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Article
Ribera’s philosophers from the Alcalá collection
06/2025 | 1467 | 167
Pages: 552–563
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Author:
Vernejoul, Florent de (Vernejoul, Florent de)
Subjects
artists:
Ribera, Jusepe de
collectors and dealers:
Alcalá de los Gazules, 3rd Duke, Fernando Afán Enríquez de Ribera,
collectors and dealers:
Balbi, Costantino / Balbi (Junior -1748–1823), Costantino
museums and institutions:
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United States / Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
subjects:
Philosophers / Versions / Signatures / Iconography
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Philosopher with an open book, or Euclid, by Jusepe de Ribera. c.1630. Oil on canvas, 125 by 92 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
10. Detail of Fig.7, showing Ribera’s signature.
Attributed works:
11. Apollonius of Perga, by Jusepe de Ribera. 1612–14. Oil on canvas, 100 by 75.5 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
2. At the auction sale of the Aguado collection, 1843. From L’Illustration, Journal universel (1st April 1843, p.68; private collection).
Attributed works:
3. Philosopher with a staff, here identified as Dioscorides, after Jusepe de Ribera. c.1625–31. Oil on canvas, 125 by 92 cm. (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney).
Attributed works:
4. Detail of Fig.2, showing the position of the two Ribera paintings.
Attributed works:
5. Philosopher with a staff, here identified as Dioscorides, by Jusepe de Ribera. c.1630. Oil on canvas, 123 by 92 cm. (Private collection; photograph Christophe Janet).
Attributed works:
6. Apollo and Marsyas, by Jusepe de Ribera. 1637. Oil on canvas, 202 by 256 cm. (Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels)
Attributed works:
7. Drunken Silenus, by Jusepe de Ribera. 1626. Oil on canvas, 185 by 229 cm. (Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples).
Attributed works:
8. Detail of Fig.1, showing Ribera’s signature.
Attributed works:
9. Detail of Fig.6, showing Ribera’s signature.
Short Notice
A rediscovered painting by Sofonisba Anguissola
06/2025 | 1467 | 167
Pages: 572–575
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Author:
Cole, Michael (Cole, Michael)
Subjects
artists:
Anguissola, Sofonisba
subjects:
Portraits / Sitters / Signatures
subjects:
Restoration (process)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Portrait of an old man, by Sofonisba Anguissola. Oil on canvas, 89 by 72.5 cm. (Burghley House, Lincolnshire).
Attributed works:
2. Portrait of a canon, by Sofonisba Anguissola. 1552. Oil on canvas, 90.2 by 69.9 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
3. Detail of Fig.2, showing Sofonisba Anguissola’s signature.
Attributed works:
4. Adoration of the Shepherds, by Bernadino Gatti. 1557. Oil on canvas. (S. Pietro al Po, Cremona; Bridgeman Images).
Article
The Italian Renaissance altarpiece
04/2022 | 1429 | 164
Pages: 380-385
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Author:
Penny, Nicholas (Penny, Nicholas)
Subjects
artists:
Lotto, Lorenzo / Santi di Tito
subjects:
Early Italian art / Renaissance art / Italian art / Altarpieces / Inscriptions / Signatures / Christian iconography / Sacra Conversazione / Theology / Jesus Christ: Crucifixion / Mary, Virgin: Immaculate Conception / Saints
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Mystic winepress, by Mainardi, called Il Chiaveghino. 1594. Oil on canvas, approx. 500 by 300 cm. (S. Agostino, Cremona; Bridgeman Images).
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2. Vision of St Thomas Aquinas, by Santi di Tito. 1593. Oil on panel. (S. Marco, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
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3. Marriage of the Virgin, by Rosso Fiorentino. 1538. Oil on panel, 325 by 250 cm. (S. Michele Visdomini, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
4. Detail of Crucifixion, by Lorenzo Lotto. 1534. Oil on panel. (S. Maria della Pietà in Telusiano, Monte San Giusto, Macerata; Scala Archives).
Attributed works:
5. Madonna della Misericordia, by Fra Bartolommeo. 1515. Oil on panel, 407.5 by 262 cm. (Museo Nazionale di Villa Guinigi, Lucca; Bridgeman Images).
Letter
Poussin’s ‘Self portrait’ signature
03/2022 | 1428 | 164
Pages: 229
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Author:
Spear, Richard E. (Spear, Richard E.)
Subjects
artists:
Poussin, Nicolas
subjects:
Self-portraits / Signatures
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. Self portrait, by Nicolas Poussin. 1650. Oil on canvas, 98 by 74 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Article
Carlo Dolci’s Inscriptions 1 – Dolci’s signatures and prices in context
01/2022 | 1426 | 164
Pages: 4-15
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Author:
Spear, Richard E. (Spear, Richard E.)
Subjects
artists:
Dolci, Carlo / Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da / Domenichino / Carracci, Lodovico / Carracci, Annibale / Barbieri, Giovanni Francesco, called Il Guercino / Reni, Guido / Poussin, Nicolas / Lanfranco, Giovanni / Rosa, Salvator / Ribera, Jusepe de / Gentileschi, Artemisia
sources:
Baldinucci, Filippo
subjects:
Signatures / Dating / Inscriptions / Payments / Florentine art / Italian art / Religious art / Copies
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Detail of Fig.10, showing Carlo Dolci’s self-portrait within a self-portrait, inscribed 1674.
Attributed works:
10. Self-portrait, by Carlo Dolci. 1674. Oil on canvas, 74.5 by 60.5 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).
Attributed works:
11. Inscription on the strainer of the painting illustrated in Fig.13.
Attributed works:
12. Christ Child with a garland of flowers, by Carlo Dolci. 1674. Canvas, 96.5 by 76.5 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
Attributed works:
13. David with the head of Goliath, by Carlo Dolci. 1680. Canvas, 131.5 by 106 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
Attributed works:
2. Ecce Homo, by Carlo Dolci. 1681. Oil on canvas, 49 by 39 cm. (Galleria Corsini, Florence).
Attributed works:
3. Inscription on the strainer of the painting illustrated in Fig.5.
Attributed works:
4. St Agatha, by Carlo Dolci. 1664–65. Oil on canvas, 73 by 41 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
5. St Philip Neri, by Carlo Dolci. 1645. Oil on canvas, 44.5 by 36.2 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
6 and 7. Inscriptions on the strainer of the painting illustrated in Fig.4.
Attributed works:
8. Inscription on a wooden frame behind St John the Evangelist on Patmos, by Carlo Dolci. 1656. Oil on copper, 38 by 49 cm. (Palazzo Pitti, Florence).
Attributed works:
9. Luigi Gualtieri at the age of three, by Carlo Dolci. 1674. Black, red and blue chalk with blue watercolour on white paper, 20.8 by 14.2 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).
Book Review
La Griffe du peintre: La valeur de l’art (1730–1820). By Charlotte Guichard
12/2019 | 1401 | 161
Pages: 1066-1067
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Subjects
subjects:
French art / Eighteenth-century / Signatures
subjects:
Art market / Attributions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
La Griffe du peintre: La valeur de l’art (1730–1820) By Charlotte Guichard. 368 pp. incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Seuil, Paris, 2018), £52. ISBN 978–2–02–140231–5. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Young student drawing, by Jean-Siméon Chardin. 1738. Oil on panel, 21 by 17.1 cm. (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth).