San Ranieri in America. Due oreficerie di metà Quattrocento fra New York e Pisa Gabriele Donati The gilded copper reliquary dated 1446 (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art) has been well-known for a long time as a rare example of the early infiltration of Renaissance forms inspired by Brunelleschi and Donatello in the field of…
Claudio Casini
L’angelo che non volò. Una scultura non realizzata per il nuovo arredo presbiteriale del Duomo di Pisa al tempo dell’arcivescovo Filippo de’ Medici Claudio Casini In the 1460s artistic activity in Pisa experienced a period of recovery thanks to the Florentine archbishop Filippo de’ Medici and to the Operaio del Duomo Antonio di Jacopo delle…
Luigi Lazzerini
Benozzo Gozzoli e la Fraternita dei fiorentini di Pisa Luigi Lazzerini According to Vasari, Benozzo painted in Pisa «in the oratory of the Confraternity of the Florentines… the altarpiece and many other images». Starting with a detailed reconstruction of the fifteenth-century history of the Pisan Fraternita dei Fiorentini, which assisted those condemned to death, and…
Sarah M. Cadagin
Domenico Ghirlandaio and his Workshop in Pisa: Panel Paintings for the Gesuati Sarah M. Cadagin Domenico Ghirlandaio’s three paintngs in Pisa’s Museo Nazionale di San Mateo have long been the subject of connoisseurial investgaton, but have been litle examined in light of their origins in Pisa’s Gesuat church of San Girolamo. Exploring Ghirlandaio’s presence in…
Caterina Bay
La storia di Pafnuzio e Onofrio in una tavola del Museo Nazionale di San Matteo Caterina Bay This article is dedicated to a little known panel that entered the Pisa museum’s collection in 1808 from the suppressed church of San Paolo all’Orto. The painting, which served as the frontal for the high altar, represents episodes…
Pierluigi Nieri
l restauro del Redentore benedicente del Beato Angelico al Museo Nazionale di San Matteo a Pisa: dati diagnostici e tecnico-materici Pierluigi Nieri The restoration of Beato Angelico’s Blessing Redeemer (Museo Nazionale di San Matteo, Pisa), undertaken to conserve a work unique for its preciousness and rarity as well as for its damaged condition, has allowed…
Gerardo De Simone
Tra decadenza e Rinascenza: spigolature sul Quattrocento a Pisa. Gerardo De Simone The fifteenth century was for Pisa an almost apocalyptic age: the glorious maritime Republic, queen of the Mediterranean sea in the past centuries, fell under the dominion of Florence and underwent a dramatic decay which affected demography, economy, culture and art. Nonetheless, eminent…
Maria Luisa Catoni
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…
Cinzia Nicolini
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…
Luke Uglow
“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…