazarin, Paris, at the end of the seventeenth century. Engraving. (From L. de Laborde: De l’organisation des bibliothèques dans Paris, 4e lettre: Le palais Mazarin et les habitations de ville et de campagne au XVIIe siècle, Paris 1845, facing p.5).
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10. Throne from the treasury of Saint-Denis (‘Throne of Dagobert’). Late 8th–early 9th century. Copper alloy with iron, remains of gilding, height 104 cm. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
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2. Cardinal Mazarin shown in the upper gallery of his hôtel, by Robert Nanteuil. 1659. Etching, 46.5 by 56.8 cm. (Bridgeman Images).
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3. The galerie Mazarin. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; photograph Guillaume Murat).
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4. Plan of the ground level of the Bibliothèque nationale ‘site Richelieu’. (After Atelier Bruno Gaudin).
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5. Plan of the first floor of the Bibliothèque nationale ‘site Richelieu’. (After Atelier Bruno Gaudin).
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6. The first-floor landing of the Bibliothèque national ‘site Richelieu’ and the entrance to the salle des Colonnes. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; photograph Guillaume Murat).
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7. The salle des Colonnes. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; photograph Guillaume Murat).
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8. The salle Barthélemy, the former reading room of the département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; photograph Guillaume Murat).
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9. The salon de Louis XV, the former cabinet des Médailles (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; photograph Jean-Christophe Ballot).
Book Review
Clothing the New World Church: Liturgical Textiles of Spanish America, 1520–1820
10/2022 | 1435 | 164
Pages: 1040-1041
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Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
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Clothing the New World Church: Liturgical Textiles of Spanish America, 1520–1820 By Maya Stanfield-Mazzi. 408 pp. incl. 186 col. + b. & w. ills. (University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, 2021), £33. ISBN 978–0– 268–10805–2. | :
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Non-western art unattributed:
7. Mitre showing the Tree of Jesse. Mexico, c.1550. Feather mosaic, silk. 45.5 by 29 cm. (Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna).
Exhibition Review
Venetia 1600: Births and Rebirths
02/2022 | 1427 | 164
Pages: 190-192
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Pietrabissa, Camilla (Pietrabissa, Camilla )
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Venetia 1600: Births and Rebirths Palazzo Ducale, Venice 4th September 2021– 25th March 2022 | :
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10. Virgin and Child with a votive model of S. Maria della Salute, by Alessandro Varotari, called Padovanino. 1631. Oil on canvas, 266 by 168 cm. (Diocesi Patriarcato di Venezia, Venice; exh. Palazzo Ducale, Venice).
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8. Lion of St Mark, by Vittore Carpaccio. 1516. Oil and tempera on canvas, 130 by 368 cm. (Palazzo Ducale, Venice).
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9. Installation view of Venetia 1600: Births and Rebirths at Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 2021.
Article
The Lavoisiers by David: technical findings on portraiture at the brink of revolution
09/2021 | 1422 | 163
Pages: 780-791
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Centeno, Silvia A. (Centeno, Silvia A.)
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Mahon, Dorothy (Mahon, Dorothy)
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Pullins, David (Pullins, David)
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1. Antoine-Laurent and Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier, by Jacques-Louis David. 1788. Oil on canvas, 259.7 by 194.8 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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10. Chapeau à la Tarare, by A.-B. Duhamel Jean-Florent Defraine. 1787. Hand-coloured engraving, 17.9 by 19.9 cm. Detail of plate 2 from La Magasin des Modes Nouvelles 36 (10th November 1787). (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
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10. Chapeau à la Tarare, by A.-B. Duhamel Jean-Florent Defraine. 1787. Hand-coloured engraving, 17.9 by 19.9 cm. Detail of plate 2 from La Magasin des Modes Nouvelles 36 (10th November 1787). (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
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11. Marie-Antoinette and her children, by Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun. 1787. Oil on canvas, 275 by 216.5 cm. (Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, Versailles).
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12. Louis-Elisabeth de France and her son, by Adélaïde Labille- Guiard. 1788. Oil on canvas, 275 by 160 cm. (Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, Versailles).
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13. Detail of Salon of 1787, by Pietro Antoni Martini. 1787. Etching with engraving, 35.6 by 50.2 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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14. Alphonse Leroy, by Jacques-Louis David. 1783. Oil on canvas, 72 by 91 cm. (Musée Fabre, Montpellier).
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15. The Chabanel family, by Antoine Vestier. 1786. Oil on canvas, 165.3 by 220.5 cm. (Private collection).
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16. An architect and his family, by Marguerite Gérard. c.1788–89. Oil on panel, 30.5 by 24.1 cm. (Baltimore Museum of Art).
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17. The poorly defended rose, by Michel Garnier. 1789. Oil on canvas, 46.2 by 37.6. (Minneapolis Institute of Art).
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18. Experiments in respiration, by Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier. c.1790. Graphite, pen and ink on paper. (Private collection).
