New Research on Art in Fifteenth Century Naples Adrian Bremenkamp, Sarah K. Kozlowski

Renaissance Made in Naples: Alfonso of Aragon as Role Model to Federico da Montefeltro Adrian Bremenkamp This contribution was first drafted as an introduction to a pair of linked sessions held at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Boston in spring 2016. It claims that fifteenth-century Naples remains an undervalued artistic…

The Mediterranean Context: Pisanello’s Medals for Alfonso I of Naples Tanja L. Jones This paper focuses upon the three extant medals (c. 1448-1450) that Pisanello designed for Alfonso I of Naples (Alfonso V of Aragon), offering new insights into the range of meanings that the sculptures likely conveyed to viewers in Italy and beyond. Here…

The Triumph of Alfonso of Aragon in Naples: From Living Images to Pictorial Representations Philine Helas Alfonso of Aragon’s triumphal entry into Naples on 26 February 1443 marked the end of Angevin rule and the beginning of fifty years of Aragonese dominion in southern Italy. In various ways, Alfonso’s entry was an epoch-making event. A…

Una Resurrezione del Maestro delle Ore Tocco al Brooklyn Museum: sulle tracce dei corali quattrocenteschi di San Domenico Maggiore a Napoli Teresa D’Urso This article draws attention to a little known illuminated folio representing the Resurrection of Christ (New York, Brooklyn Museum) and an unpublished Dominican gradual-sanctoral (Naples, Biblioteca del Convento di San Domenico Maggiore,…

Per la giovinezza di Giovanni da Gaeta Emanuele Zappasodi A decisive role in the formation of the prolific artist Giovanni da Gaeta, active in Lazio and Campania as well as in Sardinia and Majorca, has long been recognized in the work of Perinetto da Benevento and Leonardo da Besozzo in the Caracciolo chapel in the…

La Madonna del Cucito: un affresco nel contesto del presbiterio di Santa Chiara a Napoli Virginia Caramico The focus of this article is a fifteenth-century fresco of the Madonna del Cucito (the Virgin Mary Sewing) in the Neapolitan basilica of Santa Chiara, a work of the prolific local painter also responsible for the polyptych of…

Objects of Exchange: Diplomatic Entanglements in Fifteenth-century Naples Leah R. Clark By focussing on objects of exchange in Quattrocento Naples, this study argues that the city played a key role in shaping both a diplomatic culture as well as new approaches to the material world that emerged in fifteenth-century Italy. These developments were intrinsically linked…

Jan van Eyck’s Saint George and the Dragon between Bruges and Naples Sarah K. Kozlowski This essay traces the story of a panel painting of Saint George and the Dragon made by Jan van Eyck that traveled overland and by sea from Bruges, to Valencia, to Barcelona, and on to Naples, where it arrived at…