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Book Review
A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature
02/2024 | 1451 | 166
Pages: 208–209
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Reviewer:
Evans, Mark (Evans, Mark)
Subjects
subjects:
Arcadia (pastoral) / Renaissance art / Poetry / Literature / Classical literature / Iconography / Sixteenth-century / Seventeenth-century / Eighteenth-century art / Nineteenth-century art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature By Paul Holberton. Two vols, 497 pp. and 468 pp., incl. 322 col. ills (Ad Ilissum, London, 2022), £80. ISBN 978–1–912168–25–5 and 978–1–912168–26–2. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Shepherd playing the flute and four shepherdesses, by Gerrit van Honthorst. 1632. Oil on canvas, 92 by 174.5 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
Attributed works:
2. The chamber idyll, by Edward Calvert. 1831. Wood engraving, 4.3 by 7.7 cm. (British Museum, London).
Book Review
Lorenzo Lotto: Catalogo generale dei dipinti Giovan Battista Moroni: Opera completa
09/2022 | 1434 | 164
Pages: 935-937
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Reviewer:
Humfrey, Peter (Humfrey, Peter)
Subjects
art literature:
Catalogues raisonnés
artists:
Lotto, Lorenzo / Moroni, Giovanni Battista
subjects:
Italian art / Sixteenth-century
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subjects:
Giovan Battista Moroni: Opera completa By Simone Facchinetti. 510 pp. incl. 320 col. ills. (Officina Libraria, Rome, 2021), €85. ISBN 978–88–336–7154–3. | :
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Lorenzo Lotto: Catalogo generale dei dipinti By Enrico Maria Dal Pozzolo. 624 pp. incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Skira, Milan, 2021), €95. ISBN 978–88–572–3999–6. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. Prospero Alessandri, by Giovanni Battista Moroni. c.1560. Oil on canvas, 105 by 84 cm. (Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz-Vienna).
Article
An Afro-Portuguese ivory from Ksar es-Seghir, Morocco
09/2021 | 1422 | 163
Pages: 822-824
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Author:
Afonso, Luís Urbano (Afonso, Luís Urbano)
Author:
Gomes, Mário Varela (Gomes, Mário Varela)
Subjects
dates:
Sixteenth-century
media:
Ivories
places:
Morocco / Portugal / Benin / Africa
subjects:
African sculpture / African / Portuguese / Carvings / Ivories / Spoons / Saltcellars / Oliphants / Forks / Pyxes
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
1. Fragments of a Bini-Portuguese spoon or fork. 1525–50. Ivory, length c.7.6 cm. (From C. Redman: Qsar es-Seghir: An Archaeological View of Medieval Life, Orlando 1986, p.130).
Non-western art unattributed:
2. Technical drawing based on Fig.1. (J. Gonçalves).
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Spoon. Bini-Portuguese, 1525–50. Ivory, length 26 cm. (Welt Museum, Vienna).
Non-western art unattributed:
4. Spoon. Bini-Portuguese, 1525–50. Ivory, 22 cm long. (Musée du Quai Branly, Paris).
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
Reviewed Items
subjects:
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. | :
Book Review
The Endless Periphery: Toward a Geopolitics of Art in Lorenzo Lotto’s Italy (Louise Smith Bross Lecture Series)
09/2020 | 1410 | 162
Pages: 817-818
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Reviewer:
De Klerck, Bram (De Klerck, Bram)
Subjects
art literature:
Lectures
artists:
Polidoro da Caravaggio / Lotto, Lorenzo / Ferrari, Gaudenzio / Romanino, Girolamo / Moretto da Brescia
places:
Naples / Sicily / Marche / Piedmont / Lombardy / Bergamo / Brescia
subjects:
Italian art / Sixteenth-century
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Endless Periphery: Toward a Geopolitics of Art in Lorenzo Lotto’s Italy (Louise Smith Bross Lecture Series) By Stephen J. Campbell. 352 pp. incl. 172 col. ills. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2019), £49. ISBN 978–0–226–48145–6. | :
Publication Received
European Porcelain in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. By Jeffrey H. Munger and Elizabeth Sullivan
03/2019 | 1392 | 161
Pages: 263
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Reviewer:
Bodinek, Claudia (Bodinek, Claudia)
Subjects
dates:
Sixteenth-century / Seventeenth-century / Eighteenth-century / Nineteenth-century
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
subjects:
European porcelain
Reviewed Items
subjects:
European Porcelain in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. By Jeffrey H. Munger and Elizabeth Sullivan | :
Book Review
The Eye: An Insider’s Memoir of Masterpieces, Money, and the Magnetism of Art. By Philippe Costamagna, transl. Frank Wynne
03/2019 | 1392 | 161
Pages: 262-263
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Reviewer:
Spear, Richard E. (Spear, Richard E.)
