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Article
A medal of the Sun King by Claude I Ballin
05/2024 | 1454 | 166
Pages: 441–445
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Author:
Jouvet, Ludovic (Jouvet, Ludovic)
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1. Louis XIV, by Henri de Villers after Claude I Ballin. 1754 (after a wax of 1672). Uniface bronze, diameter 165 mm. (with frame). (Private collection).
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2. Louis XIV, by Jean Warin. 1665. Marble, height 106 cm. (Château de Versailles).
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3. Abraham Simon, by Georges Vertue after G. Kneller. First half of the 18th century. Red chalk and wash on paper, 16 by 13.1cm. (British Museum, London).
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4. Louis XIV, by Robert Nanteuil. 1664. Engraving, 40.2 by 31.5 cm. (plate). (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
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5. Ferrante Loffredo, Marquess of Trevico. French, mid-16th century. Wax on glass, diameter 10 cm. (Frick Collection, New York).
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6. Louis XIV, by Francesco Bertinetti. 1672. Uniface bronze, diameter 140 mm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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7. Claude Ballin orfèvre, by Jacques Lubin. c.1675–1700. Etching and engraving, 25.1 by 19.5 cm. (British Museum, London).
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8. Louis XIV, by Jean Warin. 1665. Gold, diameter 100 mm. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
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9. Louis XIV, after Claude I Ballin. 1750–1800 (after a wax of 1672). Uniface bronze, diameter 165 mm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Article
G.F. Watts’s ‘Satan’ and the Monte Cavallo ‘Horse tamers’
07/2022 | 1432 | 164
Pages: 664-671
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Gustin, Melissa L. (Gustin, Melissa L.)
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1. Satan, by George Frederic Watts. 1847–48. Oil on canvas, 198.1 by 132.1 cm. (Watts Gallery–Artists’ Village, Compton).
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10. Study for Satan, by George Frederic Watts. c.1847–48. Pencil on paper, pasted into a scrapbook album, 16.6 by 11.3 cm. (Watts Gallery– Artists’ Village, Compton).
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11. Studies of a classical head in multiple views on the margin of a design for ‘Adam and Eve listening to an angel’, by George Frederic Watts. Pen and ink on paper, pasted into a historic scrapbook album, 12.5 by 17.8 cm. (Watts Gallery–Artists’ Village, Compton).
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12. Studies of nude riders on horseback, by George Frederic Watts. Before 1858. Pencil on paper, pasted into a historic scrapbook album, 22.9 by 18.5 cm. (Watts Gallery–Artists’ Village, Compton).
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13. Aurora, by George Frederic Watts. Plaster over metal armature, height 243 cm. (Watts Gallery–Artists’ Village, Compton).
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2. Fountain of Monte Cavallo in the Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome. 1860– 70. Albumen silver print, 33.3 by 46.2 cm. (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; courtesy the Getty Open Content Program).
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3. Cast after the head of the left Monte Cavallo horse tamer, called ‘Pollux’. 18th century. Plaster, height 147 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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4. Cast after the head of the right Monte Cavallo horse tamer, called ‘Castor’. 18th century. Plaster, height 147 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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5. Study after the Monte Cavallo horse tamers, by George Frederic Watts. c.1847–48. Pencil on paper, (sheet) 9 by 14.5 cm. (Watts Gallery– Artists’ Village, Compton).
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6. Study after the Monte Cavallo horse tamers, by George Frederic Watts. c.1844. Pencil on paper, (sheet) 7.5 by 11 cm. (Watts Gallery– Artists’ Village, Compton).
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7. Study after the Monte Cavallo horse tamers, by George Frederic Watts. c.1847–48. Pencil on paper, 9 by 14.5 cm (page). (Watts Gallery– Artists’ Village, Compton).
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8. Sketch of the reclining male figure now called Dionysus from the east pediment of the Parthenon, by George Frederic Watts. c.1847–48. Pencil on paper, (sheet) 9 by 14.5 cm. (Watts Gallery–Artists’ Village, Compton).
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9. Study for Satan, by George Frederic Watts. c.1847–48. Pencil on paper, pasted into a scrapbook album, 18.3 by 11.6 cm. (Watts Gallery– Artists’ Village, Compton).
