El Greco at the Ophthalmologist’s Andrea Pinotti The paper aims at reconstructing the centennial history of the so-called “El Greco fallacy”, namely the hypothesis that the extremely elongated figures painted by the Cretan artist were due to his astigmatism and not to a stylistic option intentionally assumed by the painter. This hypothesis interestingly and problematically…
David Carrier
The Blind Spots of Art History: How Wild Art Came to Be – and Be Ignored David Carrier In their recent book Wild Art David Carrier and Joachim Pissarro make a distinction between art found in galleries and museums and what we call wild art – the many art forms which are outside of the…
Johannis Tsoumas
Books, Windows and Walls: exploring the Pre-Raphaelite Movement second phase influence on Frederick James Shields’ decorative works Johannis Tsoumas This paper aims to both examine and illustrate the evolution of the Pre-Raphaelites Brotherhood at the time of the Arts and Crafts Movement, in particular its new decorative physiognomy and influence on the work of one…
Cecilia Riva
La Collezione Layard nel catalogo dattiloscritto 1896 Cecilia Riva Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894) was an archeologist, diplomat, writer, and a great art lover, especially passionate about Italian painting. The article presents its collection through the typewritten catalogue which was composed by Lady Enid Layard and is now stored in the library of the Polo…
Michele Fucich
«Un’immane critica delle confuse perifrasi». Introduzione a Carl Einstein critico d’arte (Parte II) Michele Fucich Carl Einstein (1885-1940) was a German art critic and writer whose original approach to European avantgarde and primitivism so far hasn’t been adequately taken into account by Italian scholars, despite a growing international attention to his intellectual legacy over the…