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Book Review
The Militant Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism. By Whitney Chadwick
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 1075-1076
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Reviewer:
Cheale, Matthew (Cheale, Matthew)
Subjects
art literature:
Breton, André / Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850
artists:
Carrington, Leonora / Cahun, Claude / Agar, Eileen / Fini, Leonor / Penrose, Valentine / Paalen, Alice / Kahlo, Frida / Lamba, Jacqueline / Moore, Marcel / Miller, Lee
dates:
1900-1999
media:
Books / Documents / Photographs / Paintings
places:
France / Mexico
subjects:
Artists' writings / Correspondence / Biographies / Poetry / Surrealism / Women / Women artists / Gender / Magic / Occultism / Mysticism / Alchemy / Nazism / World War (1939-1945) / Collaborators / Literature
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
5. Jacqueline Lamba and Frida Kalho in Pátzcuaro, Mexico. 1938. Photograph. (Private Collection; © Association Atelier André Breton and ADAGP).
Exhibition Review
The Paston Treasure: Riches and Rarities of the Known World. Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 772-774
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Reviewer:
Thornton, Dora (Thornton, Dora)
Subjects
artists:
Stone, Nicholas, the Younger / Stone, Henry / Grebber, Nicholaes de
buildings:
Oxnead Hall, Oxnead, Great Britain
collectors and dealers:
Paston, William, 1st Baronet / Paston, Clement / Walpole, Horace, Fourth Earl of Orford, 1717-1797
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Drawings / Prints / Gold / Silverwork / Furniture / Art objects / Books / Documents / Music scores / Musical instruments
museums and institutions:
Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich, Great Britain / Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States
places:
Great Britain / Norwich / United States / New Haven
subjects:
Collections / Collections, Private / Collecting / Country houses / Still lifes / Vanitas / Portraits / Heraldry / Cups / Jugs / Flagons / Poetry / Music / Protestantism / Alchemy / Science / Grand tours / Patronage / Commissions / Correspondence / Inventories / Archives / Technical analysis / Scientific analysis / Pigments / Identification / Attribution / Iconography
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Nautilus cup, attributed to Nicolaes de Grebber. 1592. Nautilus shell, silver gilt, glass and enamel, height 26.5 cm. (Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft; exh. Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery).
Western art unattributed:
1. Pair of flagons. London, 1598. Silver gilt, height 31.1 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; exh. Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery).
Western art unattributed:
2. The Paston treasure. c.1663. Canvas, 166.8 by 247.5 cm. (Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery).
Western art unattributed:
3. Panel with the arms of the Paston family. Florence, c.1638. Pietre dure, 49 by 37 cm. (Sir Henry PastonBedingfeld, Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk; exh. Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery).
Article
Max Ernst's 'La toilette de la mariée'
04/1991 | 1057 | 133
Pages: 237-244
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Author:
Hopkins, David (Hopkins, David)
Subjects
artists:
Ernst, Max
dates:
1930-1939 / 1940-1949
museums and institutions:
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
places:
France / Germany
sources:
Freud, Sigmund
subjects:
German painting / French painting
subjects:
Surrealism / Visual sources
subjects:
Alchemy / Iconography
subjects:
Psychoanalysis
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Venus mit amor als Honigdieb, by Lucas Cranach the Elder. After 1537. 174 by 66.5 cm. (Collection of the Prince of Liechtenstein, Vaduz).
Attributed works:
11. La toilette de la mariée, by Max Ernst. 1939-40. 130 by 96 cm. (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice).
Attributed works:
12. Un peu malade le cheval patte pelu, by Max Ernst. 1920. Collage and Gouache on Paper, 16 by 23 cm. (Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Turin).
Attributed works:
13. Detail of Leda and the Swan, by a Follower of Leonardo da Vinci. Panel, 114 by 86 cm. (whole). (Palazzo Vecchio, Florence).
Attributed works:
14. Untitled Photograph, by Man Ray. 1924. From La Révolution Surréaliste, no. 1, 1924.
Attributed works:
15. Detail from The Second Appearance of the Devil to Christoph Haizmann. (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna). Reproduced in S. Freud: A Seventeenth Century Demonological Neurosis, 1923.
Attributed works:
16. Deux jeunes chimères nues, by Max Ernst. 1927. 100 by 81 cm. (A. D. Mouradian Collection, Paris).
Attributed works:
17. Witches sabbath, by Hans Baldung Grien. 1514. Pen on Brown Tinted Paper, 28.8 by 20.5 cm. (Albertina, Vienna).
Attributed works:
18. Exorcism of a Possessed Woman, by Jacques Callot after Andrea Boscoli. Engraving, Reproduced in Grillot de Givry: La Musee des Sorciers, Mages et Alchimistes, Paris, 1929.
