Titling and the Individuation of Artworks Paul Tucker Ruth Bernard Yeazell offers an interesting and much-needed account of how pictures came to acquire titles, in the sense of names functioning as guides to interpretation. Her historical analysis would benefit from greater attention to the title’s evolving functions in discourse.

Scrivere d’arte nel Cinquecento Eliana Carrara This book offers a new and original point of view on the main themes discussed in Sixteenth-century art historiography. Ranging from antiquarian to collecting, from the debate over the primacy of the arts to the reflection on techniques, it highlights the emerging artist on the cultural scene of the…

Orlando Grosso e l’arte genovese tra musei civici e connoisseurship Silvia Massa This review presents a book by Andrea Leonardi (published in the series «Le Voci del Museo», 2016, n. 37) that by exploring new archival documentation aims at sheding light on Orlando Grosso’s thought and activity in his double role of connoisseur of Ligurian…

Les Cahiers de l’Ornement/2 Gigetta Dalli Regoli This is the review of the second volume of the series Les Cahiers de l’Ornement, edited by Pierre Caye and Francesco Solinas, published by De Luca ED., which contains essays by Marc Fumaroli, Maria Celeste Cola, Calin Demetrescu, Sabine Frommel, Charles Dominique Fuchs, Marc Fumaroli, Giulia Fusconi, David…

Recensione a M. S. Bottai, S. Cecchini, N. Mandarano (a cura di), Artestorie. Le professioni della storia dell’arte Marco Brunetti Artestorie is a recollection of thirty stories by Italian art historians, all answering to the question: what do you do today with a degree in art history? A selection of professionals, from North to South…