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The Smiling Walls: Dante e le arti figurative / Dante and the Visual Arts

09/2024 | 1458 | 166

Pages: 978-9

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Reviewer:

Ekserdjian, David (Ekserdjian, David; E., D.)

Subjects

art literature:

Dante Alighieri / Divine Comedy (Dante)

dates:

1350-1549 / 1550-1599

subjects:

Italian art / Frescoes / Mosaics

Reviewed Items

subjects:

The Smiling Walls: Dante e le arti figurative / Dante and the Visual Arts Edited by Rossend Arqués, Silvia Maddalo and Laura Pasquini. 544 pp. incl. 120 col. ills. (Brepols, Turnhout, 2023), €190. ISBN 978–2–503–59450–7. | :

Illustrations

Attributed works:

4. Dante and Virgil watching Ugolino della Gherardesca, Count of Donoratico, gnawing the neck of Archbishop Ruggieri. Fresco. 1446. (S. Giorgio di Campochiesa, Albenga).

Book Review

Botticelli’s Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance

01/2024 | 1450 | 166

Pages: 94–96

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Reviewer:

Evans, Mark (Evans, Mark)

Subjects

artists:

Botticelli, Sandro

subjects:

Renaissance art / Drawings / Illustrations / Dante Alighieri

works:

Divine Comedy (Dante)

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works:

Botticelli’s Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance By Joseph Luzzi. 352 pp. incl. 19 col. ills. (W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 2022), $28.95. ISBN 978–1–324–00401–1. | :

Illustrations

Attributed works:

3. The giants, an illustration for Dante’s Inferno, canto XXXI, by Sandro Botticelli. 1490s. Metalpoint and ink on vellum, 32.4 by 42.7 cm. (Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin).

Article

Dante 1321–2021

03/2022 | 1428 | 164

Pages: 270-275

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Author:

Ekserdjian, David (Ekserdjian, David; E., D.)

Subjects

art literature:

Divine Comedy (Dante)

subjects:

Dante Alighieri / Anniversaries / Exhibitions / art history publishing / Illustrators / Book illustrations / Biographies / Italian School / Italian art / Literature / Literature in art

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John Dickson Batten: Illustrations for Dante’s ‘Inferno’. By Peter Hainsworth. 124 pp. incl. 48 col. ills (Panarc Publishing, Ringwood, Hampshire, 2021) £20, ISBN 978–19–161–5666–1. | :

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Scaramuzza: Le tavole per la Divina Commedia, with a preface by Carlo Ossola and texts by Vittorio Sgarbi, Lina Bolzoni and Simone Verde. 316 pp. incl. 283 col. + b. & w. ills. (Allemandi, Turin, 2021), €50. ISBN 978–88–422–2544–7. | :

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Visions of Heaven: Dante and the Art of Divine Light, by Martin Kemp. 240 pp. incl. 122 col. ills. (Lund Humphries, London, 2021), £45. ISBN 978–18–482–2467–4. | :

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Dante: The Invention of Celebrity, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. (17th September 2021– 9th January 2022) | :

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An Ancient and Honourable Citizen of Florence: The Bargello and Dante, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence (21st April–31st July 2021). | :

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Dante a Verona, Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona and elsewhere (2020-21) | :

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Dante e la cultura del Trecento a Mantova, Museo di Palazzo Ducale, Mantua (15th October 2021–9th January 2022), | :

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Dante: La visione dell’arte, Musei San Domenico, Forlì (30th April–11th July 2021) | :

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Inferno, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome (15th October 2021–9th January 2022). | :

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Un splendor mi squarciò il velo: Dante illustrato: dal codice 3285 a Scaramuzza, Complesso Monumentale della Pilotta, Parma (20th November 2021–13th February 2022). | :

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Virgil, by the Master of Campionese. c.1220. Red Verona marble, 124 by 73 by 40 cm. (Musei Civici, Mantua; Bridgeman Images; exh. Musei San Domenico, Forlì).

Attributed works:

2. Frontispiece of Purgatory, from the Divine Comedy by Dante, copied by Francesco di ser Nardo da Barberino, illuminated by the Master of the Dominican Effigies. 1337. (Codex Trivulsiano 1080, fol.36r; Archivio Storico Civico e Biblioteca Trivulziana, Milan; exh. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).

Attributed works:

3. Dante Alighieri, by Andrea del Castagno. c.1450. Fresco transferred to canvas, 247 by 153 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; exh. Musei san Domenico, Forlì).

