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…
Pisa: appello contro la tutela “amatoriale” del patrimonio storico-artistico
Pisa: appello contro la tutela “amatoriale” del patrimonio storico-artistico
Emanuele Pellegrini
Digital Humanities, Digital Art History: perché un disegno leonardesco assomiglia a un tappeto svedese? Emanuele Pellegrini In recent years Art History has been deeply involved in the rapid evolution of Digital Technologies. The approach to written but also visual sources has deeply changed, and brand new repositories together with brand new research tools have become…
Fabienne Fravalo
Un nouvel outil de recherche sur les revues d’art: le Répertoire de cent revues francophones d’histoire et de critique d’art de la première moitié du XX siècle de l’INHA Fabienne Fravalo In June 2013 the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA) uploaded online the Répertoire de cenrevues francophones d’histoire et critique d’art de la première…
Paolo Martore
Ricordi di domani Paolo Martore Within the context of contemporary art, conservation issues look at the work of art as a living, and constantly changing, entity. According to this perspective the concept of loss becomes both critical and unacceptable, since the art object, being changeable and passing, is always jeopardized in its vitality. Such a…
Francesco Federici
Un percorso scientifico nei rapporti tra il cinema e le arti contemporanee. Il Filmforum Festival di Udine e Gorizia, tra archivio ed esposizione. Francesco Federici The Filmforum Festival of Udine and Gorizia is an event that gathers in two diferent parts, the International Film Studies Conference and the MAGIS International Film Studies Spring School, a…
Silvia De Min
L’ecfrasi performata Silvia De Min The rhetorical category of ékphrasis was defned by the ancients as the use of language to imagine a scene.On the contrary, in the modern sense, ékphrasis is defned as the description of a visual art object. This article takes in consideration the role of ékphrasis in contemporary theatre. Ékphrasisin performance…
Giovanna Ragionieri
Paolo Uccello, Filippo Lippi e ilRinascimento perplesso a Prato Giovanna Ragionieri The exhibition Da Donatello a Lippi. Ofcina pratese, held in Prato between September 2013 and January 2014, was a wide review of works of art (mainly panels) executed for the Tuscan town or accomplished by artists who worked there. Some important critical problems were…