Dalla voliera all’officina di un frescante. Un libro di uccelli di Giovanni da San Giovanni Valentina Frascarolo This article sets out to analyze the volume by Giovanni da san Giovanni, a rare and precious testimony to the heritage of a seventeenth-century Florentine workshop, containing a series of plates depicting birds, a monkey and a squirrel….

Hamilton’s debts. The Campi Phlegraei in the context of Vesuvian iconography Domenico Laurenza William Hamilton’s Campi Phlegraei and its Supplement (Naples, 1776 and 1779) are masterpieces of 18th-century illustrated books. Some plates are also among the best examples of landscape art in 18th-century Naples. The article presents Hamilton and his artist Pietro Fabris’s hitherto unknown…

L’attività grafica di Santo Varni scultore e studioso: Amore che doma la Forza e il Monumento funebre di Lorenzo Dufour Matteo Salomone A crucial and multifaceted figure as a sculptor, collector, and scholar of archaeology and art, Santo Varni (Genoa, 1807-1885 was primarily active between Genoa and Turin around the mid-19th century. He complemented his…