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Book Review

The Ugly Duchess: Beauty and Satire in the Renaissance

11/2023 | 1448 | 165

Pages: 1238-1239

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Reviewer:

Tantardini, Lucia (Tantardini, Lucia)

Subjects

artists:

Metsys, Quinten / Leonardo da Vinci

dates:

2020-2030

museums and institutions:

National Gallery, London, Great Britain

subjects:

Satire / Grotesques / Beauty / Flemish art

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subjects:

The Ugly Duchess: Beauty and Satire in the Renaissance By Emma Capron, with contributions by Martin Clayton and Charlotte Wytema. 80 pp. incl. 52 col. + b. & w. ills. (National Gallery Global, London, 2023), £16.99. ISBN 978–1–85709–694–1. | :

Illustrations

Attributed works:

6. An old woman (‘The ugly duchess’), by Quinten Massys. c.1513. Oil on panel, 62.4 by 45.5 cm. (National Gallery, London).

Attributed works:

7. A grotesque old woman, attributed to Francesco Melzi after Leonardo da Vinci. c.1510–20. Red chalk, 17.2 by 14.3 cm. (© Royal Collection Trust, HM King Charles III).

Article

The ‘fortuna critica’ of the ‘Maiden of Lille’

05/2020 | 1406 | 162

Pages: 404-411

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Author:

Riviale, Laurence (Riviale, Laurence)

Subjects

artists:

Raphael / Leonardo da Vinci / Sargent, John Singer / Wicar, Jean Baptiste Joseph / Henner, Jean-Jacques / Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste

collectors and dealers:

Gurlitt, Fritz

dates:

1830-1909 / 1900-1999

media:

Wax / Terracotta / Polychromy / Sculpture / Photographs / Engravings

museums and institutions:

Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France

places:

Lille

subjects:

Attributions / Attributions, tentative / Attributions, former / Copies / Reproductions / Dating / Casts (sculpture) / Beauty / Symbols / Nationalism

subjects:

Critical Reception / Restoration (process) / Personification

works:

Maiden of Lille

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Study of a bust at Lille, by John Singer Sargent. c.1877. Oil on mahogany panel, 30.7 by 20.6 cm. (Private collection).

Attributed works:

10. The Maiden of Lille, by Arthur Mayeur. Drawing reproduced on the cover of Lille et la région du nord en 1909, Lille 1909.

Attributed works:

2. The ‘Maiden of Lille’ in the Wicar galleries at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, c.1892. (Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille).

Attributed works:

4. The Maiden of Lille, by Aurelio Micheli. c.1909. Plaster, wax and polychromy. (Letter Stiftung, Cologne).

Attributed works:

5. Jean-Jacques Henner’s studio in Paris, with a plaster cast of the ‘Maiden of Lille’ from the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin. Detail of a photograph, c.1900. (Courtesy Henner Museum, Paris).

Attributed works:

6. Wolfgang Gurlitt’s music room at 113 Potsdamer Strasse, Berlin. Photograph, c.1920. (Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur, Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte, Bildarchiv Foto Marburg).

Attributed works:

7. The display of old-master drawings in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle. Photograph by James Russell and Sons, 1910. (Manley family collection).

Attributed works:

8. The plaster-cast room at the Museum of Fine Arts, Copley Square, Boston. Photograph, 1902. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).

Attributed works:

9. The Maiden of Lille, in the Musée Wicar, Lille. Photograph by Robert Jefferson Bingham, 1864. (Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille).

Western art unattributed:

3. The Maiden of Lille. Possibly seventeenth or eighteenth century. Beeswax, terracotta and glass, 44.5 by 30.3 by 19.5 cm. (Palais des Beaux- Arts, Lille; photograph the author).

Exhibition Review

Georg Baselitz at eighty

09/2018 | 1386 | 160

Pages: 766-771

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Reviewer:

Weikop, Christian (Weikop, Christian)

Subjects

artists:

Baselitz, Georg / Schönebeck, Eugen / Friedrich, Caspar David / Richter, Ludwig / Pforr, Franz / Kiefer, Anselm / Nolde, Emil / Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig / De Kooning, Willem

dates:

2010-2019

media:

Paintings / Sculpture

museums and institutions:

Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Basel, Switzerland / Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, United States / Galerie Werner & Katz, Berlin, Germany

places:

Switzerland / Basel / United States / Washington DC / Germany

subjects:

German painting / Beauty / Romanticism / Portraits / Landscapes (visual works) / Figure paintings / Nudes / World War (1939-1945) / Nazism / Politics / Brücke / Expressionism / Neo-Expressionist / Carving (processes) / Colour / Polychromy / Brushwork / Style / Influence

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Man in the moon – Franz Pforr, by Georg Baselitz. 1965. Canvas, 161.9 by 129.9 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington; exh. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington).

