Diane Cole Ahl: Bibliography

Diane Cole Ahl: A Biographical Sketch

Stefano da Verona:A New Work and Some Old Problems Keith Christiansen In May 2017 a painting of the Crucifixion described generically as «Italian School, 14th Century», was sold at auction in London. Acquired by a young Italian dealer who recognized its exceptional quality, it was subsequently purchased by The Metropolitan Museum as a rare, early…

Artistic Exchange between Liguria,Piedmont, and Tuscany:Taddeo di Bartolo, Pietro Gallo da Alba,Barnaba da Modena, Niccolò da Voltri,and Francesco di Michele Gail E. Solberg It is curious and unfortunate that late Trecento painters who lodged long- or short-term in Genoa are not survived by as much as a single painting. An inevitable conclusion is that many…

La croce stauroteca del monasterodi Santa Chiara nel Museo di ArteSacra di San Gimignano: proposteiconografiche e stilistiche Cristina Borgioli Once belonging to the (suppressed) Monastero di Santa Chiara of San Gimignano, but today conserved in the Museo di Arte Sacra of that city, is a reliquary cross, decorated with silver leaf and embellished with figures…

Reframing a Revolution:Filippo Brunelleschi and theDevelopment of the FlorentineRenaissance Altarpiece Christa Gardner von Teuffel Brunelleschi’s classically-inspired architecture defined the unified all’antica panel structure and its framework. The architect’s fundamental invention, his supervisory role and participation in the innovative altarpiece design are examined. I trace the gradual growth in scholarly understanding of the formal and material…

Le Sette Parole di Cristo in croce nelciclo di San Marco del Beato Angelico Gerardo de Simone The theme of the Seven Last Words of Christ on the cross, reported in the canonical Gospels, has been resonating deeply in the theological and devotional literature since the early Middle Ages until today, and in sacred music…

Rome and Spoleto: Fra Filippo Lippiand Bishop Berardo Eroliin the Duomo of Spoleto Jean K. Cadogan Fra Filippo Lippi’s last mural project was the apse decoration (1466-1469) in the Cathedral of Spoleto. Although payment records reveal details of the chronology, technique, and execution of the murals, this paper will focus on the role that the…

Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta’sSurprising Duality: Images and Words Marilyn Aronberg Lavin For some 650 years, it has been fun to recount how Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini (1417- 1468), was three times burned in effigy and damned to hell by Pius II, the reigning pope. No one like him had been seen before or after….

«Questo misto di profano e di sacro»:The Studiolo Oratorio of Torrechiara Timothy McCall In one corner of the Camera d’Oro of Torrechiara castle (south of Parma), the room’s gold and azuritefrescoes and polychrome tiles are conspicuously interrupted by the remnants of a study: intarsia panels and terra verde frescoes representing four uomini famosi. This essay…