Venice Renaissance Art History
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London/New York: Prestel, 2018
From the book jacket: "A fresh re-examination of Artemisia Gentileschi, the most famous woman artist of the pre-modern era. This book newly situates her art in relation to her literary contemporaries, women who, like Artemisia,... more
This essay looks at the few scattered medieval images of St. George on the Venetian Church of San Marco. I link them to texts produced by the neighboring monastery San Giorgio Maggiore.
A number of longstanding questions have surrounded the early life of the fifteenth-century Venetian artist Giovanni Bellini (d. 1516), generally believed to have been the son of Jacopo Bellini (ca. 1400–70/71) and the younger brother of... more
Here the text is based on the famous Fatih Sultan Mehmed portrait by Gentile Bellini. But also it includes other works of Gentile Bellini and his families. If you want to deliver whole work, please contact me via email:... more
L’obiettivo di questo contributo è quello di riconsiderare alcuni aspetti propri della pittura religiosa di Tiziano nel sesto decennio, interpretandoli alla luce di un dialogo mai interrotto con Roma e soprattutto con la maniera di... more
Between the end of the XVI and the beginning of the XVII centuries, a new pictorial category made its appearance: That of the copy after the great masters. The success of this category during the XVII century, which was not limited to the... 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
Il Concilio tridentino e la richiesta d'ordine nella produzione artistica a destinazione chiesastica: alcuni "casi eccellenti" alla luce delle istruzioni di Carlo Borromeo. Elaborato per il corso di Iconografia ed Iconologia - 2020.
Il testo aggiorna e integra, con inediti contributi storico-iconografici, un precedente studio edito in ambito universitario e citato nel sito del British Museum di Londra, a cui appartiene la preziosa xilografia d’inizio Cinquecento... more
In 1491, Giorgio Spavento, architect (proto) of San Marco, Venice, remodeled the portal of the church of Santi Filippo e Giacomo. He added a lunette to the façade, in which he placed three statues – a Madonna and Child, Saint Joseph and... more
Two additions to the catalogue of Carlo Saraceni and Guido Cagnacci.
Alle porte di Parigi, a Écouen, l’arte rinascimentale del vetro, da Venezia all’Europa
Short historical reconstruction of life and work of the Bassano family, incl. Francesco Sr., Jacopo, Giambattista Sr., Francesco Jr., Giambattista Jr., Leandro and Girolamo. Unpublished materials include: - Birth records of Jacopo's... more
Read the Fondazione Giorgio Cini cultural events and publications - September 2017 - February 2018
A lecture by Monica Centanni and Michela Maguolo. Welcome by Giuseppe D’Acunto (Director of Teaching and Learning, Iuav) and Fernanda De Maio (English MA Course Leader, Iuav). Introduction by James Campbell (Head of the Department of... more
Titian painted Christ with the Coin for Alfonso d'Este around 1516. The painting served as the cover piece for a collection of ancient coins and has been read as a commentary on politics and taxation. Instead, this article reveals how the... more
[the full article in http://www.engramma.it/eOS/index.php?id_articolo=3579] Around 1515, Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) was called by Alfonso d'Este to complete his “Camerino delle pitture”: Titian found the cycle begun by Giovanni Bellini... more
Il pittore Melchiorre Galluzzi era finora noto solamente per due pale d’altare, firmate e datate: un Battesimo di Cristo del 1586 conservato a Veronella e un’Annunciazione del 1596 custodita presso il Museo Civico “Ala Ponzone” di... more
Die Zeichenkunst gehörte in der Frühen Neuzeit zu einer grundlegenden künstlerischen Arbeitspraxis. Seit dem 16. Jahrhundert begannen in Italien zunehmend auch Kunstliebhaber damit, sich das Zeichnen anzueignen. Nanobashvili stellt... more
The article puts forward a new reading of a stone high relief in the Church of San Michele Arcangelo, in the homonymous district on the outskirts of Verona. Brought to the public’s attention on the pages of this magazine a few years ago... more
Some female images of the Early Cinquecento Venice have been subject to various interpretations. On the one hand the physical appearance of pictures as Titian's Flora or La Bella, has led some researchers to consider them the... more
Il Centro Studi RiVe, costituitosi presso il Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali dell'Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, ha come campo d'indagine privilegiato la cultura figurativa del Rinascimento veneziano secondo un approccio... more
Identificazione topografica e descrizione delle trasformazioni di un ambiente urbano raffigurato in un noto disegno d’archivio del XVI secolo, sito compreso nella antica parrocchia di San Polo a Venezia; datazione della costruzione di due... more