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A tale of two fragments: a Sostratos cameo reconstructed
03/2020 | 1404 | 162
Pages: 181-187
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Gennaioli, Riccardo (Gennaioli, Riccardo)
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Gradel, Ittai (Gradel, Ittai)
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1. Fragment of a cameo, by Sostratos. Hellenistic, mid- to late 1st century BC. Sardonyx, 3.1 by 2.1 cm. excluding the later setting. (Private collection, London).
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10. Dionysus (or Ariadne?) in a chariot pulled by two centaurs. Roman cameo in later, eighteenth-century setting. Sardonyx, 3.1 by 2.3 cm. (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg).
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2. Fragment of a cameo, by Sostratos. Hellenistic, mid- to late 1st century BC. Sardonyx, width 5.5 cm maximum, excluding the later restoration. (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence).
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3. The cameo shown in Fig.2, photographed with transmitted light.
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4. Reverse of the cameo shown in Fig.2.
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5. Reverse of the cameo shown in Fig.1.
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6. Scans of the fragments shown in Figs.1 and 2 combined, showing the outline of the original cameo, presuming an oval shape. The resulting original size would have been approx. 6.4 by 4.6 cm.
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11. Dionysus and Ariadne in a chariot pulled by two centaurs. Roman cameo in later setting. Sardonyx, 3 by 2.5 cm. (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence).
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7. Fragment of a cameo, with the roughly original outline of the complete cameo restored, presuming a regular oval shape. Hellenistic, mid- to late 1st century BC. Sardonyx, 2.6 by 2 cm. (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples).
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8. Triumph of Dionysus and Ariadne. Roman cameo in later setting. Sardonyx, 6 by 5.5 cm. (Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris).
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9. Dionysus (or Ariadne?) in a chariot pulled by two centaurs. Roman cameo in later, eighteenth-century setting. Sardonyx, 4.2 by 2.7 cm. (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg).
Publication Received
George Lance: Victorian Master of Still Life. By John Radcliffe and Mark Lance
06/2018 | 1383 | 160
Pages: 526
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Leighton’s ‘A Dream’: An early work comes to light
01/2016 | 1354 | 158
Pages: 013–018
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Norman, Mathew (Norman, Mathew)
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16. A Dream, by Frederic Leighton. 1859-60 (Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki)
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17. Colour sketch for A Dream, by Frederic Leighton. c.1859-60 (Leighton House Museum, London)
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18. Detail of The Wise and Foolish Virgins, by Frederic Leighton. 1862-64 (Church of St Michael and All Angels, Lyndhurst, Hampshire; courtesy of the Revd Dr James Bruce)
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19. Tracing of the head of Christ and various architectural details, by Frederic Leighton. c.1862-64 (Royal Academy of Arts, London)
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20. Portrait, probably of Walter Pennington Creyke, by Frederic Leighton. 1855 (Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)
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21. Portrait of Walter Pennington Creyke, by Frederic Leighton. 1855 (British Museum, London)
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22. Head of an Italian man, by Frederick Leighton. c.1864 (Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)
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23. The Return of Persephone, by Frederic Leighton. c.1891 (Leeds Museums and Galleries)
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The Art of Conservation II: Sir Charles Eastlake and conservation at the National Gallery, London
12/2015 | 1353 | 157
Pages: 846-854
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Avery-Quash, Susanna (Avery-Quash, Susanna; Quash, Susanna Avery-)
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36. Sir Charles Eastlake, by Francis Grant. 1853 (National Gallery, London)
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38. Ralph Nicholson Wornum, Keeper at the National Gallery during Eastlake's directorship. Portrait photograph taken in the studio of William Green, Northumberland, 1873 (National Gallery, London)
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39. Page from Wornum's Diary: the entry for 17th October 1859 condemns the use of patent parchment to cover the backs of Gallery pictures (National Gallery archive: NGA2/3/2/13. National Gallery, London)
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40. Photograph of An Allegory with Venus and Cupid, by Agnolo Bronzino, showing Raffaele Pinti's overpainting of Venus's tongue and nipple and adding draperies, after the picture's acquisition in 1860. Pinti's changes were removed in 1958 (National Gallery, London)
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41. Eastlake's 'Manuscript Catalogue', showing his entry for Sebastiano del Piombo's Raising of Lazarus (NG1). Under the heading 'On what material painted', Eastlake notes that the picture had been 'Transferred to canvas by Hacquin in 1771' and under 'When repaired', he notes that the picture had been retouched by Benjamin West (National Gallery archive: NG10/1. National Gallery, London)
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37. A gallery in the Barry Rooms complex showing National Gallery pictures protected by glass before being put on display. 1876 (National Gallery, London)
Publication Received
Apprendre à peindre. Les ateliers privés à Paris 1780–1863. Edited by France Nerlich and Alain Bonnet.
04/2015 | 1345 | 157
Pages: 277
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Duffy, Stephen (Duffy, Stephen)
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Reading Victorian Illustration, 1855–1875, Spoils of the Lumber Room. Edited by Paul Goldman and Simon Cooke.
10/2013 | 1327 | 155
Pages: 720
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Bills, Mark (Bills, Mark)
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Funerary Arts and Tomb Cult. Living with the Dead in France, 1750–1870
05/2013 | 1322 | 155
Pages: 340
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Ward-Jackson, Philip (Ward-Jackson, Philip; Ward-Jackson, Phillip; Jackson, Philip Ward; Ward-Jackon, Philip)
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Turquerie and the Politics of Representation, 1728–1876
01/2013 | 1318 | 150
Pages: 41
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Longstaffe-Gowan, Todd (Longstaffe-Gowan, Todd; Gowan, Todd Longstaffe-)
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Decorative Arts from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. The Complete Plates.
06/2012 | 1311 | 154
Pages: 432
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Evans, Philippa (Evans, Philippa)
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Decorative Arts from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. The Complete Plates. | editor: Warncke, Carsten-Peter
Exhibition Review
Italy’s 150th anniversary in painting. Rome (Il Risorgimento a colori: pittori, patrioti e patrioti pittori)
12/2011 | 1305 | 153
Pages: 843-846
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Lyttelton, Adrian (Lyttelton, Adrian)
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Il Risorgimento a colori: pittori, patrioti e patrioti pittori | institution: Museo di Roma
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80. The exile, by Antonio Ciseri. 1860–70. Canvas, 40 by 31 cm. (Collezione Città di Lugano; exh. Museo di Roma, Rome).
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