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Book Review
Gli affreschi del Settecento nei palazzi veneziani
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 984-5
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Reviewer:
Loire, Stéphane (Loire, Stéphane)
Subjects
art literature:
Catalogues
places:
Venice
subjects:
Venetian art / Fresco painting / Palaces / Eighteenth-century art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Gli affreschi del Settecento nei palazzi veneziani By Giuseppe Pavanello. Three vols, 919 pp. incl. 1479 col. + 425 b. & w. ills. (Antiga Edizioni, Crocetta del Montello, 2022), €490. ISBN 978–88–8435–291–0. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Ballroom of Palazzo Labia, Venice. Frescos by Giambattista Tiepolo with ornamentation by Girolamo Mengozzi Colonna. c.1746–47. (Bridgeman Images).
Book Review
Louis XV: passions d’un roi
05/2024 | 1454 | 166
Pages: 508–510
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Reviewer:
Vogtherr, Christoph Martin (Vogtherr, Christoph Martin)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
dates:
1720-1729 / 1730-1739 / 1740-1749 / 1750-1759 / 1750-1779
museums and institutions:
Château de Versailles, Versailles, France
subjects:
French art / French decorative art / Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774 / Palaces / Taste (aesthetics) / Biographies / Libraries / Science / Theatre (discipline) / Architectural history / Furniture
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subjects:
Louis XV: passions d’un roi Edited by Yves Carlier and Hélène Delalex. 496 pp. incl. 458 col. + b. & w. ills. (In Fine Éditions d’Art, Paris, 2022), €49. ISBN 978–2–38203–076–9. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Floorplan of the telescope pavilion, château de la Muette. 1756. Pen, ink and red wash on paper. (Archives nationales, Paris).
Attributed works:
2. Louis XV, by Arnaud Vincent de Montpetit. 1774. Oil on canvas, 74 by 61.2 cm. (Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, Versailles).
Attributed works:
3. Project for the throne of Louis XV, by Sébastien- Antoine Slodtz and Paul-Ambroise Slodtz. 1752. Pen, ink and wash highlights over black pencil, 67.1 by 47.2 cm. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
Article
The Medieval Palace of the Commune in Avignon: a forgotten building
01/2024 | 1450 | 166
Pages: 30–37
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Author:
Balossino, Simone (Balossino, Simone)
Subjects
buildings:
Palace of the Commune, Avignon, France
places:
Avignon
subjects:
French architecture / Urban history / Buildings / Palaces / Medieval architecture / Prisons
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Map of Avignon. (From Atlas van Loon, Amsterdam 1663, X).
Attributed works:
10. Entrance porch of the cathedral of Notre-Dame-des-Doms, Avignon. (Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
2. Roman ruins underneath the former consuls’ palace, Avignon. (Photograph the author).
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3. Plan of consular palace and surrounding structures. (Based on archaeological survey undertaken by C. Markiéwicz, J.-M. Mignon and O. Keiser).
Attributed works:
4. Façade of the annex building, Avignon. (Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
5. Detail of Fig.1, showing the consular palace and surrounding structures.
Attributed works:
6. Detail of De la ville d’Avignon et par dela: Veüe de la Ville d’Avignon et des environs, by Étienne Martellange. 1608. Pen and brown ink with an India ink wash. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
Attributed works:
7. Tympanum of the entrance portal of the communal tower, Avignon. Late 12th–early 13th century. Marble. (Musée du Petit Palais; Archivah and Alamy Stock Photo).
Attributed works:
8. Drawings of consular bullae. (From L. Blanchard: Iconographie des sceaux et des bulles des archives des bouches du Rhône, Paris 1860, pp.78–79).
Attributed works:
9. Tympanum of the entrance portal of S. Zeno Maggiore, Verona. c.12th century. (Photograph Frank Buffetrille; Bridgeman Images).
