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No-northern Re-naissance

12 Monday Nov 2012

Posted by SG in Armour, Art, Holbein (Younger), Painting, Portraits, Precious metal, Sculpture, Tourism

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Today’s review by Waldemar Januszcak of the Northern Renaissance exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace.

by Holbein c.1540-43.

The idea of a Northern Renaissance has been doubted, but this reviewer says, Yes!

“Reader, if you encounter one of these naysayers anywhere near Buckingham Palace, grab them by the ear, yank them to the Queen’s Gallery and instruct them to open their eyes. Anyone who cannot spot the presence here of a distinct aesthetic needs to sit their GSCE in art all over again.”

The exhibition covers Durer to Holbein, and raises the issue of a north-south divide in Europe, with a contrast in themes and sensibilities between protestant and catholic.

Januszczack reckons the really interesting question is: what came first, the tone or the religion? He goes too far by saying this is a difference in genetics, and has a laugh in awarding Durer’s illustration of the Book of Revelation, “some sort of Oscar for horribleness”.

The Tudor connection, of course, is Hans Holbein the younger – the review marvels at his realism: Continue reading →

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Here Be Panthers …

24 Monday Oct 2011

Posted by SG in Armour, Art, Diplomacy, Elizabeth I, Heraldry, Jewellery, Orthodox - eastern, Precious metal, Russian, Sculpture, Sea Trade

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This English beast dwells in the Armoury Chamber of the Kremlin …

A silver sculpture of a panther (some say leopard – doctors differ). Three feet high – claws, teeth, tongue and tail. There seems to be a harp-like structure to it, but maybe that’s just me. And note the face under the left forepaw.

The piece was made circa 1600 and is part of a collection of English silverware – goblets, wine vessels, jugs, salt-cellars – amassed by the Russians in the 16th and 17th centuries.

The collection was exhibited in London in 2006 and is considered the most important surviving group of English silver from that period. Why? Because pieces like this were melted down at a furious rate in the mid-17th century, during England’s civil war and the Commonwealth government under Oliver Cromwell.

How did the sculpture end up in the Kremlin? Continue reading →

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