Subjects
subjects:
Connoisseurship / Memoirs / Collecting / Attributions / Forgeries / Italian art / Sixteenth-century
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Eye: An Insider’s Memoir of Masterpieces, Money, and the Magnetism of Art. By Philippe Costamagna, transl. Frank Wynne | :
Article
New evidence on 'Triumphs of Petrarch' tapestries in the early sixteenth century. Part I: the French court
06/2004 | 1215 | 146
Pages: 376-385
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Author:
Campbell, Thomas P. (Campbell, Thomas P.)
Subjects
dates:
1500-1549
places:
France
print:
Sixteenth-century
print:
Tapestries
sources:
Petrarca, Francesco
subjects:
French painting / Illuminated manuscripts / Textiles / Tapestries
subjects:
Literature in art / Triumphs
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Triumph of Divinity over Time, by the workshop of Frans Geubels. Brussels, c.1550. Wool and silk, 425 by 890 cm. (Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona).
Western art unattributed:
1. Triumph of Love (fragment). South Netherlands, c.1515-25. Wool, dimensions unknown. (Whereabouts unknown).
Western art unattributed:
10. Triumph of Fame over Death, from Les triumphes du poethe messire Françoys Petrarche..., MSfr.594, fol.178v. Rouen, c.1503. Parchment, 37 by 26 cm. (full page). (Bibliothèque nationale, Paris).
Western art unattributed:
11. Triumph of Fame, from Les triumphes du poethe messire Françoys Petrarche..., MSfr.594, fol.179r. Rouen, c.1503. Parchment, 37 by 26 cm. (full page). (Bibliothèque nationale, Paris).
Western art unattributed:
12. Triumph of Time over Fame, from Les triumphes du poethe messire Françoys Petrarche..., MSfr.594, fol.348v. Rouen, c.1503. Parchment, 37 by 26 cm. (full page). (Bibliothèque nationale, Paris).
Western art unattributed:
2. Triumph of Love (fragment). South Netherlands, c.1515-25. Wool, 330 by 395 cm. (Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire, Brussels).
Western art unattributed:
3. Triumph of Chastity over Love. Brussels, c.1520. Wool and silk, 447 by 823 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
4. Triumph of Death over Chastity (fragment). Brussels, c.1515-20. Wool and silk, 403 by 815 cm. (height excludes bottom border, which is folded back, but includes right border, not shown in photograph). (The Royal Collection, Hampton Court Palace; Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2004).
Western art unattributed:
5. Triumph of Fame over Death. Brussels, c.1515-20. Wool and silk, 406 by 810 cm. (The Royal Collection, Hampton Court Palace; Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2004).
Western art unattributed:
6. Triumph of Time over Fame. Brussels, c.1515-20. Wool and silk, 427 by 810 cm. (The Royal Collection, Hampton Court Palace; Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2004).
Western art unattributed:
8. Triumph of Chastity over Love, from Les triumphes du poethe messire Françoys Petrarche..., MSfr.594, fol.101v. Rouen, c.1503. Parchment, 37 by 26 cm. (full page). (Bibliothèque nationale, Paris).
Western art unattributed:
9. Triumph of Chastity, from Les triumphes du poethe messire Françoys Petrarche..., MSfr.594, fol.102r. Rouen, c.1503. Parchment, 37 by 26 cm. (full page). (Bibliothèque nationale, Paris).