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Article
Michelangelo’s Bruges Madonna: its patron, material and meaning
11/2024 | 1460 | 166
Pages: 1123–1139
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Author:
Nuttall, Paula (Nuttall, Paula)
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1. The Bruges Madonna in situ in the Chapel of the Holy Sacrament, Church of Our Lady, Bruges. (Photograph the author).
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10. Virgin and Child, by Benedetto da Maiano. Before 1497, completed 1575. Marble, height 140 cm. (Oratorio della Misericordia, Florence).
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11. Detail of the Barbadori Altarpiece, by Filippo Lippi. 1438. Tempera on panel. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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12. Detail of Fig.2. (Photograph the author).
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13. Virgin and Child, by Gentile da Fabriano. 1425. Fresco. (Orvieto Cathedral; photograph Jeff Cotton).
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14. Detail of Fig.13, showing left hands of the Virgin and Child. (Photograph Jeff Cotton).
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15. Detail of Fig.2, showing the hands of the Virgin and Child. (Photograph the author).
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16. Virgin and Child, by Tino da Camaino. 1320–21. Marble, height 78 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
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18. Studies for the Apostles, Battle of Cascina, the Bruges Madonna and an architectural element, by Michelangelo. c.1503–04. Black chalk, dark brown ink, pen and lead point on paper, 27.3 by 26.2 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).
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19. Detail of Fig.18 (top right of sheet), showing a study for the Bruges Madonna.
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2. Madonna and Child (the Bruges Madonna), by Michelangelo. 1504–05. Marble, height 128 cm. (Church of Our Lady, Bruges; Bridgeman Images).
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20. Detail of Fig.18 (centre of sheet), showing a study for the Bruges Madonna.
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21. Detail of Fig.18 (top of left-hand edge), showing a study for the Bruges Madonna.
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22. Detail of Fig.18 (centre and bottom of left-hand edge), showing studies for the Bruges Madonna.
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23. Three studies of nude men and the Virgin and Child, by Michelangelo. c.1504–05. Black chalk, dark and light brown ink, pen and lead point on paper, 31.5 by 27.7 cm. (British Museum, London).
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24. Tomb of Pieter Moscron. 1829, with original sixteenth-century brass coats-of-arms. (Chapel of the Holy Sacrament, Church of Our Lady, Bruges; photograph Brit Vanraepenbusch).
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25. Detail of Fig.23, showing a study for the Bruges Madonna.
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26. Detail of Fig.1, showing the Moscron coat-of-arms, here attributed to Joost Aerts and Jan de Smet. c.1558–65. (Photograph the author).
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27. Detail of Fig.1, showing the 17th-century swag above the central niche. (Photograph the author).
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3. Margaret of York and Mary of Burgundy kneeling before a white statue of St Anne, fol.2v of the Register of the Guild of St Anne, by Circle of Vienna Master of Mary of Burgundy. c.1476. Gold and bodycolour on vellum, height 33 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © Royal Collection Enterprises Limited, 2024; Bridgeman Images).
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4. White Virgin of Jean de Berry. French, c.1400. Marble, height 146 cm. (Bourges Cathedral; Alamy Stock Photo).
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5. Detail of a cast of the Bruges Madonna, showing the different treatment of the front and back of the base. 1871. Plaster. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; photograph the author).
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6. Detail of Fig.2, showing the chisel marks on the base. (Photograph the author).
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7. Detail of Fig.2, seen from the left. (Photograph the author).
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8. Detail of Fig.2. (Photograph the author).
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9. Detail of Judith and Holofernes, by Donatello. c.1456. Bronze. (Palazzo Vecchio, Florence; Photo Scala, Florence).
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17. Our Lady of Leuven. Netherlandish, 13th century (reworked 1442). Polychromed and gilded wood and rock crystal, height 160 cm. (Church of St Peter, Leuven).
Article
‘Une pièce fort singulière’: the rediscovery of Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s ‘Andromeda and the sea monster’
11/2024 | 1460 | 166
Pages: 1101–1122
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Author:
Clemente, Maichol (Clemente, Maichol)
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1. Andromeda and the sea monster, here attributed to Gian Lorenzo Bernini. c.1616–17. Marble, 53 by 34 by 24 cm. (Private collection; photograph Tony Fisher).
