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)….
Paolo Coen
Ron Arad. In Reverse, Torino, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, 20 dicembre 2013-30 marzo 2014, a cura di Ron Arad Associates, progetto e coordinamento Michael Castellana e Ron Arad Associates, direzione organizzativa alla Pinacoteca Agnelli Marcella Pralormo Paolo Coen The article is a detailed review of the Ron Arad exibition, held in Turin, at the…
Valentina Frascarolo
Su una recente monografia di Andrea Ansaldo (M. Priarone, Andrea Ansaldo (1584-1638), Genova, Sagep, 2013) e sull’attualità del genere monografico Valentina Frascarolo The article is a review of Margherita Priarone’s monogragh of the Genoese Baroque painter Andrea Ansaldo, published in 2013. More generally it discusses the role of monographic studies, focused on single artistic personalities,…