An everlasting experience: the issue of preservation and communication of the ephemerality of performing arts Silvia Giordano The concept of preservation of the “ephemeral” might seem an unsolvable problem, already discussed by several scholars who focused on the theoretical debate, without achieving practical solutions yet. However, the charm of the topic lies precisely in the…
Veronica Sofia Tulli
La Centauromachia di Michelangelo e il sarcofago A 13 est. del Camposanto di Pisa Veronica Sofia Tulli Michelangelo’s Centauromachia is strictly related with ancient art. The cultural background of his first years of activity has been studied by many scholars, who individuated some key-figures of his youth: one of them is Bertoldo di Giovanni. The…
Lara Scanu
Alcune notizie sugli artisti fiorentini presso l’Arciconfraternita di san Giovanni Decollato in Roma e una precisazione per Jacopo Zucchi* Lara Scanu This paper analyzes the role of the artists belonging to the Archconfraternity of San Giovanni Decollato in Rome and how their works have a strong indentity character, referred directly to Florence, the place where…
Riccardo Spinelli
I cistercensi del “Cestello” fiorentino, da Borgo Pinti in San Frediano: le “tre chiese” del nuovo complesso conventuale e i progetti di Gherardo Silvani, Pier Francesco Silvani, Giulio Cerruti Riccardo Spinelli n 1628, according to the will of the Barberini family, the Cistercian friars of San Frediano al “Cestello” in Borgo Pinti exchanged their convent…
Gabriele Fattorini
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,…