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Parmigianino, Damiano Pieti and the beauty of architecture in the ‘Madonna of the long neck’
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 932-37
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Shorter Notice by:
Vaccaro, Mary (Vaccaro, Mary)
Subjects
artists:
Parmigianino
dates:
1500-1549
museums and institutions:
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
sources:
Alberti, Leon Battista / Vitruvius / Pieti, Damiano
subjects:
Italian painting / Altarpieces / Architecture / Columns (architectural components)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Detail of Fig.2, showing the unfinished colonnade.
Attributed works:
2. Madonna of the long neck, by Parmigianino. c.1534–40. Oil on panel, 216.5 by 132.5 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
3. Leo Baptista de Albertis Florentinus de Architectura, by Damiano Pieti. 1538. (Biblioteca Panizzi, Reggio Emilia, MSS Rari G3, fol.240r)
Attributed works:
4. Study for Madonna of the long neck, by Parmigianino. 1530s. Red chalk heightened with white on paper, 20 by 12 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Book Review
The Fabrication of Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Trattato della pittura’. By Claire Farago, Janis Bell and Carlo Vecce
08/2019 | 1397 | 161
Pages: 693-695
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Reviewer:
Colantuono, Anthony (Colantuono, Anthony)
Subjects
art literature:
Trattato della pittura (Leonardo)
artists:
Leonardo da Vinci / Alberti, Leon Battista / Melzi, Francesco
subjects:
Italian art / Treatises / Editions / Translations / Manuscripts / Art theory
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Fabrication of Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Trattato della pittura’ By Claire Farago, Janis Bell and Carlo Vecce. Two vols, 1,368 pp. incl. 256 col. ills. (Brill, Leiden, 2018), | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. R. Trichet du Fresne, ed.: Trattato della pittura di Lionardo da Vinci, Paris 1651.
Publication Received
Il Beato Angelico a Roma, 1445–1455: Rinascita delle arti e Umanesimo cristiano nell’Urbe di Niccolò V e Leon Battista Alberti. By Gerardo de Simone
07/2019 | 1396 | 161
Pages: 614-615
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Reviewer:
Lupi, Livia (Lupi, Livia; Lupi, Livia)
Subjects
artists:
Angelico, Fra / Alberti, Leon Battista
places:
Rome
styles:
Italian art
Reviewed Items
styles:
Il Beato Angelico a Roma, 1445–1455: Rinascita delle arti e Umanesimo cristiano nell’Urbe di Niccolò V e Leon Battista Alberti By Gerardo de Simone. 358 pp. incl. 80 col. + 80 b. & w. ills. (Leo S. Olschki, Florence, 2018), | :
Book Review
Die Stadt von der Neuzeit bis zum 19. Jahrhundert: Urbane Entwürfe in Europa und Nordamerika. By Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani
01/2019 | 1390 | 161
Pages: 92-93
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Reviewer:
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
Subjects
artists:
Alberti, Leon Battista / Francesco di Giorgio Martini / Wren, Christopher / Le Nôtre, André / Montgomery, Robert / Owen, Robert / Fourier, Charles / Haussmann, Georges Eugène, Baron / Monet, Claude / Pissarro, Camille
dates:
1200-1299 / 1300-1399 / 1400-1499 / 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 / 1800-1899
media:
Architecture / Architectural drawings / Gardens
patrons:
Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464 / Sixtus V, Pope, 1520-1590 / Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598 / Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873
places:
Italy / Florence / Siena / Pienza / Rome / France / Paris / Germany / Berlin / Austria / Vienna / Portugal / Lisbon / United States
subjects:
Urban planning / Urban history / Urban management / Cities / Ideal cities / Architectural history / Architectural theory / Design / Facades / Social history / Historical context / Cultural history / Surveys
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Covent Garden Piazza and Market, London, by John Collet. 1771–80. Canvas, 133.7 by 189.5 cm. (Museum of London).