Exhibition Review
Sculptures infinies: Des collections de moulages à l’ère digitale / Infinite Sculpture: From the Antique Cast to the 3D Scan
04/2021 | 1417 | 163
Pages: 364-366
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Reynolds-Kaye, Jennifer (Reynolds-Kaye, Jennifer)
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Sculptures infinies: Des collections de moulages   l’ re digitale / Infinite Sculpture: From the Antique Cast to the 3D Scan Edited by Penelope Curtis and Pascale Le Thorel. 174 pp. incl. 54 col. + 27 b. & w. ills. (Beaux-Arts de Paris  ditions, 2020), €39. ISBN 978–2–84056–685–4. | :
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15. Casts from nature used to teach anatomy, at the Faculdade de Belas-Artes, University of Lisbon, 2020. (Photograph Carlos Azevedo).
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16. Cast from nature (edition 1 / 2), by Christine Borland. 2010–11. Plaster, steel and plastered cloth, variable dimensions. (National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh).
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17. Installation view of Infinite Sculpture: From the Antique Cast to the 3D Scan at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 2020. (Photograph Nicolas Brasseur).
Exhibition Review
Une antiquité moderne
12/2020 | 1413 | 162
Pages: 1097-1098
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Varela Braga, Ariane (Varela Braga, Ariane)
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Une antiquité moderne Edited by Jean-Luc Martinez and Elisabeth Le Breton. 272 pp. incl. 62 col. + 57 b. & w. ills. (Oficina Libraria, Milan, 2019), €39. ISBN 978–88–336–7077–5. | :
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16. The older son from the Niobe Group, moulded by Giovanni Arnaldi. 1686–87. Plaster cast, 120 by 125 by 60 cm. (Villa Medici, Rome; photograph Daniele Molajoli, Académie de France à Rome– Villa Médicis, 2019).
Western art unattributed:
17. Commodus as Hercules. c.1673– 84. Plaster cast, 237 by 62 by 82 cm. (Villa Medici, Rome; photograph Daniele Molajoli, Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis, 2019).
Article
Designs by John Gibson for the Gibson Gallery at the Royal Academy of Arts
11/2020 | 1412 | 162
Pages: 947-955
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Frasca-Rath, Anna (Frasca-Rath, Anna)
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Wickham, Annette (Wickham, Annette)
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1. Wounded warrior, by John Gibson. 1860s. Marble, 193 by 101 by 66 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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10. Detail of an elevation recording the arrangement of casts on the the south and north walls of the smaller room in the Gibson Gallery, attributed to the office of Sydney Smirke. 1874. Pencil with black ink and wash on wove paper, 38.9 by 56.4 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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11. Resurrection. Angel, mother and infant (Monument to Lady Leicester), by John Gibson. c.1844. Plaster, 181 by 126.5 cm. (Photograph © Royal Academy of Arts, London / Paul Highnam).
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12. Venus, by John Gibson. 1850s. Plaster, 172 by 50.8 by 46 cm. (Photograph © Royal Academy of Arts, London / Paul Highnam).
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13. The Gibson Gallery and Diploma Gallery, Burlington House, London. Centre right is Gibson’s marble Bacchus (1856–60) and William Theed’s portrait bust of Gibson (1868) on display alongside paintings from the RA collection following a rearrangement of the galleries. (Repr. The Sphere, 23rd February 1929).
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14. Floorplan showing the Gibson Gallery as completed, attributed to Sydney Smirke. June 1874. Pencil with black ink and wash on wove paper, 38.8 by 55.5 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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2. The Royal Academy of Arts Library, Burlington House, London, which occupies the space of the Gibson Gallery. The central sculpture is Wounded warrior by John Gibson. Photograph 2011. (Photograph © Royal Academy of Arts, London / Francis Ware).
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3. Design for the layout of the Gibson Gallery, by John Gibson. c.1864. A list on the facing page is inscribed ‘Bassorelievi’ with the heading ‘A list of my models in plaster executed at Rome’. Pen and ink on paper, (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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4. Floor plan with layout of sculpture and casts in the Gibson Gallery, by John Gibson. 1864. Black ink over pencil on tracing paper mounted on wove paper, 43.5 by 26.9 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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5. Design for the arrangement of the entrance wall of the second room of the Gibson Gallery, by John Gibson, showing seated male portraits. Black ink on laid paper mounted on laid paper, 27 by 20.3 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London; see also Fig.6).
