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….
Lynn Caterson
American collecting, Stefano Bardini & the Taste for Trequattrocento Florence Lynn Caterson Just around the turn of the century, the desire on the part of wealthy American and European collectors for Italian art was exorbitant. Operating out of Florence, the dealer Stefano Bardini (1836-1922) succeeded in matching that demand by stocking collections with ample quantities…
Robert Gibbs
A 21st-century Invention of a 19th-century Giotto Revival; the ‘Stendhal Syndrome’ Robert Gibbs
Alba Barceló
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…
Ilaria Taddeo
Some Observations on “Michele Grechi Lucchese” Painter and Engraver Ilaria Taddeo The article analyzes two decorations by the Lucchese artist Michele Grechi in mid-sixteenth-century Rome. The publication of the artist’s previously inedited testament provides the opportunity to deeper evaluate an oft-stated but unconfirmed attribution to Michele Grechi of a painted frieze in the first room…
Gianpasquale Greco
Un angolo di Toscana a Roma: la Cappella di Carlo Lambardi «Nobilis Aretinus» in Santa Maria in Via Gianpasquale Greco The aristocratic chapel which architect Carlo Lambardi erected for himself in the Roman church of Santa Maria in Via, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, has so far been neglected by scholars. This is also due…