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Four wooden ceilings from the Torrijos Palace, Toledo
12/2023 | 1449 | 165
Pages: 1272–1289
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McSweeney, Anna (McSweeney, Anna)
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Rosser-Owen, Mariam (Rosser-Owen, Mariam)
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10. Tile panel possibly from the Torrijos Palace. Attributed to Hernando de Loaysa, Talavera de la Reina, c.1600. Tin-glazed earthenware. (Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid; photograph Peter Kelleher 2022).
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19. Groundplan of the Torrijos Palace. (From E. María Repullés y Vargas: ‘El Palacio de Torrijos’, Resumen de Arquitectura 1 [1894], p.104; Biblioteca Nacional de España , Madrid).
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2. Opening page of the 1902 article on the Torrijos Palace, showing a plaster lintel above a door in the palace. (From ‘El Palacio de Torrijos’, Por Esos Mundos (April 1902), p.342; Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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20. Exterior façade of the Torrijos Palace, showing the portal and one of the windows with a balcony. (From E. María Repullés y Vargas: ‘El Palacio de Torrijos’, Resumen de Arquitectura 1 (1894), p.102; Biblioteca Nacional de España , Madrid).
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22. Staircase in the Torrijos Palace. (From E. María Repullés y Vargas: ‘El Palacio de Torrijos’, Resumen de Arquitectura 1 (1894), p.103; Biblioteca Nacional de España , Madrid).
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23. The groundplan shown in Fig.19, overlaid to show the location of the four ceilings, the main portal and the patio. (© Mariam Rosser-Owen). A. Ceiling from a room on the south-west side of Torrijos Palace, now in château de Villandry, Loire (Fig.12) B. Ceiling from a room on the north-west side of Torrijos Palace, now in the V&A (Fig.1) C. Staircase on the north-east side of Torrijos Palace (Fig.22) D. Ceiling from a room on the north-east side of Torrijos Palace, now in Finca El Alamín, Santa Cruz del Retamar (Fig.15) E. Ceiling from a room on the north-east side of Torrijos Palace, now in MAN (Fig.8) F. Portal on the east side of Torrijos Palace, now in Finca El Alamín, Santa Cruz del Retama (Fig.13) G. Courtyard of Torrijos Palace (Fig.4) H. Ceiling from a room on the south-east ceiling side of Torrijos Palace, now in Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco (Fig.5)
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25. The ceiling in Fig.8 shown in situ in the Torrijos Palace. Photograph, 1902. (From ‘El Palacio de Torrijos’, Por Esos Mundos, April 1902, p.344).
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27. The ceiling in Fig.12 shown in situ in the Torrijos Palace. Photograph. 1902. (From ‘El Palacio de Torrijos’, Por Esos Mundos, April 1902, p.346; Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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29. Diagram of an interlace panel on a strapwork carpentry ceiling, by Diego López de Arenas. (From Breve compendio de la carpintería de lo blanco y tratado de alarifes, Seville 1633, repr. 1727; National Art Library Special Collections; Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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3. The ceiling shown in Fig.1 in situ in the Torrijos Palace. Photograph, 1905. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Archive, Central Inventory Register, 1905, MA/30/233).
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30. Diagram of cartabones by Diego López de Arenas. (From Breve compendio de la carpintería de lo blanco y tratado de alarifes, Seville 1633, repr. 1727; National Art Library Special Collections; Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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6. Plaster cast of the frieze originally below the ceiling shown in Fig.1, c.1910. Plaster, each section approx. 150 by 110 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
1. A ceiling from the Torrijos Palace. c.1490. Wood, probably pine, with painting and gilding; with modern plaster of Paris panels, width 6 m. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
11. Friezes from the Torrijos Palace. c.1490. Plaster, 133 by 312 by 8 cm. (Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid; photograph Peter Kelleher 2022).
Western art unattributed:
12. Ceiling from the Torrijos Palace. c.1490. Wood, probably pine, with painting and gilding, width approx. 5.5 m. (château de Villandry, Loire; photograph Frédéric Paillet).
