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Book Review
The Literature of Art: A Manual for Source Work in the History of Early Modern European Art Theory
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 303
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Marmor, Max (Marmor, Max)
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The Literature of Art: A Manual for Source Work in the History of Early Modern European Art Theory By Julius von Schlosser, edited by Karl Johns and Barbara Gable, translated by Karl Johns. 711 pp. incl. 1 ill. (Ariadne Press, Riverside, 2023), $89.95. ISBN 978–1–57241–220–0. | :
Book Review
Il giovane Cavalcaselle: ‘Il più curioso, il più intrepido, il più appassionato di tutti gli affamati di pittura’
01/2025 | 1462 | 167
Pages: 72-3
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Davoli, Silvia (Davoli, Silvia)
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Il giovane Cavalcaselle: ‘Il più curioso, il più intrepido, il più appassionato di tutti gli affamati di pittura’ By Giovanni Mazzaferro. 244 pp. incl. 16 col. ills. (Olschki, Florence, 2023), €26. ISBN 978–88–22–26888–4. | :
Article
Reviving Delaroche
02/2024 | 1451 | 166
Pages: 171–177
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Bann, Stephen (Bann, Stephen)
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1. Paul Delaroche, by Jean Gigoux. 1832. Pencil on paper, 25 by 17 cm. (Private collection).
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2. The princes in the tower (Les enfants d’Édouard), by Paul Delaroche. 1830. Oil on canvas, 181 by 215 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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3. Bonaparte crossing the Alps, by Paul Delaroche. 1848. Oil on canvas, 222 by 289 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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4. Joan of Arc taken prisoner, by John Thompson after Paul Delaroche. Engraving, 14 by 9.5 cm. (From Prosper de Barante: Histoire des Ducs de Bourgogne, Paris 1842, opposite p.395).
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5. Installation view of Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey at the National Gallery, London, 2010, showing Charles I insulted by the soldiers of Cromwell, by Paul Delaroche as it appeared after its rediscovery. 1836. Oil on canvas, 300 by 400 cm. (Courtesy National Gallery, London).
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6. Assassination of the Duc de Guise, after Paul Delaroche. Engraving, 10.5 by 15 cm. (From J. Ruutz Rees: Horace Vernet, Paul Delaroche, London 1880, between pp.62–63).
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7. The blind fiddler (1806), by John Quartley after David Wilkie. 1806. Engraving, 13 by 15 cm. (From Magasin pittoresque 20 (1847), p.184).
Editorial
The Walpole Society
01/2024 | 1450 | 166
Pages: 3
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Edith Hoffmann’s early years in England, 1934–38
12/2023 | 1449 | 165
Pages: 1320–1329
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Yapou-Kromholz, Yonna (Yapou-Kromholz, Yonna)
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1. Edith Hoffmann, photograph by Franz Pfemfert, Photo Dorit, Paris. c.1937–38. (Edith Hoffmann family collection, Jerusalem).
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2. Elizabeth Senior. Photograph, c.1935. (Courtesy of Sally Senior Mellersh).
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3. Eliezer Yapou. Photograph, 1938. (Edith Hoffmann family collection, Jerusalem).
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4. Herbert Read, by Howard Coster. Photograph, 1934. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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5. The Exhibition of 20th Century German Art, New Burlington Galleries, London, by Ewan Phillips. 1938. Gelatin silver print, 16.4 by 23.2 cm. (© The Estate of Ewan Phillips; Tate Archive; M03751).
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6. The Exhibition of 20th Century German Art, New Burlington Galleries, London, by Ewan Phillips. 1938. Gelatin silver print, 16.4 by 23.2 cm. (© The Estate of Ewan Phillips; Tate Archive; M03754).
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7 and 8. Details of Figs.5 and 6, showing Edith in the New Burlington Galleries.
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9. Edith Hoffmann and Eliezer Yapou in Paris. Photograph, 1935. (Edith Hoffmann family collection, Jerusalem).
Short Notice
Surrealism: between politics and the picture book
10/2023 | 1447 | 165
Pages: 1117–1123
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Hopkins, David (Hopkins, David)
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Concepts of the World: The French Avant-Garde and the Idea of the International 1910–1940. By Effie Rentzou. 408 pp. incl. 37 b. & w. ills. (Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 2022), $120. ISBN 978–08–1014507–8. | :
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Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity. Edited by Vivien Greene et al. 272 pp. incl. 212 col. + 21 b. & w. ills. (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, and Prestel, Munich 2022), £40. ISBN 978–3–7913–7814–5. | :
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Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work. By Abigail Susik. 296 pp. incl. 16 col. + 46 b. & w. ills. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2021), £85. ISBN 978–1–5261–5501–6. | :
Illustrations
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1. Woman leaving the psychoanalyst, by Remedios Varo. 1960. Oil on canvas, 70.5 by 40.5 cm. (Art Resource, New York; Scala, Florence; photograph Bob Schalkwijk; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City).
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2. Le double monde, by Francis Picabia. 1919. Oil on canvas, 132 by 85 cm. (Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris; RMN-Grand Palais, Paris; photograph Georges Meguerditchian).
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3. Machine á coudre électro-sexuelle, by Óscar Domínguez. 1934–35. Oil on canvas, 100.2 by 80.8 cm. (© ADAGP, Paris, and DACS, London; Bridgeman Images; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid).
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4. Brouette no.1, by Óscar Dominguez. c.1936. Wood, felt and satin. (© ADAGP, Paris, and DACS, London; Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris; RMN-Grand Palais, Paris).
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5. Attirement of the bride, by Max Ernst. 1940. Oil on canvas, 129.6 by 96.3 cm. (© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London; Bridgeman Images; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice).
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6. Portrait of Max Ernst, by Leonora Carrington. c.1939. Oil on canvas, 50.3 by 26.8 cm. (© Estate of Leonora Carrington; Artists Rights Society, New York, and DACS, London; National Galleries of Scotland).
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7. Les noces (The wedding), by Wifredo Lam. 1947. Oil on canvas, 215 by 197 cm. (Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Scala, Florence; bpk Bildagentur fuer Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, Berlin; photograph Joerg P. Anders).
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8. Melusine and the Great Transparents, by Kurt Seigmann. 1943. Oil on canvas, 74.3 by 61 cm. (© Orange County Citizens Foundation; © Artists Rights Society, New York, and DACS, London; Bridgeman Images; Art Institute of Chicago).
Letter
Young Bellini
09/2022 | 1434 | 164
Pages: 837-838
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Wallace Maze, Daniel (Wallace Maze, Daniel)
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Editorial
Holiday reading
08/2022 | 1433 | 164
Pages: 739
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Article
Dante 1321–2021
03/2022 | 1428 | 164
Pages: 270-275
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Ekserdjian, David (Ekserdjian, David; E., D.)
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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). | :
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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7. Dante in Oxford, from The Poet’s Corner, by Max Beerbohm, London 1904. Lithograph, 37 by 28 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
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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).
Editorial
Looking forward
02/2022 | 1427 | 164
Pages: 119
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