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10. Detail of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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11. Detail of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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12. Detail of Fig.8. (Photograph Mauro Magliani).
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13. Detail of the Bust of Antonio Coppola, by Pietro Bernini with Gian Lorenzo Bernini. 1612. Marble. (Museo di Arte Sacra di San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, Rome; photograph Domenico Ventura).
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14. Detail of Fig.1. (Photograph the author).
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15. Detail of Fig.26. (Photograph Mauro Magliani).
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16. Detail of a putto, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. 1618. Marble. (Barberini Chapel, Sant’Andrea della Valle, Rome; photograph Mauro Magliani).
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17. Detail of the Virgin Mary from the relief of the Assumption, by Pietro Bernini. 1607–10. Marble. (Baptistery, S. Maria Maggiore, Rome; photograph Mauro Magliani).
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18. Anima Beata, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. c.1619. Marble, 41.5 by 29 by 24 cm. (Spanish Embassy to the Holy See, Rome; photograph Domenico Ventura).
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19. Bacchanal: faun teased by children, by Pietro and Gian Lorenzo Bernini. c.1615–16. Marble, 132.4 by 73.7 by 47.9 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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2. View of the back of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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20. Detail of Fig.19.
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21. Detail of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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22. Detail of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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23. Detail of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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24. Detail of Fig.25.
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25. Boy with a dragon, by Gian Lorenzo (and Pietro?) Bernini. c.1616. Marble, 55.9 by 52 by 41.5 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
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26. St Lawrence on the gridiron, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. c.1616–17. Marble, 66 by 108 cm. (MiC – Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; photograph Mauro Magliani).
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27. Detail of Fig.26, rotated 90 degrees. (Photograph Mauro Magliani).
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28. Detail of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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29. Detail of Fig.26, rotated 90 degrees. (Photograph Mauro Magliani).
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3. Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Minister of Louis XIV, by Claude Lefebvre. 1666. Oil on canvas, 130 by 96 cm. (Musée et Domaine National de Versailles et de Trianon; Bridgeman Images).
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30. Detail of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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31. St Sebastian, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. 1617. Marble, 98 by 42 by 49 cm. (Private collection, on loan to Museum Thyssen- Bornemisza, Madrid).
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32. Detail of Fig.2. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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33. Detail of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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34. Detail of Fig.31.
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35. Detail of Fig.31.
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36. Detail of Fig.31.
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37. Detail of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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38. Detail of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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39. Detail of the back of Fig.31, rotated 180 degrees.
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4. Letter from Elpidio Benedetti to Jean-Baptiste Colbert, 19th March 1682. (Archives Nationales, Paris, Contrôle général des finances, G/7/551, fol.9).
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40. Detail of Fig.31.
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41. Detail of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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42. Detail of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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43. Detail of a Putto, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. 1618. Marble. (Barberini Chapel, Sant’Andrea della Valle, Rome; photograph Mauro Magliani).
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44. Detail of Fig.47.
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45. Detail of Fig.46.
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46. Neptune and Triton, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. 1622–23. Marble, height 182.2 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Bridgeman Images).
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47. Rear view of Rape of Proserpina, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. 1621–22. Marble, height without base 255 cm. (MiC – Galleria Borghese, Rome).
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5. Side view of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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6. Side view of Fig.1. (Photograph Tony Fisher).
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7. Side view of Fig.8. (Photograph Mauro Magliani).
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8. Andromeda, by Pietro Bernini. c.1615. Marble, 105 by 52.5 by 40 cm. (Accademia Carrara, Bergamo; photograph Mauro Magliani).
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9. Detail of Fig.8. (Photograph Mauro Magliani).
