La Biblioteca d’arte di Villa Medici: una costruzione novecentesca Livia Fasolo This paper investigates the formation and evolution of the Art History Library of the French Academy in Rome, from 1803 onwards, when the Academy settled at the Villa Medici. Through a historical reconstruction of its spaces and a comparative analysis of the archival material…
Emanuele Pellegrini
Parla, eccome se parla Emanuele Pellegrini What is the relationship between art history and communication? Is it legitimate to accuse art historians of an inadequate ability to communicate cultural heritage? This paper addresses the persistent lack of recognition of art history as a scientific discipline beyond academic contexts, denouncing both errors and omissions in this…
Michele Dantini
Paolo Fossati tra storia e critica d’arte Michele Dantini Recensione a Paolo Fossati. Scritti, a cura di Chiara Portesine, Electa, Milano 2024.
Annamaria Ducci
Le immagini, vane e necessarie. Viaggio nelle terre di Morfeo Annamaria Ducci Recensione a Marco Paoli, Homo imaginificus. Sogni e visioni nella storia dell’arte dal Paleolitico superiore al Rinascimento, Maria Pacini Fazzi, Lucca, 2023.
Gerardo de Simone, Emanuele Pellegrini
La sindrome di Stoccolma della interdisciplinarità Gerardo de Simone, Emanuele Pellegrini
Martina Visentin
Storie di altari lignei in Friuli. Provvedimenti di tutela delle Soprintendenze e delle Kunstschutzgruppen durante la guerra (1915-1918) Martina Visentin During the First World War, monuments and works of art, including those in Friuli, were subject to extensive protection measures. This peripheral territory, located near the eastern borders with the Austro-Hungarian Empire, offers a significant…
Daniele Rivoletti
La lunga vita materiale delle pale d’altare composite Daniele Rivoletti Like most polyptychs and pale executed in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, composite altarpieces (i.e. painted altarpieces with a sculpted image in the central compartment of the main register) had a troubled material life between the 16th and 19th centuries. However, their secular…
Gerardo de Simone
Il polittico di Andrea Guardi per il Duomo di Carrara. Un’aggiunta e una nuova proposta di ricostruzione Gerardo de Simone This essay focuses on the monumental marble polyptych sculpted in the early 1460s by Andrea Guardi, a pupil of Donatello and Michelozzo, for the high altar of Carrara Duomo. A masterpiece from the mature phase…
Molly Hughes-Hallett
Anachronistic or Visionary? Evaluating Giovanni di Paolo’s use of Silver Leaf on a 15th-century Sienese Predella Molly Hughes-Hallett Giovanni di Paolo’s unusual use of silver is a material choice unexplored in terms of defining his aesthetic, as well as contextualizing him within the artistic Zeitgeist of his generation. A technical study of Giovanni di Paolo’s…
Marya Albrecht, Ella Hendriks
A Spanish retablo in Utrecht: material-technical analysis of the 15th century altarpiece from De Haar castle Marya Albrecht, Ella Hendriks De Haar Castle (Utrecht, the Netherlands) owns an ensemble of eight paintings, showing scenes from the life of Mary, originating from an altarpiece dedicated to the Virgin. The panels are currently attributed to an anonymous…