American collecting, Stefano Bardini & the Taste for Trequattrocento Florence Lynn Caterson Just around the turn of the century, the desire on the part of wealthy American and European collectors for Italian art was exorbitant. Operating out of Florence, the dealer Stefano Bardini (1836-1922) succeeded in matching that demand by stocking collections with ample quantities…
Robert Gibbs
A 21st-century Invention of a 19th-century Giotto Revival; the ‘Stendhal Syndrome’ Robert Gibbs
Alba Barceló
Illuminando la décima plaga de Egipto: la muerte de los primogénitos en el programa pictórico de las haggadot medievales catalanas, particularidades e inflencias Alba Barceló As one can read in the text of the Passover Haggadah, the plagues of Egypt play a crucial role in the story of the liberation of the Israelites in Egyptian…
Rudolf Schier
Sailing to Byzantium: Giorgione’s Three Philosophers Rudolf Schier This essay analyzes Giorgione‘s Three Philosophers not by means of the prevailing typological approach but from an historical perspective. The conclusion reached is that the composition depicts the meeting between Sultan Mehmed II and Patriarch Gennadios Scholarios in Constantinople. This thesis is supported by Gentile Bellini‘s drawing…
Claudia La Malfa
I campanili di Raffaello Claudia La Malfa In his 1839 monograph on Raphael, Johann David Passavant included The Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and Francis, now at the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. Following this initial attribution, the picture was inserted in Raphael’s catalogue raisoneé and generally dated to around 1502 or 1503. Critical debate focused particularly…
Cristina Gaglione
Il gioco di carte alla corte degli Este: analisi di un dipinto di Dosso sulla base della rilettura degli inventari estensi Cristina Gaglione The essay is dedicated to a painting sold by Sotheby’s New York on the 31st January 2014. Attributed to Battista Dossi, it represents a rural scene whose protagonists are portrayed in a…
Ilaria Taddeo
Some Observations on “Michele Grechi Lucchese” Painter and Engraver Ilaria Taddeo The article analyzes two decorations by the Lucchese artist Michele Grechi in mid-sixteenth-century Rome. The publication of the artist’s previously inedited testament provides the opportunity to deeper evaluate an oft-stated but unconfirmed attribution to Michele Grechi of a painted frieze in the first room…
Gianpasquale Greco
Un angolo di Toscana a Roma: la Cappella di Carlo Lambardi «Nobilis Aretinus» in Santa Maria in Via Gianpasquale Greco The aristocratic chapel which architect Carlo Lambardi erected for himself in the Roman church of Santa Maria in Via, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, has so far been neglected by scholars. This is also due…
Chiara Minardi
Nicolas Guillaume de la Fleur (1595/1600-1663): un pittore lorenese tra Roma la Francia in età barocca Chiara Minardi In this essay, the author reconstructs the history of the two series of floral etchings engraved by Nicolas Guillaume de La Fleur (1595/1600-1663), painter and draughtsman from Lorraine, residing in Rome during the 1630s, where he was…
Laurent Grison
Ingres et le mythe d’Œdipe Laurent Grison The French painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) depicted one of the most powerful Greek myths in a painting entitled Oedipus Explaining the Enigma of the Sphinx. Painted in 1808, and then reworked by the artist, it was exhibited at the Salon in 1827. Ingres explores the deep symbolic meaning…