Western art unattributed:
13. Portal from the Torrijos Palace. c.1490. (Chapel, Finca El Alamín, Santa Cruz del Retamar; photograph Peter Kelleher 2022).
Western art unattributed:
14. Plinth for a statue of the Virgin on the altar of the chapel at Finca El Alamín, Santa Cruz del Retamar, made from part of the ceiling shown in Fig.15. Early sixteenth century, carved wood. (Photograph Peter Kelleher 2022).
Western art unattributed:
15. Ceiling from the Torrijos Palace. Early sixteenth century. Carved wood. (Chapel, Finca El Alamín, Santa Cruz del Retamar; photograph Peter Kelleher 2022).
Western art unattributed:
16. Ceiling in the grandest room of the palace at Ocaña. 1475–80. Wood, probably pine, with painting and gilding. (Photograph Peter Kelleher 2022).
Western art unattributed:
17. Ceiling in the Throne Hall of the Comares Palace, Alhambra, Granada. 1350. Wood, including pine and cedar, with painting, 11.3 by 11.3 m. (Photograph Simon Lane).
Western art unattributed:
18. Portal of the Colegiata del Santísimo Sacramento, Torrijos. 1509–18. (Photograph Peter Kelleher 2022).
Western art unattributed:
21. Staircase in the palace at Ocaña. 1475–80. (Photograph Peter Kelleher 2022).
Western art unattributed:
24. Panel from a frieze in the Torrijos Palace. c.1490. Plaster, 38 by 55 by 4 cm. (Museo Santa Cruz, Toledo; photograph Mariam Rosser-Owen).
Western art unattributed:
26. Section of the frieze from the ceiling shown in Fig.8. c.1490. Plaster. (Casa Platón Páramo, Oropesa; photograph Peter Kelleher 2022).
Western art unattributed:
28. Exterior of the ceiling shown in Fig.8. (Photograph Peter Kelleher 2022).
Western art unattributed:
4. Courtyard of the Torrijos Palace. Photograph, c.1904. (Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural de España, Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte, VN-10440).
Western art unattributed:
5. Ceiling from the Torrijos Palace. c.1490. Wood, including pine and walnut, with painting and gilding, width 5.72 m. (Museum of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco).
Western art unattributed:
7. Panel from the original frieze below the ceiling shown in Fig.1. c.1490. Plaster, 29.5 by 58 by 5.5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
8. Ceiling from the Torrijos Palace. c.1490. Wood, probably pine, with painting and gilding; 5.5 by 5.5 m. (Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid; photograph Peter Kelleher 2022).
Western art unattributed:
9. Lintel and doorway from the Torrijos Palace. c.1490. Plaster. (Casa Platón Páramo, Oropesa; photograph Peter Kelleher 2022).
Article
Looking at Masaccio: a rediscovered drawing by the young Michelangelo
06/2022 | 1431 | 164
Pages: 536-545
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Author:
Rinaldi, Furio (Rinaldi, Furio)
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1. Detail of Baptism of the neophytes, by Masaccio. c.1424–25. Fresco. (Brancacci Chapel, S. Maria del Carmine, Florence).
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10. Study of a nude figure, after Masaccio, here attributed to Alonso Berruguete. c.1510. Red chalk on paper, sheet 26.7 by 12.9 cm. (Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples).
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11. Studies of figures, by Michelangelo. c.1496–1501.Pen and two shades of brown ink, 26.1 by 38.6 cm. (Musée Condé, Chantilly).
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12. Detail of Three men in conversation?, by Michelangelo. c.1500. Pen and brown ink on paper, sheet 37.7 by 25 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Bridgeman Images).
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13. Detail of Fig.2, showing the figure on the left of the sheet.
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16. Detail of the Crucifixion of St Peter, by Michelangelo. 1545–50. Fresco. (Pauline Chapel, Rome; Bridgeman Images).
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17. Fig.1 showing the Genevosio mount.
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18. Study of two women conversing, by Domenico Ghirlandaio after Filippo Lippi. c.1489. Pen and brown ink, heightened with white gouache, on blue paper, 24.6 by 15.5 cm. (Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt).
