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Giuseppe Antonio Ghedini’s drawings for ‘Il Ricciardetto’
03/2024 | 1452 | 166
Pages: 264–277
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Author:
Vicentini, Cecilia (Vicentini, Cecilia)
Subjects
artists:
Ghedini, Giuseppe Antonio / Cignani, Carlo / Crespi, Giuseppe Maria, lo Spagnolo
dates:
1730-1739
museums and institutions:
Fondazione Cavallini Sgarbi, Ferrara, Italy
places:
Ferrara / Venice / Bologna
subjects:
Drawings / Engravings / Etchings / Published illustrations / Printmakers
works:
Il Ricciardetto (poem by Niccolò Forteguerri)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Illustration for Canto 10 of ‘Il Ricciardetto’, by Giuseppe Antonio Ghedini. 1737–38. Pen, ink and brown wash on paper, 11 by 5 cm. (Fondazione Cavallini Sgarbi, Ferrara).
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10. Illustration for Canto 11 of ‘Il Ricciardetto’, by Giuseppe Antonio Ghedini. 1737–38. Pen, ink and brown wash on paper, 11 by 5 cm. (Fondazione Cavallini Sgarbi, Ferrara).
Attributed works:
11. Joseph and Potiphar’s wife, by Carlo Cignani. Oil on canvas, 262 by 192 cm. (Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen).
Attributed works:
12. Joseph and Potiphar’s wife, by Carlo Cignani. 1670–75. Oil on canvas, 99 by 99 cm. (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden).
Attributed works:
13. Prophecy of Haggai, by Jacopo Zucchi after Giuseppe Antonio Ghedini. Etching, 21 by 32 cm. (Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea, Ferrara, iconographical collection, vol.3, no.24).
Attributed works:
14. Illustration for Canto 21 of ‘Il Ricciardetto’, by Giuseppe Antonio Ghedini. 1737–38. Pen, ink and brown wash on paper, 11 by 5 cm. (Fondazione Cavallini Sgarbi, Ferrara).
Attributed works:
15. Illustration for Canto 27 of ‘Il Ricciardetto’, by Giuseppe Antonio Ghedini. 1737–38. Pen, ink and brown wash on paper, 11 by 5 cm. (Fondazione Cavallini Sgarbi, Ferrara).
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16. Harpies at the Trojan banquet, by Annibale Carracci. 1585–93. Fresco. (Sala dell’Eneide, Palazzo Fava, Bologna).
Attributed works:
17. Illustration for Canto 19 of ‘Il Ricciardetto’, by Giuseppe Antonio Ghedini. 1737–38. Pen, ink and brown wash on paper, 11 by 5 cm. (Fondazione Cavallini Sgarbi, Ferrara).
Attributed works:
18. Illustration for Canto 16 of ‘Il Ricciardetto’, by Giuseppe Antonio Ghedini. 1737–38. Pen, ink and brown wash on paper, 11 by 5 cm. (Fondazione Cavallini Sgarbi, Ferrara)..
Attributed works:
19. St Gaetano and his followers founding the Theatine Order, by Clemente Majoli. 1671. Fresco. (S. Maria della Pietà dei Teatini, Ferrara; courtesy of the Archdiocese of Ferrara-Comacchio).
Attributed works:
2. Illustration for Canto 29 of ‘Il Ricciardetto’, by Giuseppe Antonio Ghedini. 1737–38. Pen, ink and brown wash on paper, 11 by 5 cm. (Fondazione Cavallini Sgarbi, Ferrara).
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20. Illustration for Canto 20 of ‘Il Ricciardetto’, by Giuseppe Antonio Ghedini. 1737–38. Pen, ink and brown wash on paper, 11 by 5 cm. (Fondazione Cavallini Sgarbi, Ferrara).
Attributed works:
3. Niccolò Forteguerri (‘Niccolò Carteromaco’), after Giuseppe Antonio Ghedini. 1737–38. Etching, 20.4 by 14.4 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
4. Illustration for Canto 20 of ‘Il Ricciardetto’, by Jacopo Zucchi after Giuseppe Antonio Ghedini. 1738. Etching, 11 by 5 cm. (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden).
Attributed works:
5. Illustration for Canto 27 of ‘Il Ricciardetto’, by Giovanni Cattini after Giuseppe Antonio Ghedini. 1738. Etching, 11 by 5 cm. (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden).
