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Exhibition Review
James Tissot: Ambiguously Modern
07/2020 | 1408 | 162
Pages: 603-606
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Reviewer:
Corbeau-Parsons, Caroline (Corbeau-Parsons, Caroline)
Subjects
artists:
Tissot, James
dates:
1870-1909
museums and institutions:
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France / California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, United States
places:
Paris / London
subjects:
French art / Fashion / Spirituality / Women / Bible stories
Reviewed Items
subjects:
James Tissot: Ambiguously Modern Musée d’Orsay, Paris 23rd June–13th September | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. October, by James Tissot. 1877. Oil on canvas, 216 by 108.7 cm. (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; exh. Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Attributed works:
2. Annunciation, by James Tissot. c.1886– 94. Opaque watercolour over graphite on grey wove paper, 17 by 21.7 cm. (Brooklyn Museum; exh. Legion of Honor, San Francisco; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
3. Self-portrait, by James Tissot. c.1865. Oil on panel, 49.8 by 30.2 cm. (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; exh. Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Attributed works:
4. The ladies of the cars, by James Tissot. c.1883–85. Oil on canvas, 146.1 by 100.7 cm. (Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; exh. Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Book Review
Eve’s Apple to the Last Supper: Picturing Food in the Bible by C.M. Kauffmann
07/2019 | 1396 | 161
Pages: 605-606
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Reviewer:
Law-Turner, Frederica C.E. (Law-Turner, Frederica C.E.)
Subjects
dates:
1200-1499 / 1500-1699 / 0200-0299 / 0300-0399 / 0400-0499 / 0500-0599 / 0600-0699 / 0700-0799 / 0800-0899 / 0900-0999 / 1000-1099 / 1100-1199
media:
Illuminated manuscripts / Murals / Stained glass / Mosaics / Oil painting (technique)
subjects:
Feasts / Bible stories / Adam and Eve / Jesus Christ: Last Supper / Typology / Belshazzar's Feast / Jesus Christ: Supper at Emmaus
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Eve’s Apple to the Last Supper: Picturing Food in the Bible by C.M. Kauffmann. 184 pp. incl. 157 col. + 2 b. & w. ills. (Boydell & Brewer, Rochester, 2017), | :
Book Review
Avori medievali: Collezioni del Museo Civico d’Arte Antica di Torino. Edited by Simonetta Castronovo, Fabrizio Crivello and Michele Tomasi; Una Bibbia in avorio: Arte mediterranea nella Salerno dell’XI secolo. By Valentino Pace
07/2017 | 1372 | 159
Pages: 556
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Reviewer:
Williamson, Paul (Williamson, Paul)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Palazzo Madama, Turin, Italy / Museo Diocesano San Matteo, Salerno, Italy
subjects:
Collections, Public / Catalogues / Ivories / Romanesque / Religious art / Bible stories
Article
Valentin de Boulogne’s ‘Abraham sacrificing Isaac’ at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
10/2015 | 1351 | 157
Pages: 687-690
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Author:
Goldfarb, Hilliard T. (Goldfarb, Hilliard T.)