Book Review
The Art of Tapestry
04/2023 | 1441 | 165
Pages: 472-475
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Reviewer:
Campbell, Thomas P. (Campbell, Thomas P.)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
National Trust
places:
England
subjects:
Tapestry (process) / Collections / Country houses / Palaces / Castles
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Art of Tapestry By Helen Wyld. 256 pp. incl. numerous col. ills. (Philip Wilson Publishers, London, 2022), £45. ISBN 978–1–78130–112–8. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. The Tapestry Room at Osterley House, Middlesex, hung with a set of Gobelins ‘Tenture de Boucher’ tapestries, installed in the 1770s. (National Trust Images).
Attributed works:
2. The High Great Chamber at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, hung with the Story of Ulysses tapestries, woven in Brussels in the 1560s. (National Trust Images).
Book Review
London’s ‘Golden Mile’: The Great Houses of the Strand, 1550–1650. By Manolo Guerci.
12/2022 | 1437 | 164
Pages: 1290-1291
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Reviewer:
Saint, Andrew (Saint, Andrew)
Subjects
places:
London / The Strand (London)
subjects:
Jacobean / Tudor / Architecture / Palaces / Urban history / Maps
Reviewed Items
subjects:
London’s ‘Golden Mile’: The Great Houses of the Strand, 1550–1650 By Manolo Guerci. 336 pp. incl. 220 col. ills. (Paul Mellon Centre for the Study of British Art, London, 2021), £50. ISBN 978–1–913107–23–9. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Detail from West Central District, by Wenceslaus Hollar, showing Worcester House, the Savoy and Somerset House on the south side of the Strand, and Exeter (otherwise Burghley) House opposite on the north side. c.1660. Etching, 34.8 by 45.6 cm. (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington).
Book Review
Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court
10/2022 | 1435 | 164
Pages: 1046
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Reviewer:
Martin, Gregory (Martin, Gregory)
Subjects
subjects:
House of Stuart / Monarchy / Royalty / Palaces / Courts (social groups) / British architecture / Interiors
subjects:
British art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court By Simon Thurley. 560 pp. incl. 25 col. + 138 b. & w. ills. (William Collins, Glasgow, 2021), £10.99. ISBN 978–0–00–838996–3 | :
Book Review
The Art Collector in Early Modern Italy: Andrea Odoni and his Venetian Palace
04/2022 | 1429 | 164
Pages: 422-423
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Reviewer:
Humfrey, Peter (Humfrey, Peter)
Subjects
artists:
Lotto, Lorenzo
patrons:
Odoni, Andrea
subjects:
Collectors / Collections / Venetian / Palaces
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Art Collector in Early Modern Italy: Andrea Odoni and his Venetian Palace By Monika Schmitter. 340 pp. incl. 143 col. + b. & w. ills. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 2021), £75. ISBN 978–1–108–84408–6. | :
Article
Colossal orders and a Classical fa ade: Hoefnagel and Nonsuch revisited
02/2022 | 1427 | 164
Pages: 178-183
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Author:
Biddle, Martin (Biddle, Martin)
Subjects
artists:
Hoefnagel, Joris (Georg)
buildings:
Nonsuch Palace, (destroyed ca. 1683) , Surrey, Great Britain
dates:
1500-1599
subjects:
British architecture / Columns (architectural components) / Facades / Stuccowork
subjects:
Palaces / Royalty
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Nonsuch Palace, Surrey, by Joducus Hondius after John Speed. 1610. Engraving, 28.5 by 51 cm. (From J. Speed: Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain, London 1611).
Attributed works:
2. Detail of Fig.3, showing the the west end of the south front.
Attributed works:
3. Nonsuch Palace from the south, by Joris Hoefnagel. 1568. Black chalk, pen and brown and black ink and watercolour, heightened with white and gold, on paper, 24.2 by 26.3 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
4. A triumphal arch, by Sebastiano Serlio. (From S. Serlio: Regole generali di architetura sopra le cinque maniere de gli edifici, Venice 1537; Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York).
