Italian frescoes of the High Renaissance and Mannerism
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Il contributo analizza il ciclo affrescato da Domenico Ghirlandaio e bottega nella Chiesa di Santa Trinita a Firenze successivamente al complessivo restauro eseguito dal 2004 al 2007. Nello studio sono stati identificati molti volti di... more
Paper published in: T. Weddigen, S. de Blaauw, B. Kempers & A. Roth (eds.), Functions and Decorations: Art and Ritual at the Vatican Palace in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Capellae Apostolicae Sixtinaeque Collectanea Acta... more
In 1525, Isabella d’Este’s son, Federico, commissioned architect Giulio Romano to build him a pleasure palace at the family’s stables at the south end of Mantua. Giulio took the mantle of Mannerism from the late Andrea Mantegna and... more
Primeiro ensaio de caracterização, estudo evolutivo, linhas de contextuselização e definição estilística do Maneirismo português no campo da produção pictórica. Acentuam-se as potencialidades desse esquecido 'tempo' artístico (antes, só,... more
The technology of the mechanical clock was in all probability developed in Italy during the last quarter of the 13th century and one of the two oldest surviving specimens of mechanical clock (doc. 1386) is in Serravalle di Vittorio... more
Et si le paysage n'était pas seulement un genre pictural, mais aussi une construction culturelle et sociale... Des décors peints aux jardins, des parcs de chasse aux cartes géographiques, les formes changeantes du paysage révèlent les... more
Neste ensaio, analisa-se de modo sustentado a obra da fachada do Paço Ducal de Vila Viçosa, uma das obras-primas da arquitectura civil portuguesa da Idade Moderna, assumindo-se que a sua traça se deve ao arquitecto régio Nicolau de Frias,... more
Se a Charola de Tomar foi sempre estudada, em termos artísticos, à luz da campanha gótico-manuelina, defende-se que também a campanha ordenada por Filipe I e pelos freires de Tomar (sempre injustamente menorizada) foi deveras grandiosa,... more
The critical judgment of Vasari (the"maniera disforme") on Sebastiano's style in the fresco cycle in the Loggia della Galatea (Rome, Villa Farnesina), is analysed in the light of the impact of the Venetian taste in the Roman milieu, and... more
Newly Identified 16th-century Italian drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
This article studies the mature career of the Florentine painter Alessandro Fei del Barbiere (1537-1592), beginning with the rediscovery of the 'Ascension' altarpiece formerly in the Albizi Chapel in the destroyed church of San Pier... more
from the exhibition catalogue 'Greco", Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 2019-20
This book provides the first comprehensive study of the representation of Alexander the Great in Renaissance Italian art, exploring a fundamental turning point in the tradition: the transition from the medieval imagery of Alexander as a... more
Giovanni Andrea Carlone rappresenta una presenza atipica tra gli artisti genovese del secondo Seicento: lontano dalla patria infatti seppe riscuotere, eguagliato solo dal Merano nelle sortite emiliane, un grande successo sia a Roma che a... more
Maniërisme en naturalisme in de Veneto Bachelorscriptie, Radboud Universiteit, 2003 Onder begeleiding van Prof. dr. Bernard Aikema INHOUDSOPGAVE Inleiding — 5 I HET THEORETISCHE KADER VAN DE MANIERA Maniërisme en bella maniera —... more
Villa Grimani Molin, today Avezzù, is a prestigious noble rural residence adorned with a precious, yet peculiar fresco program. Many attempts have been made to decipher these frescoes, though with very meagre results, mainly because of... more
Giulia Romano’s Sleeping Polyphemus, a fresco painting on the northeast lunette of the Garden Loggia in the Villa Madama at Rome, is currently in a bad state of conservation. However, it is possible to examine the work and its iconography... more
The graphic oeuvre of Giulio Mazzoni is currently composed of only one unanimously accepted work, a drawing of "Truth Unveiled by Time" in the British Museum, identified by Philip Pouncey in 1955. In 1968, Peter Dreyer ascribed a further... more
Giorgio Vasari racchiude entro la cornice dell’«introduzzione» alle «Vite» una solida e documentata trattazione tecnica, in cui l’attività dei rappresentanti delle tre arti viene descritta in una prosa caratterizzata dall’andamento... more
Over the course of the Sixteenth century, stucco became a widely used decorative technique in the palaces of the nobility in Rome. In its evocation of the art of antiquity stucco was a medium that enabled the expression of the kind of... more
The piazza of Vigevano, from the later fifteenth century, bears 76 painted roundels of Sforza dynastic imagery, two painted triumphal arches, and plaques lauding the Sforza family's deeds. The article seeks to explain how the architecture... more
Seminario di studi a cura di Valentina Balzarotti (Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck Institut für Kunstgeschichte), Serena Quagliaroli (Archivio del Moderno, Università della Svizzera italiana), Giulia Spoltore (Archivio del Moderno,... more
A set of about 70 fresco samples made with pigments and binders typical of the Renaissance period in Rome has been characterized by LIBS, LIF and colorimetric measurements in order to build an as much as possible complete database. Aiming... more