Attributed works:
6. Thalia, by Giuseppe Antonio Ghedini, 1737–38. Pen, ink and brown wash on paper, 7.9 by 8.5 cm. (Fondazione Cavallini Sgarbi, Ferrara).
Attributed works:
7. Illustration for Canto 15 of ‘Il Ricciardetto’, by Giuseppe Antonio Ghedini. 1737–38. Pen, ink and brown wash on paper, 11 by 5 cm. (Fondazione Cavallini Sgarbi, Ferrara).
Attributed works:
8. Martyrdom of St Paul, by Francesco Monti. c.1720. Oil on canvas, 219 by 150 cm. (Credem Collection, Reggio Emilia).
Attributed works:
9. The five senses, by Carlo Cignani. 1670–73. Oil on canvas, 133 by 190 cm. (Scatto di Gaia e Giuseppe Schiavinotto, Rome; courtesy Principessa Maria Camilla Pallavicini).
Exhibition Review
William Kentridge. Royal Academy of Arts, London
12/2022 | 1437 | 164
Pages: 1287-1289
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Reviewer:
Seligman, Isabel (Seligman, Isabel)
Subjects
artists:
Kentridge, William, b. 1955
dates:
2020-2030
media:
Drawings / Film (cinema) / Published illustrations / Sculpture / Installations (visual works)
museums and institutions:
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great Britain
places:
South Africa
subjects:
South African / History / Colonialism / Capitalism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
William Kentridge Royal Academy of Arts, London 24th September–11th December | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
30. Black box / Chambre noire, by William Kentridge. 2005. Animated 35 mm film transferred to video, projected front and back onto model theatre with drawings and mechanical puppets, duration 22 minutes, object 360 by 200 by 139.5 cm. (© William Kentridge; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk; courtesy Royal Academy of Arts, London; photograph David Parry; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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31. The conservationists’ ball, by William Kentridge. 1985. Charcoal, coloured pastel and gouache on paper (triptych), 198.5 by 97.5 cm (left), 198.5 by 138.5 cm (centre) and 198.5 by 97.5 cm (right). (© William Kentridge; Rupert Museum, Stellenbosch; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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32. Still from Notes towards a model opera, by William Kentridge. 2015. Three-channel HD film, duration 11 minutes 14 seconds. (© William Kentridge; courtesy the artist; exh. Royal Academy, London).
Book Review
The Altzenbachs of Cologne. Early Modern German Print Publishers: Popular Prints of the Seventeenth Century
10/2022 | 1435 | 164
Pages: 1038-1039
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Reviewer:
Meier, Hans Jakob (Meier, Hans Jakob)
Subjects
art literature:
Catalogues
dates:
Seventeenth-century
places:
Cologne
subjects:
Altzenbach print publishers / German art / Prints / Published illustrations
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Altzenbachs of Cologne. Early Modern German Print Publishers: Popular Prints of the Seventeenth Century By John Roger Paas. 2 vols, 1,047 pp. incl. 1,044 col. + b. & w. ills. (Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2021), €748. ISBN 978–3–447–11487–5. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Relics of one of the Innocents massacred at Bethlehem, showing the silver shrine in the Minorite Church, Cologne, published by Gerhard Altzenbach. 1656. Engraving, 57.9 by 26.4 cm (trimmed). (Private collection).
Article
A Borromini-inspired church plan in eighteenth-century Lima
08/2022 | 1433 | 164
Pages: 740-751
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Author:
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
Subjects
artists:
Borromini, Francesco / Vargas, Cristobál de / Matamoros, Juan de / Torquemada, Manuel de
buildings:
Sacred Heart of Jesus the Orphan (Los Huérfanos), Lima, Peru / San Antonio Abad, Lima, Peru / San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome, Italy
dates:
1750-1779
media:
Books / Prints / Published illustrations
styles:
Baroque / Rococo / Latin American
subjects:
Architectural history / Architectural drawings / Religious architecture / Influence
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. Los Huérfanos, Lima. (Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
1. The south façade of the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of the Orphans (Los Huérfanos), Lima, by Cristóbal de Vargas, Juan de Matamoros, Manuel de Torquemada and others. 1758–66. (Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
10. Detail of the choir loft in Los Huérfanos, Lima. (Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
11. East wall of the nave, south entrance and choir loft of Los Huérfanos, Lima, by Manuel González Salazar. Before 1940. Photograph, 9.5 by 13 cm. (From H. Wethey: Colonial Architecture and Sculpture in Peru, Cambridge MA 1949).