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6. Reconstruction based on a drawing by John Gibson, showing the arrangement of the casts on the entrance wall of the second room of the Gibson Gallery, with seated male portraits. Here and in Fig.8 missing reliefs are represented by drawings by Gibson, (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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7. Reconstruction based on a drawing by John Gibson, showing the arrangement of the casts on the wall opposite the entrance to the second room of the Gibson Gallery, with idealised female figures. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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8. Reconstruction based on a drawing by John Gibson, showing the arrangement of the casts on the left-hand wall of the second room of the Gibson Gallery, with reliefs on mythological themes. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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9. Reconstruction based on a drawing by John Gibson, showing the arrangement of the casts on the right-hand wall of the second room of the Gibson Gallery, with reliefs on religious themes. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Article
Picasso and the foundry of Emile Robecchi during the Second World War
05/2020 | 1406 | 162
Pages: 420-431
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Finn, Clare (Finn, Clare)
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1. Picasso with La femme en robe longue (Woman in a long dress) and Tête casquée (Head of a warrior), by Robert Capa. 1944. Photograph. (  Robert Capa and International Center of Photography / Magnum Photos).
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2. Tête de taureau (Head of a bull), by Picasso. Photographed by Brassa  in 1931. Repr. in D.-H. Kahnweiler: Les Sculptures de Picasso, Paris 1948.
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3. Tête de mort (Death’s head), by Picasso. 1941. Bronze and copper, 25 by 21 by 31 cm. (Musée national Picasso-Paris;   Photo Josse / Bridgeman Images; DACS, London 2020).
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4. Picasso with L’orateur (The orator), photographed in his studio on rue des Grands-Augustines, Paris, in 1939, by Brassaï. (Repr. in Brassa : Conversations avec Picasso, London 1967, pp.70–71, ill. 16).
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5. Musicians for a Nativity/manger, by Appel.les Fenosa. 1941. Bronze, 17 by 12.3 by 11 cm. (Fundacio Fenosa, El Vendrell, Tarragona).
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6. Le chat accroupi (Crouching cat), by Picasso. 1943. Plaster, length 51.4 cm. (Repr. in D.-H. Kahnweiler: Les Sculptures de Picasso, Paris 1948, no.212).
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7. Picasso’s studio on rue des Grands-Augustines, Paris, photographed in 1944 shortly after the Liberation, with Man with sheep in plaster on the left, Cat in bronze in the centre and Crouching cat in plaster on the right, by Henri Cartier-Bresson. 1944. (  Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos).
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8. Cover for Les Sculptures de Picasso (1948), showing Le Main Droit de Picasso, by Brassaï.
Article
The ‘fortuna critica’ of the ‘Maiden of Lille’
05/2020 | 1406 | 162
Pages: 404-411
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Riviale, Laurence (Riviale, Laurence)
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1. Study of a bust at Lille, by John Singer Sargent. c.1877. Oil on mahogany panel, 30.7 by 20.6 cm. (Private collection).
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10. The Maiden of Lille, by Arthur Mayeur. Drawing reproduced on the cover of Lille et la région du nord en 1909, Lille 1909.
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2. The ‘Maiden of Lille’ in the Wicar galleries at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, c.1892. (Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille).
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4. The Maiden of Lille, by Aurelio Micheli. c.1909. Plaster, wax and polychromy. (Letter Stiftung, Cologne).
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5. Jean-Jacques Henner’s studio in Paris, with a plaster cast of the ‘Maiden of Lille’ from the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin. Detail of a photograph, c.1900. (Courtesy Henner Museum, Paris).
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6. Wolfgang Gurlitt’s music room at 113 Potsdamer Strasse, Berlin. Photograph, c.1920. (Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur, Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte, Bildarchiv Foto Marburg). 
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7. The display of old-master drawings in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle. Photograph by James Russell and Sons, 1910. (Manley family collection). 
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8. The plaster-cast room at the Museum of Fine Arts, Copley Square, Boston. Photograph, 1902. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
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9. The Maiden of Lille, in the Musée Wicar, Lille. Photograph by Robert Jefferson Bingham, 1864. (Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille).