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2. Three standing figures, one after Masaccio’s ‘Baptism of the neophytes’, here attributed to Michelangelo. c.1492–96. Pen and two types of brown ink, brown wash on paper, 33 by 20 cm. (Private collection).
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3. Studies after two figures in the ‘Ascension of St John the Evangelist’ by Giotto, by Michelangelo. c.1492. Pen and two types of brown ink on paper, 31.7 by 20.4 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Scala Archives).
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4. St Peter after Masaccio’s ‘Tribute money’ and study of an arm, by Michelangelo. c.1492. Pen, brown ink and red chalk on paper, 31.7 by 19.7 cm. (Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich; bpk).
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5. Crucifixion with the Virgin, St John and Mary Magdalen, by Michelangelo. c.1560–64. Black chalk on paper, 40.5 by 21.8 cm. (Royal Collection; © HM Queen Elizabeth II, 2022).
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5. Three standing men in cloaks, after Masaccio’s lost fresco of the Sagra, by Michelangelo. c.1492–96. Pen and brown ink on paper, 29.2 by 20 cm. (Albertina, Vienna).
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6. Kneeling man seen from behind after Masaccio’s lost fresco of the Sagra (verso of Fig.5), by Michelangelo. c.1492–96. Pen and brown ink on paper, 29.2 by 20 cm. (Albertina, Vienna).
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7. Detail of Brutus, by Michelangelo, with later reworking by Tiberio Calcagni. c.1545–48. Marble, height 74 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
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8. Three figures, possibly after Masaccio’s lost fresco of the Sagra, by Michelangelo. c.1492–96. Pen and ink on paper, sheet 26.9 by 19.4 cm. (Teylers Museum, Haarlem).
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9. Two figures in profile, possibly after Masaccio’s lost fresco of the Sagra (verso of Fig.8), by Michelangelo. c.1492–96. Pen and ink on paper, sheet 26.9 by 19.4 cm. (Teylers Museum, Haarlem).
Article
Turbans in the Strozzi Chapel: Filippino Lippi and the Mamluk embassies to Florence
10/2020 | 1411 | 162
Pages: 860-864
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Cevizli Gatward, Antonia (Cevizli Gatward, Antonia)
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1. Detail of The Assumption, by Filippino Lippi. 1488–93. Fresco. (Carafa Chapel, S. Maria Sopra Minerva, Rome).
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2. Detail of St Philip’s expulsion of the dragon, by Filippino Lippi. 1487–1502. Fresco. (Strozzi Chapel, S. Maria Novella, Florence).
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4. The arrest and trial of St Mark, by Giovanni Mansueti. 1499. Oil on panel, 164 by 146 cm. (Fürstlich Gemäldegalerie, Liechtenstein Museum).
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5. St George baptising the pagans, by Vittore Carpaccio. 1507–08. Oil and tempera on canvas, 141 by 285 cm. (Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, Venice).
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Ottomans besieging the Mamluks from Damascus. Ottoman, c.1521– 24. (From Selimname, Topkapı Sarayı Museum, Istanbul, MS. H. 1597-98, fol.235r; T.C. Cumhurbaşkanlığı Milli Saraylar İdaresi Başkanlığı).
Article
The ‘Manchester Madonna’ and its influence on Granacci and Raphael
06/2020 | 1407 | 162
Pages: 481-491
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Author:
Hall, James (Hall, James)
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1. The Manchester Madonna, by Michelangelo. c.1494. Tempera on panel, 104.5 by 77 cm. (National Gallery, London; Bridgeman Images).
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10. Detail of A male nude; studies of Apostles; the Virgin and Child; and a capital, showing the Virgin and Child, by Michelangelo. c.1504–05. Black chalk, pen and brown ink and pen and brown ink over leadpoint, 27.2 by 26.2 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence).
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11. Bruges Madonna, by Michelangelo. 1504–06. Marble, height 128 cm. (Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk, Bruges; Bridgeman Images).
