Antonello e i suoi mondi, di ieri e di oggi. Una monografia esemplare e le mostre di cassetta Gabriele Fattorini Review of Fiorella Sricchia Santoro’s sumptuosly illustrated monograph on Antonello da Messina, the most important Sicilian painter of Italian Quattrocento. Twenty years after the author’s previous monograph on this painter (1986), the present volume features…
Neville Rowley
Un nouveau livre sur Paolo Uccello Neville Rowley Review of Mauro Minardi’s extensive, and richly illustrated monograph on Paolo Uccello (1397-1475), one of the foremost painters of the early Renaissance in Florence. The author discusses analytically Uccello’s catalogue and considers his oeuvre within the context of his contemporaries (Ghiberti, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Masaccio, Angelico, Piero della…
Franco Paliaga
La Gioconda di Leonardo secondo Martin Kemp e Giuseppe Pallanti Franco Paliaga Kemp’s and Pallanti’s stimulating study, grounded in documentary and literary sources, is the product of meticulous research into the family histories of painter, patron and subject. While this book is invaluable for offering a better understanding of the painting, its confirmation of the…
Gerardo de Simone, Emanuele Pellegrini
Ammonire o ricordare? I monumenti oggi tra senso e dissenso Gerardo de Simone, Emanuele Pellegrini
Valeria Paruzzo, Sara Tonni
Introduzione Valeria Paruzzo, Sara Tonni
Giovanni Truglia
Carlo Amoretti e le raccolte naturalistico-antiquarie tra Sette e Ottocento: incontri e scambi tra Lombardia e Veneto Giovanni Truglia This paper investigates the collecting notes in the writings of Carlo Amoretti (1741-1816), scholar, naturalist, and prominent figure in the cultural scene of Milan in the second half of the 18th century. In his numerous manuscripts,…
Sara Tonni
Verso la creazione di una «piccola collezione»: marchand-amateurs e antiquari nei carteggi di Bertel Thorvaldsen Sara Tonni This contribution considers the role of Bertel Thorvaldsen (Copenhagen, 1770-1844) in a perspective that has not yet been adequately investigated, that is as a collector of Italian Old Masters paintings. The paper intends to focus on the relationships…
Pier Ludovico Puddu
La quadreria Camuccini: genesi e dispersione di una collezione nella Roma ottocentesca Pier Ludovico Puddu The contribution traces and summarizes the salient moments in the history of the Camuccini picture gallery, established in the early Nineteenth century by the Roman art restorer and dealer Pietro Camuccini, and subsequently dismembered by his heir Giovanni Battista Camuccini…
Maria Maddalena Paolini
Periti rigattieri, mercanti, agenti tra Pesaro e Roma, con una digressione lombarda Maria Maddalena Paolini This study is based on archive documents concerning the business activities of various second-hand dealers and art appraisers in Pesaro. Their business was regulated by the Ministry of Trade, which issued professional licences. The paper describes the leading figures on…
Valeria Paruzzo
Antiquari e gallerie commerciali nella Venezia asburgica Valeria Paruzzo The present article focuses on the gradual transformation of the dynamics, the protagonists, and the topography of the trade in Old Master paintings in Venice, after the Fall of the Serenissima in 1797. It traces a chronology of the activity of the emerging figures of professional…