Attributed works:
12. Detail of the southeast corner of the nave of Los Huérfanos, Lima. (Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
13. The baptistery screen of Los Huérfanos, Lima. c.1766. Polychrome wood. (Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
14. Plan of the church dedicated to S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane Esq. Francesco Borromini architect, by Giovanni Francesco Venturini. Engraving from G.G. de Rossi: Insignium Romae templorum prospectus exteriores interioresque, a celebrioribus architectis inventi, Rome 1684.
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15. The baptistery of Los Huérfanos, Lima. (Photograph Lucía Silva).
Attributed works:
16. The great courtyard, Colégio de Santo Tomás, Lima, by Fray Diego Maroto. Begun 1665. (Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
17. The dome of S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome, by Francesco Borromini. 1638–41. (Photograph Vicenzo Pirozzi; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
18. The dome of the Chapel of San Martín de Porres, Monastery of Santo Domingo, Lima. Last third of the 18th century. (Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
3. The former Jesuit novitiate chapel of San Antonio Abad (now San Carlos), Lima, by Cristóbal de Vargas. 1758–66. (Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
4. The doorway in the west façade of Los Huérfanos, Lima. (Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
5. Plan of Los Huérfanos, Lima. (From E. Bonilla di Tolla et al.: Lima y el Callao, Lima and Seville 2009).
Attributed works:
6. The backsplash of one of three holy water stoups in Los Huérfanos, Lima. c.1766. Alabaster. (Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
7. The interior of Los Huérfanos, Lima, looking north. (Photograph Lucía Silva).
Attributed works:
8. The chancel of S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome, by Francesco Borromini. 1638–41. (Photograph Andrea Jemolo; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
9. Detail of the west wall of the nave of Los Huérfanos, Lima. (Photograph Lucía Silva).
Letter
Forerunners of ‘Heads of the People’
10/2021 | 1423 | 163
Pages: 884-885
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Author:
McConkey, Kenneth (McConkey, Kenneth)
Subjects
artists:
Bastien-Lepage, Jules / Clausen, George / Gogh, Vincent van / Sickert, Walter / Nicholson, William, 1872-1949
works:
The Graphic / Illustrators / Published illustrations / French art / British art / Social realism / Working Class
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Little London bootblack, by Jules Bastien-Lepage. 1882. Oil on canvas, 132.5 by 89.5 cm. (Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; Scala Archives).
Attributed works:
2. A field hand (a woman of the fields), by George Clausen. 1883. Oil on canvas, 54.5 by 40 cm. (Private collection; photographed prior to the completion of conservation work).
Article
The nude male form in Chen Yanqiao’s woodblock prints and cartoons, 1934–35
10/2021 | 1423 | 163
Pages: 898-907
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Author:
Emrich-Rougé, Elizabeth (Emrich-Rougé, Elizabeth)
Subjects
artists:
Chen, Yanqiao (1911-70) / Li, Hua (1907-94) / Zhu, Yingpen (1895? -) / Wan, Laiming (1900-97)
dates:
1930-1939
places:
China / Shanghai
subjects:
Chinese art / Prints / Photographs / Published illustrations / Magazines (periodicals) / Satire / Communism / Politics / Literature / Nudes / Greco-Roman / masculinities / Nationalism
subjects:
Woodcuts / Heroes
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Pull, by Chen Yanqiao. 1934. Woodblock print, 25.1 by 19.1 cm. (Courtesy Lu Xun Memorial Museum, Shanghai).
Attributed works:
10. Beautiful illustrations of the body, by Wan Laiming. 1933. (From The Young Companion, no.78, July 1933; from online database CNBKSY – Quanguo Baokan Suoyin, Shanghai Library).
Attributed works:
2. Title page from Cartoons and Life no.2 (December 1935), featuring Struggle, by Chen Yanqiao. 1935. Ink drawing. (From online database CNBKSY – Quanguo Baokan Suoyin, Shanghai Library).
