Dalla voliera all’officina di un frescante. Un libro di uccelli di Giovanni da San Giovanni
Valentina Frascarolo
This article sets out to analyze the volume by Giovanni da san Giovanni, a rare and precious testimony to the heritage of a seventeenth-century Florentine workshop, containing a series of plates depicting birds, a monkey and a squirrel. It lends itself to being related not only to the tradition of entrusting drawing books with the function of collecting, preserving and handing down creative and design material of the master and his atelier, but also to the continuity and evolution of wall decoration on the ceilings of city palaces and villas in the transition between the 16th and 17th centuries.