I Valania-Arrigoni: una dinastia di intermediari attivi nel Lombardo-Veneto nel XIX secolo Olga Piccolo The contribution aims to offer new insights into a little-known dynasty of intermediaries, although active in the Lombardy-Veneto region and internationally for over a century. The progenitor was Ignazio Valania, who in the first two decades of the 19th century, knew…
Martina Colombi
Capolavori in fuga. Gli affari dell’antiquario milanese Giuseppe Baslini a Londra, Berlino e Parigi Martina Colombi Regarded as the most important art dealer active in Milan in the second half of the 19th century, Giuseppe Baslini (1817-1887) was a true self-made man: thanks to his exceptional connoisseurship and his unscrupulous business flair, he transformed and…
Luca Giacomelli
La vendita della collezione Rinuccini di Firenze: un episodio di mercato al tramonto del Granducato* Luca Giacomelli In May 1852, the auction of the Rinuccini collection took place in Florence: in the space of a month, one of the city’s oldest and most intact collections, consisting of around seven hundred works of art from every…
Serena D’Italia
La riscoperta della scuola pittorica piemontese e l’attività di Federico Pezzi, libraio e antiquario tra Restaurazione e Unità d’Italia. Serena D’Italia The phenomenon of the Napoleonic suppressions of religious orders in Piedmont was the cause of the arrival on the antiquities market of a large number of works of art, often produced by so-called “primitive”…
Ginevra Odone
Le vicende collezionistiche del San Benedetto attribuito a Simone Martini tra storia del gusto e del collezionismo (XVIII-XIX secolo) Ginevra Odone Now exhibited in the Vatican Museums, the painting depicting Saint Anthony the Abbot by Sano di Pietro was formerly assigned to Simone Martini and identified as a Saint Benedict. The paper illustrates its passing…
Marcella Marongiu
Michelangelo: amici, allievi, collaboratori. Il caso di Marcello Venusti Marcella Marongiu In his very long career, Michelangelo made a radical transformation in the modus operandi of the Renaissance artist. Departing from the established model of workshop organisation, in which each level of the learning stage corresponded to different occupations and margins of autonomy, he implemented…
Francesco Solinas
Mario de’ Fiori e Raffaello Vanni, la Flora Rospigliosi ritrovata e qualche appunto sulla pittura naturalistica a Roma alla metà del Seicento Francesco Solinas The extraordinary baroque canvas presented in this essay represents an Allegory of Flora with seven putti and extensive flower arrangements. The author identifies the painting with the long-lost Flora painted by…
Adriano Amendola
Un ritrovato dipinto di Ottavio Leoni a Montecitorio: il Ritratto di Paolo Giordano II Orsini in abito nero Adriano Amendola The author restores to Ottavio Leoni a portrait kept in Palazzo Montecitorio, on deposit since 1925 from the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, formerly assigned to a 17th-century Dutch school. Moreover, the sitter is…
Pasquale Focarile
Per una storia degli alberi genealogici dei fiorentini: incisioni, dipinti e documenti da Scipione Ammirato ad Alessandro Bonini Pasquale Focarile After the first publication of the Genealogical Tree of the Medici Family (1569), many Florentine families resorted to the same “inventor”, the genealogist Scipione Ammirato, asking him for their family trees. Starting from a review…
Beatrice De Francesco
Giorgio Scherer (1831-1896). Un protagonista della pittura parmense del secondo Ottocento Beatrice De Francesco This article focuses on the prolific artistic activity of the painter and draughtsman Giorgio Scherer. The analysis begins from his academic studies and the earlier prizes he won for nude drawings, up to his mature production, exploring his main masterpieces, in…