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Two unpublished portraits by Lavinia Fontana
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 893-99
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Author:
Denunzio, Antonio Ernesto (Denunzio, Antonio Ernesto)
Subjects
artists:
Fontana, Lavinia / Fontana, Prospero
dates:
1550-1599
patrons:
Sigonio, Carlo / Pendasio, Federico
places:
Bologna / Naples
subjects:
Italian art / Portraits / scholars / Sitters / discoveries
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Self-portrait in the studio, by Lavinia Fontana. 1579. Oil on canvas, diameter 15.7 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence; photo Scala, Florence; courtesy Ministero della Cultura).
Attributed works:
2. Carlo Sigonio, by Lavinia Fontana. 1581. Oil on canvas, 87 by 70 cm. (Private collection; photograph Archivio dell’Arte; Luciano and Marco Pedicini).
Attributed works:
3. Federico Pendasio, by Lavinia Fontana. 1581. Oil on canvas, 87 by 70 cm. (Private collection; photograph Archivio dell’Arte; Luciano and Marco Pedicini).
Attributed works:
4. Carlo Sigonio, by Lavinia Fontana. 1578. Oil on canvas, 122 by 95 cm. (Museo Civico, Modena).
Attributed works:
5. Federico Pendasio, copy after Lavinia Fontana. First quarter of the 17th century. Oil on canvas, 65 by 51cm. (Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
6. Portrait of a scholar, by Lavinia Fontana. 1581. Oil on canvas, 87 by 72 cm. (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna).
Book Review
Portable Panel Paintings at the Angevin Court of Naples: Mobility and Materiality in the Trecento Mediterranean
10/2023 | 1447 | 165
Pages: 1153–1154
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Reviewer:
Tedbury, Imogen (Tedbury, Imogen)
Subjects
places:
Naples
subjects:
Panel paintings / Angevin / Courts (social groups)
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subjects:
Portable Panel Paintings at the Angevin Court of Naples: Mobility and Materiality in the Trecento Mediterranean By Sarah K. Kozlowski. 292 pp. incl. 132 col. + 11 b. & w. ills. (Brepols, Turnhout, 2022), £115. ISBN 978–2–503–59695–2. | :
Book Review
Un pittore conteso nella Napoli del Settecento: L’epistolario e gli affari di Francesco de Mura
10/2023 | 1447 | 165
Pages: 1163–1164
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Reviewer:
Albl, Stefan (Albl, Stefan)
Subjects
art literature:
Correspondence
artists:
Mura, Francesco de
places:
Naples
subjects:
Italian art / Commissions / Patronage
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subjects:
Un pittore conteso nella Napoli del Settecento: L’epistolario e gli affari di Francesco de Mura By Francesco Lofano. 232 pp. incl. 10 col. ills. (Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples, 2022), €25. ISBN 978–88–97820–78–9. | :
Exhibition Review
Artemisia Gentileschi in Naples
03/2023 | 1440 | 165
Pages: 317-320
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Reviewer:
Morselli, Raffaella (Morselli, Raffaella)
Subjects
artists:
Gentileschi, Artemisia
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Gallerie d'Italia, Naples, Italy
places:
Naples
subjects:
Italian art / Women artists / Commissions / Patronage / Attributions / Dating
subjects:
Exhibition catalogues
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Artemisia Gentileschi in Naples Gallerie d’Italia, Naples 3rd December 2022–19th March 2023 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
13. St Gennaro and companions, thrown into the amphitheatre, tame the beasts, by Artemisia Gentileschi. Oil on canvas, 308 by 200 cm. (Pozzuoli Cathedral; exh. Gallerie d’Italia, Naples).
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14. Judith and her maid with the head of Holofernes, by Artemisia Gentileschi. Oil on canvas, 73 by 93 cm. (Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Arkitektur og Design, Oslo; exh. Gallerie d’Italia, Naples).
Attributed works:
15. Susannah and the elders, by Artemisia Gentileschi. Oil on canvas, 200.5 by 225.5 cm. (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna; exh. Gallerie d’Italia, Naples).
Exhibition Review
Otro Renacimiento: Artistas Españoles en Nápoles a comienzos del Cinquecento
02/2023 | 1439 | 165
Pages: 183-185
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Reviewer:
Baker-Bates, Piers (Baker-Bates, Piers)
Subjects
artists:
Master of Bolea / Ordonez, Bartolomé / Siloé, Diego de / Machuca, Pedro / Berruguete, Alonso / Fernández, Pedro, called Pseudo-Bramantino
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain
places:
Italy / Naples
subjects:
Spanish art / Spanish artists
subjects:
Renaissance art / Renaissance Italy
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Otro Renacimiento: Artistas Españoles en Nápoles a comienzos del Cinquecento Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid 18th October 2022–29th January 2023 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
15. Reconstruction of the Altarpiece of the Visitation, by Pedro Fernández, formerly in S. Maria delle Grazie Maggiore, Naples. c.1508–10.
