La Storia dell’arte come disciplina identitaria della cultura in Italia nell’ambito degli studi dell’Alta Formazione Artistica. La sua ridefinizione nei nuovi SAD delcomparto AFAM e prospettive future Giovanna Cassese This essay traces Art History’s identity as a discipline born within the Fine Arts Academies, from Vasari’sfoundational role in Florence through Bellori, Winckelmann and beyond, and…

La Storia dell’arte come disciplinaaccademica. Ragioni e propositi di unconvegno Gerardo de Simone This paper presents the rationale and purpose of the conference on Art History and Academies of Fine Artsheld in Florence in November 2025, tracing the discipline’s origins to sixteenth-century Florence and Rome(Vasari’s Accademia del Disegno, Zuccari’s Accademia di San Luca) through to…

Le origini della didattica teorica dellaStoria dell’arte tra Giorgio Vasari eVincenzio Borghini nell’Accademia delDisegno Enrico Sartoni This essay traces the prehistory of art-historical pedagogy to the founding of the Accademia del Disegnoin Florence (1563), arguing that its true intellectual architects were Vincenzo Borghini and Giorgio Vasarirather than Cosimo I de’ Medici, who merely granted its…

Introduzione Massimiliano Rossi This monographic issue of “Predella” reexamines the relationship between Fine Arts Academies and theemergence of art history as a discipline. Challenging traditional narratives that locate the discipline’sorigins exclusively in nineteenth-century universities, the essays gathered here demonstrate that art historyfirst developed within academic institutions, where the construction of artistic genealogies, the collectionof documents,…