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Article
Cross-cultural diplomacy: a Safavid shield in the Medici armoury
10/2022 | 1435 | 164
Pages: 968-975
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Author:
Rokhgar, Negar Sarah (Rokhgar, Negar Sarah)
Subjects
artists:
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da
dates:
1590-1609
media:
Mother of pearl / Gilding
museums and institutions:
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy
patrons:
Shah Abbas, 1571-1629
places:
Persia / Tuscany
sources:
Archives / Correspondence
styles:
Safavid / Mughal
styles:
Indo-Persian School
subjects:
Shields (Armour) / Gifts / Ottomans (people) / Crusades / East-West trade / Diplomacy / Military art and science / Medici family / Ferdinando I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Detail of the painted ceiling in the Sala dell’Armeria (Room 21), Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence, depicting a Persian soldier by Ludovico Buti. 1588–89. (Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
6. Medusa, by Caravaggio. 1595–98. Oil on canvas applied on a wooden shield, 60 by 55 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence).
Non-western art unattributed:
1. Shield. Persia, late 16th century. Gold damascened steel, Indian cane, silk, mother-of-pearl, leather and velvet, diameter 64.5 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Non-western art unattributed:
2. Detail of Fig.1, showing figures serving food to an authority on a higher seat.
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Detail of Fig.1, showing men on horseback and on foot using spears and arrows to hunt lions.
Non-western art unattributed:
5. Silk fragment with a figured motif. Yazd, Persia, late 16th or early 17th century. Silk lampas, 70.5 by 36 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Non-western art unattributed:
7. Shield. Persia, 17th century. Indian cane covered with silk, metal umbo painted in black with golden arabesque engravings and originally embellished with turquoises and other precious stones, 20 by 62 cm. (Palazzo Ducale, Venice).
Non-western art unattributed:
8. Tray with a scene of lovers in a pavilion. Gujarat, late 16th or early 17th century. Mother-of-pearl and lacquer on wood, diameter 43.5 cm. (Aga Khan Museum, Toronto).
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.
Book Review
Prato: Architecture, Piety, and Political Identity in a Tuscan City-State
03/2010 | 1284 | 152
Pages: 184-185
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Reviewer:
Boggi, Flavio (Boggi, Flavio)
Subjects
places:
Prato / Tuscany
print:
Prato
subjects:
Cities / Italian architecture / Politics / Religion / Religious ceremonies
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Prato: Architecture, Piety, and Political Identity in a Tuscan City-State | author: McLean, Alick M.
Book Review
Images, Relics, and Devotional Practices in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
11/2006 | 1244 | 148
Pages: 781-782
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Reviewer:
Schmidt, Victor M. (Schmidt, Victor M.)
Subjects
dates:
1200-1499
places:
Tuscany / Veneto / Italy
print:
Renaissance Italy
print:
Reliquaries
subjects:
Papers / Devotional images / Saints / Medieval / Renaissance / Religious art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Images, Relics, and Devotional Practices in Medieval and Renaissance Italy | editor: Cornelison, Sally J. , editor: Montgomery, Scott B.
Book Review
Painted Piety. Panel Paintings for Personal Devotion in Tuscany 1250–1400
09/2006 | 1242 | 148
Pages: 632-633
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Reviewer:
Gordon, Dillian (Gordon, Dillian)
Subjects
dates:
1250-1299 / 1300-1399
places:
Tuscany / Italy
print:
Renaissance art
print:
Religious art
subjects:
Italian painting / Panel paintings / Devotional images / Religious art / Tuscan
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Painted Piety. Panel Paintings for Personal Devotion in Tuscany 1250–1400 | author: Schmidt, Victor M.
Publication Received
Storia delle Arti in Toscana: Il Cinquecento.
10/2004 | 1219 | 146
Pages: 699
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Reviewer:
Franklin, David (Franklin, David)
Subjects
dates:
1500-1599
places:
Italy / Tuscany
print:
Tuscan
subjects:
Italian painting / Italian sculpture / Italian architecture / Tuscan
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Storia delle Arti in Toscana: Il Cinquecento. | editor: Ciardi, Roberto Paolo , editor: Natali, Antonio
Book Review
Tuscan Marble Carving 1250-1350. Sculpture and Civic Pride
12/1999 | 1161 | 141
Pages: 758
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Reviewer:
Röll, Johannes (Röll, Johannes)
Subjects
dates:
1250-1299 / 1300-1349
places:
Italy / Tuscany
subjects:
Italian sculpture / Carvings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Tuscan Marble Carving 1250-1350. Sculpture and Civic Pride | author: Ames-Lewis, Francis
Book Review
I deschi da Parto e la pittura del primo rinascimento toscano
08/1999 | 1157 | 141
Pages: 486
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Reviewer:
Thornton, Dora (Thornton, Dora)
Subjects
dates:
1400-1449
places:
Italy / Tuscany / Florence
subjects:
Italian painting / Salvers / Renaissance / Tuscan
Reviewed Items
subjects:
I deschi da Parto e la pittura del primo rinascimento toscano | author: De Carli, Cecilia
Book Review
The Painter's Practice in Renaissance Tuscany
10/1996 | 1123 | 138
Pages: 691-692
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Reviewer:
O'Malley, Michelle (O'Malley, Michelle)
Subjects
dates:
1450-1499 / 1500-1549
places:
Italy / Tuscany
subjects:
Italian painting / Art education / Painters / Renaissance
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Painter's Practice in Renaissance Tuscany | author: Thomas, Anabel
Book Review
The Renovation of Paintings in Tuscany, 1250-1500
05/1996 | 1118 | 138
Pages: 331-332
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Reviewer:
Langmuir, Erika (Langmuir, Erika; Langmuir, Erika H.)
Subjects
dates:
1200-1499
places:
Italy / Tuscany
subjects:
Italian painting / Conservation
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Renovation of Paintings in Tuscany, 1250-1500 | author: Hoeniger, Cathleen
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