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Article
A crazy cook: Menander’s ‘Fake Herakles’ on a Roman gem
12/2024 | 1461 | 166
Pages: 1217–1221
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Author:
Gradel, Ittai (Gradel, Ittai)
Subjects
dates:
0099-0001 BC
sources:
Menander
subjects:
Gems / Roman art / Iconography / Theatre (discipline) / Hercules / Actors and actresses / Comedy
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Intaglio set into a modern gold ring. Intaglio: Roman, 2nd–1st century BCE. Carnelian, 2.1 by 1.1 cm. (Private collection; photograph Gabriele de Vangelli de Cresci).
Western art unattributed:
1. Intaglio, shown actual size. Roman, mid- to late 1st century BCE. Carnelian, height 8.5 mm, thickness 1.5 mm. (Private collection; photograph the author).
Western art unattributed:
2. Fig.1 backlit.
Western art unattributed:
3. Six-spouted oil lamp featuring New Comedy theatre masks (the maison type is third from the left). Greek, 1st century BCE. Terracotta, 9.3 by 23 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Western art unattributed:
4. Cast copy of a 1st century BCE Roman intaglio. 18th century. Glass, 2.1 by 1.4 cm. (From E. Zwierlein-Diehl, Glaspasten im Martin-von-Wagner- Museum der Universität Würzburg, Munich 1986, Taf.109, no.604).
Western art unattributed:
7. Hercules and Omphale. Roman, 54–79 CE. Fresco, 103 by 88 cm. (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples; Bridgeman Images).
Western art unattributed:
Opposite 5. Figs.1 and 2, shown enlarged.
Article
‘The big Italian’: Giambologna and his model Bartolommeo di Lionardo Ginori
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 912-919
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Author:
Avery, Charles (Avery, Charles)
Subjects
art literature:
Baldinucci, Filippo
artists:
Giambologna / Zuccaro, Federico / Santi di Tito / Michelangelo / Pollaiolo, Antonio del
dates:
1550-1599
media:
Sculpture / Marbles / Bronzes / Wax sculpture / Models (representations) / Paintings
museums and institutions:
Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence, Italy
patrons:
Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574 / Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598 / Francesco I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1541-1587 / Christian I, Elector of Saxony, 1560–1591
places:
Italy / Florence
subjects:
Italian sculpture / Models (people) / Sitters / Ginori, Bartolommeo di Lionardo / Ginori family / Biographies / Soldiers / Crucifixes / Portraits / Statuettes / Gifts / Commissions / Rape of the Sabines / Mars / Hercules / Prometheus / Titles of works of art / Identification
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Rape of the Sabines, by Giambologna. 1582. Marble, height (excluding the base) c.410 cm. (Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
10. Prometheus, cast from a model by Giambologna. c.1590. Gilt bronze, height 23 cm. (Private collection; photograph courtesy Tomasso Brothers Fine Art, UK).
Attributed works:
2. Crucified Christ, by Giambologna. 1580s. Bronze, 33.5 by 21.5 cm (Cleveland Museum of Art; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
3. Portrait of Giambologna, with his model for ‘Samson and a Philistine’, by Federigo Zuccaro. 1575. Black and red chalk, 26.1 by 188 cm. (National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh).
Attributed works:
4. Rape of the Sabines, by Giambologna. c.1581. Clay with traces of whitewash, height c.410 cm. (Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence).
Attributed works:
5. Mars, by Giambologna. c.1581–87. Gilt bronze, height 39.4 cm. (Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Dresden; photograph Arrigo Coppitz).
Attributed works:
6. Portrait of Bartolommeo di Lionardo Ginori, by Santi di Tito. c.1583. Canvas, height c.250 cm. (Private collection, Florence; photo Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence).
Attributed works:
7. Portrait of Pietro di Cosimo de’ Medici, by Santi di Tito. c.1583. Canvas, 208 by 113 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).
Attributed works:
8. Mars and Prometheus, cast from models by Giambologna. c.1587 and c.1590 respectively. Bronze, heights 39.4 cm. and 23 cm. (Both private collection; photograph courtesy Tomasso Brothers Fine Art, UK).
Attributed works:
9. Man seen from three angles, by Antonio del Pollaiuolo. Fifteenth century. Stylus, pen and ink and wash on paper, 26.5 by 36 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Short Notice
Picasso’s first drawing and its source
12/2008 | 1269 | 150
Pages: 825
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Author:
Ekserdjian, David (Ekserdjian, David; E., D.)
