Paolo Falconieri tra scienza e arcadia.Le collezioni di un intellettuale deltardo barocco romano Francesca Curti The volume reconstructs the fgure of one among late-Seicento most appreciated intellectuals, Paolo Falconieri, through the analysis of unpublished documents and a philological examination of historical sources. Paolo belonged to an important Florentine family that moved to Rome at the…

Le Spalle al Settecento. Forma, modellie organizzazione dei musei nella Romanapoleonica Chiara Piva This review presents a recent book by Ilaria Sgabozza (Le Spalle al Settecento. Forma, modelli e organizzazione dei musei nella Roma napoleonica), published in 2013, which contains results of a study into archives and analyzes the efects of the French administration on…

Accademie Patrimoni di Belle Arti.Un libro e un convegno Federica De Rosa The volume Accademie Patrimoni di Belle Arti, edited by Giovanna Cassese, was published as the frst result of MIUR-AFAM’s advisory board on the cultural heritage of Italian Academies of Fine Arts (Accademie di Belle Arti). It was presented on occasion of the symposium…

To and From: Modernism andVernacular Architecture Paolo Coen Vernacular, or popular architecture has been a major feld of study and inspiration since the beginning of the twentieth century, as evidenced by Bruno Zevi, among others. The Portuguese contribution to the state of the art, already strong in the 1960s, has been lately enriched by a…