Attributed works:

4. That is the man who went to Hell and came back, by Francesco Saverio Altamura. 1860–65. Oil on canvas, 88 by 203 cm. (Museo dell’ Ottocento, Pescara; exh. Galleria d’Arte Moderna ‘Achille Forti’, Verona).

Attributed works:

5. Cope of Pope Boniface VIII. Opus cyprense, second half of the 13th century. Red silk and gold thread, 140 by 325 cm. (Chapter of the Cathedral Basilica, Anagni; exh. Musei San Domenico, Forlì).

Attributed works:

6. Tree of Life, by Pacino di Buonaguida. 1310–15. Tempera on panel, 248 by 170 cm. (Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence; exh. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).

Attributed works:

7. Dante in Oxford, from The Poet’s Corner, by Max Beerbohm, London 1904. Lithograph, 37 by 28 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).

Attributed works:

8. Antaeus, by John Dickson Batten. 1897–1900. Pen-and-ink on paper, 18.4 by 27.7 cm. (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford; courtesy the Principal and Fellows of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford).

Short Notice

Gustave Doré’s ‘Dante and Virgil’: an early commission from the Scottish collector Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone

05/2021 | 1418 | 163

Pages: 447-449

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Author:

WATSON, Andrew M. (WATSON, Andrew M.)

Subjects

artists:

Doré, Gustave

patrons:

Macdonald of Kepplestone, Alexander

subjects:

Divine Comedy (Dante) / French art / Commissions

Illustrations

Attributed works:

6. The psalterion, by Gustave Doré. 1868. Oil on canvas, 130.2 by 87.3 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2021).

Attributed works:

7. Alexander Macdonald, by George Reid. 1879. Oil on canvas, 75 by 56 cm. (Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum).

Attributed works:

8. Dante kneeling before the celestial helmsman, by Gustave Doré. 1868. Ink sketch on paper in a letter from Doré to Alexander Macdonald, 30th May 1868. (Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives).

Attributed works:

9. Dante kneeling before the celestial helmsman, by Henri Théophile Hildibrand after Gustave Doré. c.1868. Engraving, 25 by 20 cm. From The vision of Purgatory and Paradise, London and New York 1868. (Private collection).

Article

Giorgione in Sydney

03/2019 | 1392 | 161

Pages: 190-199

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Author:

Anderson, Jaynie (Anderson, Jaynie)

Author:

Newbigin, Nerida (Newbigin, Nerida)

Author:

Sommerfeldt, Julie (Sommerfeldt, Julie)

Author:

Wilson, Kim (Wilson, Kim)

Subjects

artists:

Giorgione / Bellini, Giovanni

collectors and dealers:

Grimani family / Isabella d’Este, Marquise of Mantua, 1474-1539

dates:

1470-1479 / 1480-1519

media:

Underdrawings / Drawings

museums and institutions:

University of Sydney Library

sources:

Vasari, Giorgio / Divine Comedy (Dante) / Landino, Cristoforo

styles:

Venetian School

subjects:

Attributions

works:

Adoration of the Magi by Giorgione (National Gallery, London) / The Holy Family ('The Benson Holy Family') by Giorgione (National Gallery of Art, Washington)

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. The verso of the last folio of a copy of Dante’s Commedia, Venice 1497, with an inscription in iron-gall ink and a drawing of the Virgin and Child in red chalk. 30.5 by 19.8 cm. (University of Sydney, Library, Inc.97.1).

Attributed works:

10. Infra-red reflectogram of the under-drawing of the painting illustrated in Fig.9. (National Gallery, London).

Attributed works:

11. View of Castel San Zeno, Montagnana, with a seated figure in the foreground, by Giorgione. Red chalk on paper, 20.3 by 29 cm. (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam).

Attributed works:

12. Cupid bending a bow, attributed to Giorgione. c.1508. Red chalk on paper, 23.7 by 15.2 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Attributed works:

13. Detail of fol.iii recto of the volume illustrated in Fig.1.

Attributed works:

2. Below left Composite image of the watermark ‘Van Gelder’ in the flyleaves of the volume illustrated in Fig.1.

Attributed works:

3. Annotations of earlier sale or ownership in the volume illustrated in Fig.1.

Attributed works:

4. Detail of the the opening page of the volume illustrated in Fig.1, showing the accession number of the University of Sydney Library.

Attributed works:

5. Detail of Fig.1, showing the inscription.

Attributed works:

6. The Holy Family (‘The Benson Holy Family’), by Giorgione. c.1502. Panel, 37.3 by 45.6 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).

Attributed works:

7. Infra-red reflectogram of the painting illustrated in Fig.6, showing preliminary drawing executed with the point of a brush. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).

