Stylization of the body and embodied values in Classical Antiquity Maria Luisa Catoni The paper investigates the ways in which ancient Greek political philosophy from the IVth century BCE analyzed the role and function of bodily figures and, more generally, the mimetic technai. The cross-media dimension of the codified language of bodily schemata – as…

Note sulla committenza del “Regno di Pan” di Luca Signorelli Cinzia Nicolini Most of Academics identify Luca Signorelli’s Court of Pan with the Vasari’s definition “alcuni Dei ignudi”, and they consider Lorenzo il Magnifico the patron of the picture. In this paper, it is considered the possibility that Vasari talks about another picture, a little…

“Il nome di Giorgione”: Observations on Crowe and Cavalcaselle’s Connoisseurship Luke Uglow Crowe and Cavalcaselle were the most important connoisseurs of the nineteenth century. Significantly, the Anglo-Italian partnership fundamentally changed the way we think about the Venetian painter Giorgione by dratically reducing the number of paintings attributed to him. Crowe and Cavalcaselle considered their connoisseurship…