Book Review
Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages
01/2024 | 1450 | 166
Pages: 93–94
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Reviewer:
Luyster, Amanda (Luyster, Amanda)
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Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages By Lucy Donkin. 504 pp. incl. 76 col. + 8 b. & w. ills. (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2022), $69.95. ISBN 978–1–5017–5112–7. | :
Article
Rediscovered drawings by Bartolomeo Spani for sculpture and goldsmithery
10/2023 | 1447 | 165
Pages: 1082–1093
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Author:
Calogero, Marcello (Calogero, Marcello)
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1. Detail of Fig.3, showing the angels and God the Father. (Photograph Archivio Franco Cosimo Panini Editore S.p.a. – Arcidiocesi di Modena-Nonantola).
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10. Detail of Fig.2, showing a prophet.
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11. Reliquary bust of St Daria, by Bartolomeo Spani. 1533–38. Cast, chiselled and gilded silver, approximately 70 by 60 cm. (Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta, Reggio Emilia; photograph Diocesi di Reggio Emilia e Guastalla).
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12. Reliquary bust of St Crisanto, by Bartolomeo Spani. 1533–38. Cast, chiselled and gilded silver, approximately 70 by 60 cm. (Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta, Reggio Emilia; photograph Diocesi di Reggio Emilia e Guastalla).
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13. Design for a funerary monument, here attributed to Bartolomeo Spani. c.1510–20. Pen and grey-brown ink, grey-brown wash over stylus indentations, on paper, 28.3 by 19.3 cm. (Morgan Library & Museum, New York).
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14. Grotesque ornament from the Domus Aurea, by the Master of the Codex Escurialensis (fol.14r). c.1490. Pen and brown ink on paper, 33 by 23.5 cm. (Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid).
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15. Funerary monument of Bishop Bonfrancesco Arlotti, by Bartolomeo Spani. c.1509. White, pink and polychromed marble, approximately 520 by 230 cm. (Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta, Reggio Emilia; photograph Diocesi di Reggio Emilia e Guastalla).
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16. Design for a funerary monument, here attributed to Bartolomeo Spani. c.1510–20. Pen and brown ink, brown wash, on paper, 19.9 by 15.2 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; RMN-Grand Palais; Thierry Le Mage).
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17. Design for a tabernacle, here attributed to Bartolomeo Spani. c.1510–20. Pen and brown ink and wash, over stylus indentations, on paper, 25.5 by 16.5 cm. (Morgan Library & Museum, New York).
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18. Funerary monument of Lucia Rusca, by Antonio da Morbegno and ‘Maestro Anzelini’, after a drawing here attributed to Bartolomeo Spani. c.1515. White, pink and black marble, approx. 500 by 250 cm. (Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta, Reggio Emilia; photograph Archivio Franco Cosimo Panini Editore S.p.a. – Arcidiocesi di Modena-Nonantola).
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19. Baptism of Christ, by Francesco Caprioli (?). 1497. Fresco, approx. 400 cm. (Baptistry, Reggio Emilia; photograph Diocesi di Reggio Emilia e Guastalla).
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2. Design for a funerary monument, here attributed to Bartolomeo Spani. c.1510–20. Pen and brown ink and wash, with light pink wash over stylus indentations, on paper, 39 by 27.4 cm. (Morgan Library & Museum, New York).
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20. Monstrance (now forming a reliquary of St Concordia), by the workshop of Bartolomeo Spani. 1517. Cast, chiselled and gilded silver, 44 by 17 cm. (SS. Donnino and Biagio, Rubiera; photograph Diocesi di Reggio Emilia e Guastalla).
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21. Design for a pax, here attributed to Bartolomeo Spani. c.1510–20. Pen and brown ink on paper, 20.2 by 14.3 cm. (Morgan Library & Museum, New York).
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3. Funerary monument of Francesco Molza, by Bartolomeo Spani. 1516. White, pink and polychrome marble, approximately 540 by 270 cm. (Cathedral of SS. Maria Assunta and Geminiano, Modena; photograph Archivio Franco Cosimo Panini Editore S.p.a. – Arcidiocesi di Modena-Nonantola).
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4. Processional cross, by Bartolomeo Spani. 1508–09. Cast, chiselled and gilded silver, 76 by 63 cm. (Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta, Reggio Emilia; photograph Diocesi di Reggio Emilia e Guastalla).