Subjects
artists:
Picasso, Pablo
artists:
Giambologna
dates:
1890-1899
museums and institutions:
Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Spain
print:
Picasso, Pablo
subjects:
Drawings / Spanish / Copies / Italian sculpture / Bronzes / Collections, Public
subjects:
Hercules
subjects:
Visual sources
subjects:
Early works
Illustrations
Attributed works:
23. Hercules, by Pablo Picasso. 1890. Pencil on paper, 49 by 32 cm. (Museu Picasso, Barcelona).
Attributed works:
24. Hercules wielding his club, by or after Giambologna. c.1600. Bronze, 42.2 cm. high. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Attributed works:
25. Hercules and the hydra, from a model by a follower of Giambologna. Eighteenth century. Bronze, 85.5 cm. high. (Present whereabouts unknown).
Short Notice
Two Hercules sculptures by Cristoforo Solari
12/2007 | 1257 | 149
Pages: 844-846
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Author:
Luchs, Alison (Luchs, Alison)
Subjects
artists:
Solari, Cristoforo, il Gobbo
dates:
1500-1519
museums and institutions:
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
places:
Hamburg / Germany
print:
Solari, Cristoforo, il Gobbo
subjects:
Italian sculpture / Hercules / Marbles
Illustrations
Attributed works:
42. Side view of Young Hercules resting, by Cristoforo Solari, showing inscription on the base. c.1512–13. Marble, 20.8 by 36 by 14.2 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
43. Front view of Fig.42.
Attributed works:
44. Hercules and Cacus, by Cristoforo Solari. 1516–17. Marble, 35.3 cm. high; base 51.5 by 18 cm. (Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg).
Attributed works:
45. Lazarus or Job, by Cristoforo Solari. c.1510 or later. Marble, 202 cm. high. (Museo del Duomo, Milan).
Western art unattributed:
46. Reclining Hercules (the ‘Chiaramonti Hercules’). Roman copy of a Greek original, the head restored in 1568. Marble. (Giardino della Pigna, Vatican Palace).
Article
Michelangelo in Florence: 'David' in 1503 and 'Hercules' in 1506
08/2000 | 1169 | 142
Pages: 487-492
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Author:
Hirst, Michael (Hirst, Michael)
Subjects
artists:
Michelangelo
dates:
1500-1519
places:
Italy / Florence
subjects:
Italian sculpture / David / Hercules
Illustrations
Attributed works:
12. David, by Michelangelo. Marble, ht. 513.5 cm. Including Base (Galleria dell'Academia, Florence).
Attributed works:
13. Head of S. Pio, by Michelangelo. Marble. (Cappella Piccolomini, Siena Cathedral).
Attributed works:
14. Head of the Virgin in the Pitti tondo, by Michelangelo. Marble. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Attributed works:
15. Sketch for a Hercules and Cacus Group, by Michelangelo. Pen and Ink, 14.8 by 9 cm. (Casa Buonarroti, Florence).
Short Notice
Delacroix's 'Hercules Cycle' in the Salon de la Paix of the Hôtel de Ville, Paris
04/1997 | 1129 | 139
Pages: 256-257
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Author:
Hannoosh, Michèle (Hannoosh, Michèle)
Author:
Johnson, Lee (Johnson, Lee)
Subjects
artists:
Delacroix, Eugène
buildings:
Hôtel de Ville, Paris, France
dates:
1800-1899
places:
France / Paris
subjects:
French painting / Frescoes
subjects:
Greek iconography / Hercules
Illustrations
Attributed works:
41. The Infant Hercules with Minerva and Juno, by Eugène Delacroix. 1852. 24 by 41 cm. (Musée Carnavalet, Paris).
Attributed works:
42. Plan of the Salon de la Paix, of the Old Hôtel de Ville, Paris, with a Reconstruction of Delacroix's Hercules Cycle.
Short Notice
Rysbrack, 'Hercules', and Pietro da Cortona
04/1983 | 961 | 125
Pages: 216-217+219
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Author:
Kenworthy-Browne, John (Kenworthy-Browne, John; Browne, John Kenworthy-)
Subjects
artists:
Rysbrack, Michael
artists:
Cortona, Pietro da
dates:
1700-1799
places:
England
subjects:
British sculpture / Hercules / Visual sources
Illustrations
Attributed works:
27. Hercules, by John Michael Rysbrack. Signed and Dated 1744. Terracotta, Washed with Brown-Red Paint, Height 59.7 cm. (The National Trust, Stourhead).
