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An Islamic tent in S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 80–95
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Gigante, Federica (Gigante, Federica)
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17. Detail of the Birth of the Virgin, by Pietro Lorenzetti. c.1342. Fresco. (Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Siena).
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26. Madonna in Majesty (Rucellai Madonna), by Duccio di Buoninsegna. c.1285. Tempera on wood, 450 by 290 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; Photo Scala, Florence; courtesy of the Ministero Beni e Att. Culturali e del Turismo).
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3. Right wall of the apse, S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara. (Photograph the author).
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4. Vision of Pope Gregory IX, by Giotto. c.1297–99. Fresco, 270 by 230 cm. (Upper Basilica, St Francis, Assisi; Bridgeman Images).
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21. Top of an Ottoman period tent. (From N. Atasoy: Otağ-ı Hümayun: The Ottoman Imperial Tent Complex, Istanbul 2000, p.156).
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22. Detail of the Camp of Baybars I al-Bunduqdārī, from the Cantigas de Santa Maria. Spain. c.1280–84. Ink and colour on parchment. (El Escorial, MS T-1-1, fol.222r).
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23. Detail of the mantle of Roger II. Sicily, 12th century. Silk, gold, pearl and enamel. (Imperial Treasury, Vienna).
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24. The Persian ambassador presenting Sultan Murad III a tent as a gift. 16th century. Illumination on parchment. (Istanbul University Library, MS FY 1404 Istanbul, fol.43b).
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1. Interior of S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara. (© Gabriele Croppi; Scala, Florence).
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10. Detail of the apse fresco showing the painted bejewelled border of the tent roof and two birds, S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara. (Photograph the author).
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11. Detail of the apse fresco showing the roundel decoration and interstices of the painted textile, S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara. (Photograph the author).
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12. Detail of the apse fresco showing the fringe at the top of the painted textile, S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara. (Photograph the author).
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13. Vault of the right-hand chapel showing a portion of the original starry sky, S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara. (Photograph the author).
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14. Detail of the apse fresco showing a section of blue ceiling with stars, S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara. (Photograph the author).
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15. Apse mosaic, S. Maria in Trastevere, Rome. (Bridgeman Images).
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16. Reconstruction of the apse decoration of S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara. (Drawing by Federico Botana).
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18. Pillow cover of María de Almenar. c.1200. Silk and gold thread, 37 by 66 cm. (Museo de Telas Medievales, Monasterio de Santa María la Real de Huelgas, Burgos).
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19. Detail of the top border of the hanging textile fresco with pseudo-Naskh calligraphy, Upper Basilica, St Francis, Assisi. (Photograph the author).
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2. Left wall of the apse, S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara. (Photograph the author).
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20. Detail of the hanging textile fresco showing the roundel decoration of the painted textile, Upper Basilica, St Francis, Assisi. (Photograph the author).
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25. Detail of the Assumption of the Virgin, apse of S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara. (Photograph the author).
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27. Textile pattern decoration of the Bardi Chapel, S. Maria Novella, Florence. c.1285. Fresco. (Photograph the author).
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5. Fragment of the burial tunic of Don Felipe. Spain, 2nd half of the 13th century. Silk, linen and metal-wrapped thread. (Villalcazar de Sirga, Palencia).
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6. Fresco from the first decorative phase of S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara, showing a painted textile in the left chapel. (Photograph the author).
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7. Upper Basilica, St Francis, Assisi. Early 14th century. (Mondadori Portfolio; Electa; Antonio Quattrone; Bridgeman Images).
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8. Detail of the apse fresco showing the lower part of painted textile, S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara. (Photograph the author).
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9. Detail of the apse fresco showing the top part of painted textile, S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara. (Photograph the author).
Book Review
Building Santa Maria Novella: Materials, Tradition and Invention in Late Medieval Florence
04/2024 | 1453 | 166
Pages: 421–423
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Howard, Deborah (Howard, Deborah)
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Building Santa Maria Novella: Materials, Tradition and Invention in Late Medieval Florence By Elizabeth Bradford Smith. 222 pp. incl. 116 col. + b. & w. ills. (L’Erma di Bretschneider, Rome, 2022), €170. ISBN 978–88–913–2609–6. | :
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3. Ground-plan of the nave of S. Maria Novella, Florence (after E.B. Smith: Building Santa Maria Novella, Rome 2022).
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4. Nave of S. Maria Novella, Florence. 1279–1355.
Article
Turbans in the Strozzi Chapel: Filippino Lippi and the Mamluk embassies to Florence
10/2020 | 1411 | 162
Pages: 860-864
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Cevizli Gatward, Antonia (Cevizli Gatward, Antonia)
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1. Detail of The Assumption, by Filippino Lippi. 1488–93. Fresco. (Carafa Chapel, S. Maria Sopra Minerva, Rome).