Attributed works:
3. China, roar!, by Li Hua. 1935. Woodblock print, 23 by 16.5 cm. (From Modern Prints 1, no.14, December 1935, reproduced in Progress in Prints: Chinese Modern Woodblock Prints in Lu Xun’s Collection, Shanghai 1991, I, p.251; courtesy Lu Xun Memorial Museum, Shanghai).
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4. The despairing (top) and Forced to wander as a refugee (below), by Chen Yanqiao. 1934–35. Woodblock prints. (From Cartoon Life, no.5, January 1935, p.30; from online database CNBKSY – Quanguo Baokan Suoyin, Shanghai Library).
Attributed works:
5. Sun chariot, by Zhu Yingpeng and Xu Suling. (From Vanguard Monthly 1, no.3, December 1930; from online database CNBKSY – Quanguo Baokan Suoyin, Shanghai Library).
Attributed works:
6. A beautifully brave and strong body. 1929. Photograph. (From Modern Miscellany 1, no.3, p.2; from online database CNBKSY – Quanguo Baokan Suoyin, Shanghai Library).
Attributed works:
7. Health and beauty. 1930. Photograph. (From Athletic China, no.1, October 1930; from online database CNBKSY – Quanguo Baokan Suoyin, Shanghai Library).
Attributed works:
8. Guerilla forces, by Chen Yanqiao. 1935. Woodblock print. (From Collected Wood Shavings, no.1, 20th April 1935, p.7; from online database CNBKSY – Quanguo Baokan Suoyin, Shanghai Library).
Attributed works:
9. Figures in the palm of his hand, by Wan Laiming. 1935. Ink drawing. (From Phenomenon Cartoon, no.2, May 1935; from online database CNBKSY – Quanguo Baokan Suoyin, Shanghai Library).
Book Review
Popular Art and the Avant-Garde: Vincent van Gogh’s Collection of Newspaper and Magazine Prints
08/2021 | 1421 | 163
Pages: 771-772
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Reviewer:
Korda, Andrea (Korda, Andrea )
Subjects
artists:
Gogh, Vincent van
subjects:
The Graphic / The Illustrated London News, London, Great Britain / Prints / Published illustrations / Visual sources / Dutch art / British art / Visual culture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Popular Art and the Avant-Garde: Vincent van Gogh’s Collection of Newspaper and Magazine Prints By Vincent Alessi. 234 pp. incl. 10 col. + 40 b. & w. ills. (Monash University Publishing, Clayton, 2020), £30.99. ISBN 978–1–925495–73–7. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. The poor and money, by Vincent van Gogh. 1882. Chalk, watercolour and pen and ink on paper, 37.9 by 56.6 cm. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam).
Article
The ‘Heads of the People’ in the ‘Graphic’ (1875–83): further influences and legacies
07/2021 | 1420 | 163
Pages: 586-593
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Author:
Shaw, Samuel (Shaw, Samuel)
Subjects
art literature:
The Graphic / The Illustrated London News, London, Great Britain
artists:
Gogh, Vincent van / Herkomer, Hubert von / Small, William / Hopkins, Arthur / Meadows, Kenny / Nicholson, William, 1872-1949 / Sickert, Walter / Rothenstein, William / Millet, Jean-François, 1814-1875 / Guthrie, James
subjects:
Wood engravings / Influence / Social realism / Working Class
subjects:
British art / Victorian art / Illustrators / Published illustrations
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. The brewer’s drayman, by Hubert Herkomer. 1875. Unknown engraver. Wood engraving. (First published in the Graphic, 20th November 1875; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
2. The British rough, by William Small. 1875. Unknown engraver. Wood engraving. (First published in the Graphic, 26th June 1875; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
3. A Cornish fisher-lad, by Arthur Hopkins. 1883. Unknown engraver. Wood engraving. (First published in the Graphic, 23rd June 1883; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
4. The English pauper, by Kenny Meadows. 1840. Engraved by John Orrin Smith. Engraving, 21.2 by 13.2 cm. (From Heads of the People, London 1840–41; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
5. The dress-maker, by Kenny Meadows. 1840. Engraved by John Orrin Smith. Engraving, 21.2 by 13.2 cm. (From Heads of the People, London 1840–41).
Attributed works:
6. Old Willie: The village worthy, by James Guthrie. 1886. Oil on canvas, 60.8 by 50.8 cm. (Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
7. Mamma Mia Poveretta, by Walter Sickert. c.1904. Oil on canvas, 46 by 38.2 cm. (Manchester Art Gallery; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
8. Eli the thatcher, by William Rothenstein. 1913. Oil on canvas, 76.5 by 63.3 cm. (Manchester Art Gallery; Bridgeman Images).
