Illuminando la décima plaga de Egipto: la muerte de los primogénitos en el programa pictórico de las haggadot medievales catalanas, particularidades e inflencias Alba Barceló As one can read in the text of the Passover Haggadah, the plagues of Egypt play a crucial role in the story of the liberation of the Israelites in Egyptian…
Rudolf Schier
Sailing to Byzantium: Giorgione’s Three Philosophers Rudolf Schier This essay analyzes Giorgione‘s Three Philosophers not by means of the prevailing typological approach but from an historical perspective. The conclusion reached is that the composition depicts the meeting between Sultan Mehmed II and Patriarch Gennadios Scholarios in Constantinople. This thesis is supported by Gentile Bellini‘s drawing…
Claudia La Malfa
I campanili di Raffaello Claudia La Malfa In his 1839 monograph on Raphael, Johann David Passavant included The Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and Francis, now at the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. Following this initial attribution, the picture was inserted in Raphael’s catalogue raisoneé and generally dated to around 1502 or 1503. Critical debate focused particularly…
Cristina Gaglione
Il gioco di carte alla corte degli Este: analisi di un dipinto di Dosso sulla base della rilettura degli inventari estensi Cristina Gaglione The essay is dedicated to a painting sold by Sotheby’s New York on the 31st January 2014. Attributed to Battista Dossi, it represents a rural scene whose protagonists are portrayed in a…