Article
Architecture and Experience: some unpublished manuscripts by Michael Baxandall
04/2017 | 1369 | 159
Pages: 298-307
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Author:
Lubbock, Jules (Lubbock, Jules)
Subjects
art literature:
Baxandall, Michael
art literature:
Alberti, Leon Battista
museums and institutions:
Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, Great Britain
subjects:
Manuscripts / Architecture / Architectural drawings / Architectural history / Architectural theory
subjects:
Italian architecture / Renaissance / Art criticism
subjects:
Collections, Public
Illustrations
Attributed works:
35. Scale model of the vestibule and stairs of the Biblioteca Laurenziana, Florence, designed by Michelangelo Buonarroti. Model by Christian Piwellek, scale I:3, for the exhibition Maniera: Pontormo, Bronzino and Medici Florence at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 2016
Attributed works:
36. Fifteenth-century ground plan of the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, reproduced in Michael Baxandall's Painting and Experience, Oxford 1972, p.30, fig.13
Attributed works:
37. Diagrams and text from Melville Herskovits: Cultural Anthropology, New York 1955, p.101
Attributed works:
38. Self-portrait, by Leon Battista Alberti. c.1435 (National Gallery of Art, Washington)
Attributed works:
39. Portrait of Federico de Montefeltro with his son, Guidobaldo, by Pedro Berruguete. c.1475 (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino)
Attributed works:
40. St George and the Princess of Trebisond, by Pisanello. 1436-38 (Pellegrini chapel, S. Anastasia, Verona)
Attributed works:
41. Castella Malatestiano, Rimini, reverse of the medallion of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, by Matteo de' Pasti. c.1449-52 (British Museum, London)
Attributed works:
42. Eastern entrance façade of the Ducal Palace, Urbino. Mid-1460s onwards. Designed by Luciano Laurana, Francesco di Giorgio Martini et al.
Attributed works:
43. Western façade of the Ducal Palace, Urbino. 1460s onwards. Designed by Luciano Laurana, Francesco di Giorgio Martini et al.
Book Review
Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus: Towards an Epistemology of Vision for Italian Renaissance Art and Culture, C.H. Carman
11/2015 | 1352 | 157
Pages: 787-788
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Subjects
art literature:
Alberti, Leon Battista / Nicholas of Cusa, Cardinal, 1401-1464
subjects:
Renaissance / Italian / Perspective / Art history / Art theory
Book Review
Building-in-Time: From Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion
07/2012 | 1312 | 154
Pages: 492-493
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Reviewer:
Hemsoll, David (Hemsoll, David)
Subjects
artists:
Giotto / Alberti, Leon Battista
dates:
1300-1399 / 1400-1449
places:
Italy / Florence
print:
Italian architecture
subjects:
Italian architecture / Gothic (Medieval) / Renaissance / Architectural history / Architectural theory
subjects:
Italian
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Building-in-Time: From Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion | author: Trachtenberg, Marvin
Exhibition Review
Alberti. Rome
11/2005 | 1232 | 147
Pages: 775-777
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Reviewer:
Röll, Johannes (Röll, Johannes)
Subjects
artists:
Alberti, Leon Battista
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Palazzo Caffarelli, Rome, Italy / Musei Capitolini, Rome, Italy
places:
Rome / Italy
print:
Alberti, Leon Battista
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Leon Battista Alberti e Roma | institution: Palazzo Caffarelli
Illustrations
Attributed works:
67. Marcus Aurelius, by Antonio Averlino, called il Filarete. c.1440-45. Bronze, 36 cm high. (Skulpturensammlung, Staatliche Kunstammlungen, Dresden; exh. Palazzo Caffarelli, Rome).
Attributed works:
69. Hercules on horseback (detail), by Bertoldo di Giovanni. c.1743. Bronze, 27.5 cm. high. (Gallerie Estense, Modena).
Western art unattributed:
68. Head of a horse. Bronze, 174 cm. high. (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples; exh. Palazzo Cafferelli, Rome)
Western art unattributed:
70. Hippolitus and Phaedra, the right-hand part of the Dittico Queriniano. Early fifth century A.D. Ivory, 24.5 by 14 cm. (Museo della Cittá S. Giulia, Brescia; exh. Palazzo Cafferelli, Rome).
Book Review
Il San Sebastiano di Leon Battista Alberti
11/1995 | 1112 | 137
Pages: 754-755
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Reviewer:
Davies, Paul (Davies, Paul)
Subjects
artists:
Alberti, Leon Battista
buildings:
Tempio di San Sebastiano, Mantua, Italy
dates:
1400-1499
places:
Italy / Mantua
subjects:
Italian architecture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Il San Sebastiano di Leon Battista Alberti | author: Calzona, Arturo , author: Volpi Ghirardini, Livio
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