Mannerism
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This paper explores the didactic meanings behind Dutch Mannerist artist Cornelis van Haarlem's 1592 painting The Fall of Man. It deals with three main aspects of the work: the figure of the serpent-woman who tempts Eve with fruit from the... more
The attached thesis is a reformatted and slightly edited version of the original on file in the libraries of Southern Methodist University. It does not include the original illustrations. However, images of these works can be found in... more
Die Magisterarbeit beleuchtet einen zentralen Aspekt der persuasiven Kunst Caravaggios: Detailliert wird aufgezeigt, wie die Antithese, ein Kunstgriff der antiken Rhetorik zur Spannungserzeugung, das Wesen seiner Malerei bestimmt. Die... more
Il presente elaborato tenta una contestualizzazione dal punto di vista storico-artistico del ciclo di affreschi con le Storie di Diana e Atteone eseguito dal Parmigianino (1503-1540) in una saletta del castello di Fontanellato,... more
Although painting at the court of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague has been regarded as a distinctive artistic phenomenon since the early 20th century, finding a place for Rudolfine art in the history of European painting and in the art... more
História do conjunto retabular ordenado por D. Miguel da Gama, senhor da Vidigueira, para a capela-mor do convento carmelita de Nossa Senhora das Relíquias, na vila da Vidigueira, e dos painéis que o compunham, da autoria do pintor... more
Birth of Venus, and Mars and Venus, remains an iconographical mystery. As such, it is particularly interesting to analyze them. Now at the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence and National Gallery in London, these paintings, executed between... more
Introduction to Art and Reform in the Late Renaissance: After Trent (Routledge, 2018)
Este ensaio aborda a vertente mecenática de D. Teotónio de Bragança à frente do Arcebispado de Évora, mostrando a grande importância dos seus empreendimentos construtivos e de decoração artística e o modo actualizado como adaptou os... more
El Greco was in Italy for around 9 years, three of which were certainly spent in Rome. This paper investigates over his Italian journay and the connections with the late Mannerism, revisiting the historical sources and the critical... more
Before the turn of the twenty-first century, the role of eroticism in Dutch art and the purpose of its images has largely being neglected. However, in their time these representations of nudity and salacious images and the subjects they... more
This is a study on how Alonso Berruguete and Bartolomé Bermejo have won international recognition as the first two strictly Spanish artists of genius, thanks to the exhibitions organized in El Prado, the National Gallery of London, the... more
L’articolo analizza alcuni aspetti della prima parte delle Rime di Luigi Groto Cieco d’Adria (1541–1585), uno dei più interessanti poeti del manierismo letterario veneziano. Attraverso l’analisi del rapporto tra metrica e sintassi,... more
This is the chapter III of the publication "Michelangelo Buonarroti, Jacopino del Conte, Daniele Ricciarelli: ritratto e figura nel manierismo a Roma", San Marino, 2010, pp. 259-297.
Ensaio de conjunto, ‘estado da questão’ e precisões críticas sobre a intervenção do mestre pintor lisboeta Diogo Teixeira no Porto, onde se deslocou em 1591-1592 para pintar as tábuas do retábulo de D. Lopo de Almeida. Voltará em... 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
In 1555, assisted by Cristofano Gherardi, Il Doceno (1508-1556), Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) designed and painted a mythological and cosmological theme in the Sala degli Elementi, an apartment of Cosimo I de' Medici (1519-1574), Duke of... more
Estudo histórico, iconográfico e artístico do túmulo do capitão de Ormuz e Cochim, Jerónimo de Mascarenhas, peça de fim do século XVI que se encontra na igreja do Bom Jesus de Goa, templo que foi construído a suas expensas. Ensaio sobre... more
Newly Identified 16th-century Italian drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The article examines and discusses some drawings by Giulio Pippi, known as Romano (c.1495–1546). One sheet is unpublished, while a few others are already known, although their exact destination is unknown. All of them concern the Mantuan... more
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
New light on Francesco Salviati's frescoes in the chapel of the Margrave of Brandenburg in Santa Maria dell'Anima in Rome.
My aim here is to reconnect the systematic sense of mannerism with its art historical sense. After a brief discussion of how philosophy intervenes in art historical debates surrounding mannerism, we will first revisit the paradox of what... more
An Alchemical Heaven: The Studiolo Ceiling of Francesco I de’ Medici Between 1570 and 1572, under the tutelage of Giorgio Vasari, Vincenzo Borghini and Giovanni Battista Adriani invented an enchanted and mysterious emblematic program for... more
La chiesa di San Salvatore in Lauro a Roma venne riedificata a partire dal 1598 per i canonici secolari di San Giorgio in Alga, sotto il patronato del cardinale Michele Bonelli. Il progetto della navata, scandita dall’impiego di binati di... more
Giorgio Vasari sembra legare la riuscita della più celebre delle imprese mantovane di Giulio, palazzo Te, a un felice impiego dello stucco nell’architettura e nella decorazione: il Pippi era infatti riuscito, attraverso la tecnica di... more