What Happened in the Friedrichshain Flak Bunker in May 1945 ? Regine Dehnel The paper outlines the history of the anti-aircraft bunker located in the Friedrichshain park near the historiccenter of Berlin in the months and years following the end of World War II. This bunker was one of thecentral locations in which the Berlin…
Anastasia Yurchenko
Between Lost and Found. Notes on historical aspects of transition of art objects from the Berlin Sculpture Collection during and after WWII Anastasia Yurchenko This paper provides an insight into the destiny of translocated art objects from the Berlin Sculpture Collection after WWII. Numerous pieces of art were lost, damaged and moved to the USSR;…
Anna Aponasenko
Works from the Sculpture Collection of the Berlin State Museum in the Fund of DIsplaced Art of the State Hermitage Museum in 1945 – 1958 Anna Aponasenko The article addresses the history of how Italian Renaissance sculpture from the Sculpture Collection of theBerlin State Museums came after the Second World War to the State Hermitage…
Guillaume Nicoud
Le Napoléon législateur de Chaudet, symbole moderne de la translatioimperii Guillaume Nicoud This article studies the translocations of a major marble statue by the French sculptor Antoine Denis Chaudet representing Napoleon as a Legislator, which was considered the most important imperial effigy of the First French Empire. After 1814-1815, the work was sent to Prussia…
Vasily Tastoguev e Neville Rowley
Da Berlino a Mosca: sculture del Trecento e del Quattrocento, perdute e ritrovate (1945-2016) Vasily Tastoguev e Neville Rowley This article is the transcript of a lecture held on 3 May 2016 at the German Institute in Florence. Its director Alessandro Nova had invited the authors to present the six works by Donatello and his…
Paul Hofmann
Some Works from the Sculpture Collection of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, transferred after WWII and now on the Territory of the Russian federation Paul Hofmann This checklist identifies sculptures formerly in the Sculpture Collection of theStaatliche Museen zu Berlin that are now on the territory of the Russian Federation, following their translocation after World…
Konstantin Akinsha
Thirty Years Later Konstantin Akinsha The author of this article was one of the protagonists in the publication of archival documents, long keptsecret, describing how cultural property was seized in Central Europe by the Red Army at the end of theSecond World War. Three decades later, he revisits this important chapter in the history of…
Alessandro Grassi
Giovanni da San Giovanni a Volterra: un nuovo affresco e alcune considerazioni Alessandro Grassi Recent restorations in the cathedral of Volterra have brought to light some fragmentary frescoes in the right transept, referable to a decoration carried out between 1621 and 1622, in occasion of the consecration of the chapel of San Carlo. Some stylistic…
Clario Di Fabio
Arti in dialogo e tipologie artistiche di confine a Genova a metà del Quattrocento, con aggiunte per Domenico Gagini Clario Di Fabio By building on some previous studies, this paper focuses on a number of previously unknown instancesof sculptural commissions in mid-fifteenth-century Genoa. Common to them all is the reference to thehand or workshop of…
Elisa Coletta
Signs in the noise. Intervista a Hubert Damisch Elisa Coletta A few years after his death, we propose an interview to the philosopher and art historian Hubert Damisch.The fundamental passages of his training, the theoretical axes of his reflection, but also questions thatpush the gaze towards new fields and new horizons, are the main topics…