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Article
Carlo Maratti’s additions to the ‘Barberini Venus’
03/2022 | 1428 | 164
Pages: 260-265
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Author:
Fidanza, Giovan Battista (Fidanza, Giovan Battista)
Subjects
artists:
Maratti, Carlo / Mazzoni, Giulio / Calandrucci, Giacinto
buildings:
Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy
dates:
1650-1699 / 1990-2009
patrons:
Barberini family / Barberini, Antonio, the Younger, Cardinal, 1607-1671
subjects:
Italian art / Murals / Restoration (process) / Tempera / Venus / Putti
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. The Barberini Venus, attributed to Giulio Mazzoni, shortly after 1550 (?) with additions by Carlo Maratti, 1693. Mural in oil with tempera, 163 by 190 cm. Photographed before the restoration of 1999–2000. (Gallerie Nazionali d’Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome; photograph Mauro Coen; courtesy Ministero della Cultura, Rome).
Attributed works:
2. Fig.1, photographed after the restoration of 1999–2000. (Gallerie Nazionali d’Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome; photograph Mauro Coen; courtesy Ministero della Cultura, Rome).
Attributed works:
3. Schematic reconstruction of the painting shown in Fig.1. From P. Iazurlo: ‘La Venere Barberini: un dipinto di Giulio Mazzoni da Palazzo Capodiferro’, Storia dell’arte 22–23 (2009), p.82.
Attributed works:
4. Detail of Fig.1, showing the face of Venus.
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5. Detail of Fig.2, showing the face of Venus.
Attributed works:
6. Fig.1, photographed during the restoration of 1999–2000. (Gallerie Nazionali d’Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome; photograph Mauro Coen; courtesy Ministero della Cultura, Rome).
Publication Received
Brought to Life: Eliot Hodgkin Rediscovered. Edited by Adrian Eeles
03/2020 | 1404 | 162
Pages: 271-272
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Reviewer:
Holliday, Matthew (Holliday, Matthew)
Subjects
artists:
Hodgkin, Eliot
subjects:
British art / Still lifes / Tempera
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Brought to Life: Eliot Hodgkin Rediscovered Edited by Adrian Eeles. 144 pp. incl. 130 col. ills. (Rothschild Foundation, Waddesdon, in association with Paul Holberton Publishing, 2019),  35. ISBN 978–1–911300–57–1. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. May, from the Twelve Months of the Year, by Eliot Hodgkin. 1951. Tempera on board, 26.7 by 22.3 cm. (Ramsbury Manor Foundation; photograph AJ Photography).
Exhibition Review
Piero della Francesca: Monarch of Painting. State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
03/2019 | 1392 | 161
Pages: 233-235
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Reviewer:
Nethersole, Scott (Nethersole, Scott)
Subjects
art literature:
Artists' writings
artists:
Piero della Francesca
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Oil painting (technique) / Tempera
museums and institutions:
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
subjects:
Altarpieces / Devotional images / Perspective / Reconstructions / Attributions / Space (form and composition concept) / Renaissance art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Portrait of a boy, attributed to Piero della Francesca. c.1480. Tempera on panel, 41 by 27.5 cm. (Museo Nacional Thyssen- Bornemisza, Madrid; exh. State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg). 5. Sigismondo
Attributed works:
5. Sigismondo Malatesta, by Piero della Francesca. 1450s. Oil and tempera on panel, 44 by 34 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; exh. State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg).
Attributed works:
6. The Annunciation, by Piero della Francesca. 1459–68. Oil and tempera on panel, 338 by 230 cm. (Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, Perugia; exh. State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg).
Book Review
The Sobieski Hours: A Most Beautiful Manuscript from the British Royal Collection. Facsimile edition. Commentary by Jenny Stratford and Jane Roberts
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 1068-1070
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Reviewer:
Law-Turner, Frederica C.E. (Law-Turner, Frederica C.E.)
