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Guercino’s ‘Moses’: a recent addition to the artist’s ‘prima maniera’
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 912-20
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Author:
Treves, Letizia (Treves, Letizia)
Subjects
artists:
Barbieri, Giovanni Francesco, called Il Guercino
collectors and dealers:
Este family / Rothschild, Jacob
dates:
1620-1629
museums and institutions:
Waddesdon Manor, Waddesdon, Aylesbury, Great Britain
subjects:
Italian art / Moses / Provenance / Collectors / Copies
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Moses, by Guercino. c.1618–19. Oil on canvas, 72 by 63 cm. (Rothschild Foundation, Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire; photograph Moretti Fine Art).
Attributed works:
2. Detail of Fig.1.
Attributed works:
3. King David, by Guercino. c.1617–18. Oil on canvas, 88.5 by 72 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
4. Head of an old man, by Guercino. c.1619–20. Oil on canvas, 63 by 48.3 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
5. Elijah fed by ravens, by Guercino. 1620. Oil on canvas, 195 by 156.5 cm. (National Gallery, London; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
6. Moses, by Bernardino Cervi after Guercino. 1624. Engraving, 13.5 by 7.4 cm. (Fondo Corsini, Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe, Rome).
Attributed works:
7. Moses, by Adam Bartsch after Guercino. Engraving. (location unknown).
Attributed works:
8. Detail of Fig.9.
Attributed works:
9. Moses with raised hands; mount depicts a fanciful border with leaves, a shell, humanoid figures, and a cartouche that has been cut, by Jan de Bisschop. Brown wash and ink on antique laid paper, framing line in gold; mount: graphite, brown wash and gold, 26.3 by 22.1 cm. (mount), 39.5 by 22.5 cm. (including strip at bottom). (Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge MA; photograph President and Fellows of Harvard College).
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Four paintings in search of a provenance: gleanings from the Aldobrandini inventories
12/2020 | 1413 | 162
Pages: 1075-1077
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Author:
Ekserdjian, David (Ekserdjian, David; E., D.)
Subjects
artists:
Bronzino, Agnolo / Lotto, Lorenzo / Orsi, Lelio
subjects:
Aldobrandini family / Este family / Collections / Inventories / Provenance
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. St Andrew kneeling, fragment of an altarpiece, by Bronzino. 1556. Oil on panel, 160.3 by 90.2 cm. (Galleria dell’Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome).
Attributed works:
5. St Bartholomew flayed, fragment of an altarpiece, by Bronzino. 1556. Oil on panel, 155.7 by 93.7 cm. (Galleria dell’Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome).
Attributed works:
6. Putto crowning a skull, by Lorenzo Lotto. 1523–24. Oil on canvas, 52 by 51 cm. (Alnwick Castle; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
7. Descent into Limbo, by Lelio Orsi. c.1560–70. Oil on canvas, 68.5 by 55 cm. (Private collection).
Publication Received
Italian Renaissance Courts: Art, Pleasure and Power. By Alison Cole
03/2017 | 1368 | 159
Pages: 229
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Reviewer:
Murray, Andrew (Murray, Andrew)
Subjects
patrons:
Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, 1422-1482 / Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, 1452-1508 / House of Gonzaga / Este family
subjects:
Renaissance / Patronage / Italian / Visual culture / Courts (social groups)
Article
The Este and the East: unpublished Chinese and Mughal objects from the Wunderkammer in Modena
12/2014 | 1341 | 156
Pages: 792-796
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Author:
Morena, Francesco (Morena, Francesco)
Subjects
dates:
1400-1599
patrons:
Este family
subjects:
Patronage / Collections, Private / Porcelain / Ceramics / Chinese / Mughal / Art objects / Lost works / Inventories / Jades / Kunstkammer
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Detail of a Chinese bowl from The feast of the gods, by Giovanni Bellini (National Gallery of Art, Washington)
