Editoriale
Elogio della provincia di Gerardo de Simone, Emanuele Pellegrini Preview The Covid-19 pandemic has deeply affected our daily lives, reshaped our habits and ways of being. Living in big cities proved to be extremely difficult while, on the contrary, smaller towns showed stronger attitudes against isolation and lockdown measures. This pandemic offers brand new opportunities…
Diane Cole Ahl: Bibliography
Diane Cole Ahl: Bibliography
Diane Cole Ahl: A Biographical Sketch
Diane Cole Ahl: A Biographical Sketch
Barbara Wisch
Introduction di Barbara Wisch Preview This Festschrift highlights innovative research on art and architecture spanning the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. It offers new perspectives on artists, places, and topics that have engaged Diane Cole Ahl over the course of a lifetime. The volume comprises 15 essays that are organized chronologically and geographically, traversing northern…
Keith Christiansen
Stefano da Verona:A New Work and Some Old Problems Keith Christiansen In May 2017 a painting of the Crucifixion described generically as «Italian School, 14th Century», was sold at auction in London. Acquired by a young Italian dealer who recognized its exceptional quality, it was subsequently purchased by The Metropolitan Museum as a rare, early…
Gail E. Solberg
Artistic Exchange between Liguria,Piedmont, and Tuscany:Taddeo di Bartolo, Pietro Gallo da Alba,Barnaba da Modena, Niccolò da Voltri,and Francesco di Michele Gail E. Solberg It is curious and unfortunate that late Trecento painters who lodged long- or short-term in Genoa are not survived by as much as a single painting. An inevitable conclusion is that many…
Cristina Borgioli
La croce stauroteca del monasterodi Santa Chiara nel Museo di ArteSacra di San Gimignano: proposteiconografiche e stilistiche Cristina Borgioli Once belonging to the (suppressed) Monastero di Santa Chiara of San Gimignano, but today conserved in the Museo di Arte Sacra of that city, is a reliquary cross, decorated with silver leaf and embellished with figures…
Christa Gardner von Teuffel
Reframing a Revolution:Filippo Brunelleschi and theDevelopment of the FlorentineRenaissance Altarpiece Christa Gardner von Teuffel Brunelleschi’s classically-inspired architecture defined the unified all’antica panel structure and its framework. The architect’s fundamental invention, his supervisory role and participation in the innovative altarpiece design are examined. I trace the gradual growth in scholarly understanding of the formal and material…
Gerardo de Simone
Le Sette Parole di Cristo in croce nelciclo di San Marco del Beato Angelico Gerardo de Simone The theme of the Seven Last Words of Christ on the cross, reported in the canonical Gospels, has been resonating deeply in the theological and devotional literature since the early Middle Ages until today, and in sacred music…