Subjects
artists:
Bedford Master / Bedford Master Workshop
dates:
1400-1449 / 1430-1440
media:
Manuscripts / Illuminated manuscripts / Miniatures (paintings)
museums and institutions:
Windsor Castle, Windsor, Great Britain / Royal Collection, (Great Britain)
places:
Great Britain / Windsor / France / Paris
subjects:
Books of hours / Facsimiles / Illuminators / Illuminations / Tempera / Workshops (Organisations) / Attributions / Patronage / Style / Saints / Margaret, Saint / Databases / Electronic publishing
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. Pilgrims travelling to Mont-Saint-Michel, from the Sobieski Hours. 1430s. Egg tempera on vellum, 27.5 by 18 cm. (Windsor Castle, Royal Library; f.204v; Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018).
Book Review
Carlo Crivelli et le matérialisme mystique du Quattrocento. By Thomas Golsenne
08/2018 | 1385 | 160
Pages: 698-699
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Reviewer:
Hilliam, Amanda (Hilliam, Amanda)
Subjects
art literature:
Deleuze, Gilles / Kant, Immanuel
artists:
Crivelli, Carlo
dates:
1400-1499
media:
Paintings
places:
Italy / Venice
subjects:
Italian painting / Ornament / Symbolism (artistic concept) / Iconography / Paganism / Perspective / Style / Patronage / Tempera / Trompe l'oeil / Sublime / Monographs
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. Virgin and Child, by Carlo Crivelli. c.1480. Tempera on panel, 48.5 by 33.6 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Article
The Modigliani Technical Research Study. Modigliani in the South of France
05/2018 | 1382 | 160
Pages: 394-399
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Author:
Centeno, Silvia A. (Centeno, Silvia A.)
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Duvernois, Isabelle (Duvernois, Isabelle)
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Fronek, Joe (Fronek, Joe)
Author:
King, Annette (King, Annette)
Author:
Townsend, Joyce H. (Townsend, Joyce H.)
Subjects
artists:
Modigliani, Amedeo / Soutine, Chaim / Foujita, Tsugouharu / Archipenko, Alexander / Survage, Léopold / Kisling, Moise / Matisse, Henri / Renoir, Pierre-Auguste / Cézanne, Paul
dates:
1910-1919
media:
Paintings / Drawings
museums and institutions:
Tate Modern, London, Great Britain / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, United States / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
places:
France / Nice
subjects:
Italian painting / Portraits / Style / Influence / Visual sources / Supports / Pigments / Colour / Alterations / Techniques / Underdrawings / Charcoal / Tempera / Sitters / Dating / Technical analysis / Scientific analysis / Radiographs / Infrared reflectography
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. The little peasant, by Amedeo Modigliani. c.1918. Oil and tempera on canvas, 100 by 64.5 cm. (Tate, London).
Attributed works:
10. The Italian woman, by Amedeo Modigliani. c.1918–19. Canvas, 102.6 by 67 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
11. Photomicrograph of Fig.1 showing top of split in sitter’s shirt.
Attributed works:
12. Details of Fig.1 showing (a) sleeve of sitter’s right arm; and (b) sitter’s right knee.
Attributed works:
13. Details of signatures from (a) Fig.1; (b) Fig.2; and (c) Fig.10.
Attributed works:
2. Young woman of the people, by Amedeo Modigliani. 1918. Oil (and possibly water-based media) on canvas, 100.3 by 65.1 cm. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
3. Detail from the infra-red reflectogram of Fig.1, showing underdrawing circling the face.
Attributed works:
4. Detail from the infra-red reflectogram of Fig.2, showing underdrawing of a bracelet.
Attributed works:
5. X-radiograph of Fig.1.
Attributed works:
6. Fig.1 in transmitted light.
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7. Macro-XRF map details of Fig.10: (a) iron; (b) mercury; (c) calcium.
Attributed works:
8. Detail of Fig.10.
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9. Detail of Fig.2.
Attributed works:
[Appendix. Table showing the results of pigment, media, ground preparation and varnish analyses, and of the canvas thread counts, of Figs.1, 2 and 10.]