Attributed works:
2. Detail of two Chinese bowls from The feast of the gods, by Giovanni Bellini (National Gallery of Art, Washington)
Non-western art unattributed:
4. Water container. Chinese. Twelfth to fourteenth centuries (Galleria Estense, Modena)
Non-western art unattributed:
5. Belt buckle. Chinese. Yuan dynasty (1279-1368). (Galleria Estense, Modena)
Non-western art unattributed:
6. Cup with silver handle. The cup, Mughal, late sixteenth-early seventeenth century; the handle, European, first half of the seventeenth century (Galleria Estense, Modena)
Non-western art unattributed:
7. Lacquer box with lid. Chinese. Ming dynasty, sixteenth-seventeenth centuries (Galleria Estense, Modena)
Western art unattributed:
3. The Cantino world map. Portuguese, 1502 (Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, Modena)
Exhibition Review
The Este court at Ferrara. Brussels and Ferrara
03/2004 | 1212 | 146
Pages: 194-196
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Reviewer:
Syson, Luke (Syson, Luke)
Subjects
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Castello Estense, Ferrara, Italy
places:
Italy / Ferrara
print:
Este court
subjects:
Exhibitions / Reviews / Este family
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Une Renaissance singulière: la cours des Este à Ferrare | institution: Castello Estense , institution: Palais des Beaux-Arts
Illustrations
Attributed works:
58. Erato, here attributed to Angelo Maccagnino da Siena and Cosmé Tura. c.1456. Tempera on panel, 123.5 by 72.1 cm. (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Ferrara; exh. Castello Estense, Ferrara).
Attributed works:
59. Allegory of love, by Benvenuto Tisi, called Garofalo. c.1530. Panel, 127 by 177 cm. (National Gallery, London; exh. Castello Estense, Ferrara)
Attributed works:
60. Angel annunciate, here attributed to 'Vicino da Ferrara'. c.1472. Tempera on panel, diameter 25 cm. (Istituto Superiore di Studi Religiosi Villa Cagnola, Gazzada (Varese); exh. Castello Estenese, Ferrara)
Western art unattributed:
61. Virgin annunciate, here attributed to an anonymous associate of Francesco del Cossa. c.1472. Tempera on panel, diameter 25 cm. (Istituto Superiore di Studi Religiosi Villa Cagnola, Gassada (Varese); exh. Castello Estense, Ferrara)
Article
Pietro da Cortona and the Este in Modena
01/1998 | 1138 | 140
Pages: 16-24
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Author:
Jarrard, Alice (Jarrard, Alice)
Subjects
artists:
Cortona, Pietro da
dates:
1600-1649
patrons:
Este family
places:
Italy / Modena
subjects:
Italian painting / Documents / Patronage
Illustrations
Attributed works:
18. Façade of the Palazzo Ducale, Modena.
Attributed works:
19. Alfonso IV d'Este, by Marco Boschini. Engraving from Funeral Fato de la Pitura venetiana per el passazo dala terena a la celeste vita del Serenissimo de Modena Alfonso IV... Venice [1663]. (Biblioteca Estense, Modena).
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20. Cardinal Rinaldo d'Este. Engraving by Giuseppe Testana from G. De'Rossi: Effigies nomina et cognomina..., Rome [1658]. (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome).
Attributed works:
21. Imaginary Catafalque for Alfonso IV d'Este, Showing the Duke Mourned by Venetian Painters, Designed and Engraved by Marco Boschini, from His Funeral Fato de la Pitura venetiana... Venice [1663]. (Biblioteca Estense, Modena).
Attributed works:
22. Plan of the Proposed Site of the Frescoes in the Ducal Apartment on the Piano Nobile of the Palazzo Ducale, Modena.
Attributed works:
23. Etched Frontispiece, by Francesco Stringa, to D. Gamberti: L'Idea di un prencipe et eroe cristiano in Francesco I d'Este, Modena [1659]. (Biblioteca Estense, Modena).
Attributed works:
24. The Palazzo Ducale in Modena under Construction, by Bartolommeo Fenis, Etching from Gamberti's Idea di un prencipe... (Biblioteca Estense, Modena).
Attributed works:
25. The Citadel of Modena, by Bartolommeo Fenis, Etching from Gamberti's Idea di un prencipe... (Biblioteca Estense, Modena).
Attributed works:
26. The Villa of Sassuolo, by Bartolommeo Fenis, Etching from Gamberti's Idea di un prencipe... (Biblioteca Estense, Modena).