Tracce per una storia della fotografia
proiettata. Le diapositive per la Storia
dell’arte dell’Accademia di Belle Arti
di Brera
Greta Plaitano
This essay examines the history of projected photography in art-historical teaching at the Accademia di Belle
Arti di Brera between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. Drawing on unpublished archival
sources and a surviving corpus of 352 glass slides, it reconstructs two successive teaching collections —
associated respectively with Giulio Carotti (1902–1922) and Evangelina Tea (1922–1956) — analysing their
material features, provenance, and cataloguing history. The study combines a philological reconstruction
of the didactic materials with an examination of their social and medial dimensions, shedding light on the
role of projected photography as a transformative tool in art-historical pedagogy.