Article
The origins of Edward Hopper’s earliest oil paintings
10/2020 | 1411 | 162
Pages: 870-877
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Author:
Shadwick, Louis (Shadwick, Louis)
Subjects
artists:
Hopper, Edward / Crane, Bruce / Moran, Edward
dates:
1890-1899
places:
Nyack, New York
sources:
Art periodicals / Art Interchange (magazine) / Published illustrations
styles:
Tonalist
subjects:
American art / Landscapes (visual works) / Copying
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Old ice pond at Nyack, here identified as A winter sunset, after Bruce Crane, by Edward Hopper. Here dated 1898−1900. Oil on canvas, 29.8 by 50 cm. (Heather James Fine Art).
Attributed works:
10. Artist’s studio, by Edward Hopper. c.1900. Pen and ink and graphite pencil on paper, 37 by 29 cm. (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York).
Attributed works:
11. Reverse of Fig.7, showing the stamp of F.W. Devoe & Co. (Heather James Fine Art).
Attributed works:
2. A winter sunset, by Bruce Crane. 1880s. (Repr. The Art Interchange, 6th December 1890; photograph the author).
Attributed works:
3. Rowboat in rocky cove, here identified as Lake view, after an unknown artist, by Edward Hopper. 1895. Oil on canvas, 25.4 by 34.9 cm. (Private collection; photograph Frick Art Reference Library, New York).
Attributed works:
4. Lake view (‘Athelstane’). 1880s. (Repr. The Art Interchange, 14th February 1891; photograph the author).
Attributed works:
5. Ships, here identified as A marine, after Edward Moran, by Edward Hopper. c.1898. Oil on canvas, 30.5 by 50.8 cm. (Foosaner Art Museum, Melbourne FL).
Attributed works:
6. A marine, by Edward Moran. 1880. (Repr. The Art Interchange, 14th August 1886).
Attributed works:
7. Church and landscape, by Edward Hopper. c.1897. Oil on canvas, 25.4 by 35.5 cm. (Heather James Fine Art).
Attributed works:
8. Church and landscape. Nineteenth century. Painted porcelain, 27 by 34 cm. (Private collection; photograph Bellmans Auctioneers).
Attributed works:
9. Country road, by Edward Hopper. c.1897. Oil on canvas, 23.5 by 33 cm. (Private collection; courtesy Mark Murray Fine Paintings, New York).
Article
Herkomer’s ‘Drawing and engraving on wood’ and Van Gogh
07/2020 | 1408 | 162
Pages: 584-591
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Author:
Alessi, Vincent (Alessi, Vincent)
Subjects
art literature:
The Graphic / The Illustrated London News, London, Great Britain / Art Journal (art periodical)
artists:
Gogh, Vincent van / Herkomer, Hubert von
artists:
Rappard, Anton van
dates:
1880-1889
patrons:
Gogh, Theo van, 1857-1891
subjects:
Wood engravings / Engravings / Magazines (periodicals) / Illustrators / Published illustrations / Social realism
subjects:
French art / British art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Sunday at Chelsea Hospital, by Hubert von Herkomer. Unknown engraver. Wood engraving. (Published in the Graphic, 18th February 1871; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
2. A gipsy encampment on Putney Common, by Hubert von Herkomer. Unknown engraver. Wood engraving. (Published in the Graphic, 18th June 1870; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
3. The East London Hospital for Children, by Matthew White Ridley. Engraved by Joseph Swain. Wood engraving. (Published in the Illustrated London News, 27th April 1872; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
4. Miner, by Matthew White Ridley. Unknown engraver. Wood engraving. (Published in The Graphic, 15th April 1876; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
5. Old man with a stick, by Vincent van Gogh. 1882. Lithograph, 48.1 by 25.2 cm. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Van Gogh Foundation).
Attributed works:
6. At eternity’s gate, by Vincent van Gogh. 1882. Lithograph, 50 by 34 cm. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Van Gogh Foundation).
Attributed works:
7. Sorrow, by Vincent van Gogh. 1882. Lithograph, 38.9 by 29.2 cm. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Van Gogh Foundation; Bridgeman Images).
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