Subjects
artists:
Boulogne, Valentin de
dates:
1630-1639
museums and institutions:
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
subjects:
French painting / Abraham / Isaac / Bible stories / Restoration (process) / Collections, Public / Provenance / Dating / Composition (artistic arrangement) / Identification / Attributions
subjects:
Technical analysis / Scientific analysis
subjects:
Formal analysis
Illustrations
Attributed works:
13. Abraham sacrificing Isaac, by Valentin de Bourgogne. 1630-32 (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts)
Attributed works:
16. Sacrifice of Isaac, by Orazio Riminaldi. c.1624 (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome)
Attributed works:
17. Sacrifice of Isaac, by Orazio Riminaldi. Between the early and the mid-1620s (Present whereabouts unknown; formerly Luigi Koelliker collection, Milan)
Western art unattributed:
14. X-radiograph of Fig.13
Western art unattributed:
15. Infra-red photograph of Fig.13
Article
Spadarino’s ‘Doubting Thomas’ rediscovered
10/2015 | 1351 | 157
Pages: 678-681
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Author:
Gash, John (Gash, John)
Subjects
artists:
Galli, Giovanni Antonio, called Spadarino
artists:
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da / school of
dates:
1620-1629
museums and institutions:
Wrotham Park, Barnet, Hertfordshire, Great Britain
subjects:
Italian painting / Thomas, Saint / Jesus Christ: Resurrection / Identification / Provenance / Composition (artistic arrangement) / Christian iconography / Collections, Private
subjects:
Attributions / Attributions, former
subjects:
Caravaggism
subjects:
Bible stories
subjects:
Formal analysis
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. The feast of the gods, by Giovanni Antonio Galli, called Spadarino. 1620s (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)
Attributed works:
11. Cimon and Pero (Roman charity), by Giovanni Antonio Galli, called Spadarino. 1620s or 1630s (Galleria Doria-Pamphilj, Rome)
Attributed works:
12. Christ displaying his wounds, by a follower of Caravaggio (Spadarino?). c.1615-25 (Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Scotland)
Attributed works:
6. The incredulity of St Thomas, here attributed to Giovanni Antonio Galli, called Spadarino. 1620s? (Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire)
Attributed works:
7. The incredulity of St Thomas, by Caravaggio. c.1601 (Sanssouci, Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam)
Attributed works:
8. The miracle of St Valeria before St Martial, by Giovanni Antonio Galli, called Spadarino. 1629-30 (Chapter House, St Peter's Rome)
Attributed works:
9. The denial of St Peter, by Giovanni Antonio Galli, called Spadarino. c.1615-18 (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna)
Article
Rembrandt’s ‘Parable of the workers in the vineyard’
02/2015 | 1343 | 157
Pages: 85-88
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Author:
Verdi, Richard (Verdi, Richard)
Subjects
artists:
Rembrandt van Rijn
artists:
Lastman, Pieter / Leonardo da Vinci
dates:
1630-1639
museums and institutions:
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
subjects:
Dutch painting / Collections, Public / Religious art / Composition (artistic arrangement) / Visual sources / Copies / Drawings
subjects:
Bible stories
Illustrations
Attributed works:
23. Parable of the workers in the vineyard, by Rembrandt van Rijn (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg)
Attributed works:
24. Parable of the workers in the vineyard, by Claes Cornelisz Moeyaert (Musée de Chambéry, Chambéry)
Attributed works:
25. The unmerciful servant, by Karel van der Pluym (Private collection)
Attributed works:
26. The Centurion Cornelius, by Barent Fabritius (York City Art Gallery)
Attributed works:
27. The Last Supper, after Leonardo, by Rembrandt van Rijn (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Attributed works:
28. The calling of St Matthew, by Claes Cornelisz Moeyaert (Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig)
Attributed works:
29. The Centurion Cornelius. School of Rembrandt (Wallace Collection, London)
Attributed works:
30. The presentation in the Temple, by Rembrandt van Rijn (British Museum, London)
Book Review
Art and Allegiance in the Dutch Golden Age. The Ambitions of a wealthy widow in a painted chamber by Ferdinand Bol
02/2013 | 1319 | 155
Pages: 104-105
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Reviewer:
Blankert, Albert (Blankert, Albert)
Subjects
artists:
Bol, Ferdinand
museums and institutions:
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands / Vredespaleis, The Hague, Netherlands
subjects:
Dutch painting / Bible stories / Religious art / Classical mythology / Collections, Public / Loan of works of art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
35. Pharaoh's daughter finding Moses in the reed basket, by Ferdinand Bol (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam; on loan to the Peace Palace, The Hague)
Article
Symbolism, Decadence and Gustave Moreau
05/2009 | 1274 | 151
Pages: 312-318
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Author:
Cooke, Peter (Cooke, Peter)
Subjects
artists:
Moreau, Gustave
dates:
1850-1899
print:
Moreau, Gustave
subjects:
Symbolist movement / French painting
subjects:
Iconography
subjects:
Bible stories / Salome / Classical mythology
Illustrations
Attributed works:
36. Œdipus and the sphinx, by Gustave Moreau. 1864. Canvas, 206.4 by 104.8 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
37. Salome, by Gustave Moreau. 1876. Panel, 144 by 103.5 cm. (UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles).
Attributed works:
38. Galatea, by Gustave Moreau. 1880. Panel, 85.5 by 66 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Attributed works:
39. The apparition, by Gustave Moreau. 1876. Watercolour on paper, 106 by 72.2 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
40. Orpheus, by Gustave Moreau. 1865. Panel, 154 by 23.5 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Attributed works:
41. Orpheus, by Pierre-Amédée Marcel-Beronneau. 1897. Canvas, 195 by 154 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille).
