Cum colonnellis et [p]redula».(Im)materialità della committenza di polittici per la chiesa dell’Ospedale Santa Chiara di Pisa Silvia Marcheselli Between 1301 and 1402, at least three polyptychs were commissioned for the church of the Santa Chiara Hospital in Pisa, only one of which has partially survived. This artistic initiative reveals a polarity between the emerging role…
Cyprien Fuchs
Un problème de taille. À propos du format original du retable de Taddeo Gaddi pour la Compagnia di Santa Maria della Croce al Tempio Cyprien Fuchs This paper focuses on the panel housed in the Museo Bandini in Fiesole depicting an Annunciation attributed to the Florentine painter Taddeo Gaddi. It was initially part of an…
Massimo Moretti
«Che razza de roba». Corrado Ricci, Anselmo Anselmi e un’inchiesta per la vendita del Dossale di Giuliano da Rimini a Boston Massimo Moretti Starting from unpublished documentation found at the State Central Archive in Rome, this study traces the fortunes of two masterpieces of the 14th-century Rimini school: the Crucifix by Pietro da Rimini and…
Virginia Caramico
Eloquenza del frammento: un esercizio sulla predella francescana di Ugolino di Nerio nel Museo di Villa Guinigi a Lucca Virginia Caramico The focus of this essay will be a fragmentary predella by Ugolino di Nerio, currently displayed at the Museo di Villa Guinigi in Lucca. This piece, which has received limited scholarly attention, most likely…
Neville Rowley
Géopolitique des polyptyques Neville Rowley Throughout the twentieth century, one of the most dynamic areas of research into Italian painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance was the virtual reconstruction of dismembered polyptychs. A study of the large altarpiece painted by Sassetta for the church of San Francesco in Borgo San Sepolcro enables to retrace…
Giulia Puma
Storia lunga dei polittici. Dagli smembramenti alla scienza della loro ricostituzione Giulia Puma
Valentina Frascarolo
Dalla voliera all’officina di un frescante. Un libro di uccelli di Giovanni da San Giovanni Valentina Frascarolo This article sets out to analyze the volume by Giovanni da san Giovanni, a rare and precious testimony to the heritage of a seventeenth-century Florentine workshop, containing a series of plates depicting birds, a monkey and a squirrel….
Domenico Laurenza
Hamilton’s debts. The Campi Phlegraei in the context of Vesuvian iconography Domenico Laurenza William Hamilton’s Campi Phlegraei and its Supplement (Naples, 1776 and 1779) are masterpieces of 18th-century illustrated books. Some plates are also among the best examples of landscape art in 18th-century Naples. The article presents Hamilton and his artist Pietro Fabris’s hitherto unknown…
Matteo Salomone
L’attività grafica di Santo Varni scultore e studioso: Amore che doma la Forza e il Monumento funebre di Lorenzo Dufour Matteo Salomone A crucial and multifaceted figure as a sculptor, collector, and scholar of archaeology and art, Santo Varni (Genoa, 1807-1885 was primarily active between Genoa and Turin around the mid-19th century. He complemented his…
Gigetta Dalli Regoli
Una “pillola” per Alvaro Pirez d’Evora Gigetta Dalli Regoli The essay analyzes the activity of the painter Alvaro Pirez D’Evora, considering a panel attributed to him and unknown to most, which is kept in a small church located in San Giuliano Terme, near Pisa.