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…
Numero: Predella n. 59
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- Irene Bruzzone
- Chiara Pazzaglia
- Emanuele Pellegrini
- Michele Dantini
- Marco Testa
- Gabriele Bucchi
- Paolo Antonino Maria Triolo
Monografia
- Alexander Auf der Heyde
- François-René Martin
- Rosa María Recio Aguado
- Eduardo De Maio
- Marco Ciampolini
- Paolo Pastres
- Cristina Frulli
- Francesca Lui
- Alberto Giorgio Cassani
- Federica De Rosa
- Roberto Sani
- Susanne Adina Meyer
- Nicoletta Leonardi
- Greta Plaitano
- Edoardo Sala
- Alessandro Botta
- Pietro Roccasecca
- Susanna Ragionieri
- Francesco De Carolis
- W. J. T. Mitchell
- Giovanna Cassese
- Gerardo de Simone
- Enrico Sartoni
- Massimiliano Rossi
Gerardo de Simone
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…
Enrico Sartoni
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…
Massimiliano Rossi
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,…
Irene Bruzzone
L’architrave del portale maggiore del Duomo di Siena.Giovanni Pisano e la scultura senese a cavallo tra Due e Trecento Irene Bruzzone The sculpted architrave above the main portal of Siena Cathedral has long held an uncertain position in scholarly debate because of its poor state of preservation and unresolved issues of attribution and chronology. This…
Chiara Pazzaglia
Gemito in Borghese.Colloqui con Caravaggionelle gallerie romane (1915)* Chiara Pazzaglia Starting from Vincenzo Gemito’s 1915 tempera copy of a Borghese painting then misattributed to Pier Paolo Bonzi (later recognised as Caravaggio’s Bacchino malato), the article combines a close visual analysis of the sheet with a reconstruction of the Galleria Borghese’s 1915 display and taxonomic ordering,…
Emanuele Pellegrini
Per Roberto Paolo Ciardi Emanuele Pellegrini
Michele Dantini
Antiarte, «regalità sacrale», «potenza». Julius Evola tra estetica e politica nel periodo dell’entre-deux-guerres (da Futur-Dada al «tradizionalismo integrale») Michele Dantini The essay engages with Evola’s thought, examining its continuities across his various intellectual phases. While contemporary literature tends to contrast Evola the artist with Evola the philosopher and “integral traditionalist”, this study seeks instead to…
Marco Testa
«L’ho fatto tagliare a fette»Un progetto ineditodi Enrico Castelnuovoper l’edizione italianadi A History of Painting in North Italy Marco Testa In the early 1960s Enrico Castelnuovo, in collaboration with Mina Gregori and Carlo Volpe, conceived an ambitious editorial project, then left uncompleted: the translation and updating of the second edition of A History of Painting…
Gabriele Bucchi
Il falso d’autore del giovane Alberti Gabriele Bucchi Recensione a Leon Battista Alberti, Philodoxeos fabula. La commedia di Filodosso, a cura di Alberto Giorgio Cassani, traduzione dal latino di Paola Ursino con la collaborazione di Carlo Angelino, revisione della traduzione a cura di Fulvia Missiroli, prefazione di Carlo Angelino, Torino, Nino Aragno Editore, 2024, XC…