Dining in the Gonzaga SuburbanPalaces : The Use and Reception ofIstoriato Maiolica Lisa Boutin Vitela This article explores connections between istoriato (narrative-painted) maiolica dishes created for marchesa Isabella d’Este and her son duke Federico II Gonzaga and dining rituals at their suburban palaces. Due to its low intrinsic value, maiolica was especially well-suited for use…
Philippe Canguilhem
I musici convivi di Roma (1530-1540)e la dimensione sonora del banchettonel Rinascimento Philippe Canguilhem La Rome des années 1530-1540 voit fleurir une vie culturelle et artistique d’une rare richesse, où s’épanouissent au sein des famiglie de cardinaux différentes académies littéraires, dont les plus célèbres ont pour nom les Vignaiuoli, la Virtù ou encore le Sdegno….
Claudia Goldstein
«A Fool Goes to a Wedding»: TheSocial, Visual, and PerformativeFunctions of the Wedding Banquet inEarly Modern Antwerp Claudia Goldstein This essay explores interactions among objects, texts, and audiences brought together by the temporal moment of the wedding banquet and the space of the early modern dining room in Antwerp. I pay special attention to contemporary…
Valérie Boudier
La parabole du mauvais riche et dupauvre Lazare selon les Bassano :l’image d’un banquet, entreségrégation et mixité Valérie Boudier Through the study of Bassano’s Parable of Lazarus and the rich man, we will analyse the gap between the biblical narrative and the artist’s works. The text does not evoke gender or food behavior issues, whereas…
Memory Holloway
Banquets at the Portuguese Courtin the 16th and 17th centuries: Space,Place and Tradition Memory Holloway The representation of meals and banquets in Portuguese painting from the Renaissance to the early modern period is almost exclusively linked to religious imagery that features meals as rites associated with the Eucharist and Biblical texts. The food that appears…
Cristina Bragaglia
Schermi e banchetti del Rinascimento :ricostruzione e rielaborazione Cristina Bragaglia In the movies the banquets are reworked and adjusted to the appearances of the present, with diferent functions. If in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) and The Prince of Foxes (1949) they describe the heroes psychologies, in Les visiteurs du soir (1942) and…
Zuleika Murat
Le arche di Ubertino e Jacopo IIda Carrara nel percorso artisticodi Andriolo de’ Santi Zuleika Murat This essay investigates the funerary monuments of Ubertino († 1345) and Jacopo II († 1350) da Carrara. Once located in the main chapel of the Dominican church of Padua, Sant’Agostino, and moved into the church of the Eremitani at…
Cássio Fernandes
Enea Silvio Piccolomini cosmografo:dalla Germania alla Descrizionedell’Asia Cássio Fernandes At the crossing point between the cosmographer, the historian and the traveller narrator emerge two books written by Enea Silvio Piccolomini (1405-1464), Pope Pius II: Germania and Historia rerum ubique gestarum. The latter, also known as Cosmographia, remained unfnished and was divided in two diferent parts…
Maria Rachele Baiona
Il taccuino di Teoflo Gallaccini:una rilettura Maria Rachele Baiona A considerable number of manuscripts pertaining to Teoflo Gallaccini, professor of mathematics and philosophy at the University of Siena from 1621 to his death in 1641, is collected in the Biblioteca degli Intronati in Siena. A small fascinating unique travel sketchbook is still preserved among those…
Simonetta Nicolini
Stefano Bottari e l’insegnamentodella storia dell’arte nella scuola italiana(con un’appendice di tre lettere diCarlo Ludovico Ragghianti Simonetta Nicolini Among Italian art historians active between the two world wars, Stefano Bottari was one of the most involved in the popularization of art history in the school. Starting from lesson of Matteo Marangoni and Benedetto Croce, he…