Alejandro Marmo e il tema dell’arte pubblica Paolo Coen The Argentinian sculptor Alejandro Marmo owes a significant part of his fame to his ties with Pope Francis: the Pope not only commissioned him to create various works today in the Vatican Gardens but also chose him to represent contemporary art in his book La mia…
Alessia Frassani
Note sulla ricerca di campo virtuale a partire da due dipinti fiorentini Alessia Frassani The article presents new findings and reflections based on the analysis of two unpublished paintings in the Dominican Convent of San Marco in Florence. In a rather unexpected way, the two pictures prove to have visible connections with contemporaneous Latin American,…
Gianpasquale Greco
La Santa Teresa d’Avila in gloria di Massa Lubrense: una proposta per Luca Giordano in penisola sorrentina Gianpasquale Greco This essay shows the Saint Teresa of Avila in glory, in the church of Saint Teresa, located in Massa Lubrense (Naples), occasionally mentioned but never analyzed by scholars. This study, by considering the stylistic qualities of…
Franca Varallo
Un inedito di Lionello Venturi: la conferenza di Barcellona del 27 marzo 1931.La teoria della deformazione e l’arte moderna Franca Varallo Lionello Venturi held his last course at the University of Turin in the academic year 1930/31 on the idea of deformation from Romanesque sculpture to Cézanne’s painting. This topic, already present in his 1926…
Stefania De Vincentis
Do we need a Digital Art History? Alcune riflessioni su un dibattito aperto Stefania De Vincentis Digital Art History, as an area of the digital humanities, is affected by heterogeneous theoretical positions, each differently involved in defining its theoretical and methodological validity.The purpose of this article is to collect the main reflections which animate this…
Valentina Frascarolo
L’Italia con gli occhi di Goya Valentina Frascarolo
Susanne Adina Meyer
Il cantiere dei cantieri. Il restauro del Cenacolo di Leonardo nella prima metà del Novecento Susanne Adina Meyer
Presentazione
Il «fare» pensato. Le parole degli artisti, le idee dell’arte Arti Visive Giacomo A. Calogero, Gianluca del Monaco, Pasquale Fameli
Gianluca del Monaco
La decorazione libraria negli scritti medievali sulle tecniche artistiche Gianluca del Monaco The article presents a brief survey of how book illumination is considered in a few of the primary medieval texts on artistic techniques. It is intended to scrutinize which themes are explored and how and with which words they are examined. The texts…
Emanuele Zappasodi
Descrivere la tradizione, codificare l’avanguardia: Cennino e la lavorazione dell’oro in tavola tra Trecento e Quattrocento Emanuele Zappasodi The text analyzes the technical procedures of the tooling of metal leaves in 14th- and 15th-century panel painting described in the Libro dell’arte by Cennino Cennini. This book gave significant importance to this specific aspect of painting….