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12. Sleeping hermaphrodite. Hellenistic (3rd–1st centuries BC), on a base by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. 1620. Marble, 169 by 89 cm. (Mus e du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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13. A group of four warriors, by Raphael. c.1504–05. Pen and ink over rubbed black chalk and pricking holes, 27.1 by 21.6 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Bridgeman Images).
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14. Detail of a frieze, by Bertoldo di Giovanni and collaborators. c.1490. Glazed terracotta. (Villa Medici, Poggio a Caiano; Scala, Florence; courtesy MiBAC).
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15. Study for the Virgin and Child, by Raphael. c.1505. Pen and ink, 19.7 by 25.1 cm. (Albertina, Vienna; Bridgeman Images).
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16. The Virgin and Child with the infant St John the Baptist, by Raphael. c.1505. Metalpoint and white heightening on pink-buff prepared paper, 13.9 by 12.1 cm. (The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle; Royal Collection Trust /   HM Queen Elizabeth II 2020).
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17. Virgin and Child with St John (La Belle Jardinière), by Raphael. 1507. Oil on panel, 122 by 80 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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2. Rest on the flight into Egypt with the infant St John the Baptist, by Francesco Granacci. Here dated 1504–07. Tempera and oil on panel, 100 by 71 cm. (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin).
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3. Bacchanal of putti, from the base of Judith and Holofernes, by Donatello. 1457–64. Bronze. (Palazzo Vecchio, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
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4. Infra-red reflectogram of Fig.2.
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5. The Virgin and Child with St Anne, by Leonardo. c.1502–13. Oil on panel, 168 by 130 cm. (Mus e du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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6. Virgin and Child with St Anne, by Andrea del Brescianino, after Leonardo. c.1515. Oil on panel, 129 by 94 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
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7. Holy Family with the lamb, by Raphael. c.1507. Oil on panel, 32 by 22 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; Bridgeman Images).
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8. Scenes from the life of St John the Baptist, by Francesco Granacci. c.1507. Tempera, oil and gold on panel, 77.6 by 151.1 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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9. A group of three nude men; the Virgin and Child, by Michelangelo. c.1504–05. Black chalk and pen and brown ink over leadpoint, 31.5 by 27.8 cm. (British Museum, London; Bridgeman Images).
Article
Hans Memling’s Nájera altarpiece: new documentary evidence
02/2018 | 1379 | 160
Pages: 101-105
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Author:
Fransen, Bart (Fransen, Bart)
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1. God the Father surrounded b singing and musician angels (central panel), by Hans Memling. 1483–94. Panel, 169.7 by 212.7 cm. (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp).
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2. God the Father surrounded b singing and musician angels (left flanking panel), by Hans Memling. 1483–94. Panel, 170 by 231.5 cm. (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp).
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3. God the Father surrounded b singing and musician angels (right flanking panel), by Hans Memling. 1483–94. Panel, 170 by 231 cm. (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp).
Article
The Lisbon Bible and the Throne of Portugal
01/2017 | 1366 | 159
Pages: 14-24
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Sedgwick Wohl, Alice (Sedgwick Wohl, Alice )
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11. Opening page of Peter Lombard's Book of Sentences, illuminated by Attavante degli Attavanti. 1494 (Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon, MS 161, vol.VIII, fol.6r)
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12. Frontispiece illuminated by Attavante degli Attavanti. From the Lisbon Bible with commentary by Nicholas of Lyra. 1495-96 (Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon, MS 161, vol.IV, fol.Iv)
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13. Left, coat of arms of Dom Manuel as duke of Beja, by the workshop of Attavante degli Attavanti. From Peter Lombard's Book of Sentences. 1494 (Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon, MS 161, vol.VIII, fol.6r). Right, coat of arms of Dom Manuel as king, by the workshop of Attavante degli Attavanti, with corrections by an unknown illuminator. From the Lisbon Bible with commentary by Nicholas of Lyra. c.1496 (Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon, MS 161, vol.II, fol.81)