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5. Detail of Fig.4, showing the figure of God the Father on the reverse.
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6. St Simeon of Polirone in Jerusalem, exorcising demons from men possessed, by Bartolomeo Spani. c.1516 (model, later cast, perhaps nineteenth century). Bronze, 6.14 by 18.5 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
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7. Detail of Fig.6, showing a soldier.
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8. Detail of Fig.2, showing a prophet.
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9. Detail of Fig.6, showing a monk.
Article
Painting on stone in Rome in the sixteenth century
07/2023 | 1444 | 165
Pages: 738–753
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Author:
Donati, Andrea Gianluca (Donati, Andrea Gianluca)
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1. Clement VII, by Sebastiano del Piombo. c.1530–34. Oil on slate, 105.4 by 87.6 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
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10. Design for the retablo of the Descalzas Reales, Madrid, by Gaspar Becerra. 1563. Brown ink, chalk and wash on paper, 87 by 50.5 cm. (Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid).
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11. Lucrezia, by Leonardo Grazia. c.1540–48. Oil on slate, 55 by 43 cm. (Galleria Borghese, Rome).
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12. Portrait of a young man (of the Orsini family?), by Daniele da Volterra. c.1545–50. Oil on slate, 54.5 by 40.5 cm. (Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples).
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13. Conversion of St Paul, by Taddeo Zuccaro. 1566. Oil on slate. (Cappella Frangipane, S. Marcello al Corso, Rome).
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14. Martyrdom of St Catherine of Alexandria, by Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta. 1565–66. Oil on slate, 305 by 188 cm. (Cappella Cesi, S. Maria Maggiore, Rome).
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15. Christ on the Mount of the Olives, by Marcello Venusti. After 1550. Oil on slate, 57 by 75 cm. (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin).
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16. St James the Elder, by Marcello Venusti. 1569–70. Oil on slate, 230 by 160 cm. (Cappella Salviati, Arciconfraternitata SS. Annunziata, S. Maria sopra Minerva, Rome).
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17. St Catherine of Alexandria, by Marcello Venusti. After 1566. Oil on slate, 164 by 82 cm. (Cappella Mutini, S. Agostino, Rome).
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18. Cardinal Alessandro Crivelli, by Marcello Venusti. c.1570–74. Oil on oval slate, height 46 cm. (S. Maria in Aracoeli, Rome).
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19. Cappella De Torres, S. Caterina de’ Funari, Rome. (Photograph Paolo Coen).
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2. Deposition, by Luca Penni. After 1542. Oil on slate, 73 by 153 cm. (Auxerre Cathedral).
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20. St John the Baptist, by Marcello Venusti. c.1575. Oil on slate, 260 by 165 cm. (Cappella De Torres, S. Caterina de’ Funari, Rome).
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21. Madonna in glory with the infant Christ, St Peter and St Paul, by Marcello Venusti. 1577. Oil on slate, 243 by 144 cm. (Chapel of Palazzo Senatorio, Rome).
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3. Nativity, by Francesco Salviati. c.1550. Oil on peperino, 176 by 172 cm. (Chapel of the Pallium, Palazzo della Cancellaria, Rome).
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4. Portrait of Roberto Strozzi, by Francesco Salviati. c.1556–57. Oil on Africano marble, diameter 13 cm. (Private collection).
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5. Portrait of a man with a gold coin, by Francesco Salviati. c.1556–57. Oil on slate, 82 by 53.5 cm. (Private collection).
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6. David and Goliath (obverse), by Daniele da Volterra. c.1550–56. Oil on slate, 133 by 172 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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7. David and Goliath (reverse), by Daniele da Volterra. c.1550–56. Oil on slate, 133 by 172 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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8. David and Goliath, possibly by Daniele da Volterra. After 1556. Oil on slate, 33.3 by 43.7 cm. (Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome).
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9. Baptism of Christ, by Daniele da Volterra and Michele Alberti. c.1556–74. Oil on slate, 360 by 230 cm. (Cardinal Ricci chapel, S. Pietro in Montorio, Rome).