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The 1584 purchase contract for the Medici group of Niobe sculptures
01/2020 | 1402 | 162
Pages: 26-31
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Author:
Nicolai, Fausto (Nicolai, Fausto)
Subjects
art literature:
Cavalieri, Giovanni Battista de'
collectors and dealers:
Tomassini, Tomaso
dates:
1550-1599
museums and institutions:
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
patrons:
Ferdinando I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609
places:
Rome / Florence
subjects:
Niobe / Sculpture / Purchase / Dating / Contracts / discoveries / Excavations / Reconstructions / Antiquity / Archives
subjects:
Italian sculpture
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
1. The Niobid Room in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. (Courtesy Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi).
Western art unattributed:
2. Fleeing Niobid. Roman copy of a Greek original of the second half of the fourth century BC. Pentelic marble, height 228 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; courtesy Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi).
Western art unattributed:
3. Niobe and her youngest daughter. Roman copy of a Greek original of the second half of the fourth century BC. Pentelic marble, height 228 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
Western art unattributed:
4. The Niobids’ tutor, by Giovan Battista de’ Cavalieri. Engraving, 27 by 21.3 cm. (From G.B. De’ Cavalieri: Antiquarum Statuarum Urbis Romae, Rome 1594, pl.10).
Western art unattributed:
5. The Niobids’ tutor (‘Amphion’). Roman. Pentelic marble, height 181 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; courtesy Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi).
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A Drawing Attributed to Boscoli
08/1953 | 605 | 95
Pages: 261+281
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Author:
Antal, Frederick (Antal, Frederick; Antal, F.; Antal, Friedrich)
Subjects
artists:
Boscoli, Andrea
artists:
Polidoro da Caravaggio
collectors and dealers:
Witt, Robert C., Sir
dates:
1500-1599
subjects:
Italian painting / Drawings / Attributions
subjects:
Niobe
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Niobe Adored by the Thebans and Latona Complaining to Apollo and Diana, Here Attributed (See p.281) to Andrea Boscoli. Pen and Wash, 10.5 by 39.6 cm. (Sir Robert Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute of Art.)
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Richard Wilson's Niobe
02/1945 | 503 | 86
Pages: 44+47
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Author:
Grant, Maurice Harold (Grant, Maurice Harold; Grant, M. H.)
Subjects
artists:
Wilson, Richard, ca. 1713-1782
dates:
1700-1799
places:
England
subjects:
British painting / Iconography / Niobe
works:
Wilson, Richard, ca. 1713-1782 / The Destruction of Niobe's Children (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven)
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Richard Wilson's Niobe
09/1944 | 498 | 85
Pages: 210-213+215
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Subjects
artists:
Wilson, Richard, ca. 1713-1782
dates:
1750-1799
places:
England
subjects:
British painting / World War (1939-1945) / Destruction / Niobe
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Plate II. A-Rocky Landscape with Cascade. By Richard Wilson, R. A. Oil and Body Colour, 41 by 51 cm. Utilized for the Beaumont Version of the Niobe (Victoria and Albert Museum). Richard Wilson's Niobe
Attributed works:
Plate II. B-The Destruction of Niobe's Children. By Richard Wilson, r. a. Canvas, 133 by 154 cm. (The Earl of Ellesmere). Richard Wilson's Niobe
Attributed works:
The Destruction of Niobe's Children. By Richard Wilson, R. A. Canvas, 116 by 167 cm. (Presented to the Nation by Sir George Beaumont in 1826, Destroyed by Enemy Action)