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Exhibition Review
Rubens: Picturing Antiquity
11/2022 | 1436 | 164
Pages: 1145-1148
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Reviewer:
Jaffé, David (Jaffé, David)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
artists:
Rubens, Peter Paul
museums and institutions:
Getty Villa, Malibu, United States
subjects:
Flemish painting / Antiquity
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Rubens: Picturing Antiquity Edited by Anne T. Woollett, Davide Gasparotto and Jeffrey Spier. 192 pp. incl. 171 col. ills. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2021), $40. ISBN 978–1– 60606–670–6. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Jan Gaspard Gevaerts (known as Gevartius), by Peter Paul Rubens. c.1628. Oil on panel, 119 by 98 cm. (Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp).
Attributed works:
7. Return from war: Mars disarmed by Venus, by Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder. c.1610–12. Oil on panel, 127.3 by 163.5 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
Western art unattributed:
8. Venus (‘The Mazarin Venus’). Roman, 2nd century. Marble, height 184 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
Exhibition Review
Buried by Vesuvius: The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
10/2019 | 1399 | 161
Pages: 855-858
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Reviewer:
Crowley, Patrick (Crowley, Patrick)
Subjects
buildings:
Villa dei Papiri, Herculaneum, Italy
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Bronzes / Sculpture / Marbles / Frescoes / Furniture
museums and institutions:
Getty Villa, Malibu, United States
places:
Herculaneum
styles:
Roman art
subjects:
Excavations / Research / Conservation / Scientific analysis / Displays
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
5. Installation view of Buried by Vesuvius: The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2019, showing the Runners (courtesy J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
Western art unattributed:
6. Detail of a tripod leg, showing cupids making offerings to a herm. First century BC/AD. Ash wood and ivory. (Parco Archeologico di Ercolano; exh. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
Western art unattributed:
7. Papyrus unrolling machine, Italian. c.1756, manufactured 1800s. Wood, glass and brass, 155.6 by 102 by 50 cm. (closed) (Biblioteca Nazionale ‘Vittorio Emanuele III’, Naples; exh. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
Western art unattributed:
8. Fresco with window, branch, fillet and painted plaque, Roman. c.40–30 BC. 191.5 by 88.3 cm. (reconstructed) (Parco Archeologico di Ercolano; exh. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
Book Review
Sicily. Art and Invention between Greece and Rome, C.L. Lyons, M. Bennett and C. Marconi, eds., with A. Sofroniew
12/2014 | 1341 | 156
Pages: 817-818
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Reviewer:
Treuherz, Julian (Treuherz, Julian)
Subjects
dates:
0799-0700 BC / 0699-0600 BC / 0599-0500 BC / 0499-0400 BC
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Getty Villa, Malibu, United States / Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, United States
places:
Sicily
subjects:
Greek (ancient) sculpture / Classical / Hellenistic / Exhibitions / Essays / Sicilian
subjects:
Cultural history / Influence / Greek (ancient) architecture / Theatre (discipline) / Art / Coins
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
28. The Mozia charioteer, c. 470-460 BC (Museo G. Whitaker, Mozia)
Exhibition Review
Art of Byzantium from Greek collections
05/2014 | 1334 | 156
Pages: 343-344
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Reviewer:
Cormack, Robin (Cormack, Robin)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Getty Villa, Malibu, United States / National Gallery of Art, Washington, United States
places:
United States / Washington DC / Malibu / Los Angeles
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Art / Byzantine art
subjects:
Icons / Sculpture / Textiles / Paintings
Illustrations
Attributed works:
65. Icon with Archangel Michael. Byzantine, Constantinople (Byzantine and Christian Museum, Istanbul; exh. Getty Villa, Los Angeles)
Western art unattributed:
63. Epitaphios. Byzantine, Thessaloniki (Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki; exh. Getty Villa, Los Angeles)
Western art unattributed:
64. Bust of a lady. Byzantine (Chania Archaeological Museum; exh. Getty Villa, Los Angeles)
Publication Received
Modern Antiquity: Picasso, de Chirico, Léger, Picabia.
04/2012 | 1309 | 154
Pages: 283
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Reviewer:
Radford, Robert (Radford, Robert)
Subjects
artists:
Picasso, Pablo / Chirico, Giorgio de / Léger, Fernand / Picabia, Francis
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Getty Villa, Malibu, United States / Musée Picasso, Antibes, France
print:
Classicism
subjects:
Classicism / Exhibitions / Exhibition catalogues / Collections, Public / Paintings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Modern Antiquity: Picasso, de Chirico, Léger, Picabia. | author: Daehner, Jens , author: Green, Christopher
Exhibition Review
The colour of life
09/2008 | 1266 | 150
Pages: 645-646
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Reviewer:
Bray, Xavier (Bray, Xavier)
Subjects
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Getty Villa, Malibu, United States
places:
Malibu / United States
print:
Sculpture
print:
Coloured sculpture
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Sculpture / Polychromy
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present | institution: Getty Villa
Illustrations
Attributed works:
90. Bust of Cardinal Giovanni de’ Medici, attributed to Antonio d’Orsino Benintendi. c.1512. Polychromed terracotta, 38.5 by 39 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; exh. Getty Villa, Malibu).
Western art unattributed:
91. Madonna and Chid with an angel. Venetian, c.1500–50. Chalcedony, 15.5 by 11 by 6 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; exh. Getty Villa, Malibu).
Western art unattributed:
92. Head of the Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known as Caligula. Roman, c.37–41 ad. Fine-grained, translucent Parian marble, 31 cm. high. (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen; exh. Getty Villa, Malibu).