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2. Detail of St Philip’s expulsion of the dragon, by Filippino Lippi. 1487–1502. Fresco. (Strozzi Chapel, S. Maria Novella, Florence).
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4. The arrest and trial of St Mark, by Giovanni Mansueti. 1499. Oil on panel, 164 by 146 cm. (Fürstlich Gemäldegalerie, Liechtenstein Museum).
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5. St George baptising the pagans, by Vittore Carpaccio. 1507–08. Oil and tempera on canvas, 141 by 285 cm. (Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, Venice).
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3. Ottomans besieging the Mamluks from Damascus. Ottoman, c.1521– 24. (From Selimname, Topkapı Sarayı Museum, Istanbul, MS. H. 1597-98, fol.235r; T.C. Cumhurbaşkanlığı Milli Saraylar İdaresi Başkanlığı).
Exhibition Review
Fra Angelico
05/2018 | 1382 | 160
Pages: 408-410
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Kanter, Laurence B. (Kanter, Laurence B.)
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1. Annunciation and Adoration of the Magi, with predella depicting the Virgin and Child flanked by female saints, by Fra Angelico. c.1430. Panel, 87 by 50.7 cm, including frame. (Museo di San Marco, Florence; exh. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston).
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2. Panel from the Armadio degli Argenti, by Fra Angelico. Dated here to 1448–49. Panel, 123 by 160 cm. (Museo di San Marco, Florence; exh. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston).
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3. Ascension, Last Judgment and Pentecost (‘The Corsini triptych’), by Fra Angelico. c.1445–48. Panels, 55 by 18.5 cm., 55 by 38.5 cm. and 55 by 18 cm. (Palazzo Corsini, Rome; exh. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston).
Article
Andrea di Bonaiuto’s painting in the National Gallery and S. Maria Novella: the memory of a church
08/2009 | 1277 | 151
Pages: 512-518
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Gordon, Dillian (Gordon, Dillian)
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1. Virgin and Child with saints, by Andrea di Bonaiuto. c.1365. Tempera on panel, 28 by 105.8 cm. (National Gallery, London).
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2. St Thomas Aquinas (detail of Fig.1).
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3. St Luke (detail of Fig.1).
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4. Plan of S. Maria Novella showing the titular saints of the ground-floor liturgical east-end chapels surrounding the choir, and how they read in Fig.1 (from a plan by and reproduced courtesy of Marcia Hall).
Article
Image and Frame: Remarks on Orcagna's Pala Strozzi
10/1992 | 1075 | 134
Pages: 634-638
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Kreytenberg, Gert (Kreytenberg, Gert; Kreytenberg, G.)
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1. Pala Strozzi, by Andrea Orcagna. 1354-57. 160 by 888 cm. (S. Maria Novella, Florence).
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2. Detail of Fig.1. [Pala Strozzi, by Andrea Orcagna. 1354-57. 160 by 888 cm. (S. Maria Novella, Florence).]
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3. Monument of Niccolò Acciaiuoli (d. 1365), by the Workshop of Andrea Orcagna (?). (Certosa, Florence).
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4. Monument of Tedice Aliotti, by Maso di Banco. 1336-40. (S. Maria Novella, Florence).
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5. Diagram Showing Planimetric Structure of Fig.1. [Pala Strozzi, by Andrea Orcagna. 1354-57. 160 by 888 cm. (S. Maria Novella, Florence).]
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6. Altar Canopy with the traditio legis and traditio clavium. Early-Thirteenth Century. (S. Ambrogio, Milan).
Book Review
Renovation and Counter-Reformation. Vasari and Duke Cosimo in Sta Maria Novella and Sta Croce 1565-1577
08/1982 | 953 | 124
Pages: 512-514
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Hope, Charles (Hope, Charles)
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Renovation and Counter-Reformation. Vasari and Duke Cosimo in Sta Maria Novella and Sta Croce 1565-1577 | author: Hall, Marcia B.
Exhibition Review
Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Goldsmiths in Florence
07/1977 | 892 | 119
Pages: 524+527
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Fremantle, Richard (Fremantle, Richard)
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Short Notice
A Portrait of L. B. Alberti
09/1974 | 858 | 116
Pages: 529-530
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Eisler, Colin (Eisler, Colin)
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A Portrait of Leon Battista Alberti by Uccello?
02/1974 | 851 | 116
Pages: 103-105
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Ames-Lewis, Francis (Ames-Lewis, Francis; Lewis, Francis Ames; Ames-Lewis, F.)
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39. The Flood, by Paolo Uccello. Fresco. (Chiostro Verde, S. Maria Novella, Florence.)
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40. Self Portrait, by Leon Battista Alberti. Bronze Plaque (Here Shown in Reverse). (National Gallery of Art, Washington D. C., Samuel H. Kress Collection.)
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41. ?Portrait of Leon Battista Alberti, by Paolo Uccello. Detail from The Flood Reproduced in Fig. 39.
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