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…

«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…

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ritrovato del perduto altare di Santa Trinita a Firenze Francesco Freddolini This article presents two hitherto unpublished marble Cherub heads in a private collection and attributes them to the Carrarese sculptor Giovanni Baratta (1670-1747).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…