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Book Review
Être sculpteur à Florence au temps des derniers Médicis
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 292–4
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Ciarlo, Nicola (Ciarlo, Nicola)
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Être sculpteur à Florence au temps des derniers Médicis By Kira d’Alburquerque. 320 pp. incl. 27 col. + b. & w. ills. (CTHS and INHA, Paris, 2023), €35. ISBN 978–2–7355–0964–5. | :
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4. Adoration of the shepherds, by Giovanni Battista Foggini. 1674–76. Marble, 135 by 86 cm. (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg).
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‘Une pièce fort singulière’: the rediscovery of Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s ‘Andromeda and the sea monster’
11/2024 | 1460 | 166
Pages: 1101–1122
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Clemente, Maichol (Clemente, Maichol)
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1. Andromeda and the sea monster, here attributed to Gian Lorenzo Bernini. c.1616–17. Marble, 53 by 34 by 24 cm. (Private collection; photograph Tony Fisher).
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10. Detail of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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11. Detail of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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12. Detail of Fig.8. (Photograph Mauro Magliani).
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13. Detail of the Bust of Antonio Coppola, by Pietro Bernini with Gian Lorenzo Bernini. 1612. Marble. (Museo di Arte Sacra di San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, Rome; photograph Domenico Ventura).
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14. Detail of Fig.1. (Photograph the author).
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15. Detail of Fig.26. (Photograph Mauro Magliani).
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16. Detail of a putto, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. 1618. Marble. (Barberini Chapel, Sant’Andrea della Valle, Rome; photograph Mauro Magliani).
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17. Detail of the Virgin Mary from the relief of the Assumption, by Pietro Bernini. 1607–10. Marble. (Baptistery, S. Maria Maggiore, Rome; photograph Mauro Magliani).
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18. Anima Beata, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. c.1619. Marble, 41.5 by 29 by 24 cm. (Spanish Embassy to the Holy See, Rome; photograph Domenico Ventura).
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19. Bacchanal: faun teased by children, by Pietro and Gian Lorenzo Bernini. c.1615–16. Marble, 132.4 by 73.7 by 47.9 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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2. View of the back of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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20. Detail of Fig.19.
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21. Detail of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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22. Detail of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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23. Detail of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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24. Detail of Fig.25.
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25. Boy with a dragon, by Gian Lorenzo (and Pietro?) Bernini. c.1616. Marble, 55.9 by 52 by 41.5 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
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26. St Lawrence on the gridiron, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. c.1616–17. Marble, 66 by 108 cm. (MiC – Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; photograph Mauro Magliani).
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27. Detail of Fig.26, rotated 90 degrees. (Photograph Mauro Magliani).
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28. Detail of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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29. Detail of Fig.26, rotated 90 degrees. (Photograph Mauro Magliani).
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3. Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Minister of Louis XIV, by Claude Lefebvre. 1666. Oil on canvas, 130 by 96 cm. (Musée et Domaine National de Versailles et de Trianon; Bridgeman Images).
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30. Detail of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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31. St Sebastian, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. 1617. Marble, 98 by 42 by 49 cm. (Private collection, on loan to Museum Thyssen- Bornemisza, Madrid).
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32. Detail of Fig.2. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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33. Detail of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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34. Detail of Fig.31.
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35. Detail of Fig.31.
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36. Detail of Fig.31.
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37. Detail of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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38. Detail of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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39. Detail of the back of Fig.31, rotated 180 degrees.
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4. Letter from Elpidio Benedetti to Jean-Baptiste Colbert, 19th March 1682. (Archives Nationales, Paris, Contrôle général des finances, G/7/551, fol.9).
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40. Detail of Fig.31.
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41. Detail of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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42. Detail of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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43. Detail of a Putto, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. 1618. Marble. (Barberini Chapel, Sant’Andrea della Valle, Rome; photograph Mauro Magliani).
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44. Detail of Fig.47.
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45. Detail of Fig.46.
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46. Neptune and Triton, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. 1622–23. Marble, height 182.2 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Bridgeman Images).