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16. St John the Baptist, by Girolamo Santacroce. c.1532–36. Marble, height 150 cm. (Seminario Arcivescovile, Naples; exh. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
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17. The Virgin and the souls of Purgatory, by Pedro Machuca. 1517. Oil on panel, 167 by 135 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
Book Review
Arti e lettere a Napoli tra Cinque e Seicento: studi su Matteo di Capua principe di Conca
06/2022 | 1431 | 164
Pages: 634-635
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Reviewer:
Malgouyres, Philippe (Malgouyres, Philippe)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Capua, Prince of Conca, Matteo di
places:
Naples
subjects:
Collectors / Collections
Book Review
I Girolamini: Storie di artisti e committenti a Napoli nel Seicento
08/2021 | 1421 | 163
Pages: 773-774
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Reviewer:
Gulli, Claudio (Gulli, Claudio )
Subjects
patrons:
Girolamini (Oratorian Fathers)
places:
Naples
subjects:
Collecting / Collections / Commissions / Sixteenth-century
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I Girolamini: Storie di artisti e committenti a Napoli nel Seicento By Gianluca Forgione. 208 pp. incl. 137 col. ills. (Editori Paparo, Rome and Naples, 2020), €50. ISBN 978–88–319–8333–4. | :
Exhibition Review
Napoli Napoli: Di lava, porcellana e musica
05/2021 | 1418 | 163
Pages: 452-456
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Reviewer:
Bodinek, Claudia (Bodinek, Claudia)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
museums and institutions:
Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
places:
Naples
subjects:
House of Bourbon / Porcelain / Musical instruments / Paintings / Costume / Furniture / Interiors / Music / Italian art / Decorative arts / Science
subjects:
Neapolitan art
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subjects:
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. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
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).
Attributed works:
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
The drinking servant in depictions of the ‘Adoration of the Magi’
04/2021 | 1417 | 163
Pages: 344-351
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Author:
Megyeši, Peter (Megyeši, Peter)
Subjects
artists:
Stefano da Verona / Costa, Lorenzo di Ottavio, ca.1460-1535 / Altichiero da Zevio, act. 1369-1393 / Weyden, Rogier van der
patrons:
Bevilacqua Lazise, Bevilacqua / Bentivoglio, Antonio Galeazzo
places:
Naples
places:
Brno / Padua / Verona / Bologna
subjects:
Christian iconography / Jesus Christ: Adoration of the Magi / Italian painting / Netherlandish painting / Angevin
subjects:
Drinking / Servants
works:
Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Adoration of the Magi, by Stefano da Verona. c.1438. Tempera on panel, 72 by 47 cm. (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan).
Attributed works:
10. Detail of Fig.11, showing the drinking servant.
Attributed works:
11. Adoration of the Magi, by Lorenzo Costa the Elder. 1499. Oil on panel, 75 by 181.3 cm. (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan).
Attributed works:
12. Adoration of the Magi, by a Neapolitan follower of Giotto. c.1340–43. Tempera and gilding on panel, 66.4 by 46.7 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
4. Adoration of the Magi (central panel of the Columba Altarpiece), by Rogier van der Weyden. c.1455. Oil on panel, 139.5 by 152.9 cm. (Alte Pinakothek, Munich).
Attributed works:
5. Detail of Fig.4, showing the drinking servant.
Attributed works:
6. Detail of Fig.8, showing the Adoration of the Magi.
Attributed works:
7. Detail of Fig.6, showing the drinking servant.
Attributed works:
8. Nativity, by Altichiero da Zevio. c.1379–84. Fresco. (Oratory of St George, Padua).
Attributed works:
9. Detail of Fig.1, showing the drinking servant.
Western art unattributed:
2. Portable folding polyptych. c.1330–40. Tempera and gilding on panel, statue of the Virgin and Child in alabaster, 49 by 78 cm. (Moravian Gallery, Brno).
Western art unattributed:
3. Detail of Fig.2, showing the drinking servant in the Adoration of the Magi.
Book Review
Siena and the Angevins, 1300–1350: Art, Diplomacy, and Dynastic Ambition
04/2021 | 1417 | 163
Pages: 379
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Reviewer:
Gardner, Julian (Gardner, Julian)
Subjects
artists:
Tino di Camaino / Lorenzetti, Ambrogio
places:
Siena / Naples
subjects:
Early Italian art / Angevin / Royalty / Patronage
subjects:
Louis of Anjou, Saint
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Siena and the Angevins, 1300–1350: Art, Diplomacy, and Dynastic Ambition By Diana Norman. 272 pp. incl. 50 col. + 55 b. & w. ills. (Brepols, Turnhout, 2018),  106.50. ISBN 978–2–503–57436–3. | :
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