Osservatore e spettatore nella teoria della composizione di Leon Battista Alberti Pietro Roccasecca In this short essay I examine the theory of composition in Leon Battista Alberti’s De pictura to question it on the roles of the beholder and spectator of painting in the theory of pictorial composition. To this end, I first verify in…
Roberta Delmoro
«e dietro alle spalle loro, per campo, fece alcune spalliere di rosai»: precisazioni sui perduti affreschi riferiti a Stefano da Verona in San Francesco a Mantova Roberta Delmoro The essay starts out from a review of Calzolari’s photos of the ancient (and lost) chapel of Saint Anthony of Padua, in the church of Saint Francis…
Francesco Freddolini
Due cherubini inediti di Giovanni Baratta: un frammento ritrovato del perduto altare di Santa Trinita a Firenze Francesco Freddolini This article presents two hitherto unpublished marble Cherub heads in a private collection and attributes them to the Carrarese sculptor Giovanni Baratta (1670-1747). Baratta spent most of his early career in Florence, where he enjoyed the…
Lynn Catterson
Stefano Bardini’s Sculptor from Philadelphia: A.E. Harnisch & the Manufacture of Italian Renaissance Sculpture in the late Nineteenth Century Lynn Catterson Albert E. Harnisch (1843-1918), the sculptor and painter born and trained in Philadelphia, relocated in 1869 to Rome, where he enjoyed success, including commissions from America for public monuments. His legacy includes many high-quality…
Andrea Mirabile
Piero Manzoni, Libera dimensione Andrea Mirabile The essay analyzes Piero Manzoni’s Libera dimensione (published in 1960 in the second and last issue of the journal «Azimuth»). Manzoni argues that figurative painting is dead, critical commentaries of a work of art are useless, and verbal language in general is incapable of interpreting, translating, and even describing…
Giuliana Altea
“Featuring” e collaborazione creativa nelle arti visive. Maria Lai e Antonio Marras Giuliana Altea The term “featuring” is currently used in music to indicate creative partnerships between artists from close or distant genres, with cultural as well as marketing goals. In this paper I apply the concept of featuring to a type of collaboration that…
Vanda Lisanti
Le postille di Alessandro Maggiori al primo catalogo a stampa della Pinacoteca Capitolina di Agostino Tofanelli: precisazioni all’allestimento del 1817 Vanda Lisanti Thanks to the discovery of a version of the first printed catalogue of the Pinacoteca Capitolina annotated by the critic and collector Alessandro Maggiori (BCM, ms. 163), the article reconstructs part of the…
Jochai Rosen
The Scottish Collector Arthur Kay (1861-1939) and His Influence on the Canon of 17th-century Dutch Painting Jochai Rosen Our notion of the 17th-century Dutch school of painting was shaped in the late 19th and early 20th-century by its first modern scholars. This is particularly true of Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, Wilhelm von Bode, and Abraham…
Floriana Conte
Un viatico per due secoli di fortuna di Donatello Floriana Conte
Francesca Renda
Leonora Carrington: un viaggio lungo un sogno Francesca Renda