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47. Rear view of Rape of Proserpina, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. 1621–22. Marble, height without base 255 cm. (MiC – Galleria Borghese, Rome).
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5. Side view of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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6. Side view of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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7. Side view of Fig.8. (Photograph Mauro Magliani).
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8. Andromeda, by Pietro Bernini. c.1615. Marble, 105 by 52.5 by 40 cm. (Accademia Carrara, Bergamo; photograph Mauro Magliani).
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9. Detail of Fig.8. (Photograph Mauro Magliani).
Book Review
Baroque Sculpture in Germany and Central Europe 1600–1770
04/2024 | 1453 | 166
Pages: 428–429
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Kryza-Gersch, Claudia (Kryza-Gersch, Claudia)
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Baroque Sculpture in Germany and Central Europe 1600–1770 By Marjorie Trusted. 288 pp. incl. 150 col. + 3 b. & w. ills. (Harvey Miller Publishers, London, 2022), £50. ISBN 978–1–909400–95–5. | :
Book Review
Bernini and His World: Sculpture and Sculptors in Early Modern Rome
11/2022 | 1436 | 164
Pages: 1160-1162
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Connors, Joseph (Connors, Joseph)
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Bernini and His World: Sculpture and Sculptors in Early Modern Rome By Livio Pestilli. 288 pp. incl. 140 col. + 27 b. & w. ills. (Lund Humphries, London, 2022), £60. ISBN 978–1–84822–549–7. | :
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1. Detail of Cardinal Scipione Borghese, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. 1632. Marble, height 78 cm. (Galleria Borghese, Rome).
Article
Sicilian salvage at Sharnbrook: the Magniac monuments by William Burges
08/2022 | 1433 | 164
Pages: 768-773
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Knox, Tim (Knox, Tim)
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1. The Magniac Mausoleum, designed by William Burges. c.1867. (St Peter’s church, Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire; photograph Todd Longstaffe-Gowan).
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2. Detail of the mausoleum in Fig.1, showing one of the cartouches in the centre of each side. (Photograph Todd Longstaffe-Gowan).
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3. Detail of the mausoleum in Fig.1, showing one of the friezes inlaid with jasper and other stones. (Photograph Todd Longstaffe-Gowan).
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4. Detail of the monument in Fig.5, showing the marble inlay, scrolls and putti. (Photograph Todd Longstaffe-Gowan).
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5. The Magniac Monument, designed by William Burges. c.1867. (St Peter’s church, Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire; photograph Todd Longstaffe-Gowan).
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6. Chapel of the Holy Crucifix, Monreale Cathedral, by Giovanni di Monreale and Angelo Italia. Completed 1686. (Bridgeman Images).
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7. Detail of carving in the Church of the Gesù, Palermo. (Photograph Per-Erik Skramstad; Wondersofsicily.com).
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8. Detail of the monument in Fig.5, showing the central cartouche. (Photograph Todd Longstaffe-Gowan).
Obituary
Christian Theuerkauff (1936–2021)
02/2022 | 1427 | 164
Pages: 223-224
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Trusted, Marjorie (Trusted, Marjorie)
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Christian Theuerkauff, photographed in 2010 by Hiltrud Jehle.
Exhibition Review
Doccia porcelain sculpture. Florence
09/2017 | 1374 | 159
Pages: 748-749
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Dawson, Aileen (Dawson, Aileen; D., A.)
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La fabbrica della bellezza. La manifattura Ginori e il suo popolo di statue | :
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74. Tempietto Ginori, modelled by Gaspero Bruschi. 1750–51 (Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca e della Città di Cortona; exh. Museo Nazional del Bargello, Florence)
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75. Chimneypiece, modelled by Gaspero Bruschi and Domenico Stagi. 1754 (Museo Richard Ginori. Sesto Fiorentino; exh. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence)
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76. Lamentation over the dead Christ, after Massimo Soldani Benzi. 1745–50 (Palazzo Corsini, Rome; exh. Museo Nazionale del bargello, Florence)