Attributed works:

2. Opposite The naked man, by Georg Baselitz. 1962. Canvas, 114 by 146 cm. (Private collection, Seattle; exh. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington).

Attributed works:

3. Meissen woodsmen, by Georg Baselitz. 1969. Canvas, 250 by 200 cm. (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington).

Attributed works:

4. Orange eater IX, by Georg Baselitz. 1981. Oil and tempera on canvas, 146 by 114 cm. (Skarstedt, New York; exh. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington).

Attributed works:

5. Below The Brücke chorus, by Georg Baselitz. 1983. Canvas, 280 by 450 cm. (Private collection; exh. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington).

Attributed works:

6. My new hat, by Georg Baselitz. 2003. Cedarwood and oil paint, 310.5 by 83.5 by 107 cm. (Pinault Collection, Venice; exh. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington).

Attributed works:

8. Dystopian couple, by Georg Baselitz. 2015. Canvas, 400 by 600 cm. (Courtesy the artist and White Cube; exh. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington).

Western art unattributed:

7. Georg Baselitz’s studio, Ammersee. (Photograph courtesy Georg Baselitz Archive, Munich).

Exhibition Review

Defining beauty

07/2015 | 1348 | 157

Pages: 489-490

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Reviewer:

Gardner-Dseagu, Christine (Gardner-Dseagu, Christine)

Subjects

dates:

2010-2019

museums and institutions:

British Museum, London, Great Britain

places:

England / London

subjects:

Reviews / Exhibitions / Greek (ancient) sculpture / Nudes / Beauty / Idealism / Aesthetics

Illustrations

Western art unattributed:

48. Bronze statue of an Apoxyomenos. Greek, about 300 BC (Mali Lošinj, Croatia; exh. British Museum, London)

Western art unattributed:

49. 'Lely's Venus' (Aphrodite crouching at her bath). Roman, second century AD (British Museum, London, lent by Her Majesty the Queen)

Western art unattributed:

50. Vessel in the shape of the head of a black girl. Greek, second-first century BC (British Museum, London)

Publication Received

Edward Burne-Jones’ Mythical Paintings: The Pygmalion of the Pre-Raphaelite Painters. By Liana de Girolami Cheney, with a foreward by Alicia Craig Faxon.

05/2015 | 1346 | 157

Pages: 358

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Reviewer:

Mann, Fiona (Mann, Fiona)

Subjects

artists:

Burne-Jones, Edward

subjects:

Pre-Raphaelite / British painting / Classical mythology / Love / Beauty / Art theory / Visual sources

Exhibition Review

Heaven on Earth. Nottingham

01/1995 | 1102 | 137

Pages: 45-46

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Treuherz, Julian (Treuherz, Julian)

Subjects

dates:

1990-1999

places:

England / Nottingham

private galleries:

Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, Great Britain

subjects:

Exhibitions / Reviews / British painting

subjects:

Victorian / Beauty

Illustrations

Attributed works:

47. The Child Enthroned, by Thomas Cooper Gotch. 1894. 100.3 by 58.7 cm. (Private Collection; Exh. Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham).

Attributed works:

48. Juliet and Her Nurse, by John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope. RA1863. 109 by 127 cm. (Pre-Raphaelite Inc./Julian Hartnoll; Exh. Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham).

Attributed works:

49. Nude with Peacock Feathers, by George Frederic Watts. Panel, 66 by 56 cm. (Pre-Raphaelite Inc./Julian Hartnoll; Exh. Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham).

Publication Received

The Invisible Dragon. Four Essays on Beauty

02/1994 | 1091 | 136

Pages: 127

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Reviewer:

Carrier, David (Carrier, David)

Subjects

subjects:

Aesthetics / Beauty

Reviewed Items

subjects:

The Invisible Dragon. Four Essays on Beauty | author: Hickey, Dave

Short Notice

The Rhetoric of Variety: Observations on a Rediscovered Hogarth Letter

11/1989 | 1040 | 131

Pages: 769-770

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Author:

Fullenwider, H. F. (Fullenwider, H. F.)