Attributed works:
28. Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides, by J. F. Greuter, after Pietro da Cortona. 1644 (Published 1646). Engraving, 31.4 by 23 cm.
Attributed works:
29. Flora, by John Michael Rysbrack. Signed and Dated 1759. Terracotta, Height 57.3 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum).
Attributed works:
30. Flora, by John Michael Rysbrack. 1759-61. Marble, Life Size. (The National Trust, Stourhead).
Short Notice
A Supplement to Michelangelo's Lost Hercules
01/1981 | 934 | 123
Pages: 20-23
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Author:
Joannides, Paul (Joannides, Paul; J., P.; Joannides, P. E. A.)
Subjects
artists:
Michelangelo
artists:
Gozzoli, Benozzo
artists:
Pollaiolo, Antonio del
dates:
1500-1549
places:
Italy
subjects:
Italian sculpture / Lost works
subjects:
Hercules
subjects:
Visual sources
Illustrations
Attributed works:
42. Hercules, copy after a statuette?, by Parmigianino. Pen and brown ink. (Galeria Nazionale, Parma).
Attributed works:
43. David with Goliath's Head, by Master PP. Engraving.
Attributed works:
44. Adam, by Antonio Pollaiuolo. Pen and Wash. (Gabinetto dei Disegni, Uffizi).
Attributed works:
45. Shepherd, by Benozzo Gozzoli. Detail of a Fresco. (Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence).
Western art unattributed:
40. Hercules, after Michelangelo? Bronze. (Victoria and Albert Museum).
Western art unattributed:
46. Hercules Observing Telephos, from the Pergamon Altar. Marble. (Staatliche Museen, Berlin).
Article
Michelangelo's Lost Hercules
08/1977 | 893 | 119
Pages: 550+552-555
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Author:
Joannides, Paul (Joannides, Paul; J., P.; Joannides, P. E. A.)
Subjects
artists:
Michelangelo
artists:
Rubens, Peter Paul
artists:
Silvestre, Israël, the younger, 1621-1691
collectors and dealers:
Strozzi family
dates:
1490-1499
places:
Italy / Florence
subjects:
Italian sculpture / Lost works
subjects:
Hercules
subjects:
Copies
subjects:
Bronzes
Illustrations
Attributed works:
25. Le Jardin de l'Etang, Fontainebleau, by Israel Silvestre. 1649. Etching.
Attributed works:
26. Hercules (After Michelangelo?), by Peter Paul Rubens. Drawing. (Musée du Louvre).
Attributed works:
27. Hercules, by Baldassare Peruzzi, Here Described as after Michelangelo. Drawing. (Kupferstich-kabinett, Dresden).
Attributed works:
28. Fountain (After Primaticcio?) Attributed to Jacques Androuet du Cerceau. Drawing from Album c.1555-60. (Petit Palais, Paris).
Attributed works:
29. Hercules. Florentine, Early Sixteenth Century, Here Described as after Michelangelo. Drawing. (Albertina, Vienna).
Attributed works:
30. Hercules, Here Described as after Michelangelo. Bronze Statuette. (Victoria and Albert Museum).
Attributed works:
31. Another View of the Bronze Illustrated in Fig.30. [Hercules, Here Described as after Michelangelo. Bronze Statuette. (Victoria and Albert Museum).]
Book Review
Michelangelo's Last Paintings [and: Der Wiederentdeckte Herkules des Michelangelo]
10/1976 | 883 | 118
Pages: 712
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Reviewer:
Joannides, Paul (Joannides, Paul; J., P.; Joannides, P. E. A.)
Subjects
artists:
Michelangelo
dates:
1500-1599
places:
Italy
subjects:
Italian painting / Late works
subjects:
Italian sculpture / Lost works
subjects:
Hercules
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Michelangelo's Last Paintings; Der Wiederentdeckte Herkules des Michelangelo | author: Michelangelo , author: Steinberg, Leo , author: Utz, Hildegard
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