Le arche di Ubertino e Jacopo IIda Carrara nel percorso artisticodi Andriolo de’ Santi Zuleika Murat This essay investigates the funerary monuments of Ubertino († 1345) and Jacopo II († 1350) da Carrara. Once located in the main chapel of the Dominican church of Padua, Sant’Agostino, and moved into the church of the Eremitani at…
Cássio Fernandes
Enea Silvio Piccolomini cosmografo:dalla Germania alla Descrizionedell’Asia Cássio Fernandes At the crossing point between the cosmographer, the historian and the traveller narrator emerge two books written by Enea Silvio Piccolomini (1405-1464), Pope Pius II: Germania and Historia rerum ubique gestarum. The latter, also known as Cosmographia, remained unfnished and was divided in two diferent parts…
Maria Rachele Baiona
Il taccuino di Teoflo Gallaccini:una rilettura Maria Rachele Baiona A considerable number of manuscripts pertaining to Teoflo Gallaccini, professor of mathematics and philosophy at the University of Siena from 1621 to his death in 1641, is collected in the Biblioteca degli Intronati in Siena. A small fascinating unique travel sketchbook is still preserved among those…
Simonetta Nicolini
Stefano Bottari e l’insegnamentodella storia dell’arte nella scuola italiana(con un’appendice di tre lettere diCarlo Ludovico Ragghianti Simonetta Nicolini Among Italian art historians active between the two world wars, Stefano Bottari was one of the most involved in the popularization of art history in the school. Starting from lesson of Matteo Marangoni and Benedetto Croce, he…
Monica Chessa
L’opera critica di Giulia Veronesi nella sua dimensione europea Monica Chessa Giulia Veronesi (1906-1970) was an important italian art critic who was active from the 1930s to the 1960s. Her scholarly activity was strongly infuenced by the aesthetic theories of Wilhelm Worringer, Konrad Fiedler, Alois Riegl, Vasilij Kandinskij, László Moholy-Nagy and Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti. She…
Alessandro Brogi
Maladidattica (e qualcosa di più).Il Cricco Di Teodoro. Versione gialla Alessandro Brogi
Denise La Monica
Mantova: un supermercato vicino a Palazzo Te Denise La Monica The historical centre of Mantova has been recently recognized as belonging to the Unesco World heritageList. As a consequence, the urban core of the city and the area of Palazzo Te are worthy to be protected and managed according to specifc rules. In 2012 the…
Annamaria Ducci
Per Volterra Annamaria Ducci On January 30th and March 3rd, 2014 the medieval city walls of the prominent Tuscan town of Volterra collapsed; this calls for a thorough refection on the management of the territory and the preservation of monuments in Italy. Publishing two essays written by scholars experienced in the history and archaeology of…
Denise La Monica
La forma della città: Volterra Denise La Monica The ancient town of Volterra is strictly connected with the history of its ancient walls. Since Etruscan Age, in Roman, Medieval and then in Modern Age the walls have strongly characterized the shape of the town and, more recently, its contemporary appeal. Even in Medieval ofcial acts,…
Alessandro Furiesi
Le mura di Volterra. Un monumento fragile? The paper focuses on the two collapsed parts of the city walls, describing their technical features and suggesting hypotheses about the possible causes of landslides. Moreover, the modern history of the city walls is retraced using both written and iconographical documents; the complex relationship linking the walls to…