Introduzione Stefano Renzoni, Emanuele Pellegrini

Santi da chiesa e da camera: i dipinti di Luigi Garzi per il cardinale Alderano Cybo Fabrizio Federici During the last two decades of the 17th century the painter Luigi Garzi produced for his patron cardinal Alderano Cybo several works; among them we find some of the best examples of Garzi’s art. Along with some…

Spicilegio toscano: frammenti di un discorso artistico fra Pisa, Firenze e lo Stato Pontifcio nel Settecento Giovanna Perini Folesani The publication of and comments on a number of as yet unpublished letters by Tuscan artists and patrons preserved in the Piancastelli Collection, Forlì sheds new light on various aspects of late 17th and 18th century…

Pitture, statue e stucchi nella Villa di Poggio Torselli* Sandro Bellesi In the surroundings of Florence, among the hills of San Casciano, lies the Villa Poggio Torselli, which in 1892 Guido Carocci defined «delle più vaste ed eleganti». The article aims to explain the history of the villa and its architectonic and artistic renewal during…

Giovan Domenico Lombardi e gli Spada tra Lucca e Osimo Paola Betti The essay analyzes the relationship between the Lucchese painter Giovan Domenico Lombardi and the Spada family starting from the unpublished documents preserved in Archivio di Stato in Lucca. These relationships were particularly important from 1714 to 1724 when Cardinal Orazio Filippo Spada was…

Note sui dipinti di Paolo De Matteis a Pistoia Giuseppe Napoletano Paolo De Matteis was born in Piano del Cilento (Salerno) in 1662 and was a painter active in Naples in the last decade of the seventeenth century and the first decades of the eighteenth century. After a brief period at the Accademia di San…

Note sul collezionismo del principecardinale Francesco Maria de’ Medici. Nuovi documenti su Andrea Scacciati, Pietro Dandini, Francesco Corallo, Antonio Ugolini, Livio Mehus, Niccolò Cassana, Balthasar Permoser, Gaetano Giulio Zumbo e altri Riccardo Spinelli Francesco Maria de’ Medici, born in 1660, second son of the Grand Duke Ferdinando II de’ Medici and Vittoria della Rovere, is…

Giambettino Cignaroli’s Ecstasy of Saint Francis at Pontremoli Robert Randolf Coleman In 1765, Verona’s premier painter, Giambettino Cignaroli (1706-70), completed a canvas representing Ecstasy of St. Francis for the main altar of San Francesco in Pontremoli. Painted toward the end of Cignaroli’s career, the altarpiece is one of two works that the artist produced in…

L’antologia cartacea di Alberigo Carlini: appunti e disegni di un frate pittore tra Roma e la Toscana nel Settecento Luisa Berretti This article focuses on the activity as draughtsman of the Franciscan monk Alberigo Carlini, who spent his life painting canvases and frescoes for Franciscan churches and convents in Tuscany and Rome. After a period…