Attributed works:
9. Femme se changeant en oiseau, by Max Ernst. 1939. 33.5 by 26.5 cm. (Private Collection, Turin).
Book Review
Les Debuts de l'Imagerie Alchimique (XIVe-XVe Siecles)
08/1984 | 977 | 126
Pages: 505
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Reviewer:
Massing, Jean Michel (Massing, Jean Michel; Massing, J. M.; Massing, Jean-Michel)
Subjects
dates:
1300-1499
subjects:
Alchemy / Iconography
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Les Debuts de l'Imagerie Alchimique (XIVe-XVe Siecles) | author: Obrist, Barbara
Book Review
Il Parmigianino. Un Saggio sull'ermetismo nel Cinquecento
12/1971 | 825 | 113
Pages: 747-748
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Reviewer:
Gould, Cecil (Gould, Cecil)
Subjects
artists:
Parmigianino
dates:
1500-1599
places:
Italy / Parma
subjects:
Italian painting / Mannerism / Iconography
subjects:
Alchemy
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Il Parmigianino. Un Saggio sull'ermetismo nel Cinquecento | author: Fagiolo dell'Arco, Maurizio
Book Review
The Alchemist in Life, Literature and Art
04/1949 | 553 | 91
Pages: 119
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Reviewer:
Kurz, Otto (Kurz, Otto; K., O.)
Subjects
artists:
Teniers, David II, 1610-1690
subjects:
Alchemy / Iconography
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Alchemist in Life, Literature and Art | author: Read, John
Article
Dürer's Melencolia: An Alchemical Interpretation
11/1945 | 512 | 87
Pages: 283-284
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Author:
Read, John (Read, John; Read, Jan)
Subjects
artists:
Dürer, Albrecht
dates:
1500-1519
places:
Germany
subjects:
Alchemy / Iconography / Symbolism (artistic concept)
subjects:
German painting / Prints / Visual sources
works:
Dürer, Albrecht / Melencolia I
Article
Some Alchemical Engravings
10/1944 | 499 | 85
Pages: 239-245+247
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Author:
Read, John (Read, John; Read, Jan)
Subjects
artists:
Barbari, Jacopo de'
dates:
1600-1649
places:
Germany / Italy
subjects:
Alchemy / Iconography / Prints
subjects:
Sources / Treatises
subjects:
Illustrated books
subjects:
German painting / Italian painting
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
Plate I. A-Michael Sendivogius. From D. Stolcius, Viridarium Chymicum. Frankfurt, 1624. Some Alchemical Engravings
Western art unattributed:
Plate I. B-Distillation Apparatus. From H. Brunschwick, Buch zu Distillieren. Strassburg, 1519. Some Alchemical Engravings
Western art unattributed:
Plate I. C-Furnace with Distillation Apparatus from the Same. Some Alchemical Engravings
Western art unattributed:
Plate II. A-A Page from J. Lacinius, Pretiosa Margarita Novella. Venice, 1557. Some Alchemical Engravings
Western art unattributed:
Plate II. B-Clasping Figures and Circulating Apparatus. From J. B. Porta, Ars Distillatoria. Frankfurt, 1611. Some Alchemical Engravings
Western art unattributed:
Plate II. C-"The Wind Carries it in Its Belly." Emblem I From M. Maier, Atalanta Fugiens. Oppenheim, 1618. Some Alchemical Engravings
Western art unattributed:
Plate II. D-"The Stone is Likened to Coral." Emblem XXXII from the Same. Some Alchemical Engravings
Western art unattributed:
Plate II. E-The Death of Adonis. Emblem XLI from the Same. Some Alchemical Engravings
Western art unattributed:
Plate III. A-The Four Brothers. Emblem XIX from M. Maier, Atalanta Fugiens. Oppenheim, 1618. Some Alchemical Engravings
Western art unattributed:
Plate III. B-The Philosopher's Egg. Emblem VIII. From the Same. Some Alchemical Engravings
Western art unattributed:
Plate III. C-Figure VII from the "Book of Lambspring" in the Musaeum Hermeticum, Frankfurt, 1625. Some Alchemical Engravings
Article
The Alchemist. By Adriaen van Ostade
11/1908 | 68 | 14
Pages: 84-85
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Subjects
artists:
Ostade, Adriaen van
dates:
1650-1749
museums and institutions:
National Gallery, London, Great Britain
places:
Netherlands
subjects:
Alchemy / Iconography
works:
Ostade, Adriaen van / An Alchemist (National Gallery London)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
The Alchemist. By Adriaen van Ostade in the Possession of Messrs. Dowdeswell