Article
Spatial rhetoric: echoes of Madrid’s Alcázar in palaces overseas
03/2021 | 1416 | 163
Pages: 236-243
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Author:
Luengo, Pedro (Luengo, Pedro)
Subjects
buildings:
Alcázar, Madrid, Spain / Alcazar, Seville, Spain / Viceregal Palace (National Palace), Mexico City , Mexico
places:
South America
places:
Lima
places:
Bogotá, Colombia
subjects:
Spanish architecture / South America / Palaces / Monarchy / Staircases / Chapels / Galleries (display spaces) / Courts (social groups)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. The proclamation of Philip V in front of the Alcázar, Madrid, by Filippo Palotta. 1700. Pen, ink and wash, 47.3 by 135 cm. (Museo de Historia de Madrid).
Attributed works:
2. Plan of the first floor of the Alcázar, Madrid, by Juan Gómez de Mora. 1626. Pen, ink and watercolour on paper, 49 by 62 cm. (Library of Congress, Washington).
Attributed works:
3. The tribune in the transept of the chapel, El Escorial, Spain. (Photograph © Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid).
Attributed works:
4. Plan of the chapel in the Alcázar, Madrid, by Juan Gómez de Mora. c.1660. Pen and ink on paper, 19.5 by 28.6 cm. (Madrid, Archivo General de Palacio, Sección Histórica, caja 51 (1), fol.186r; © Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid).
Attributed works:
5. Reconstruction of the plan of a proposed royal palace, Naples, by Domenico Fontana. c.1600. (From P.C. Verde: Domenico Fontana a Napoli. 1592–1607, Naples 2007, p.78).
Attributed works:
6 and 7. Plans of the ground and first floor of the viceregal palace, Mexico City. c.1771. Ink and red gouache on paper, 42.5 by 49 cm; and 40 by 48 cm. (Archivo General de Indias, Mexico City, MP-MEXICO,105).
Attributed works:
8. Detail of a map of Lima, showing the viceregal palace between the fountain and the river. Engraving, 38 by 53 cm. (From J. Mulder: Lima, Ciudad de los Reyes, 1688; photograph National Library of Spain, Madrid).
Attributed works:
9. Plan of the top floor of the viceregal palace, Bogotá, by Juan Jimenez Donoso. 1781. Coloured manuscript on paper, 54 by 54 cm. (Archivo General Militar, Madrid).
Article
Battening spalliera paintings: reflections on twenty-five years of research
01/2020 | 1402 | 162
Pages: 37-45
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Author:
Barriault, Anne B. (Barriault, Anne B.)
Subjects
artists:
Botticelli, Sandro / Piero di Cosimo / Ghirlandaio, Domenico
dates:
1490-1519 / 1990-2009 / 2010-2019
subjects:
Spalliere / Cassoni / Tuscany / Panel paintings / Italian art / Domestic (house related concept)
subjects:
Renaissance art / Art historiography / Technical analysis / Furniture / Interiors / Palaces / Inventories
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Story of Virginia, by Sandro Botticelli. c.1500. Oil and tempera on panel, 86 by 165 cm. (Accademia Carrara, Bergamo).
Attributed works:
10. Fight between the Lapiths and centaurs, by Piero di Cosimo. c.1500–15. Oil on panel, 71 by 260 cm. (National Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
2. Story of Lucretia, by Sandro Botticelli. c.1500. Oil and tempera on panel, 83.8 cm by 176.8 cm. (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston).
Attributed works:
3. Episodes from the life of Alexander the Great, by the workshop of Ghirlandaio. 1493–94. Tempera on panel, 76 by 229.5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
4. Julius Caesar and the crossing of the Rubicon, by the workshop of Ghirlandaio. 1493–94. Tempera and gold on panel, 73.5 by 170 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
5. The story of Griselda: Part one, marriage, by the Master of the Story of Griselda. c.1494. Oil and tempera on panel, 61.6 by 154.3 cm. (National Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
6. The back of the panel illustrated in Fig.5, showing vertical battens used to stabilise the panel and/or attach it to its setting. (National Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
7. Alexander the Great, by the Master of the Story of Griselda. c.1500. Tempera on panel, 105.4 by 50.8 cm. (The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham).
Attributed works:
8. Claudia Quinta, by Neroccio de’ Landi and the Master of the Story of Griselda. c.1493–94. Tempera on panel, 104 by 46 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Attributed works:
9. Detail of Fig.10, showing Hylonome and Cylarus.
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