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«L'arte giottesca portata al suo apogeo»: l'Oratorio di San Giorgio nella discussione dei conoscitori (1837-1846)
2021
The Nineteenth-Century rediscovery of the Oratory of S. Giorgio offers the opportunity to question the conservation methods, historical analysis and creative reception of fourteenth-century painting. This essay reconstructs the historical circumstances of the discovery of Altichiero’s frescoes and the consequent discussions among connoisseurs concerning the autography and the cultural value of the same. The protagonists of this scholarly discussion - the German art historian Ernst Förster (1800-1885) and his Italian colleague Pietro Selvatico Estense (1803-1880) - see the Paduan fresco cycle as a model for both modern draughtsmanship and large-scale fresco decoration. This dualistic charact…