L’attività di Giacinto Fabbroni nel contado fiorentino: l’Impruneta e dintorni Elisa Tagliaferri Impruneta is a small village 12 km south of Florence which is best known since the Middle Ages for its miraculous icon of the Virgin. But Impruneta is also interesting for the Baroque paintings by Giacinto Fabbroni (1711-1783), such as the lost organ…
Gigetta Dalli Regoli
Antonio e Piero Pollaiolo. “Nell’argento e nell’oro, in pittura e nel bronzo…” Gigetta Dalli Regoli The exhibition held at the Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan (7 November 2014-19 February 2015) offered a significant overview of the different art techniques used by the brothers Antonio and Piero del Pollaiolo in their workshops, and showed how works…
Alessandro Grassi
Carlo Dolci (1616- 1686) Alessandro Grassi The exhibition Carlo Dolci (1616-1686) at the Galleria Palatina in Florence shows a wide range of paintings by one of the main Tuscan artists of the seventeenth century. Dolci’s career is analyzed in relation to his early masters and to the Florentine context. Some critical problems are faced in…
Michele Cuppone
I Petrignani di Amelia. Fasti, commitenze, collezioni tra Roma e l’Umbria Michele Cuppone The result of a decade of study and archival research, Massimo Moretti’s monograph scrupulously reconstructs the ascent and decline of a noble Umbrian family, the Petrignani. Based in Amelia, the Petrignani reached their apex with Monsignor Fantino, best known for having hosted…
Annamaria Ducci
Vers une Europe Latine. Acteurs et enjeux des échanges culturels entre la France et l’Italie fasciste Annamaria Ducci The volume explores the cultural and artistic relations between Fascist Italy and Republican France in light of the notion of latinité. Conceived as an ideological instrument of the diplomatic alliance between Italy and France, latinité became in…
Zuleika Murat
Trecento Receptions in Early Renaissance Paduan Art. The Ovetari Chapel and its Models. Revival or Persistence? Zuleika Murat This essay is devoted to a peculiar case of Trecento Receptions in Early Renaissance art: the Ovetari Chapel in the Church of the Eremitani in Padua. Its painted decoration was commissioned in 1448 to four artists (Antonio…
Gabriele Fattorini
Sano di Pietro e una replica dell’Assunta di Camollia di Simone Martini Gabriele Fattorini A devotional panel of the Assumption painted by Sano di Pietro (Siena, 1405-1481) in the 1470s, and which almost a century ago was in the prestigious collection of Charles Loeser (Florence), has recently reappeared on the art market. The settlement of…