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14. Frontispiece illuminated by Monte di Giovanni del Fora. From the Lisbon Bible with commentary by Nicholas of Lyra. 1496(?) (Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon, MS 161, vol.VI, fol.Iv)
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16. Detail of Matthias Corvinus with Charles VIII and an unknown figure, by Gherardo di Giovanni del Fora. From King David in prayer in the Bible of Matthias Corvinus. 1490 (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MS Plut. 15, 17, fol.2v)
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17. Detail of Matthias Corvinus, by Monte di Giovanni del Fora. From De spiritu sancto, and eleven other texts by Didymus Alexandrinus. 1488 (Morgan Library, New York, MS M.496, fol.2r)
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18. Detail of St Jerome in his study with monks, by Attavante degli Attavanti. From the Lisbon Bible with commentary by Nicholas of Lyra. 1495 (Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon, MS 161, vol.V, fol.3r)
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19. Detail of Penitent St Jerome, by Attavante degli Attavanti. From the Lisbon Bible with commentary by Nicholas of Lyra. 1495 (Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon, MS 161, vol.II, fol.3r)
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20. Detail of St Jerome presenting his translation of the Bible to Pope Damasus, by Gherardo di Giovanni del Fora. From the Lisbon Bible with commentary by Nicholas of Lyra. 1496? (Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon, MS 161, vol.VI, fol.2r)
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21. View of the beach and monastery in Belém, by Filipe Lobo. 1657 (Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon)
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22. Jerónimos Monastery, Belém, south portal, by João de Castilho. 1517 (Photograph by Ralph Lieberman)
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23. Infante Dom Henrique (Henry the Navigator), detail of Fig.22, c.1517. Jerónimos Monastery, Belém, south portal (Photograph by Ralph Lieberman)
Western art unattributed:
15. Detail of Jean Courtois, herald of Sicily, in the service of Alfonso V of Aragon. From the Traité du noble office d'armes. 15th century (Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, MS français 387, fol.4)
Book Review
Da ‘Universitas’ ad ‘Academia’. La corporazione dei Pittori nella chiesa di San Luca a Roma. 1474–1588, I. Salvagni
03/2016 | 1356 | 158
Pages: 207-208
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Reviewer:
Sparti, Donatella Livia (Sparti, Donatella Livia; Sparti, Donatella L.)
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Book Review
Cornelis Engebrechtsz. A Sixteenth-Century Leiden Artist and his Workshop, J.P. Filedt Kok, W. Gibson and Y. Bruijnen, with contributions by E. van Duijn and P. Klein
11/2015 | 1352 | 157
Pages: 789
Book Review
Bramante’s Tempietto, the Roman Renaissance and the Spanish Crown, J. Freiburg
11/2015 | 1352 | 157
Pages: 788-789
Article
‘Una Pieta chon molte figure’: Sandro Botticelli’s altarpiece for the Florentine church of S. Paolino
08/2015 | 1349 | 157
Pages: 521-529
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Author:
Röstel, Alexander (Röstel, Alexander )
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1. Pietà, by Sandro Botticelli. c.1489-94 (Alte Pinakothek, Munich)
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3. Triptych of The Crucifixion with the Virgin and St Francis; St John the Baptist and St Mary Magdalene (the Valori altarpiece), by Filippino Lippi. c.1497-1500 (Main panel formerly Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Berlin, destroyed; wings Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence)
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4. Hypothetical reconstruction of the high altarpiece of S. Paolino based on the interpretation of Giovanni di Domenico's inventory and comparative examples (Reconstruction by the author; illustration by Matilde Grimaldi)
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5. Triptych of The Sudarium borne by angels; Christ and the woman of Samaria; Noli me tangere, by the Master of the St Ursula Legend (central panel) and Filippino Lippi (wings). c.1490 (Seminario Patriarcale, Pinacoteca Manfrediana, Venice)
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6. Pair of altarpiece wings of the Archangel Gabriel and Virgin Annunciate, by Sandro Botticelli, c.1490-1500 (Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow)
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7. Pietà, by Sandro Botticelli. c.1495-1500 (Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan)
Western art unattributed:
2. Masini coat of arms, from Raccolta Ceramelli Papiani, fasc.3075 (Archivio di Stato, Florence)
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