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Exhibition Review
Michelangelo and the Rothschild bronzes
03/2019 | 1392 | 161
Pages: 184-189
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Reviewer:
Penny, Nicholas (Penny, Nicholas)
Subjects
art literature:
Joannides, Paul, Cambridge, Great Britain
artists:
Michelangelo
dates:
2000-2049
media:
Bronzes / Terracruda / Italian sculpture / Techniques
museums and institutions:
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Great Britain / Downing College, Cambridge, Great Britain
patrons:
Rothschild, Mayer Alphonse James, de
Reviewed Items
patrons:
Michelangelo: Sculptor in Bronze, ed Victoria Avery | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Pair of men riding panthers ('The Rothschild bronzes'). Bronze, height of left-hand group. 90.2 cm; height of right-hand group, 91.2 cm. (Private collection; photograph Arrigo Coppitz).
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2. Detail of the younger rider shown in Fig.1, showing the treatment of the surface.
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3. Naked youth riding a wild cat, from a sheet of studies with the Virgin embracing the infant Jesus. c.1504–07. Pen and ink, whole sheet 29 by 20 cm. (Musée Fabre, Montpellier).
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4. Front view of the older rider shown in Fig.1, showing the strut that slots into the body of his mount.
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5. Sleeping youth, by Andrea del Verrocchio. 1470–75. Terracotta, 36 by 67 by 25 cm. (Sculpture Collection and Museum of Byzantine Art, Berlin; bpk; photograph Antje Voigt).
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6. Dionysos Seated on a Panther, attributed to François Duquesnoy. Seventeenth century, incorporating Roman fragments, First–Third centuries AD. Marble, height 143.2 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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7. Detail of Battle of the nude men, by Antonio del Pollaiuolo. 1470s. Engraving, 42 by 60.4 cm. (plate). (Bridgeman Images).
Book Review
Committed to Classicism: The Building of Downing College, Cambridge
08/1988 | 1025 | 130
Pages: 638-639
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Reviewer:
O'Donnell, Roderick (O'Donnell, Roderick)
Subjects
artists:
Wilkins, William, 1778-1839
buildings:
Downing College, Cambridge, Great Britain
dates:
1800-1899
places:
England / Cambridge
subjects:
British architecture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Committed to Classicism: The Building of Downing College, Cambridge | author: Sicca, Cinzia Maria