Attributed works:
42. Salome, by Franz von Stuck. 1906. Canvas, 114.5 by 92 cm. (Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich).
Attributed works:
43. Orpheus at Eurydice’s tomb, by Gustave Moreau. c.1890–91. Canvas, 173 by 128 cm. (Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris).
Attributed works:
44. The voices of evening, by Gustave Moreau. 1890s. Watercolour on paper, 34.5 by 32 cm. (Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris).
Attributed works:
45. Jupiter and Semele, by Gustave Moreau. 1895. Canvas, 212 by 118 cm. (Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris).
Article
The early years of Gabriel Metsu
02/2005 | 1223 | 147
Pages: 80-90
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Author:
Waiboer, Adriaan E. (Waiboer, Adriaan E.)
Subjects
artists:
Metsu, Gabriel
dates:
1640-1649 / 1650-1699
places:
Leiden
print:
Metsu, Gabriel
subjects:
Dutch painting / Biographies / Bible stories
subjects:
Christian iconography
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Man writing a letter, by Gabriel Metsu. c.1665. Panel, 52.5 by 40.2 cm. (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin)
Attributed works:
10. Christ and the woman taken in adultery, by Gabriel Metsu. 1653. 134 by 165 cm. (Musee du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
11. Triumph of Justice, by Gabriel Metsu. c. 1652-54. 153 by 120.5 cm. (Mauritshuis, The Hague).
Attributed works:
12. Doddus holding a covetous woman captive in his magical chair, by Gabriel Metsu. c.1653-54. 105 by 120 cm. (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).
Attributed works:
13. The satyr and the peasant, by Maerten Stoop. Early 1640s. Panel, 48.5 by 39.3 cm. (Szepmuveszeti Museum, Budapest).
Attributed works:
14. Dismissal of Hagar, by Gabriel Metsu. c.1653-4. 112 by 86 cm. (Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden).
Attributed works:
15. Italian peasants and ruins, by Jan-Baptist Weenix. c.1649. 67.5 by 80 cm. (Detroit Institute of Arts).
Attributed works:
16. Public notary, by Gabriel Metsu. c.1654-55. Panel, 41 by 32.5 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
2. Ecce Homo, by Gabriel Metsu. Late 1640s. Panel, 37 by 26 cm. (Present whereabouts unknown).
Attributed works:
3. Lamentation over the dead Christ, by Anthonie Claesz de Grebber. 1651. 82 by 160 cm. (Priest's house, Oude Ade).
Attributed works:
4. Dives and Lazarus, by Gabriel Metsu. c.1650-52. 73.7 by 61 cm. (Musee des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg)
Attributed works:
5. Dives and Lazarus, by Nicolaus Knupfer. c.1650. 69 by 55 cm. (Present whereabouts unknown).
Attributed works:
6. The prodigal son in a brothel, by Gabriel Metsu. c.1650-52. 72 by 65 cm. (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg).
Attributed works:
7. The prodigal son in a brothel, by Nicolaus Knupfer. 1640s. Panel, 60 by 75 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
Attributed works:
8. The widow's mite, by Gabriel Metsu. c.1650-52. Canvas laid on panel, 80.4 by 64.6 cm. (Staatliches Museen, Schwerin).
Attributed works:
9. The widow's mite, by Nicolaus Knupfer. 1620s. Panel, 30.7 by 25.3 cm. (Musee des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Alencon).
Short Notice
A Visual Source for Poussin's 'Sts Peter and John Healing the Lame Man'
11/1998 | 1148 | 140
Pages: 747-748
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Author:
Kurita, Hidenori (Kurita, Hidenori)
Subjects
artists:
Poussin, Nicolas
artists:
Galle, Philip
dates:
1600-1699
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
places:
France
subjects:
French painting / Visual sources
subjects:
Christian iconography / Bible stories
subjects:
Prints
Illustrations
Attributed works:
35. Sts Peter and John Healing the Lame Man, by Nicolas Poussin. 1655. 125.7 by 165.1 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
36. Sts Peter and John Healing the Lame Man, by Philips Galle after Maerten van Heemskerck. 1558. Engraving, 20.6 by 24.9 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
Attributed works:
37. Detail from The School of Athens, by Raphael. Fresco. (Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican Palace, Rome).
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