Attributed works:

8. Opposite Detail of Fig.1, showing the drawing of the Virgin and Child, here attributed to Giorgione. Red chalk, 14 by 9.5 cm.

Attributed works:

9. Adoration of the Magi, by Giorgione. c.1502. Panel, 29.8 by 81.3 cm. (National Gallery, London).

Attributed works:

Detail of fol.iii verso of the volume illustrated in Fig.1.

Exhibition Review

Ribera: Art of Violence. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

01/2019 | 1390 | 161

Pages: 58-60

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Reviewer:

Finaldi, Gabriele (Finaldi, Gabriele)

Subjects

art literature:

Byron, George Gordon Byron / Ford, Richard, 1796-1858 / Stirling-Maxwell, William / Dante Alighieri

artists:

Ribera, Jusepe de / Michelangelo / Martínez, Jusepe / Callot, Jacques

dates:

2010-2019

media:

Paintings / Drawings / Prints

museums and institutions:

Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, Great Britain

places:

Great Britain / London

subjects:

Spanish painting / Violence / Torture / Law / Anatomy / Ecorchés (models) / Portraits / Heraldry / Visual sources / Critical Reception / Saints / Martyrdoms / Martyrs / Blind (people) / Divine Comedy (Dante) / Classical / Marsyas / Apollo / Bartholomew, Saint / Snakes

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. A bat and two ears, by Jusepe de Ribera. Early 1620s. Red chalk, brush and red wash, 15.9 by 27.9 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; exh. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London).

Attributed works:

2. Apollo and Marsyas, by Jusepe de Ribera. 1637. Canvas, 182 by 232 cm. (Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples; exh. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London).

Attributed works:

3. Man bound to a stake, by Jusepe de Ribera. First half of the 1640s. Pen and brown ink with wash, 21.5 by 16.3 cm. (Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; exh. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London).

Article

Dating the Dante drawings: Rauschenberg and method

12/2017 | 1377 | 159

Pages: 964-975

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Author:

Krčma, Ed (Krčma, Ed)

Subjects

artists:

Rauschenberg, Robert

dates:

1950-1959 / 1960-1969

media:

Illustrations / solvent transfer method (drawing)

styles:

American art

subjects:

Dating

works:

Divine Comedy (Dante)

Illustrations

Attributed works:

11. Robert Rauschenberg working on a solvent transfer drawing in his Front Street studio, New York. 1958. Photograph by Jasper Johns. (Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Archives, New York).

Attributed works:

12. Illustration from ‘Rockets: A Real Superman?’ Newsweek (30th June 1958), p.75.

Attributed works:

13. Advertisement for the ’58 Borgward, in New York Herald Tribune (8th June 1958), Section 3, p.5.

Attributed works:

14. S.S. Santa Rosa, illustrated in New York Herald Tribune (22nd June 1958), Section 12, p.11.

Attributed works:

15. Canto I: The dark wood of error, by Robert Rauschenberg. 1958. (Museum of Modern Art, New York).

Attributed works:

16. ‘I.G.Y. – Global Quest for Knowledge Bears Fruit’, New York Herald Tribune (29th June 1958), Section 2, p.1. (Photograph U.S. Navy). 17. ‘Upward March!’, Newsweek, 28th April 1958, p.44. (Photograph United Press, Washington DC).

Attributed works:

17. ‘Upward March!’, Newsweek, 28th April 1958, p.44. (Photograph United Press, Washington DC).

Attributed works:

18. Canto II: The descent, by Robert Rauschenberg. 1958. (Museum of Modern Art, New York).

Attributed works:

19. L. Lieber: ‘The Tall Man Gets Elected!’, New York Herald Tribune (10th July 1960), This Week magazine, p.11.

Attributed works:

20. Canto XII: Circle seven, round 1, the violent against neighbors, by Robert Rauschenberg. 1960. (Museum of Modern Art, New York).

Attributed works:

21. U.S. Navy Commanders M. Lee Lewis and Malcolm D. Ross, published in the New York Herald Tribune (27th July 1958), p.3. (Photograph Associated Press, New York).

Attributed works:

22. Detail of an advertisment for Colgate Instant Shave, Esquire ( June 1958), p.162

Attributed works:

23. Detail of an advertisement for Clipper Craft, Esquire (October 1960), p.80.

Attributed works:

24. Patrice Lumumba, illustrated in ‘We will fight to keep them out’, Newsweek (15th August 1960), p.33. (Photograph London Express).

Attributed works:

25. Canto XXI: Circle eight, Bolgia 5, the grafters, by Robert Rauschenberg. 1960. (Museum of Modern Art, New York).

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