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Custodie eucaristiche in Sicilia tra Tardo Gotico e Rinascimento
2021
Review of Eucharistic cases, aka monstrances, of architectural typology produced in Sicily between the 15th and 17th centuries. Analysis of the compositional and stylistic characteristics. Framing in the broader historical, artistic and cultural context of reference
1682 un'annata florida. Andrea Mamingari, Paolo Amato e un'inedita cassetta reliquiaria della Cattedrale di Palermo
2022
The study of an unprecedented reliquary box of the Cathedral of Palermo is an opportunity to reconstruct a happy productive context and expand the catalog of the works of the silversmith Andrea Mamingari
L’ostensorio del Real Duomo di Erice
2021
Critical historical analysis of the architectural monstrance built by Pietro Lazzara in 1602 and kept in the Mother Church of Erice
Riflessioni sull’apporto artistico degli orafi e argentieri napoletani a Malta nel Seicento
2019
The article deals with master goldsmiths and silversmiths from Naples looking for luck in Malta during the seventeenth century.
RIFLESSI INTERNAZIONALI NELL’OREFICERIA DI SICILIA TRA XVIII E XIX SECOLO Un inedito esempio di collezionismo palermitano
2018
The volume is about a new private collection from Palermo that contains precious jewelery from the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Gioielli tra Sicilia e Malta nell'età del Barocco: tipologie e stili di area mediterranea
2016
Il saggio tratta di tipologie e stili diffusi nell'oreficeria siciliana e in quella dell'area mediterranea, in particolare a Malta e in Spagna, nel periodo barocco. The essay deals with typologies and styles widespread in the Sicilian jewelery and in the Mediterranean area, in particular in Malta and in Spain, in the Baroque period.
Intrecci preziosi Arti Decorative Siciliane a Malta 1565-1798
2016
Il volume indaga opere e artisti siciliani quasi totalmente inediti attivi sull'Isola dei Cavalieri nel periodo compreso tra il 1565, anno della fondazione di La Valletta, e il 1798, allorché Malta fu conquistata da Napoleone Bonaparte. Interessanti figure di orafi e argentieri emerse da un’approfondita ricerca archivistica, e superbi manufatti quali argenti, coralli, alabastri, avori e ceroplastiche parte di collezioni pubbliche e private maltesi vengono studiati in relazione al più ampio contesto riguardante gli scambi artistici e culturali tra le due isole del Mediterraneo. The book deals with Sicilian artifacts and artists almost entirely unpublished active on the Island of Knights in t…
Ostensori architettonici in Sicilia tra suggestioni iberiche e rinascimentali
2022
Through the analysis of six architectural monstrances housed in churches and museums in Sicily, the formal and compositional languages that, between Iberian and Renaissance suggestions, characterize these masterpieces of sacred art are analyzed. They are small silver architectures, produced between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, which are influenced by the Catalan Gothic influences and the Italian Renaissance, in a peculiar Sicilian synthesis.
Bene ordinata et eleganter picta. Kościół św. Jerzego w Gliwicach-Ostropie (1667-1719-2019). Monografia wydana z okazji 350. rocznicy budowy kościoła…
2019
Wieloautorska monografia, pod naukową redakcją ks. Piotra Góreckiego, powstała z okazji 350. rocznicy budowy murowano-drewnianego kościoła pw. św. Jerzego w Gliwicach-Ostropie oraz 300. rocznicy jego poświęcenia. Pod koniec prowadzonego przez ponad 10 lat kapitalnego remontu zdecydowano się, aby pozostawić trwały ślad nie tylko w strukturze zabytkowej odrestaurowanej budowli, ale także aby opublikować monografię książkową, zbierającą w jedną całość dotychczasową wiedzę o tym zabytkowym kościele: jego przeszłości i aktualnym stanie, jego historycznej konstrukcji i przechowywanej w nim lub też w Muzeum Diecezjalnym w Opolu zabytkowej substancji. Do napisania poszczególnych rozdziałów zaproszo…
The Color of Avant-Garde: Kenneth Goldsmith’s "The Body of Michael Brown"
2018
In the following paper, I put forth a claim that literary works created according to the rules of conceptualism, seemingly devoid of expression, often reveal that values are inseparable from any textual operations. This is visible in Kenneth Goldsmith’s recent project, “The Body of Michael Brown,” which follows the format of Goldsmith’s previous book—Seven American Deaths and Disasters—a transcription of news reports of American national disasters, such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy or the attacks of 9/11. The text rewrites the autopsy report issued by the St. Louis County Coroner’s Office on the shooting of Michael Brown, an African-American teenager shot and killed by a white po…