Antonio Morassi life and method in the mirror of his Photo Archive. Rethinking Art-Historical Photographic collections. The making of Italian fototeche* Federica Veratelli The Fototeca-Archivio Morassi (Ca’ Foscari Universty of Venice), is a rare photo archive. It contains several reproductions of works of art, collected, during his life, by Antonio Morassi (1893 – 1976) an…
Gemma Torre
Dissemination of picture copies through different archives: the visual power of Cesare Battisti’s death Gemma Torre Photographs are documents and as such are used to show a message and in particular a visual message. The study of this typology of documents could highlight the activists’s power concept in the selection of memory, already unanimously affirmed….
Silvia Bottinelli
Protecting Creativity and Research through Fair Use. An Art Historian’s Reflections on the Unsustainable Costs of Image Reproduction Fees Silvia Bottinelli This text reflects upon the complexities of image copyright laws and their implications for the art community. I highlight the double-sided effects of such laws on the protection of author’s rights. On the one…
Gigetta Dalli Regoli
Malinconia di Giuseppe: l’avventura figurativa del santo fra tardo Medioevo e Rinascimento Gigetta Dalli Regoli The essay is an ample, and richly illustrated survey of the iconography of Saint Joseph, Jesus’s “father” and Mary’s spouse in European art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Constants and variables in the evolution of Joseph’s iconography are discussed…
Lucia Collavo
Ritorno a Venezia. Il profilo pittorico dedicato alla collezione Guggenheim al singolare, grande pittore italiano Lucia Collavo Venetian retrospective offers a new picture of Tancredi Parmeggiani (1927 – 1964) through an exhibition that emphasizes the peculiarities of his painting compared to the art scene of the Fifties. The exhibition is an importan rewiew of Tancredi…
Sara Menato
Cecilia Vicentini, La collezione Calcagnini d’Este. Una famiglia e le sue raccolte tra Ferrara e Roma Sara Menato Rewiew of the monograph on the Calcagnini d’Este family, written by a renowed specialist in field on History of Collecting in Ferrara, Cecilia Vicentini. The volume contains the transcription of a big amount of documents, for the…
Vlad Ionescu
From nothing, from an “idea”: Barbara Baert’s iconology of immersions and transitions Vlad Ionescu The following article discusses the iconological research of prof.dr. Barbara Baert (Francquis Chair 2016) on the Pneuma, a motifs that includes breath, wind, rauch, odour, stains, movement and silence. It is based on her latest publication Pneuma and the Visual Medium…
Annamaria Ducci
La continuità storica della coscienza del patrimonio culturale in Europa Annamaria Ducci The volume accurately describes the policies of cultural heritage protection adopted by the Office International des Musées and by other cultural organisms of the League Nations, between 1925 and the Second World War. The mass of archival documents collected and acutely commented by…
Manuela Ritondale
Peggy Levitt, Artifacts and allegiances. How museums put the nation and the world on display Manuela Ritondale Based on firsthand conversations with museums professionals, this book investigates the way museums represent diversity and respond to the effects of globalization. By wondering whether museums might have a role in shaping citizens, Peggy Levitt compares case-studies in…
Jean K. Cadogan
Benozzo Gozzoli, Filippo de’ Medici and the Old Testament Murals in the Camposanto in Pisa (1468-1484) Jean K. Cadogan This paper explores the role of Filippo de’ Medici, Archbishop of Pisa (1426-1474, r. 1461-1474), in the creation of the Old Testament murals in the Camposanto, painted by Benozzo Gozzoli between 1468 and 1484. Pisa was…