An unknown Belgian collection of 16th-18th centuries Italian drawings Petra Boekstal The purpose of this article is to bring to the notice of the public a Belgian noble collection of Italian Old Master drawings, which was acquired in Italy around 1800 by Baron de Presle. The existence of this collection was discovered when Petra Boekstal…

Novità sul soggiorno romano di Giovanni Battista Tempesti Stefano Renzoni The article sheds new light on the permanence in Rome of the Pisan painter Giovanni Battista Tempesti (1729-1804), yet not studied in detail. The article is based on new documentary evidences about Tempesti’s life in Rome and on ten unpublished drawings to be referred to…

Transposed Models: the British Career of Antonio Cesare de Poggi (1744-1836) Camilla Murgia This article deals with the figure of Antonio Cesare de Poggi, a Tuscan artist active in London during the last decades of the 18th century. Poggi’s British career will be explored in order to understand how the artist integrated London’s artistic sphere…

Una galleria tascabile: un libro di ricordi di Giuseppe Bezzuoli e altri quaderni di appunti e disegni Valentina Frascarolo An unpublished sketchbook belonged to the Florentine painter Giuseppe Bezzuoli (Firenze 1788-1855), today preserved in the GDSU of Florence, contains various copies from ancient sculptures gathered during the reorganization of the «Real Galleria degli Uffizi» promoted…

Tre generazioni nella pittura del Settecento toscano Emanuele Pellegrini In the second half of eighteenth century some Florentine men of letters (Bottari, Pelli Bencivenni) pointed out the decadence of the arts in Italy at the time they were writing, and in particular in Tuscany. Such an assessment implies one golden period at the very beginning…