Michelangelo: amici, allievi, collaboratori. Il caso di Marcello Venusti Marcella Marongiu In his very long career, Michelangelo made a radical transformation in the modus operandi of the Renaissance artist. Departing from the established model of workshop organisation, in which each level of the learning stage corresponded to different occupations and margins of autonomy, he implemented…
Francesco Solinas
Mario de’ Fiori e Raffaello Vanni, la Flora Rospigliosi ritrovata e qualche appunto sulla pittura naturalistica a Roma alla metà del Seicento Francesco Solinas The extraordinary baroque canvas presented in this essay represents an Allegory of Flora with seven putti and extensive flower arrangements. The author identifies the painting with the long-lost Flora painted by…
Adriano Amendola
Un ritrovato dipinto di Ottavio Leoni a Montecitorio: il Ritratto di Paolo Giordano II Orsini in abito nero Adriano Amendola The author restores to Ottavio Leoni a portrait kept in Palazzo Montecitorio, on deposit since 1925 from the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, formerly assigned to a 17th-century Dutch school. Moreover, the sitter is…
Pasquale Focarile
Per una storia degli alberi genealogici dei fiorentini: incisioni, dipinti e documenti da Scipione Ammirato ad Alessandro Bonini Pasquale Focarile After the first publication of the Genealogical Tree of the Medici Family (1569), many Florentine families resorted to the same “inventor”, the genealogist Scipione Ammirato, asking him for their family trees. Starting from a review…
Beatrice De Francesco
Giorgio Scherer (1831-1896). Un protagonista della pittura parmense del secondo Ottocento Beatrice De Francesco This article focuses on the prolific artistic activity of the painter and draughtsman Giorgio Scherer. The analysis begins from his academic studies and the earlier prizes he won for nude drawings, up to his mature production, exploring his main masterpieces, in…
Emanuele Carlenzi
«Evanescenti come in un sogno soavissimo». Gustavo Bonaventura e il ritratto fotografico nei primi anni del Novecento in Italia Emanuele Carlenzi This article focuses on the career of Gustavo Bonaventura (1882-1966), a photographer working during Pictorialism in Italy, and particularly on his activity in Rome in the early 20th century, where he opened a studio…
Carl Brandon Strehlke
La guerra ai monumenti negli Stati Uniti oggi Carl Brandon Strehlke The article examines the debate in the United States over monuments to Confederate Civil War figures and over the history of the country in general stirred by the Black Lives Matter movement and «The New York Times» 1619 project. It uses as its primary…
Annamaria Ducci
Dalla parte delle cittadine. I monumenti al femminile in Italia, alcune riflessioni Annamaria Ducci The issue of female monuments in Italy has emerged with extraordinary amplification in recent yearsthrough press and social media debates. The occasion that generated this lively discussion was the erection of a monument to the “Gleaner” on the seafront of Sapri…
Fabio Cavallucci
Post Postmonument. Crisi e persistenza del monumento nell’età della demonumentalizzazione Fabio Cavallucci The article reflects on monuments in the context of historical and political changes. The starting point is his Sculpture Biennale called Postmonument, held in Carrara in 2010, which explored the decline of monumentality in the post-communist era and the rise of global consumerism….
Simonetta Nicolini
Una «specie di conoscenza istintiva e quasi divinatoria» Simonetta Nicolini