Western art unattributed:
3. The Maiden of Lille. Possibly seventeenth or eighteenth century. Beeswax, terracotta and glass, 44.5 by 30.3 by 19.5 cm. (Palais des Beaux- Arts, Lille; photograph the author).
Book Review
Giambologna: Court Sculptor to Ferdinando I. By Alexander Rudigier and Blanca Truyols
03/2020 | 1404 | 162
Pages: 263-264
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Diemer, Dorothea (Diemer, Dorothea)
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Giambologna: Court Sculptor to Ferdinando I By Alexander Rudigier and Blanca Truyols. 376 pp. incl. 600 col. ills. (Paul Holberton, London, 2019),  50. ISBN 978–1–912168–14–9. | :
Exhibition Review
Elmgreen & Dragset: This Is How We Bite Our Tongue. Whitechapel Gallery, London
01/2019 | 1390 | 161
Pages: 80-83
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Cahill, James (Cahill, James; Cahill, J.)
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28. The Whitechapel pool, by Elmgreen & Dragset. 2018. Installation (Photograph Jack Hems; exh. Whitechapel Gallery, London).
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29. Too heavy, by Elmgreen & Dragset. 2017.  Aluminium with lacquer paint and trampoline, 170 by 170 cm. (Courtesy of König Gallery; photograph Roman Maerz; exh. Whitechapel Gallery, London).
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30. Modern Moses, by Elmgreen & Dragset. 2006. Installation (Photograph Doug Peters; exh. Whitechapel Gallery, London).
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31. Installation view of Elmgreen & Dragset: This Is How We Bite Our Tongue at Whitechapel Gallery, London (Photograph Doug Peters).
Article
The ‘Martinoff Drawings’: a quest for Russian art at the South Kensington Museum
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 1006-1015
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Author:
Hardiman, Louise (Hardiman, Louise)
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1. Copy of decoration in a sixteenth-century manuscript of the Gospels in the Patriarchal Library, Moscow, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 39.3 by 26.7 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, no.M.10.b: 8881).
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10. Detail of The mitre of the Patriarch Job (1586–1605) in the treasury of the Patriarch, Moscow, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 30.5 by 21.6 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; no.M.10.b: 8854).
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11. Detail of Two pairs of eyeglasses, and cases for same, of the Patriarch Nikon (1652–1658) in the treasury of the Patriarch, Moscow, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 35.5 by 25.4 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; no.M.10.a: 8858).
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12. A saccos (dalmatic) of the Metropolitan Dionysy, made by order of Tsar Ivan Vasilievich (1530–1584) in the treasury of the Patriarch, Moscow, 16th century (second half), by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 38 by 26.8 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; no.M.10.b: 8873).
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2. Detail of Church of the Holy Trinity, Ostankino, near Moscow, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 36.9 by 24.2 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; no.M.10.a: 8845).
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4. Detail of The Panagia of the Patriarch Job (1586–1605) in the treasury of the Patriarch, Moscow, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 25.4 by 36.3 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; no.M.10.a: 8842).
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5. Detail of A halo from the image of the Virgin in the sacristy of the Convent of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, Staraya Russa, Novgorod, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 35.5 by 28.5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum; London; no.M.10.a: 8861).
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6. Detail of The Pastoral Staff of the Patriarch Nikon (1652–1658), in the treasury of the Patriarch, Moscow, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 28.5 by 35.5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; no.M.10.a: 8855).
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7. A censer at the Convent of the Blessed Virgin, Serpukhov, Province of Moscow, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 37 by 28.5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, no.M.10.a: 8849).
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8. Detail of The klobouk (headdress of the Greek friars), of the Patriarch Nikon (1652–1658), in the treasury of the Patriarch, Moscow, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 33 by 22.9 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; no.M.10.b: 8853).
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9. A sash of the Patriarchs, in the treasury of the Patriarch, Moscow, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 36.8 by 22.9 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; no.M.10.b: 8877).
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Reliquary or triple cross, after a seventeenth-century original at the Cathedral of the Dormition, Moscow, at the time of reproduction. c.1881. Electrotype, 32.4 by 16.5 by 3.2 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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