18th century Rome
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Il baule dell’operista. Drammi e musiche, compositori e cantanti in viaggio tra Roma e Venezia nel Settecento, in Venezia, Roma. Due città fra paralleli e contrasti, a cura di Susanne Winter, Roma-Venezia, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura... more
IN S. de Cavi (ed.), Dibujo y ornamento: Trazas y dibujos de artes decorativas entre Portugal, España e Italia (ss.XVI-XIX), Roma-Córdoba, De Lucca-Diputación de Córdoba, 2014 This chapter deals with the first generation of Spanish... more
On the basis of published and unpublished sources, this paper discusses the influence that the visit made by the Austrian numismatist Joseph Eckhel (1737–1798) to Rome in 1772–3 had on the late eighteenth-century arrangement of the coin... more
Stefano Cracolici, Le donne illustri di Faustina Maratti Zappi, «Giornale storico della letteratura italiana» CXCV, n. 650 (2018): 179–214.
A review of the exhibition catalogue Antonio Balestra. Nel segno della grazia (winter 2016) can carry out a new crit- ical point of view on this 18th century acclaimed painter in Venice, where he lived up to 1718, and in Verona, his... more
The dense mythology and the many entertaining but mostly malicious anecdotes that surrounded the enigmatic but widely influential Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757) already in his lifetime have made him one of the most interesting but also... more
Christopher Hewetson, busto di Anton Raphael Mengs, 1781, marmo, Roma, Musei Capitolini, Protomoteca Capitolina (cat. VI.5). Scheda dell'opera.
The life of the Dubrovnik Croatian Latin writer Rajmund Kunić (1719-1794) has hitherto been discussed in commemorative publications, lexicons and encyclopaedias, as well as literary historical studies. Kunić entered the Jesuit novitiate... more
Professora de história da arte (idade Moderna) na Université de lorraine em nancy RESUMO instalado no Vaticano entre 1771 e 1793, o Museu Pio Clementino sempre foi considerado um modelo, tanto na escolha como na exibição das esculturas.... more
ABSTRACT. Even if the widely influential German scholar and collector Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757), active in Rome and Florence in the first half of the eighteenth century, was in several ways instrumental in the trade in antiquities... more
Johann Joachim Winckelmann: Schriften und Nachlaß, vol. 9.2, 2020
This paper deals with the knowledge and the use made by Johann Joachim Winckelmann of ancient coins, with his weaknesses (his knowledge of numismatic literature seem to have been obsolete), his errors seldom (he was abused by forgeries:... more
Political, diplomatic, cultural and artistic relations (including music and the visual arts) between Rome and Lisbon in the 18th century have, at different times, aroused the interest of several scholars. However, these research fields... more
ABSTRACT: This article explores male friendship and networks among the local and international communities in eighteenth-century Rome, Naples and especially Florence of the late Medici and Reggenza periods. It discusses various... more