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2. Infra-red reflectogram (IRR) of Fig.1. (Department of Paintings Conservation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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3. Combined elemental distribution map for lead (white) and mercury (red) obtained by macro X-ray fluorescence (MA-XRF). (Department of Scientific Research, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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4. A line drawing, produced by tracing information obtained by IRR and XRF, suggesting the appearance of the portrait before J.-L. David made significant changes to the composition.
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5. Charles-Alexandre de Calonne, by Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun. 1784. Oil on canvas, 155.5 by 130.3 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2021).
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6. Madame Élisabeth, by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. 1787. Oil on canvas, 146.7 by 155 cm. (Private collection).
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7. Sketch for Charles-Roger, Prince de Bauffremont, by Adélaide Labille-Guiard. 1789–91. Oil on canvas, 34 by 23 cm. (Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris).
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8. Baronne de Crussol Florensac, by Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun. 1785. Oil on canvas, 113.8 by 84 cm. (Musée des Augustins, Toulouse).
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9. Chapeau à la Basile, by A.-B. Duhamel Jean-Florent Defraine. 1787. Hand-coloured engraving, 18.2 by 10.2 cm. Detail of plate 3 from La Magasin des Modes Nouvelles 31 (20th September 1787). (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
Exhibition Review
Napoli Napoli: Di lava, porcellana e musica
05/2021 | 1418 | 163
Pages: 452-456
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Bodinek, Claudia (Bodinek, Claudia)
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Napoli Napoli: Di lava, porcellana e musica Edited by Sylvain Bellenger. 228 pp. incl. 128 col. ills. (Electa, Milan, 2019), €30.40. ISBN 978–88–918–2820–0. | :
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5. Charles III of Spain, attributed to Francesco Liani. 1760. Oil on canvas, 337 by 286.5 cm. (Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples).
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7. The Salottino di Porcellana (Hall of Porcelain) in the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples, designed for Villa Reale, Portici, by S. Fischer, Giuseppe Gricci and Luigi Restile. 1757–59. (Photograph Raffaello Bencini; Bridgeman Images).
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8. Large amphora with dancing maenads. Real Fabbrica della porcellana di Napoli. 1790–95. Porcelain, height 42 cm. (Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples).
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from the Servizio dell’oca. Real Fabbrica della porcellana di Napoli. 1792–94. Porcelain, height approx. 40 cm. (Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples).
Article
Velázquez, Titian and a ‘lady’ with a fan
03/2021 | 1416 | 163
Pages: 257-260
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Ingram, Kevin (Ingram, Kevin)
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10. The needlewoman, by Diego Velázquez. c.1640–50. Oil on canvas, 74 by 60 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
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11. Lady in a blue dress (‘La Bella’), by Titian. c.1536. Oil on canvas, 100 by 75 cm. (Palazzo Pitti, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
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12. Young woman with a fan, by Peter Paul Rubens, after Titian. c.1628. Oil on canvas, 96 by 73 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; Bridgeman Images).
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13. Young woman holding a rose garland, by Titian. c.1550–60. Oil on canvas, 103 by 74.4 cm. (The Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London; © Stratfield Saye Preservation Trust).
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14. Portrait of an unknown lady (‘Titian’s mistress’), by Titian. c.1550–60. Oil on canvas, 97.5 by 71 cm. (The Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London; Bridgeman Images).
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15. Portrait of a young woman (‘La Bella’), by Jacopo Negretti, known as Palma il Vecchio. c.1518–20. Oil on canvas, 95 by 80 cm. (Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid; Scala).
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7. Lady with a fan, by Diego Velázquez. c.1640. Oil on canvas, 95 by 70 cm. (The Wallace Collection, London).
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8. Lady in a mantilla, by the circle of Diego Velázquez. c.1640. Oil on canvas, 98 by 48 cm. (Chatsworth House, Derbyshire).
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9. Marie de Rohan, Duchess of Chevreuse. 17th century. Oil on canvas (Gallery of the Rohan family, Sychrov Castle, Liberec, Czech Republic; Alamy).
Book Review
Arrayed in Splendour: Art, Fashion, and Textiles in Medieval and Early Modern Europe Undressing Rubens: Fashion and Painting in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp
02/2021 | 1415 | 163
Pages: 185-186
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Griffey, Erin (Griffey, Erin)
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Arrayed in Splendour: Art, Fashion, and Textiles in Medieval and Early Modern Europe Edited by Christoph Brachmann. 264 pp. incl. 111 col. + 3 b. & w. ills. (Brepols, Turnhout, 2019), £85. ISBN 978–2–503–57965–8. | :
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Undressing Rubens: Fashion and Painting in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp Edited by Abigail D. Newman and Lieneke Nijkamp. 232 pp. incl. 136 col. + 3 b. & w. ills. (Harvey Miller, London, 2019), £115. ISBN 978–1–912554–22–5. | :
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