A Problematic Attraction: French Artists and the Primitive at the French Academy in Rome Kathleen McLauchlan From the start of the nineteenth century French artists had sought inspiration in the early Renaissance period – its art, literature and history. Their motivations included nostalgia for the past, the prospect of fresh and dramatic subject matter, and…
Antonella Bellin
Carl Blaas e i nazareni a Roma Antonella Bellin This essay focuses on the relationship between the Austrian painter Carl Blaas and the Nazarenes through a study of Blaas’ drawings, paintings and autobiography of 1876.
Alan Crookham
Another piece of the mosaic. Trecento influences on the Albert Memorial Alan Crookham The Albert Memorial was constructed as a monument to Prince Albert, the consort of Queen Victoria, following his death in 1861. Completed in 1876, it is a major example of the Gothic Revival yet one that references both Classicism and the Italian…
Laura Lombardi
La riscoperta della tradizione medioevale nella scultura francese dopo il 1870. Laura Lombardi Around 1860, Academic sculptors seem inclined to relinquish the model originated by Greek and Roman tradition to embrace Renaissance-inspired models, as it is the case of the so-called ‘neo-florentines’ (Dubois, Mercié, René de Saint Marceaux…). After 1870, another group rather turns to…
Lyrica Taylor
Winifred Margaret Knights and the Rediscovery of the Trecento in the Long Nineteenth Century Lyrica Taylor This article analyzes the artwork of Winifred Margaret Knights, the first woman to win a fine art scholarship to the British School at Rome, in order to understand her contributions to British Modernism as being deeply rooted in the…
Elisa Camporeale
In Homes and Novels: Early Italian Pictures in England from Early Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Century Elisa Camporeale From the beginning of the nineteenth century, Early Italian pictures were hung in English private homes and, later, in public galleries and exhibitions. The birth and growth of the interest in the Italian «Primitives» in the English…
Assunta De Crescenzo
Fosclo’s Parallel between Dante and Petrarch: A Perfect Harmony of Contrasts Assunta De Crescenzo During his stay in England from 1816 to 1827, Ugo Foscolo was particularly aware of the importance of giving a new value and deeper meanings to Italian literature; that is why a fresh approach was needed in his mind, a sort…
Roberto Risso
«Sotto il sembiante d’una pacata mestizia…» La cacciata del duca d’Atene dal Medioevo all’Ottocento fra cronaca, affresco, narrazione e pittura Roberto Risso This article reconstructs the relationship between a medieval fresco, a nineteenth-century picture and Niccolò Tommaseo’s historical narration entitled La cacciata del duca d’Atene. The analysis focuses on the historical, political and artistic relevance…
Chiara Moriconi
Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Salutatio Beatricis: Tradition as Translation Chiara Moriconi This article focuses on the importance that D.G. Rossetti attributed to the re-semantization of Dante’s work, his visual translations of the Vita Nuova proving most revealing when adhering less to their source text. The translating strategies adopted by the poet-painter in his illustration of The…
Marie Tavinor
John Ruskin: A new Saint Francis of Assisi? The Saint, the Art Critic and the Yearning for Renewal Marie Tavinor This paper studies the quaint comparison between John Ruskin and Francis of Assisi which was made in some intellectual circles in France and Italy at the end of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century….