Materia, meraviglia, memoria: performatività e interazioni semantiche nei grands joyaux con smalti sur ronde-bosse Gianluca Ameri The patronage of the Valois family fueled the creation of the new ronde-bosse enamelling technique, whose origins can be traced back to mid-fourteenth century. According to the written sources of the Valois courts, the first aim of the goldsmiths…
Giulia Calanna
Da Roma a Parigi. Nuovi documenti sull’esodo dell’Avorio Barberini Giulia Calanna This paper focuses on the nineteenth century collecting history of the renowned Barberini Ivory, one of the most important late-antique artworks of the Louvre Department of Decorative Arts. The ivory relief was brought from Rome, where it was kept in the Barberini collection, to…
Giovanni Santucci
Scienza militare e cultura dell’Antico nella Cittadella Nuova di Pisa di Giuliano da Sangallo* Giovanni Santucci Among the many fortresses built by Giuliano da Sangallo and his brother Antonio the Elder, the Cittadella Nuova in Pisa is the one where Giuliano was more autonomous. Moreover, this is the last important building whose construction was directly…
Maria Rachele Baiona
La tavola della Madonna di “sotto gli Organi” nella cattedrale di Pisa: nuove riflessioni e alcuni documenti inediti Maria Rachele Baiona Thanks to the discovery of some unpublished documents kept in the Archivio Capitolare of Pisa and in the Evelyn Sandberg Vavalà photographic collection, the article aims at pointing out new aspects on the so…
Emanuele Pellegrini
La «biennale nata morta»: i verbali della Mostra d’arte italiana moderna della città di Firenze Emanuele Pellegrini Intended to take place in Florence during the summer of 1951, the Biennale fiorentina d’arte contemporanea was an exhibition project involving more than fifty living Italian artists with more than eight hundred works of art on show. Eventually,…
Elisa Marangon
Anche la fede serviva all’amore; anzi tutto serviva alla fede d’amare”. La vicenda collezionistica del coretto di Torchiara dai Windsor a Lino Pesaro Elisa Marangon The Coretto di Torchiara is a wooden grandstand originally placed in the Castle of Torrechiara, in the village of Langhirano, Parma countryside. It is better known for being an historical…
Clarissa Ricci
Hi Tech Gondola. The Venice Biennale in an Advertisement Clarissa Ricci On the occasion of the 45th Venice Biennale (1993), the artistic director, Achille Bonito Oliva, commissioned a television commercial with the aim of improving the institution’s image in a period of low international recognition. The result consists of twenty-one short videos created by Nam…
Eliana Carrara
Longhi e il Giudizio sul Duecento: critica d’arte e spunti polemici negli anni Quaranta del Novecento Eliana Carrara The article analyzes an essay by Roberto Longhi, focused on 13th-century painting and considered to be particularly controversial. By comparing the scientific debate and the analysis of the strong contrasts among prominent members of the Italian academic…
Giuliana Tomasella
Art and Colonialism: the “Overseas Lands” in the History of Italian Painting (1934-1940) Giuliana Tomasella When did Fascism recognize the propaganda potential of art in the construction of colonial imagery? What were the strategies through which art was put at the service of Mussolini’s expansionist policy? The article will try to answer these questions, analyzing…
Elisa Bassetto
Arte e ideologia nell’Italia del Novecento Elisa Bassetto Recensione a Alessandro Del Puppo, Egemonia e consenso. Ideologie visive nell’arte italiana del Novecento, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2019