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Book Review
Murillo: Persuasion and Aura. By Benito Navarrete Prieto
12/2022 | 1437 | 164
Pages: 1296-1298
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Reviewer:
Cherry, Peter (Cherry, Peter)
Subjects
artists:
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban
subjects:
Spanish art / Spanish artists / Religious art / Secular / Altarpieces
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Murillo: Persuasion and Aura By Benito Navarrete Prieto. 348 pp. incl. 272 col. + 14 b. & w. ills. (Harvey Miller, London, 2021), £149. ISBN 978–1–912554–40–9. | :
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Attributed works:
Murillo: Persuasion and Aura By Benito Navarrete Prieto. 348 pp. incl. 272 col. + 14 b. & w. ills. (Harvey Miller, London, 2021), £149. ISBN 978–1–912554–40–9.
Book Review
Investigations in Medieval Stained Glass: Materials, Methods, and Expressions (Reading Medieval Sources, 3)
04/2021 | 1417 | 163
Pages: 376-377
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Reviewer:
Harrison, Katharine (Harrison, Katharine)
Subjects
subjects:
Stained glass / Medieval architecture / Medieval art / Religious architecture / Religious art / Secular / Collecting / Displays / Conservation / Scientific analysis / Liturgy / Christian iconography
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Investigations in Medieval Stained Glass: Materials, Methods, and Expressions (Reading Medieval Sources, 3) Edited by Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz and Elizabeth Pastan. 466 pp. incl. 170 col. + 22 b. & w. ills. (Brill, Leiden, 2019), €219. ISBN 978–90–04–39572–5. | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
4. The lower part of the Redemption window (Corona window I), Canterbury Cathedral, showing the Crucifixion and Entombment with Old Testament types. c.1215–20. (Photograph Hans Schneider).
Publication Received
Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place. Edited by Ittai Weinryb
10/2019 | 1399 | 161
Pages: 888
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Reviewer:
Maniura, Robert (Maniura, Robert)
Subjects
dates:
Antiquity / Twentieth-century
museums and institutions:
Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, New York, United States
places:
South Asia / Europe / United States / South America
subjects:
Votive images / Religion / Secular
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place Edited by Ittai Weinryb. 352 pp. incl. numerous col. ills. (Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York, and Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2018), $65. ISBN 978–0–300–22296–8. | :
Book Review
Painting the Page in the Age of Print: Central European Manuscript Illumination of the Fifteenth Century. Edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Robert Suckale and Gude Suckale-Redlefsen, with Eberhard König, transl. David Sánchez
09/2019 | 1398 | 161
Pages: 782-783
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Reviewer:
White, Eric (White, Eric)
Subjects
dates:
1400-1499
places:
Holy Roman Empire
subjects:
Illuminated manuscripts / Incunabula / Books / Book illustrations / Secular / Religious art
Exhibition Review
Single-Leaf Woodcuts of the 15th Century. Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
09/2019 | 1398 | 161
Pages: 756-759
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Reviewer:
Hamburger, Jeffrey (Hamburger, Jeffrey)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Drawings / Prints
museums and institutions:
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
subjects:
Woodcuts / Printmaking / Techniques / German art / Christian iconography / Secular / Devotional images / Politics
Illustrations
Attributed works:
9. Christ on a T-cross with the Virgin and John the Evangelist, copy after Master h w. c.1490. Woodcut made from two plates, grey print, colouring, damaged parchment, approx. 28 by 21.5 cm. (Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, inv. no.209349 D).
Western art unattributed:
10. Christ Child within the Sacred Heart, probably Nuremberg. c.1450–65. Woodcut, black print and colouring, 18.5 by 13.1 cm. (Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, inv. no.118290 D).
Western art unattributed:
Opposite 8. Annunciation, Lake Constance or Augsburg. c.1440. Woodcut, with calcite and metal powder, 26.7 by 18.9 cm. (Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, inv. no.118166 D).
Exhibition Review
Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
08/2019 | 1397 | 161
Pages: 666-669
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Reviewer:
Diebold, William (Diebold, William)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United States
subjects:
Medieval art / Bestiaries / Illuminated manuscripts / Animals / Christian iconography / Secular / Contemporary art / Artists' books
subjects:
Allegory
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Opposite 2. Lion from the Rothschild Pentateuch. 1296. Parchment, 28 by 21 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, MS 116, f.32v).
Western art unattributed:
3. Lions from a bestiary. c.1250. Parchment, 29 by 20 cm. (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley764, f.2v; exh. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
Western art unattributed:
Below 1. Pelican feeding her young. c.1500. Tapestry, 65 by 233 cm. (Kloster Lüne, Lüne; exh. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).