Book Review
The Dawn of Christian Art in Panel Paintings and Icons. By Thomas F. Mathews with Norman E. Muller
05/2018 | 1382 | 160
Pages: 430-431
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Reviewer:
James, Liz (James, Liz)
Subjects
artists:
Cimabue / Leighton, Frederic, First Baron Leighton of Stretton
dates:
0600-0699 / 0700-0799 / 0880-0889 / 0900-0999 / 1000-1099 / 1100-1199 / 1200-1299 / 1300-1399 / 1400-1499 / 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 / 1800-1899
media:
Paintings / Icons
places:
Egypt / Europe
subjects:
Panel paintings / Iconography / Christian iconography / Iconoclasm / Tempera / Technical analysis
Short Notice
A work in tempera by Margaret Gere
02/2004 | 1211 | 146
Pages: 112-113
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Author:
Spooner, Hannah (Spooner, Hannah)
Subjects
artists:
Gere, Margaret
dates:
1900-1909
places:
England
print:
Gere, Margaret
subjects:
British painting / Tempera
subjects:
Society of Mural Decorators and Painters in Tempera
Illustrations
Attributed works:
37. Garden of the slothful, by Margaret Gere. c.1905. Tempera on silk (?) mounted on board, approx. 26 by 26 cm. (Lady Herringham Collection, Royal Holloway, University of London).
Attributed works:
38. Noah's Ark, by Margaret Gere. c.1909. Tempera on silk mounted on board, 26.4 by 26.4 cm. (Tate, London).
Article
Rājput Paintings
03/1912 | 108 | 20
Pages: 314-319+322-325
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Author:
Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. (Coomaraswamy, Ananda K.; Coomaraswamy, Ananda; C., A. K.; Coomaraswamy, A. K.; Coomaraswamy, A. R.; Coomaraswamy, Ananda R.)
Subjects
dates:
1400-1699 / 1700-1799
places:
India / Persia
subjects:
Techniques / Tempera / Iconography / Mythology / Shiva
subjects:
Gods
subjects:
Indian painting / Rajput
subjects:
Hinduism / Mughal
subjects:
Indo-Persian / Persian / Influence
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Plate II. Siva and Pārvatī. Pahārī. Ascribed to Mola Rām of Gahrwāl (D. 1833). Author's Collection. Rājput Paintings
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. The Death of Bbīshma. Early Rājput. Author's Collection. Rājput Paintings
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. The Gambling Scene from the "Mahābhārata". Pahārī. Lahore Museum. Rājput Paintings
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate III. Malār Rāginī. Jaipur. Calcutta School of Art. Rājput Paintings
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate III. The Divine Cowherd. Pahārī. Author's Collection. Rājput Paintings
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate IV. Musicians (Original Pounced Tracing); Jaipur. Author's Collection. Rājput Paintings. Rājput Paintings
Article
Uccello's Story of Noah in the Chiostro Verde
07/1910 | 88 | 17
Pages: 203-205+208-210
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Author:
Campani, Eugenio G. (Campani, Eugenio G.)
Subjects
artists:
Uccello, Paolo
buildings:
Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy
dates:
1400-1449
places:
Italy / Florence
subjects:
Noah
subjects:
Italian painting / Conservation
subjects:
Renaissance / Frescoes / Techniques
subjects:
Tempera / Formal analysis / Technical analysis
subjects:
Bible / Iconography
Illustrations
Attributed works:
(1) The Painting Unrestored. Uccello's 'Story of Noah,' in the Chiostro Verde. Plate I.
Attributed works:
(2) Detail; Noah and His Family Sacrificing. Uccello's 'Story of Noah,' in the Chiostro Verde. Plate II.
Attributed works:
(2) The Painting Restored. Uccello's 'Story of Noah,' in the Chiostro Verde. Plate I.
Attributed works:
(4) Sketch from the Plaster. Uccello's 'Story of Noah,' in the Chiostro Verde. Plate II.
Attributed works:
(5) Detail; Shem and Japheth. Uccello's 'Story of Noah,' in the Chiostro Verde. Plate II.
Attributed works:
3 Details from Uccello's 'Story of Noah,' in the Chiostro Verde.
Western art unattributed:
(3) Plate CXLVI from D'Agincourt's 'Storia D'Arte'. Uccello's 'Story of Noah,' in the Chiostro Verde. Plate II.
Western art unattributed:
(6) Plate XIV from 'Etruria Pittorica'. Uccello's 'Story of Noah,' in the Chiostro Verde. Plate II.
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