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Book Review
Trade, Globalization, and Dutch Art and Architecture: Interrogating Dutchness and the Golden Age
05/2024 | 1454 | 166
Pages: 534–535
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Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
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Trade, Globalization, and Dutch Art and Architecture: Interrogating Dutchness and the Golden Age By Marsely L. Kehoe. 244 pp. incl. 8 col. + 67 b. & w. ills. (Amsterdam University Press, 2023), €124. ISBN 978–94–6372–363–3. | :
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4. Still life with a turkey pie, by Pieter Claesz. 1627. Oil on panel, 76.5 by 135 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
Book Review
The Architecture of Empire: France in India and Southeast Asia, 1664–1962
06/2023 | 1443 | 165
Pages: 667-668
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Bremner, G.A. (Bremner, G.A.)
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The Architecture of Empire: France in India and Southeast Asia, 1664–1962 By Gauvin Alexander Bailey. 488 pp. incl. 206 col. ills. (McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 2022), £52. ISBN 978–0–228–01142–2. | :
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Ancient foreign glassware in Silla kingdom tombs
10/2022 | 1435 | 164
Pages: 957-967
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Perrin, Ariane (Perrin, Ariane)
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1. Map of modern South Korea, showing the location of Kyongju.
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17. Bowl. Silla, Kyongju, Sŏbong (‘Auspicious Phoenix’) tomb. Fifth century. Glass with raised band, height 5.2 cm. (Kyongju National Museum).
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6. Vertical cross-section showing the internal structure of the wooden chamber tomb of the Hwangnam Great Tomb, Kyongju. (From Soyoung Lee and D.P. Leidy, eds: exh. cat. Silla, Korea’s Golden Kingdom, New York (Metropolitan Museum of Art) 2013, p.42, fig.3.6).
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10. Cup. Silla, Kyongju, Hwangnam Great tomb, north mound. Fifth century. Glass with concave round cut facets, height 6.6 cm. (National Museum of Korea, Seoul).
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11. Footed cup. Silla, Kyongju, Hwangnam Great Tomb, north mound. Fifth century. Glass with wood-grain pattern, height 7.7 cm. (Kyongju National Museum).
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12. Glass fragment. Paekche, Sabi period (538–660), South Ch’ungch’ŏng province, Nŭngsan-ni Buddhist temple, 567. Glass, height 1.8 cm. (National Museum of Korea, Seoul).
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13. Beaker. Silla, Kyongju, Hwangnam Great Tomb, south mound. Fifth century. Glass with blue trail ornament, height 12.8 cm. (Kyongju National Museum).
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14. Beaker. Silla, Kyongju, Ch’ŏnma (‘Heavenly Horse’) tomb. Before fifth century. Blue glass with ribs and facets, height 7.4 cm. (Kyongju National Museum).
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15. Beaker. Silla, Kyongju, Wŏlsŏng tomb (no.Ka-13). Late fourth century. Glass with mesh pattern and blue trailing, height 12.5 cm. (Kyongju National Museum).
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16. Cups. Silla, Kyongju, Kŭmnyŏng (‘Gold bell’) tomb. Fifth century. Glass, height 7.3 cm each. (National Museum of Korea, Seoul).
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18. Bowl. China, Northern Wei, Shanxi province, Datong tomb. Fifth century. Glass with raised band, height 4.7 cm. (Datong City Museum).
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2. Chestlace. Silla, Kyongju, Wŏlsŏng tomb (no.Ka-13). Fourth century. Cobalt-blue glass beads, jade pendant and gold spacers, length 43.5 cm. (National Museum of Korea, Seoul).
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3. Bowl. Silla, Kyongju, Hwangnam Great Tomb, north mound. Fifth century. Silver with repoussé decoration, height 3.8 cm. (National Museum of Korea, Seoul).
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4. Blue bead with yellow ‘eyes’. Silla, Kyongju, Kyerim-no tomb (no.14), early sixth century. Glass, height 4.9 cm. (National Museum of Korea, Seoul).
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5. Placement of glass objects in the south burial of the Hwangnam Great Tomb, Kyongju. (From Soyoung Lee and D.P. Leidy, eds: exh. cat. Silla, Korea’s Golden Kingdom, New York (Metropolitan Museum of Art) 2013, p.119, fig.6.1).
