«Gente di ferro e di valore armata». Postille al tema degli Uomini Illustri, e qualche riflessione marginale sulla pittura profana tra Medioevo e Rinascimento Paolo di Simone The cult of the past is a very common topos not only in the humanistic Quattrocento but also in the Middle Ages, and it represents a strong propaganda…
Fabio Massaccesi
Giovanni da Modena and the Relaunch of the Vita-Panel in the Quattrocento Fabio Massaccesi This paper investigates a little known group of fifteenth-century vita retables from Bologna, taking as its starting point the painting of Saint Bernardino da Siena, executed by Giovanni da Modena in 1451, now in the Pinacoteca Nazionale of Bologna. The painter…
Joanne W. Anderson
Mary Magdalen and the Imagery of Redemption: Reception and Revival in Fifteenth-Century Tyrol Joanne W. Anderson In 1384 a host miracle occurred in the Alpine church of Sankt Oswald in Seefeld. The perpetrator was publically humiliated and forced to repent for his sins, but the legend of his affront was to have lasting legacy in…
Gerardo de Simone
The use of Trecento sources in Antoniazzo Romano and Lorenzo da Viterbo Gerardo de Simone Lorenzo da Viterbo and Antoniazzo Romano were the two greatest local painters of the fifteenth century in the region of Rome. Despite their stature, their fame and scholarly fortune has been much inferior to their merits, compared to other contemporary…
Andrea Pinotti
El Greco at the Ophthalmologist’s Andrea Pinotti The paper aims at reconstructing the centennial history of the so-called “El Greco fallacy”, namely the hypothesis that the extremely elongated figures painted by the Cretan artist were due to his astigmatism and not to a stylistic option intentionally assumed by the painter. This hypothesis interestingly and problematically…
David Carrier
The Blind Spots of Art History: How Wild Art Came to Be – and Be Ignored David Carrier In their recent book Wild Art David Carrier and Joachim Pissarro make a distinction between art found in galleries and museums and what we call wild art – the many art forms which are outside of the…
Johannis Tsoumas
Books, Windows and Walls: exploring the Pre-Raphaelite Movement second phase influence on Frederick James Shields’ decorative works Johannis Tsoumas This paper aims to both examine and illustrate the evolution of the Pre-Raphaelites Brotherhood at the time of the Arts and Crafts Movement, in particular its new decorative physiognomy and influence on the work of one…
Cecilia Riva
La Collezione Layard nel catalogo dattiloscritto 1896 Cecilia Riva Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894) was an archeologist, diplomat, writer, and a great art lover, especially passionate about Italian painting. The article presents its collection through the typewritten catalogue which was composed by Lady Enid Layard and is now stored in the library of the Polo…
Michele Fucich
«Un’immane critica delle confuse perifrasi». Introduzione a Carl Einstein critico d’arte (Parte II) Michele Fucich Carl Einstein (1885-1940) was a German art critic and writer whose original approach to European avantgarde and primitivism so far hasn’t been adequately taken into account by Italian scholars, despite a growing international attention to his intellectual legacy over the…
Paolo Coen
The level of our defeat: the Italian Memorial at Auschwitz and the history of art Paolo Coen According to an opinion officialy expressed by Dario Franceschini, the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Italian Memorial in Auschwitz «is no longer suitable to Auschwitz and not accepted by Polish authorities». The article focuses on the history and…