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Riflessioni sull’iconografia funeraria lilibetana nell’età di Cicerone

2021

Twenty-four, and possibly twenty-five painted stelae and aediculae were found, in different times, in the area of the necropolis of Lilybaeum (1903, 1974-1984), and further North, nearer to the ancient sea-shore (1895); most recently, two new entries enhanced the Museo Lilibeo (2009), beside two elements from decorated epitymbia. Despite previous scholarly opinions spread these artifacts over three centuries, as a whole, they can be assigned approximately to Cicero’s time. Some cross-cutting features, as a matter of fact, connect the stelae and the “Salinas” aediculae, and indicate that both date between the late 2nd and the late 1st century BC. Nevertheless, they constitue two neatly diffe…

"Ut pictura poiesis": text i imatge, mimesi i realitat quant a «Tirant lo Blanch»

2007

The relationship between literature and reality in the Middle Ages can be considered from several dimensions. One of the most important cultural elements of the medieval period is the visual representation of reality found it literary texts, not only through the presence of miniatures in the manuscripts, but especially through the description of realia in the same text. The encyclopedic tradition helps to intertwine this close relationship between the outer representativeness and the inwardness of the text, a new interpretation of the Horacian’s ut pictura poiesis. The «Tirant lo Blanch» is a fictional text full of iconic references to contemporary reality, which in this study are made clea…

Czytanie malarstwa romantycznego w szkole – aksjologiczny wymiar malarstwa Caspara Davida Friedricha

2015

Autorka szkicu podejmuje próbę diagnozy dzisiejszej sytuacji panującej w szkolnej metodyce „czytania” dzieł malarskich i kreśli idealną sytuację szkolnej egzegezy sztuk plastycznych, pozwalającą na wniknięcie w trzy wymiary dzieła: ontologiczny, semiotyczny i aksjologiczny. Jako przykład twórców, których obrazy dają szerokie możliwości interpretacyjne i umożliwiają odkrywanie metafizycznego wymiaru sztuki, podaje ikonografię romantyczną, a w niej malarstwo Kaspara Davida Friedricha. Zasadniczą część szkicu stanowi interpretacja dwóch obrazów niemieckiego artysty z motywem bohatera odwróconego plecami do widza. Pierwszy z nich to jedna z bardziej znanych jego kompozycji pt. Wędrowiec nad mor…

Co łączy "Wędrowca nad morzem chmur" i "Kobietę w oknie" - bohaterów płócien Caspara Davida Friedricha

2020

The author attempts to interpret two paintings by Caspar David Friedrich with the motif of the hero turned with the back to the spectator. The former is one of his most renown works entitled Wanderer above the Sea of Fog also known as Wanderer Above the Mist, the latter, a slightly later work Woman at a Window – the example of a frequently used open widow motif in the iconography of Romanticism. The differences that decide on the meaning of these two canvases – as the author argues – is the gender of the created personas and the place from which they perceive the world.

Mario di Laurito, Madonna dell’Itria, 1529-1536

2022

Observations on the canvas, due to the brush of Mario de Laurito, an elegant painter of composite culture active between Naples and Sicily in the first half of XVI century, it came to the Diocesan Museum of Palermo from the local church of the archconfraternity of the Santissima Annunziata "outside Porta San Giorgio "(late fifteenth - early sixteenth century, for which Travagliato 2010) fortunately shortly before the allied bombings on Palermo which between April and May 1943 caused the destruction (Guiotto 1946).

L’ombra divina nei mosaici “riformati” di Roma

2021

Il Belice prima e dopo il 1968 attraverso le iconografie

2014

Il saggio presenta come l' intero territorio della valle del Belice abbia cambiato identità dopo il terremoto del 1968. Attraverso le iconografie (fotografie, disegni) di architetture esistite e poi distrutte. The 1968 earthquake in western Sicily is a break point in the history of a territory rich and layered. The journalism has mainly dealt with the case Gibellina, but in reality is the entire geographical area to have changed relationships and vocations. The iconography and photographs can witness the difference that occurred within a few years. In fact, the contemporary architecture linked to the reconstruction is only one of the parameters suitable to interpret mutations identity of pl…

Graphic readings and digital configurations: Akragas, Girgenti and Agrigento

2018

The study deals with a graphic analysis of the city of Agrigento through the identification of the territorial, urban and architectural peculiarities that have designed its evolution. Starting from the landscape representations realized since the sixteenth century, the views from the sea by Spannocchi, the glances on the apric territory by Pancrazi, the Hellenic ruins inside the medieval Girgenti by Martorana and the Grand Tour travelers’ productions, the urban transformations of Agrigento are reconstructed starting from the points of view adopted by the draftsmen. The aim is to provide a description through images of the multiple points of view with respect to which the territory has been …

Abraham Bids Farewell to Hagar and Ishmael: Continuity and Variation of the Iconographic Type

2021

In traditional Christian artistic visualization, the episode of Hagar and Ishmael in the desert has given rise to various iconographic types: “The feast for the weaning of Isaac and Sara’s protests,” “Abraham bids farewell to Hagar and Ishmael,” “Hagar and Ishmael in the desert” and “Divine salvation for Hagar and Ishmael”. This study looks into the continuity and variation over time of the second of these types: “Abraham bids farewell to Hagar and Ishmael,” the one most depicted out of this entire biblical topic or episode. Since the Byzantine Octateuch in the East (11th century.) and the Canterbury Hexateuch (ca. 1025&ndash…

Pero Tafur and Bertradon de la Broquière in Constantinople: The Ceremonial Image of Mary of Trabzond and the Diplomatic Meetings around the Council o…

2019

After the fall of Constantinople (1453), Pero Tafur and Bertrandon de La Broquière make known their works, which are two of the most important travel books written in Europe during the fifteenth century. Both travellers had known, between fifteen and twenty years before, the emperor of Greece, John VIII Palaiologos, Pope Eugene IV and other protagonists of the councils of Basel (1431-1434) and Ferrara-Florence (1438-1439), which decreed the union between the Roman and Greek churches. The travellers were, thus, witnesses, but also informants and active diplomats for the attempts of religious and political union, which Pope Pius II tried to revive after the fall of Constantinople. Tafur and L…