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7. Blue beads with yellow ‘eyes’. Silla, Kyongju, Hwangnam Great Tomb, north mound. Fifth century. Glass, dimensions vary. (National Museum of Korea, Seoul; photograph courtesy James W. Lankton).
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8. Ewer. Silla, Kyongju, Hwangnam Great Tomb, south mound. Fifth century. Glass and gold thread, height 25 cm. (Kyongju National Museum).
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9. Cup. Silla, Kyongju, Hwangnam Great Tomb, north mound. Before fifth century. Cobalt-blue glass, height 7.7 cm. (Kyongju National Museum).
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Cross-cultural diplomacy: a Safavid shield in the Medici armoury
10/2022 | 1435 | 164
Pages: 968-975
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Rokhgar, Negar Sarah (Rokhgar, Negar Sarah)
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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).
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6. Medusa, by Caravaggio. 1595–98. Oil on canvas applied on a wooden shield, 60 by 55 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence).
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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).
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2. Detail of Fig.1, showing figures serving food to an authority on a higher seat.
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3. Detail of Fig.1, showing men on horseback and on foot using spears and arrows to hunt lions.
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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).
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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).
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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).
Book Review
Rarities of These Lands: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Dutch Republic
06/2022 | 1431 | 164
Pages: 625-627
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Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
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Rarities of These Lands: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Dutch Republic By Claudia Swan. 336 pp. incl. 140 col. ills. (Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2021), £50. ISBN 978–0–691–20796–4. | :
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4. Triumphal procession with goods from east and west, by Jacob van Campen. 1649–51. Oil on canvas, 383.5 by 204.5 cm. (Paleis Huis ten Bosch, The Hague).
Book Review
Seeking Transparency: Rock Crystals Across the Medieval Mediterranean
10/2021 | 1423 | 163
Pages: 967-968
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Milner, Lesley (Milner, Lesley)
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Seeking Transparency: Rock Crystals Across the Medieval Mediterranean Edited by Cynthia Hahn and Avinoam Shalem. 334 pp. incl. 56 col. + 140 b. & w. ills. (Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin, 2020), £60. ISBN 978–3–7861–2843–4. | :
Book Review
Elizabethan Globalism: England, China and the Rainbow Portrait
07/2021 | 1420 | 163
Pages: 637-638
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Goldring, Elizabeth (Goldring, Elizabeth)
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Elizabethan Globalism: England, China and the Rainbow Portrait By Matthew Dimmock. 336 pp. incl. 90 col. + b. & w. ills. (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, and Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2019), £50. ISBN 978–1–913107–03–1. | :
Book Review
Japan: Courts and Culture
10/2020 | 1411 | 162
Pages: 898-899
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Pollard, Clare (Pollard, Clare)
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Japan: Courts and Culture Edited by Rachel Peat. 320 pp. incl. 340 col. ills. (Royal Collection Trust, London, 2020), £49.95. ISBN 978–1–909741–68–3. | :
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1. Embroidered folding screen, by Iida & Co., Kyoto. c.1880–1900. Wood, lacquer, silk and silk thread, leather, gilt-brass, watercolour, paper, mother-of-pearl and copper alloy, each panel 192.5 by 73.7 by 3.4 cm. (Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2020).
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‘Caravans of Gold’
09/2020 | 1410 | 162
Pages: 728
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Bickford Berzock, Kathleen (Bickford Berzock, Kathleen)
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Fili, Abdallah (Fili, Abdallah)
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Messier, Ronald A. (Messier, Ronald A.)
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Exhibition Review
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa
07/2020 | 1408 | 162
Pages: 606-609
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Rosser-Owen, Mariam (Rosser-Owen, Mariam)
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Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington 8th April–29th November | :
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6. Detail from the Atlas of Maritime Charts (Catalan Atlas) showing Mansā Mūsā, by Abraham Cresques. 1375. Parchment. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, MS Espagnol 30; exh. Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington).
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7. Seated figure. c.1300. Copper with traces of arsenic, lead and tin, height 54 cm. (Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Abuja, Nigeria; exh. Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington).
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5. Glazed ceramic jar inscribed ‘albaraka’ (‘blessing’), produced at Murcia or Almeria. 1150–1200. (Musée archéologique de Rabat, Morocco; photograph Moroccan- American Project, Sijilmasa, 1988; exh. Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington).
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8. Jug with royal arms of England. English, c.1390– 99. Copper alloy, height 62.3 cm. (British Museum, London, England; exh. Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington).
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