Subjects

artists:

Hogarth, William

dates:

1700-1799

places:

England

subjects:

British painting / Documents / Correspondence

subjects:

Art theory / Beauty

Book Review

The Analysis of Beauty

09/1976 | 882 | 118

Pages: 653-654

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Author:

Paulson, Ronald (Paulson, Ronald)

Subjects

artists:

Hogarth, William

dates:

1750-1799

places:

England

subjects:

Analysis of Beauty

subjects:

Artists' writings / Beauty

Reviewed Items

subjects:

The Analysis of Beauty | author: Hogarth, William

Article

Canova's Statues of Venus

10/1972 | 835 | 114

Pages: 658-671

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Author:

Honour, Hugh (Honour, Hugh)

Subjects

artists:

Canova, Antonio

dates:

1780-1829

patrons:

Bonaparte, Lucien, First Principe di Canino and Musignano, 1775-1840

places:

Italy / Florence

subjects:

Italian sculpture

subjects:

Classical mythology / Iconography / Venus

subjects:

Documents / Correspondence

subjects:

Patronage

subjects:

Roman (ancient) sculpture / Visual sources

subjects:

Beauty

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Left Side of the Hope Venus, by Antonio Canova. Completed 1820. Marble; Height, 177 cm. (Leeds City Art Gallery.) Photo. Ron Turner, Leeds.

Attributed works:

10. Detail from Venere Italica Illustrated in Fig. 4.

Attributed works:

14. Venus, by Antonio Canova. Completed before July 1814. Marble; Height with Base, 233 cm. (Formerly Lansdowne House, London.)

Attributed works:

15. Detail from Hope Venus Illustrated in Fig. 1.

Attributed works:

16. The Hope Venus, by Antonio Canova. Modelled before 1819. Gesso; Height, 180 cm. (Gipsoteca, Possagno.) Photo. Istituto di Storia dell'Arte, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice.

Attributed works:

17. Back View of Marble Hope Venus Illustrated in Fig. 1.

Attributed works:

18. Back View of Gesso Hope Venus Illustrated in Fig. 16. Photo. Istituto di Storia dell'Arte, Fondazione Cini, Venice.

Attributed works:

2. Front View of Hope Venus Illustrated in Fig. 1. Photo. Ron Turner, Leeds.

Attributed works:

3. Right Side of Hope Venus Illustrated in Fig. 1. Photo. Ron Turner, Leeds.

Attributed works:

4. Front View of the Venere Italica, by Antonio Canova. Completed 1811. Marble; Height, 172 cm. (Palazzo Pitti, Florence.) Photo. Anderson.

Attributed works:

5. Back View of Venere Italica Illustrated in Fig. 4.

Attributed works:

6. Front View of Venus, by Antonio Canova. Completed 1810. Marble; Height, 172 cm. (Bayerische Verwaltung der Staatlichen Schlösser, Gärten und Seen, Museumsabteilung, Munich.) Photo. Verwaltung der Staatl. Schlösser, Gärten und Seen, Museumsabteilung.

Attributed works:

7. Left Side of Venus Illustrated in Fig. 6. Photo. Verwaltung der Staatl. Schlösser, Gärten und Seen, Museumsabteilung.

Attributed works:

8. Detail from Venus Illustrated in Fig. 6. Photo. Verwaltung der Staatl. Schlösser, Gärten und Seen, Museumsabteilung.

Attributed works:

9. Detail from Venus Illustrated in Fig. 6. Photo. Verwaltung der Staatl. Schlösser, Gärten und Seen, Museumsabateilung.

Western art unattributed:

11. Medici Venus. c. 200 B. C. Marble; Height 153 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.) Photo. Anderson.

Western art unattributed:

12. Capitoline Venus. Roman Copy of Greek Original, c. 320-280 B. C. Marble; Height, 187 cm. (Museo Capitolino, Rome.) Photo. Anderson.

Western art unattributed:

13. Callipygian Venus. Roman Copy of Fourth-Century B. C. Greek Original. Marble; Height, 152 cm. (Museo Nazionale, Naples.)

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