Piero Manzoni 1959: tre Achromes “prensili” e una svolta New Dada Michele Dantini In Piero Manzoni 1959: tre Achromes “prensili” e la svolta New Dada [Piero Manzoni 1959: Three Prehensile Achromes and the New Dada Turn] Michele Dantini proposes unexpected modernist sources for the wellknown series of Manzoni’s “white” works of the years 1957-1957 while…
Michele Fucich
«Un’immane critica delle confuse perifrasi». Introduzione a Carl Einstein critico d’arte (Parte I) Michele Fucich Carl Einstein (1885-1940) was a German art critic and writer whose original approach to European avantgarde and primitivism hasn’t been adequately taken into account by the Italian academic world, despite a growing international attention to his intellectual legacy in the…
Simona Rinaldi
La voce dell’ICR: Giuseppe Basile e il restauro Simona Rinaldi The death of Giuseppe Basile (January 2, 1942- July 30, 2013) was a major loss in the field of conservationof art and cultural heritage in Italy. Basile represented the Central Institute of Restoration for twenty-fiveyears, during which he directed many conservation treatments and he edited…
Stefano Renzoni
Ancora sui manuali di storia dell’arte: scuola e università Stefano Renzoni This letter to the Editorial Board of «Predella» adds another chapter to the discussion on Art History handobooks, which was launched by Stefano Renzoni himself on issue no. 31 of «Predella», and followed by the contributions offered by Chiara Balbarini, Irene Buonazia and Alessandro…
Magdalena Palica
Il conte von Ingenheim tra arte e religione. Un collezionista prussiano in Italia Magdalena Palica Count Gustav Adolf von Ingenheim (1789-1855), half-brother of Frederic William II, king of Prussia, started collecting art during his first journey to Italy in 1816. In the following years more than 100 paintings were added to his collection (mostly works…
Lucia Bonazzi
Il castello dei destini incrociati. Il castello di Ferrara visto da John Cozens e William Turner. Lucia Bonazzi When J. M. William Turner visited Ferrara in 1819, during his first Grand Tour in Italy, he had already painted a view of the Este Castle of San Michele, about 20 years earlier, through the eyes and…
Erica Bernardi
La nascita del Fogg Museum di Harvard attraverso la corrispondenza Forbes-Berenson (1915-1928) Erica Bernardi The article examines the letters sent from Edward Waldo Forbes (1873-1969), first director of the Fogg ArtMuseum, to Bernard Berenson (1865-1959), which testify the phases of the Harvard Museum birth. In particular the author analyzes the years between 1914, when the…
Diletta Storace
Centre Pompidou Mobile. Caso studio per una nuova museologia Diletta Storace The Pompidou Mobile is an itinerant pavilion created by the director of the Centre Pompidou-Paris, AlainSeban, with the aim of becoming a new museological tool for the democratization of culture. In order toreach a geographical and social distribution of art, the Pompidou Mobile had…
Michele Dantini
Oltre le Digital Humanities. Ripensare il museo di arte contemporanea dal punto di vista dell’innovazione tecnologica e sociale Michele Dantini In this essay the author explores new trends in museology and points out potential connections between “fine arts” and the world of technology. While referring to a few institutions already experiencing collaborations between artists, researchers,…
Federica Veratelli
Hieronimus Cock: Lovanio e Parigi Federica Veratelli The article is a review of the exhibition dedicated to Hieronimus Cock (1518-1570), a major Flemish Renaissance engraver and leader of a very active workshop, which was held in Leuven, M-Museum (March 14 – June 9, 2013) and in Paris, Institut Néerlandais (September 18 – December 15, 2013)….