Una polemica situata e da situare. 1963: Lonzi vs Argan di Michele Dantini Preview A sharp disputation occurred in December 1963 between Carla Lonzi, art critic and pupil of Roberto Longhi, and Giulio Carlo Argan, maybe the most influential art historian in Italy at the time, Lionello Venturi’s heir at La Sapienza University in Rome….
Emanuele Pellegrini
Ragghianti e longhi in una lettera a paola barocchi di Emanuele Pellegrini Preview In 1986 Paola Barocchi wrote a letter to Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti asking information about Ragghianti’s archive. In his reply to Paola Barocchi, rich in comments on the beginning of his activity and on Italian art criticism between WWI and WWII, Ragghianti attached…
Francesco Galluzzi
Longhi contemporaneo. Dal caravaggio a cimabue (con pasolini) di Francesco Galluzzi Preview Roberto Longhi’s teaching was of great significance for a generation of art historians, but also for young men of letters around the end of WWII. The text draws some parallels between Longhi’s studies on Cara- vaggio and realistic culture in 17th-century Italy (but…
Donatien Grau
Décalages et parallèles: roberto longhi et marcel proust di Donatien Grau Preview This essay aims to look into Roberto Longhi’s relation to Proust in terms, not only of an art historical reference, but of a methodological device in order to engage with the relation to time and to the medium. Looking into the texts Longhi…
François-René Martin
«Estrema tule». Sur une métaphore géographique chez roberto longhi di François-René Martin Preview This article investigates the metaphor estrema Thule used by Roberto Longhi in an essay written in 1941 on Italian and German art. For Longhi, the painter that evokes the mythological place of Thule, at the edge of the world, is Grünewald: a…
Effetto medusa
Effetto Medusa: immagine e tempo a teatro di Silvia De Min Preview The essay investigates the relationship between time and theatrical image. Following the suggestion of “Medusa’s effects”, it is possible to identify a theory of still images on the stage. The relationship between time and theatrical image is discussed in the context of quasi immobile performative…
Scultori mantovani
Diana scultori mantovana: appunti per una ricerca di Isabella Calidonna Preview The article’s purpose is to resume the first stage of achievements about the artist Diana Scultori which are part of a wider study. Diana Scultori (1547-1612), doughter of Giovan Battista and Adam’s sister, from her engravings’ cataloguing to the critical debate on the documents,…
‘Dancing girl with cymbals’ by antonio canova
Some questions about the provenance of the ‘dancing girl with cymbals’ by antonio canova in the bode-museum, berlin di Neville Rowley Preview This article investigates the provenance of the Dancing Girl with Cymbals by Antonio Canova now in the Bode-Museum, Berlin, from the completion of the marble by Canova in his studio in Rome, to…
Processate Elia Volpi
Processate elia volpi: alcuni documenti sul commercio del falso tra italia e stati uniti di Federica Gastaldello Preview Elia Volpi was born on 25th march 1858 in Colle Plinio. He studied as painter at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, until understood that he wouldn’t gain any success with this work and so he…
Il quartiere di settecamini
Nascita ed evoluzione di una borgata nella periferia est di roma: il quartiere di settecamini Francesca Pajno Preview This paper aims at outlining the history of the modern district called “Settecamini”, in the suburbs of east- ern Rome. This district was born at the beginning of the XX century, as a consequence of some new…